DrFirst develops innovative solutions that help healthcare stakeholders solve workflow challenges. iPrescribe was started as an afterthought to add mobile prescription management for doctors to the RCopia desktop web app with hundreds of thousands of existing users. The project was an enterprise jumble with lots of bureaucratic overhead, the need to integrate with a legacy services code base, undocumented requirements, and an organizational unfamiliarity with cutting edge web technologies and design. I accepted the challenge and got ahead of the problems by actively proposing my solutions before organizational ones were applied. I sold the stakeholders on focusing on user based design and started with high fidelity mockups, we iterated, then built a high-fidelity prototype that morphed into the full app in a 6 month timeline. It had a fraction of the features some of the original stakeholders wanted, but it did enough that most user's wanted to be quickly adopted by end users. The Ionic javascript platform was used to rapidly create a cross-platform web application. I used custom CSS3 animations heavily to convey workflow semantics that delivered really impressive demos. I introduced the company to userzoom and we conducted a remote usability study and iterated some more. Throughout the process resources were shifted and I had to fill several roles to make the project come off on time. Ultimately we delivered a product that was demonstrably faster both from a workflow perspective and from an SLA perspective.

DrFirst develops innovative solutions that help healthcare stakeholders solve workflow challenges. When I was introduced to the client they were struggling with their offshore development contracting company to finish the project. It was started a year ago and despite being nearly feature complete on paper, change requests were taking forever and maintenance issues were piling up. The product worked unacceptably poorly. Triage was urgently needed. The current code base was a jQuery nightmare with little to no architectural patterns followed that made any scalability impossible. To stem the bleeding, I introduced grunt and put several automated processes in place to improve workflow and ensure quality and some limited form of scalability. During the same time I also started coming up with some new mockups for how to update the look and feel to something more modern. Once I got maintenance under control, I received enough buy in to rebuild the entire app, but was only given a 3 month window. Challenge accepted! I was not only able to deliver a revamped UI in that time with many new features, but also made AngularJs work performantly on IE7 to meet the needs of some of DrFirst's legacy clients. After iterating the product for another few months and streamlining the build and engineering processes, I mentored and transitioned the product to the in house team.

Experient is a company that provides support for trade shows like CES or SEMA and the app I worked on helped visitors find exhibitors. I was initially brought in on a 3 month contract to recover a half finished project by another contractor to integrate a dynamic floor map using leaflet.js into their mobile apps. I was able to quickly deliver a solution in a few weeks and used some of my extra time to build a geographic heatmap reporting tool. That still left 2 months of budget to use! I then started building high fidelity mockups and translated it into a working prototype of a hybrid mobile application that convinced the technical director to replace their entire independant code bases for Android, iOS, and web mobile with a single hybrid HTML 5 offline capable application built around AngularJs and lightweight native web view wrappers. This architecture reduced the number of support personnel needed by a third as well as a 75% reduction in code all while doing more with a better looking and responsive web application. The contract was extended 6 months and the complete rewrite finished on time.

Trekz is a startup developing a social media image sharing site targeting outdoor enthusiasts. I was a project manager supporting an offshore development team as well as the user interface architect on the project. I helped develop the overall look and feel of the site working in conjunction with a graphic designer and the business requirements. I also designed the architecture of the UI stack for the intended scalability goals around a javascript powered rich internet application (RIA) that was tailored for SEO. The UI stack was based on backbone.js, twitter bootstrap, and jquery and backed by a RESTful service oriented architecture (SOA).

I was brought in as a consultant to Bank of America to design a more usable version of an internally developed resource allocation and forecasting tool tool that had both performance issues and usability issues due to an unconsolidated workflow. The new design allows users to complete all the most common goals while remaining on a single interactive page by removing rarely used data elements and combining data from several previously separate areas using the latest AJAX techniques.  It provided a massive time savings to users in that all of their daily tasks could now be performed on the first page they signed into that remembered their most commonly accessed projects and minimized interaction with the system to only those steps necessary.  All saving was done automatically as users finished changing the data.

I was the user interface Architect responsible for all current internal and external user interfaces. I created high-level architectural specifications, ensured feasibility, functionality, scalability and integration of user interfaces with services. Helped design and advise other developers on best user interface practices, facilitate code and design reuse, served as a liaison between business and engineering, implemented framework level code, implemented patterns for enterprise wide application development, and designed a common code library for UI development. When I was brought into the company, it's public facing tools were implemented in a flash based UI by an off shore development team.  I was tasked with modernizing the companies web user interfaces and did so by developing an architecture that wrapped the legacy flash code and allowed newer javascript based pages to be added seamlessly along side of it.  During my time there I helped grow the UI team from myself to over 10 onshore developers.  I put all potential new hires through a rigorous validation process with my own Javascript Test.

I was the User Interface Architect at America Online for AdDesk and several related internal tools.  AdDesk was a self-service tool that exposed AOL's entire advertising platform to any customer with a credit card.   Sales associates also used AdDesk to create custom campaigns that catered to their customers needs in an automated fashion. Ext-Js Javascript based front end, uses RESTful services to an ASP.Net/C# backend

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  Based on a common enterprise code library that facilitates enterprise patterns for UI design
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  Stable enterprise-level code base is the external face of the company and trusted to manage million of dollars in monthly ad spend.
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  Implemented using several well known patterns including dependancy injection and model view presenter to enhance maintainability and productivity.
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  Uses dependancy injection and framework code to minimize writing repetitive service call code
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  High performance javascript results in minimal page loads and postbacks

I developed StreetDeck as the ultimate in-vehicle infotainment system to entertain myself during my 8 hour drive to college. For my master's Thesis, I analyzed the usability of several different user interface modalities in a distracted environment using StreetDeck as a base. Years of development and 500,000 lines of code later, I founded StreetDeck LLC and partnered with MP3Car to form a startup to bring about the next revolution in in car infotainment. StreetDeck sold over $2 million worth of software and services over 3 years. The software powered the VMOD embedded computer which won Best New Mobile Electronics Product at the 2006 SEMA Show. Paul Ontellini, the CEO of Intel at the time, gave his September 2006 keynote at IDF on StreetDeck. StreetDeck was also used on the Intel sponsored bike created by Orange County Choppers for the show on the Discovery Channel. Using StreetDeck, I worked on several research projects and prototypes for Toyota / Scion, Ford, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Intel, Disney, Aptera, and others. StreetDeck was written in C++ and made heavy use of 3D graphics cards using OpenGL or Direct3D. I wrote everything from low-level bluetooth and serial port communication code to a user interface library with and COM API and IDE.

The key to enterprise software development and reusable software is highly maintainable documentation. Secha JSDuck was used on a Bank of America project to generate documentation directly from Java Doc style comments in the source code including embedded images and examples. A script file was written that could be used with, Jenkins, continuous integration server to build the documentation again on every code check-in.

Treat V1 was written in 1992 in 16-bit C for ALK-Abello, a large pharmaceutical company. After first getting the old source code to compile and run in a new version of visual studio, I wrote a database conversion routine in C++ to export all the existing data from bTrieve to an SQL database. I then designed a prescription label printing and management web application with full auditing and change management capabilities meant to replace an aging and user unfriendly application. The stack was built on ASP.Net, Spring.Net, NHibernate, and Ext-Js and was written and debugged in 3 months.

This was a portfolio site for a photographer that was built under a 4 day challenge. The minimalist design was created by the photographer. It was implemented using WordPress with a custom theme built using bootstrap and backbone.js to make a responsive single page application with lots of jQuery transitions. Paypal was integrated for taking deposits and an administrative role was created to allow he photographer to create the portfolios. Dropzone.Js was used upload portfolios that could consist of thousands of files. A image manifest was created as JSON object in a cached javascript file with a far future expires tag, only visible images were rendered to the DOM as the user scrolled through the portfolio.

This website is built on top of Wordpress using a completely custom theme. The home page uses RaphaelJS for the resume section, Box2D, a javascript physics engine, for the introduction section, and Waypoints.js for navigation. The portfolio is a custom Wordpress plugin I wrote that includes a UI that uses javascript and jQuery for the transitions. The portfolio content comes from a custom Wordpress post type that can be dynamically manipulated through the Wordpress admin UI.

Computer incident tracking, incident analysis, and advisory distribution system developed for the Computer Incident Response Team at the Department of Housing and Urban Development while working for Lockheed Martin. Developed both a windows desktop tray application using event Hook DLLs, Network Socket Programming, and Microsoft SQL Database connectivity. The main application was programmed in <strong>Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)</strong> that Integrated with Real Secure intrusion detection system for tracking significant events through process specific hooks and clipboard monitoring. A complimentary website was programmed in <strong>ASP</strong> to display recent incidents and advisories, allow potential insecure practices to be reported, distribute advisories using a high performance TCP and UDP packet push server for a 10,000+ client systems. The client would run as a tray application linked to the website and displays a small notification when a new advisory is received.

Input Methods for Improving Secondary Task Performance Design and evaluation of input methods for secondary tasks in dual-task systems presents specific challenges not covered by traditional human-computer interaction design techniques. Emerging trends in the fields of mobile, ubiquitous, and in-vehicle information systems demonstrate a desire for users to interact with information systems while engaging in other tasks. Research on interaction within these various fields has revealed input methods that perform well for a particular task. However, few focus on the tradeoffs of attention that must be made to react to this notification information. A design analysis technique for input methods is proposed focusing on the design objectives of interruption, reaction, and comprehension for the secondary task made at the cost of primary task attention. Through a usability study that demonstrates this technique, a typical in-vehicle information system is analyzed. Three input methods were compared: a graffiti character recognizer, a touch screen, and a remote control for their proficiency at selecting an item from a list while operating a driving simulator. The results of the study revealed similar task performance between the varied input methods; however, the design analysis enabled recommendations about future design directions, confirming the viability of the technique for notification systems research.

Carputer is a laptop that was highly modified and integrated into the dashboard of my ’88 firebird. The operating system is a striped down version of Microsoft Windows 98 with explorer replaced by my own shell. All interface components have been built from the ground up in low-level C++ to work in a vehicle environment and formed the foundation of what would later become StreetDeck. Primarily an MP3 player, before the iPod revolution came about, with a fast, skinned software interface programmed in C++ using only windows API calls to run smoothly on a 233 Mhz Pentium processor.