Introducing...
Hi, I'm Brian. I'm a developer, occasional designer and all–round usability fanatic working in the usually frigid Pittsburgh, PA. Currently I'm at IBM's Silicon Valley Labs, working with IBM's User Technologies group making convoluted enterprise software more usable and, dare I say it, fun.
It's tough, but gives me just the amount of variety I love. I get to work with usability people on testing, high–level requirements and guidelines, where it's then off to designers to crank out detailed mock–ups and screens. Finally, I get to put it all together into an interactive proof of concept.
What I'm working on:
- IBM Software Engineering Internship, Summer 2010
- Designed, developed, conducted user tests, struggled with Lotus Notes, learned lots of acronyms.
- Hairbop.com
- Ruby on Rails, SASS and HAML, done remotely through Github.
- TEDxCMU
- Wordpress theme development. Version 1 is used for TEDxUniPittsburgh as well. As of Fall 2010, a newer, less hack-ish version is in the works (the first one was done over a weekend.)
Projects and Activities
- Yahoo! Hackathon 2010
- Worked in a 4–person team to create two applications in 24 hours, winning the Hack Pitch competition. Both applications got honorable mentions as well.