Summary

• I have over a decade of experience developing intuitive, meaningful, and successful user experiences for one of the global market leaders in online learning.
• I am a proven innovator, who understands the implications of UI/UX for development. I have the experience to guide application development in a direction that always considers scalability, extensibility, and innovation.
• Specialties
• User interface development, user experience, software development, graphic design, application architecture, multimedia development, project management
• Training, Research and Development, Touch Development

Experience

Executive Consultant at

Confidential

• Lately I've been working with storyboarding and prototyping tools, like Axure and Indigo, to visualize more complex SPA's. I've work with offshore teams on SDLC, Rich Interaction, and Best Practices. I help development teams understand complex UI/UX, and guide them toward using contemporary and cutting-edge development methodologies. I've also been working on purely UX projects while teaching others the appropriate approach to process-driven UX. I work with management teams to help them understand SDLC and enterprise-level software development. I use my experience to help my colleagues grow and improve
• their understanding of technology and SDLC. I like Agile methodologies. I keep abreast of the latest trends in technology and development, and am a lifelong learner.

Senior Developer / Flash Team Manager at

Confidential

• Liaise with Vice President of Digital Media Production to oversee vendor development of 10'UI video
• Work closely with Kaplan's Mobile Development team to develop the first in-house mobile applications for
• Android/iOS
• 4 recommendations available upon request

Manager, Content Development at

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• Led team of six web producers in course configuration, web content, product development and maintenance of student course materials, such as documents, images and configuration files used in Kaplan's Learning Management Systems LMS
• Project managed in-house development of productivity tools for team
• Streamlined team workflow to increase productivity
• Used scrum practices such as: daily standups, sprint/release planning and backlog grooming to scope work, requirements, development estimates, Quality Assurance/User Acceptance Testing efforts and project schedule with business team.
• Managed bi-weekly release process for two student legacy systems
• Worked with Project Management Office, QA team, and business analysts in prioritization and resource management of incoming and on-going projects

Lead Flash Developer at

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• Project: Content Delivery Network Management CDN ,
• Developed and initiated CDN integration plan, production workflow and video encoding standards
• Delivered monthly usage statistics and projections to management team
• Managed relationship with vendor
• Administered video content workflow

Confidential

• Developed iVideo, a global video distribution system with multiple layers of security protecting video content iVideo is in place as iVideo labs at 57 institutions in 15 countries, and generates more than 1 million in annual revenue
• Collaborated with back-end developers to create a secure video delivery system for educational institutions around the globe.

Confidential

Developed PMBR video UI/UX with innovative features synchronized content, multi-speed playback, dynamic XML-based interaction/evaluation

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• Developed Ned product to match changes in the USMLE
• Created complex gating navigation and rendering of USMLE's new question sets, new interaction types, etc.

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Developed various UI/UX for video presentation from CDN, including cutting edge features: dynamic transcripts engine, synchronized content, synchronized XML-based interaction/evaluation, client-side playlist management, content search, etc.

Confidential

Conceived core approach for WebPrep product

Flash/UI Developer at

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• Project: In-Center Video System
• Developed video delivery system to replace Kaplan DVD publications, saving the company an average of
• 3 million/year in total DVD production costs, while eliminating the need for video playback equipment in
• Kaplan Centers.
• Collaborated with back-end team on architectural and security design.

Confidential

• Developed stateless front end UI/UX, which became a market leader in USMLE test simulation.
• Developed unique abstracted rendering approach to allow for fully dynamic content rendering and interaction, freeing content creators from the constraints of template-based authoring.
• Developed first-in-industry dynamic text rendering engine that allowed for text features unavailable using standard rendering methodologies.
• Developed complex UI to match interactions from USMLE.
• Developed extended functionality: in-test evaluation and remediation, using rich multimedia assets video, animations, audio, etc.

Confidential

• Syllabus is used by tens of thousands of students daily
• Created complex application, which enabled and streamlined configuration products that greatly improved user experience. 100 client-side business logic.

Confidential

• Developed dynamic, stateless UI for instruction using dynamic content synchronized to audio lectures
• Developed unique abstracted rendering approach to allow for fully dynamic content rendering and interaction