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Name
Ryan Mitchell
UX Architect, CEO of DrawTop
 
Bio
My mission is to eradicate instruction manuals for almost everything.
I do this by working as a User Experience Architect for Mobiquity, Inc.
I was once described as an "insight machine gun."
 
Location
Boston, MA
(GMT) Dublin, Edinburgh, London, Lisbon
 
Experience
 
 
Company
Mobiquity, Inc.
 
Position
UX Architect
 
From
Jun. 2011 - Present
 
Description
Mobiquity is a very cool and unique consulting firm with an in-house development team, specializing in mobile technology. I was hired in May (started working in June) when there were approximately 15 people at the company. As of November 2011, there are about 120 people.
Many corporations want to get in on this "mobile technology thing" but have no idea how to go about it (Build an app? Get a Twitter account?) we come in, research the company/industry/audience, and give workshops, make suggestions, and fix up the online and mobile presence of the client.
Company
DrawTop
Position
Founder
From
Apr. 2011 - Present
Description
Yeah, yeah, everyone who pimps themselves on LinkedIn has "founded a company," right? I can picture you now, rolling your eyes as you see "founder" for the umpteenth time on one of these profiles -- what is this, another consulting company with a wordpress site that's never had a client?

Actually... my company got on Gizmodo! Yes, we *really* sell things, and they're pretty freaking awesome things. Orders are rolling in and we have actual employees wih an actual office! (Sorry -- can you tell I'm excited about this?) We bought the domain name in July, l
Company
Harvard University
Position
Web Developer
From
Jun. 2009 - Aug. 2010
Description
I worked in the Mazur group, in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. I developed a social networking website in Drupal, designed for researchers and academics to provide informal reviews of scientific publications. Although the site never went live, it's still theoretically in development... Honestly, I have no idea what's going on with that project, but it was fun building it!
In addition, I maintained several other Mazur group websites.
Company
Amvona
Position
Web application developer
From
Feb. 2009 - Apr. 2009
Description
Wrote MVC components for Joomla, and PHP scripts to facilitate a MySQL database transfer.
Company
MITRE
Position
Intern
From
Jun. 2008 - Aug. 2008
Description
I worked with a team to develop an inter-office collaboration system. We posted a giant touch screen in the office (with the hopes of rolling out others around campus) which you could send work-related tweets to (we used a hashtag system to determine which boards displayed which tweets), log into your individual account, view a calendar, take pictures, view traffic displays, weather, send messages -- all in 2008!
Company
Microsoft
Position
Intern
From
Jun. 2006 - Aug. 2006
Description
This was back before the big September 2006 release of all their Windows 2007 stuff. I was working on Microsoft Office Project, making sure that it was compatible with IE7. I spent my days testing, finding the most severe bugs, following up with the developers to make sure they were resolved, and writing test automations in C# that were published the the official MS test automation database. My 17 year old self thought that was pretty awesome.
Mostly, I took advantage of the free Mountain Dew.
Company
Sun Microsystems Labs
Position
Intern
From
2005 - 2005
Description
This was an amusing job. I worked as a high school intern, doing video editing and minor programming/server admin projects. I wrote a Perl script that wrote and compiled Java code (much to the chagrin of just about everyone in the office -- many of whom had actually created Java). I heard through the grapevine a couple years later that this piece of software was _still being used_, up until they were bought out by Oracle. Crazy.
 
Education
 
 
School
Olin College of Engineering
 
From
2006 - 2010
 
Fields of Study
Bioengineering
School
Pierce College
From
2004 - 2006
Fields of Study
Mathematics, Chemistry
 
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