user interfaces should be obvious
forms should speak human not robot.
applications should be straightforward.
design should be clean and clever.
pixels out of place are not acceptable.
distractions should be at a minimum.
ads should not be annoying.
intent should be aligned with ethics.
pride should not be sacrificed.
fun must be have had.
i believe
Flash ActionScript 2, 3
HTML PHP MySQL
XML JSON AMF JavaScript
Adobe Creative Suite 3,4, Flex
Opensource Flash, Remoting
Objet Oriented Design/Development
Rich Internet Applications
Adobe AIR Desktop Applications
Site Mockups
User Interface Design and Analysis
i know
7+ years experience
Graspr Inc.
Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
AlphaDetail
Mar 2006 - Dec 2007
IET Mediaworks at UCDavis
Apr 2003 - Jun 2005
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Studied Com Sci and Engineering at UCDavis
Speak English, Hindi, Spanish and Geek
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I build apps I would use myself.
Most of my projects have been an afterthought of statements such as

“Hmm... I can’t believe this doesn’t already exist” or
“This is not good enough; if only they had done it this way” or
“I really wish there an easier way to do this.” or
“Sounds hard, lets give it a shot.

 

some of my projects and experiments:

SlickBuilds.com
A niche community for diy desktop and home theater pc builders. Built entire website from scratch using PHP, MySQL, HTML, JS, CSS, jQuery, AJAX. Site was conceptualized, designed, and developed by me.

Levis 2011 Q1 Flash Banners
A set of 18 banners I animated in conjunction with the design team at SilverLign. SilverLign provided all art and concepts in photoshop files.
You'll probably have to turn your ad blocker off to see these: Batch #1 Batch #2

JackPhillipsForAmerica (2010) - project offline
An anti-political ad campaign for AARP through FreeRange Studios. An interactive media project involving high bandwidth video with synchronized 3d animation in flash. My role in this project involved setting up and implementing every piece of interactivity and coding the entire the project. From creating the fake youtube player, to the video cued 3d animations. I also provided video streamlining and encoding guidelines.

NotCooley.com (2010) - project offline
On the flip side of political campaigns. I built this all flash website from artist renderings. Utilized YouTube's AS3 API to import youtube player inside of application. (videos were produced by client)

Flash Kiva Badge
A embeddable flash widget to advertise your loans on Kiva.
Techs. used in entire project: Fireworks CS4, Flash CS4, AS3, HTML, XML, JSON, MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery), CSS

as3Kiva
open source wrapper for Kiva.org public API to help flash developers create Kiva applications.

Graspr.com
I have been responsible for creating and managing most of the Flash applications you see on this site.
Basic Graspr Video Player
Collections Graspr Player
Graspr gCard:     ( gCard is also viewable inside the basic video player)
An animated banner to represent a Tag Cloud for the site.

Flash Gallery Concepts/Designs (Experimental)
For a while I was really into designing a fantastic web gallery application, and went through a few iterations of how it should look.
original concept
alternative look
compact gallery concept1
compact gallery concept2
all mockups were created using orignal graphics in Adobe Fireworks.

LivingUbuntu.org
A simple design I did for this non-profit organization down in Southern California.

early Sims game experiment in flash
back when the orginal Sims game came out (i was still in school), I was most intrigued/interested by their house building aspects of the game,
and wanted to possibly replicate that element in a web/flash format. Back then I was still new to flash so it was more than
I could handle on my own, but I owe a lot of knowledge from that one experiment.
Initial Test - This was a good starting point. I was able to lay tiles and draw walls, but I soon realized the importance of application structure
and design and decided to start using design patters. Unfortunately life got in the way and I was never able to finish this monumental project. Maybe someday i will.