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  • January 12, 12:30 AM

    Silence of the Lames

    To celebrate the new gig and semi-inspired by Matt Cutt's "giving up Twitter for 30 days", I've given up Facebook and Twitter for this week. That means zero status updates, zero tweets + direct messages, ignoring m' friends and followers and laying off the Zynga games. Catch me via IM, SMS or email til Saturday. I SHALL endure!
  • January 04, 08:37 PM

    Monthly dues

    Curiously, here's a list of my recurring monthly costs:

    (does not include mortgage, HOA fees, food, property taxes, transportation, healthcare and other disposable income items)
    • Cable + Internet (Comcast or Astound): $68
    • Energy (PG&E): $35
    • Wireless (AT&T): $75
    • Movie rentals (Netflix): $12
    • Web hosting (Dreamhost): $10
    • Car registration - 2 cars (State of California): $14
    • Car Insurance - 2 cars (Farmers' Insurance): $80
    • Haircuts (Supercuts): $12
    That's $306 per month.

    How bout you?
  • December 28, 03:00 PM

    Keep on movin'

    Often, I will tell m' friends, "what defines a person ain't so much what one has gained, but rather what they let go." The majority of 'em disagree, and they're not wrong, but neither am I .... i think ;)

    Throughout the earlier years of life, I held onto shit, regretting this or that to the point of it consuming me. It's good to capture and reflect on an event or experience, but one has to let go and move forward. Life isn't short-term. Don't let the little things control your life or bog you down. It's a journey, a 'Big Picture' journey .... it's big, like Godzilla.

    That's why I've adopted this mantra, "Move forward, carry on." imparted to me by a good friend. I can't dwell on setbacks. I gotta keep pressin' on.

    And that's what i mean when about letting go: just keep on rollin'.
  • December 26, 10:34 PM

    New year, new decade, new job

    It's a new year and w/ it comes a new job at Trialpay!

    After the last gig, I talked to a slew of companies, some that liked me, some that didn't, some that made me an offer, some that just didn't reply .... it's a courtship ritual to see whether a prospective employee will fit within the company scheme, somewhat how personnel differ between 4-3 and 3-4 defenses in football, or Steve Nash's run-and-gun offense differs from Yao Ming's slow motion half-court sets.

    The next chapter of work needed a company that embraced their employees, and whose process is more methodological and less chaotic. As I grow older, I still enjoy programming / software dev, but I don't want to continue rapid cycles w/ frantic deadlines. Because developers implement new features while designing them against any future considerations (can this be reused or extended later?), fix old bugs (oops, it's a problem and it's in production), fix missing product defects (we've found out that the feature is cumbersome), hot-fixing on live servers (needs some TLC right now!), etc., it does takes a toll. Try doing that every two weeks. I hope I've found a fair middle ground in the new company: neither entirely big-company bureaucratic nor needing to wear out the worker bees.

    Also factoring in the decision is the fact that stress management has always been m' achilles heel. I need to turn it down a notch and realize that It's not life or death. Though, it's easier said than done when there's sooo much pressure to ship. It doesn't mean slow, but slower—relative to prior projects ;)

    The official start date is Jan. 11 and I'll have a nice two weeks off to collect m'self before I head back to the trenches. It's good to chill :)
  • December 24, 05:13 PM

    Favorite films of the past decade

    Mario's list of favorite movies of the decade inspired me to write up m' own—in no particular order. So, let's play!
    • Serenity
    • No Country For Old Men
    • The Dark Knight
    • There Will Be Blood
    • Kill Bill, vol. 1
    • Donnie Darko
    • Ocean's Eleven
    • American Psycho
    • Snatch
    • Sin City
    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    • Talk to Her
    • The Lives of Others
    • Adaptation
    • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    • Memento
    • Amores Perros
    • The Incredibles
    • Children of Men
    • Dancer in the Dark
    • Primer
    • Battle Royale
  • December 15, 12:31 AM

    Cheaters never win.

    Microsoft stealing ideas, design and actual source code? Yep.

    - http://blog.plurk.com/2009/12/14/microsoft-rips-plurk/
    Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but blatant theft of code, design, and UI elements is just not cool, especially when the infringing party is the biggest software company in the world. Yes, we’re talking about Microsoft. Blerg.
    Sick.

    It reminds me of the copycat Q&A websites that sprouted after the release of Yahoo! Answers beta. There were a couple of others—mostly from foreign countries—but I didn't record 'em.

    (Click for full view)

  • December 11, 02:41 PM

    2009: a year of some kind of i don't know

    As in last winter's "year in review" entry, I wanna recap this year and how I'm looking forward to the next decade of the young millenium.

    I believe it's been a stagnant year. That doesn't mean it wasn't productive. Sometimes the lack of events, the drama, is positive. It hasn't bore the fruit that I hoped:

    Working at a start-up is draining, emotionally and physically. After 1.5 years at Raptr, I left in late November. It wasn't the easiest choice to leave m' comrades. I made lifelong friends and cutting ties still leaves bittersweet feelings. The Raptr Kids (as we call each other) shot hoops, ping-ponged, threw darts, drank beers, ultimate frisbee-d, video-gamed, brewed each other coffee and worked extremely hard together as a team. You can't get any better than that. So, why then? It was time. I did all I could and had nothing left in the tank. No real details to disclose, just time to move forward.

    Personally, I'm still single and I've not grown a bit and haven't for a long while in this arena. I've steered a very independent life and always have since forever, so it's been hard to break old habits. I really need to change that. Time to move forward.

    There are bright spots such as refinancing the mortgage to a 4.5% 15-year fixed loan. According to the numbers, I can (and want to) pay it off in 6-8 years. I really dislike debt. Really, really, really ....

    Also, I visited Thailand to attend m' little brother's wedding. Congratulations to him and his bride :) And a few months before, I visited Chicago for m' annual Midwest tour to see m' roots. I reconnected w/ lot of old college friends, some of which I hadn't seen since .... well, college! I also had the pleasure of meeting the next generation of misfit cuties, born to m' lovin' friends =)

    So what's next?
    • Right now, I'm unemployed and interviewing. I won't be disappointed if I don't get any of 'em; whatever happens will and I will be employed somewhere. I hope ;)
    • In m' love life, I need to break out of m' comfort zone and start dating again. I gotta figure out if someone can stand m' eccentricities and love me. And, if I can snatch m' fair maiden, I'd like to start a family. That'd be swell.
    • Read more.
    • Exercise more.
    • Listen and be more cognizant of others.
    • Let things go and don't take things too personally (one of m' weaknesses).
    So, onwards to 2010 ....

    Move forward, carry on ....

    BRING IT!
  • October 17, 09:10 PM

    The kids are alright

    m' friend's six year old is learning about email and the interwebs .... this letter is so sweet. whenever it ain't m' day (which is very often), i open and read it .... like taking a deep breath and exhaling .... things ain't so bad anymore ....
  • September 28, 12:55 AM

    Searching for meaning.

    "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."

    — Joseph Campbell
  • August 22, 01:43 AM

    songsincode

    i contributed bits to the Twitter #songsincode trending topic. Check 'em out:
    with (feet) {
      this.inAir()
    }
    with (head) {
      this.onGround();
    }
    try {
      this.trick.spinIt();
    }
    head.collapse();
    if (it === "") {
      self.ask = function() {
        self.mind.find();
      }
    }

    all.onload = function() {
      foreach(hands as hand) {
        hand.onGrab = function(e) {
          var t=e.target;
          t.setAttribute(t.children('all'));
        }
      }
    }

    with (you || !you) {
      ....
    }
  • March 29, 11:22 PM

    We just are.

    "I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything."
    —Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  • February 22, 11:07 PM

    was Kovacs, now Rorschach

    Rorschach:
    "Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

    This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us.

    Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world."
    Related:
  • February 10, 03:35 PM

    Quality, not quantity

    Caterina has a nice blog post on singletasking and work.

    I am a big proponent of this philosophy. When you try to do everything, you accomplish 80% of you goals, because there is a finite amount of time and the ability to focus. Whether you're in a fast-paced startup or wading through the big-company project of fail, it's easy to lose focus on delivering something concisely awesome and over-deliver and overwhelm w/ lots of half-assed, hacked-up crap.



    Scatterbrain process leads to scatterbrain products. It does a lot of a little for someone .... maybe.
  • January 02, 03:42 PM

    Smokin' secession

    A Raptr co-worker and I are beginning our "Biggest Loser Smoker" challenge next Monday.

    Here's how the competition goes:
    • There's a central pot o' gold.
    • Everyone starts contributing to the pot on day one, starting at $7, decrementing each day. At the end of 7 days, contributions are nil.
    • If a participant falls off the wagon, he pays $5 to the pot and resets to the $7 contribution, decrementing $1 each day as before.
    • Winner takes all at the end (whenever that may be)
    Bring it!
  • December 31, 10:08 PM

    Looking back, resolutions and all that malarcky

    2008 has been a darlin' year. As I continue the journey to middle age, the number of look-back regrets has dropped to zero. That's a good thing, as it's a personal barometer of success—less failures.

    The best time is the eight weeks time-off in the early spring. I flew to Chicago for a week, relying on m' legs, friends' generosity and public transportation, including the train and BART to and from the airport. Kind of a hassle, yet really fun. I'm planning to do the same in spring 2009, after all that snow melts.

    In the same period, I exercised daily—shooting hoops and swimming—and letting go a little of the Silicon Valley Developer Bee madness; it's a bipolar thing: I love the excitement of new technologies, but I hate it for consuming / absorbing a lot of everything else.

    This year, I completed six months of independent consulting (actually four: see aforementioned time-off above), before joining Raptr in July. Contracting was fun, but not my cup of tea. The jobs are transient and the benefits are lacking—almost ten whole months w/o health insurance, can you believe it?

    Another '08 mark of success has to be m' relationship w/ mom. We didn't fight as much nor did we engage in an epic battle. It has taken five years of progressive patience and understanding and it's a whole better =)

    This year also marked a big milestone in m' arch-nemesis, the Big Bad Mortgage Monster, as I've broken the $300k barrier (owing less than that). Since winter 2004, I've cut ~23% of mortgage debt. Yes, I vehemently hate owing money and paying interest.

    So let's press onwards towards 2009! Resolutions begin!
    • Quit smoking. Like many years before, it hasn't gone well
    • Get me a woman. Right now, if it happens, it will.
    • Exercise more and not just on the weekends. Growing old means one's health needs a bit more TLC.
    • Lower the mortgage loan by $25k
    • Cut down on fast food indulgences to twice a month. Man, I love buffalo wings, french fries and Popeye's fried chicken.
    So there, there's enough for a year-long party for yours truly.

    Also, I'm gonna hit Comic-Con in San Diego and thinking about taking a legitimate vacation to a resort w/ white sandy beaches and pina coladas .... these are worth mentioning but not within the context of a resolution list =)

    So, cheers to a new year, to our new President Barack Obama and to mankind for not (yet) bringing the apocalypse! 2009: bring it on!
  • September 26, 05:13 PM

    A Peek into Raptr

    A couple of Raptr-lings cobbled these videos together ....

    Welcome to the Raptr Office

    Raptr: Timeline (2008) from yahooza on Vimeo.



    The Raptr Now and Then Slideshow

    Raptr: The Office (2008) from yahooza on Vimeo.



    silly raptr, tricks are for kids! errr, yeah.
  • December 17, 01:59 PM

    Y! Answerspedia?

    Yesterday, Techcrunch posted an article on a defunct Y! Social Search product, Answerspedia. Slated as a spin-off to Answers (Angel to Buffy), It provided a repository for extraordinary answers from the parent property. Though, an interesting concept project, it closed down a few months after the first prototype. I had personal doubts of its success, but you never know ....

    The TC news team appropriately asked a question on Y! Answers: What was Answerpedia and why did it never launch?. I answered politely and am now mentioned in the article as an update =) yay!

    I reckon, it's as close as I'll get to being on Techcrunch. Whew! =P
  • November 06, 03:02 AM

    Behind the political curtain

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581

    Newsweek has a nice one on the "little things" that happened during the recent Presidential run. There will be more juicy bits disclosed in future Newsweek publications ....

    A few interesting ones:
    The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.

    On the night she officially lost the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton enjoyed a long and friendly phone conversation with McCain. Clinton was actually on better terms with McCain than she was with Obama. Clinton and McCain had downed shots together on Senate junkets; they regarded each other as grizzled veterans of the political wars and shared a certain disdain for Obama as flashy and callow.

    Obama was never inclined to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, not so much because she had been his sometime bitter rival on the campaign trail, but because of her husband. Still, as Hillary's name came up in veep discussions, and Obama's advisers gave all the reasons why she should be kept off the ticket, Obama would stop and ask, "Are we sure?" He needed to be convinced one more time that the Clintons would do more harm than good. McCain, on the other hand, was relieved to face Biden as the veep choice, and not Hillary Clinton, whom the McCain camp had truly feared.

    The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for the Democratic primary debates, Obama was recorded saying, "I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me ... answer it.' So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

    One aide estimated that she [Gov. Sarah Palin] spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.
  • November 05, 01:54 AM

    Congratulations President-elect Barack Obama

    some people have "it" and he's got it.

    i've met and befriended plenty of characters in m' life (as witness by m' 500+ friends on Facebook) and i can only recall a handful of friends who have touched m' life and shaped my being. among them, only a single person has that exceptional quality, the unequivocal balance of brilliance and humility, a blend of toughness and harmony, a person that seems to occlude the darkness and ease any anxiety .... i miss that friend.

    not many people have "it", but the next President of the United States does.
  • November 04, 12:42 AM

    Vote.

    Tomorrow, you should vote. Vote, vote, vote if you haven't yet. If you are at the polls and are still undecided, then, golly geez whiz, stick that pencil up your caboose and squeeze really hard just like if you were constipated. you might experience an epiphany.
  • September 08, 02:35 AM

    Raptr!

    Raptr.com. It's alive!

    Oh boy. it's finally living and breathing, hatched from countless hours of heads-down hacking and numerous weekends. It now stands tall and proud, roaring w/ excitement! Woo hoo!

    Take it for a spin and leave feedback. Let us know how it does or doesn't work for you. And take a peek at the Raptr minions that produced this Frankenstein beast.

    Check out the Raptr Card on my dashboard page. YOU can get one too!

    I'm looking forward to building cool, new features and rocking the world. Let the games begin! (no pun intended)
  • August 12, 09:09 PM

    A moment to breathe

    Subversion, our code repository, is currently down, giving yours truly a chance to write some. It's been pretty hectic (in a wonderfully fun kinda way) at Raptr. Lots of work which will soon reveal itself shortly ....

    I've wanted to write about the Dark Knight since seeing the stunning film weeks back. I'm a thinker of the 'grey', the cross-section of polarizing entities, that which provokes critical thought, rebuttle and careful listening. It's very easy to embrace the black and white, accepting the firm beliefs of those who stand by "I am such, like my colleagues" rather than putting a conscious effort to understand the debate.

    That's where the film made me ponder the hero and villain dynamic: Batman, the vigilante creature who decides to tap the cell phones of all of Gotham (see Bush and his Patriot Act policy) for the greater good or the Joker, the master of chaos who tempts the city's citizens w/ ethical dillemmas, provoking thought and questioning themselves. I loved the Joker, not only for Nolan's portrayal of the infamous villain but because of who is: the anarchist who wished to break the status quo, to question self-being and not just being the arch-criminal, robbing banks, holding politicians hostage and painfully balancing the hero / villain levers. If I had to become a super-villain, I'd model m'self against Nolan's Joker =)

    In the end, the Batman understands that Gotham City needed its polar forces and becomes the villain to uphold the upstanding and heroic legacy of the fallen Harvey Dent. It's sad that 2.5 hours of conflict and city upheaval lead back to the same black and white portrait: always a "good", offset by the "bad".
  • July 29, 02:50 AM

    Dr. Horribly good

    - http://www.hulu.com/watch/28343/dr-horribles-sing-along-blog

    Dr. Horrible's Sing-along blog is now playing for free on Hulu. If you haven't seen it, ya gotta.

    Joss Whedon and his Mutant Enemy friends used the free interwebs to distribute their wonderful work of art via Twitter, Myspace, Vimeo, Facebook, iTunes, Hulu, etc. Now, that's the power of the world wide web: enabling the little guy w/ the right tools to create and share, sans the big-bad money-hungry corps. And it's a lot better than the majority of crap from Hollywood studios.

    So go watch it!

    Favorite lines:
    This is so nice
    I just might sleep with the same girl twice
    They say it’s better the second time
    They say you get to do the weird stuff (we do the weird stuff)

    Yes Captain Hammer's here
    Hair Blowing in the Breeze
    The day needs my saving expertise

    Everyone’s a hero in their own way
    Everyone can blaze a hero's trail
    Don't worry if it's hard,
    if you're not a friggin 'tard you will prevail

    This is his dry cleaning bill
    Four sweater vests

    The hammer is my penis
  • July 18, 02:43 AM

    the Rapture

    no, not the forthcoming Rapture, but rather m' new gig, Raptr, a social networking, video games package of some sorts. Hell, I don't know how to fully explain it, but I sure know what we're building!

    So yeah, it's m' first full-time gig in over eight (8) damn months! It's been awhile and I've been waiting patiently for the right "cause", picking up contract gigs in the meantime.

    Why Raptr? Cause I believe the company can succeed and succeed tremendously. I haven't been as excited since starting Yahoo! Answers. I've this sixth sense of 'win' for Raptr.

    There're plenty of start-ups in Silicon Valley, but many of 'em will crash and burn, some will succeed, only to peak and stagnate and very few will break that ceiling. (And, of course, there's Twitter which has captured the hearts of the web 2.0 nation and still has no business model. They are in their own category of 'yay')

    Good things will happen. It's a gut thing. I just hope I'm not jinxing m'self and the company =) *knocks on wood*

    Cheers to lots of long nights and dreams of success.
  • July 09, 06:08 PM

    Depression as a symptom and not a disease

    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/06/head_fake/

    I think the article is a must-read for everyone. It details another theory / explanation as to how anti-depressants perform against the human body:
    The effectiveness of Prozac, these scientists say, has little to do with the amount of serotonin in the brain. Rather, the drug works because it helps heal our neurons, allowing them to grow and thrive again.
    So, it's not that the happy pills help release happy chemicals, but rather the happy pills assist to regenerate parts of your brain that have been abused by constant worry, anxiety and stress. Unforgiving boss, foreclosures, nagging wife, being too fat, having to little money, new kids in family: it all adds up.

    It's no wonder that all the aforementioned symptoms are treated w/ same drugs. A pharmacist friend o' mine told me once that big pharma corps sell the exact same chemical as two different products, one for PMS and the other for smoking cessation.

    M' grandmother, an old lady of over ninety years suffered from some mental disorder (I never heard exact diagnosys); quite the experience for m' relatives who care for her. The doctor prescribed Zoloft, an anti-depressant and shortly she regained focus and mental strength. Happy pills do more than make you happy, as the commercials would like you to believe.

    What lead them to this conclusion, that happy drugs are more than Ecstacy lite?
    One of the first cracks in the chemical hypothesis of depression came from a phenomenon known as the "Prozac lag." Antidepressants increase the amount of serotonin in the brain within hours, but the beneficial effects are not usually felt for weeks.
    The lag period is your brain, your body healing itself.
    In this sense, Prozac is simply a bottled version of other activities that have a similar effect, such as physical exercise. They aren't happy pills, but healing pills.
    So constant physical exercise does the same for your body as Prozac and the other anti-depressants?

    Interesting discoveries though I reckon the marketing for legal, instant happy drugs won't stop.

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Walter Punsapy

Sr. UI Engineer at TrialPay
Information Technology and Services | San Francisco Bay Area, US

Summary

Developing user-centric web applications. Simple human-friendly software == happy end-users.
Specialties: Web interface development, javascript, J2EE web apps, PHP software development, i18n, social media, ajax, rapid prototyping, usability, web design and information architecture, rich interface applications, software design and best practices, all the coolest web 2.0 buzzwords.

Experience

  • Jan 2010 - Present

    Sr. UI Engineer / TrialPay

    Building stuff.
  • Jan 2000 - Present

    Principal Consultant / yahooza consulting

    Independent consultant / contractor / mercenary / ninja for web software companies. I work side jobs when time permits. Clients: Zvents, timedots.com, Core Dot Continuum, P6R Consulting, Moby Marketing, myplay.com, guru.com
  • Jul 2008 - Nov 2009

    Senior Web Engineer (Frontend Engineering) / Raptr

    Frontend engineering for a social networking site for gamers. Lots of PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, etc. Worked with user experience designers and backend team to build features for raptr.com Tools: PHP, jQuery, YUI, JavaScript, Ajax, JSON, CSS, SQL, MySQL, SQLite, Textmate, VIM
  • Apr 2005 - Oct 2007

    Software Engineer / Yahoo!

    I: Social Search --- Building Yahoo! Social Networking webapps * Y! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com) - One of the original engineers on Y! Answers from inception, Beta, the summer 2006 GA (general audience) launch. * Y! Better Bookmarks (http://bookmarks.yahoo.com) - PHP, JavaScript, YUI, and Symfony integration * del.icio.us - Symfony integration, PHP, JavaScript II: International (i18n) Tiger Team --- The focus, as an internal consultant, is building and extending i18n-enabled webapps. * Y! Fantasy Sports - LSM, PHP, JavaScript * Y! Video - PHP, MySQL, YUI Tools: web standards, PHP, CSS, dhtml, JavaScript, Ajax, XML, Symfony, MySQL, web services, YUI, VIM
  • Aug 2003 - Apr 2005

    Sr. Consultant, Technology / Razorfish

    Sun Microsystems (sun.com/solutions), Singapore Airlines (singaporeair.com), Renesas, DNA Direct Tools: java, javascript, web standards, css, xml, php, mysql, teamsite, weblogic, oracle, struts, tiles, webwork, i18n, toad
  • Jan 2003 - Aug 2003

    Web Applications Developer / Medialive Intl.

    PHP <-> Oracle application development for conferences. Tools: php, oracle 8i, mysql, pl/sql, xhtml, dhtml, javascript, css, SQL, toad
  • Feb 2002 - Jan 2003

    Web Engineer / GenSys Software

    Web UI developer for Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN). Lots of JavaScript, dHTML, CSS, JSPs in a J2EE MVC framework. Tools: CSS, JavaScript (lots of it), dHTML, JSP
  • Sept 1999 - Aug 2001

    Sr. Interface Developer / Razorfish

    Web site and web application development Veritas (veritas.com), Mckinsey (mckinseyquarterly.com), doubletwist.com, Camstar, Cadence, Documentum, Vodafone, PricewaterhouseCoopers Tools: ATG Dynamo, HTML, JavaScript, dHTML, CSS, JSP, PHP, ASP
  • Oct 1997 - Aug 1999

    Web UI Developer / Systems Administrator / Four Points Digital

Education

  • 1993 - 1997

    University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

    BS in Biology
  • 1989 - 1993

    Loyola Academy

    HS Diploma w/ Honors
    Activities: Illinois State Scholar, National Honor Society

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2006 Yahoo! Superstar award (team) for Answers.
Interests:
mashups, technology, philosophy, scalability, film, Starcraft, science fiction, occult literature, conspiracy theories
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