Linus Graybill

selected work experience

• Front-end web developer maintaining and developing new features for comcast.net

• Heuristic analysis of existing web user interface that included documenting the present structure and workflows
• Researched primary (network security administrator) and secondary (medical doctor in the field) users, developed rich user personas
• Prepared and presented recommendations for improved navigation and workflows with wireframes

• Responsible for usability improvements and designing new features for the user interfaces of two existing products (Java Swing and JSP) and two new products (both Flex JBoss portals)
• Worked closely with sales engineers and product managers to define business requirements and use cases
• Rapidly developed concepts and interactive prototypes; presented and led discussions on prototypes for iterative development
• Operated as an intermediary to translate requirements and prototypes to local and remote developers
• Produced user personas, workflow modeling, site architecture, information design diagrams, low/mid/hi-fi prototyping, branding, look and feel, icons, illustrations and covers for documentation and training manuals
• Contributed as a front-end developer using XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Flex 3, Actionscript 3, and PHP
• Led and implemented GUI look and feel transition to support a Cisco OEM of the product; worked directly with Cisco product managers and designers to rebrand all of the interfaces as a Cisco product

• Designed all page views for a social-networking website based on an existing brand and design using Fireworks, Photoshop, and Flash
• Hand-coded final page views for the live site using XHTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Actively participated in the development team’s Agile/scrum exercises and environment

• Collaborated with senior software developer to design and build a touch-screen kiosk for use in retail stores using Visual Basic, Photoshop, and Illustrator

• Led front-end web design and development team on over thirty projects for a design and communications company providing data management and promotional solutions to clients in the public sector
• Steered a methodology transition from Dreamweaver and table-based layouts to following web standards, including hand-coded XHTML/CSS and Javascript interfaces
• Produced detailed site maps with functional specifications for non-profit and university clients and developers using Excel and OmniGraffle
• Performed site visits and user interviews with clients to assess user requirements for projects

• Provided design concepts for an existing organization that was re-locating to Arizona State University
• Implemented the final design as a static website using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver

professional development

• Sun CommunityOne East attendee, New York, NY, (March 2009)
• Interaction Design Association (IXDA) member (2008 - present)
• New York Flex Users Group member (2007 - 2009)
• Smart Experience Prototyping Seminar attendee, New York, NY, (November 2008)
• Interaction '08 (IXDA Conference) , Savannah, GA, (March 2008)
• Philadelphia Standards member (2004 - 2008)
• Philadelphia New Media Artists member (2004 - 2007)

education

• Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ - Bachelor of Arts, Humanities, May 2004
• Uppsala University/ Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden - Study Abroad Research Seminar, 2002-2003

some personal projects

swipe

Swipe is a project my friend Eric Lee and I are working on together to make the New York City subway alert system more usable. Swipe does the same thing the current MTA's current system does -- sends alerts to your phone or email when trains have problems -- but much better. For starters, you can schedule alerts down to the 15-minute increment (MTA makes you do three-hour chunks). Next, you can filter by direction. And if all goes well, we'd eventually like to break it down by station. We also have some cool ideas to use the data we're collecting to determine best and worst trains and stations.

We've been working on this project since March 2009, it's still in development, but we're getting closer every day. jQuery/MySQL/Python.

potluck pickles

This has nothing to do with computers, but I make pickles! They're called Potluck Pickles, they're sweet and sours with heavy doses of garlic, mustard seed, and chilis. You can buy them at Sycamore Flower Shop + Bar in Brooklyn.