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I eat, dream, live and crap web & mobile applications to help people live happier. Whether its building out the user flow to designing the interface to coding out the front end, my hands need to be dirty.
Experience
CEO, cofounder
@Mingle
Mingle is a mobile application that surfaces social relevance in a proximity to help establish human relationships. In other words, it is social X-ray glasses to see who’s interesting to you.

With Mingle, you can see that there’s an accountant, mortgage broker & Stanford alumni that you just walked into. When you walk into that cafe, you can let people know that you’re a photographer, vegan, or director of product development. Worried about privacy? You choose what you want to share. That easy
Fields
Mobile Development, mobile application development, Mobile apps
Location
Long Beach, CA
Dates
Apr. 2011 - Present
Website
http://www.minglesocialapp.com
Co-Founder
@Town.ly
Dates
Oct. 2010 - Present
Director of Product Development/UX
@Cie Studios
My focus is building products that users love to use.

Duties include:

- Managing the product development & strategy of all interactive products including software, web initiatives and mobile applications for a variety of clients ranging from electronics to automotive brands.

- Lead all user-facing interface designs geared towards goal based objectives and analytics including information architecture while promoting a user experience strategy across all software, web and mobile platforms.

- Manage all front-end efforts ranging from over-seeing multipl
Dates
Nov. 2009 - Present
Director, Interface Design
@Break.com
Responsible for all art direction/user interface work for Break.com. Helped Break.com grow its traffic of a minimum of 50% by focusing on usability rather than pure functionality. What use is functionality if the user is doesn’t know how to use it or even worse, doesn’t realize it’s even there.

Became lead designer for other Break.com properties such as Chickipedia, AllLeftTurns.com and Mademan.com I was responsible in creating a brand image, a friendly interface and coding a front end that was optimized in every way possible. Chickipedia.com became one
Dates
Aug. 2006 - Jun. 2009
Lead UX Developer
@Spark Networks
Responsible for redesigns of multiple SPARK properties from an IA & UI standpoint.
Dates
Jun. 2009 - Nov. 2009
Director, Interface Design
@Break Media - break.com
Responsible for all art direction/user interface work for Break.com. Helped Break.com grow its traffic of a minimum of 50% by focusing on usability rather than pure functionality. What use is functionality if the user is doesn’t know how to use it or even worse, doesn’t realize it’s even there.

Became lead designer for other Break.com properties such as Chickipedia, AllLeftTurns.com and Mademan.com I was responsible in creating a brand image, a friendly interface and coding a front end that was optimized in every way possible. Chickipedia.com became one
Dates
2006 - 2008
Lead UI Developer
@McElroy Advertising
Dates
Jan. 2004 - Jun. 2006
Web Developer
@Genex Interactive
Dates
Jun. 2000 - Nov. 2003
Education
California State University-Long Beach - College of Business Administration
Dates
1996 - 2000