Building new products and collaborating with startups at their incubator space. The first project is a social network for news junkies.

Wore a lot of product and design hats to bring an early stage product to market and create a healthy base of satisfied customers.

Overhauled isocket.com, especially the new user onboarding and public marketing pages.

Created and designed Buyads.com, a marketplace of premium advertising.

* Self-employed as a freelancer specializing in technology startups.
* UI/UX design w/ rapid prototyping on agile teams.
* User research & usability testing
* XHTML/CSS

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* Designed new and existing features using task analysis diagrams, personas, iterative visual prototypes and other user-centered design principles.
* Conducted usability tests in the field.
* Designed web pages and related creative assets using Fireworks, OmniGraffle and Photoshop.
* Coded web pages into HTML and CSS with Django templates.

* Developed web apps for an application network with millions of daily users across Facebook and MySpace.
* Worked closely with a cross-functional group to define and create satisfying user experiences; and creating engaging interactive design solutions project from inception to completion.
* Projects include games, prototypes, landing pages, boutique sites, advertising banners, and promotional email development and other site elements.
* Skills used: UI and graphic design, Fireworks, HTML, CSS.

Branding, UI design, Flex/Actionscript/Flash, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Django.

* Created online casino games.
* Programmed in Actionscript, using OOP methodology and XML data integration.
* Worked with a team of artists, Flash programmers and Java coders on projects with quick turnaround times.

* Created online casino games.
* Programmed in Actionscript, using OOP methodology and XML data integration.
* Worked with a team of artists, Flash programmers and Java coders on projects with quick turnaround times.

Freelanced for design firms and advertising agencies in the San Diego area, specializing in standards-compliant XHTML/CSS and Actionscript-heavy Flash.

* Lead web developer for an environmental research initiative, the Superfund Basic Research Program.
* Web developer and first webmaster of the Division of Biological Sciences.