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tigertrussell web and ux designer

Resume / CV

EducationWashington University in St. Louis, class of 2013 (expected graduation 5/2013)

B.S. with a Major in Computer Science

Minors in Communication Design and Commercial Entrepreneurship

Work Experience

Schoology, Inc.

For two consecutive years I have held internships at Schoology, Inc. in New York, NY. During the summer of 2011, I worked

as both a web developer and mobile developer building the

and updating the existing iPhone application. During the summer of 2012, I worked solely as a web developer, performing bug

fixes and building new features into the application, such as polling and several facets of the brand-new, which grants students and teachers access

to a plethora of educational and organizational applications for the classroom, built on Schoology's App Platform.

Entrepreneurial

During the summer of 2011, a friend and I started ;

a free web-service for Greek Organizations which helps leadership manage different aspects of their chapter from

recruitment to chapter-wide e-mail and text-message communication. Fratmosphere is online and is growing a steady

user-base, currently at over 400 registered users. As it is the first web application I developed, the design leaves something

to be desired. I am currently in the process of redesigning many of the UX elements, and will be launching the new version

sometime in the future.

Application Development Experience

PrototypingExperience developing lo-fi wireframes in Balsamiq, Moqups and similiar software.Knowledge of Microsoft Visio for creating application logic flowcharts

Extensive experience in the Adobe suite of products, primarily Photoshop, Illustrator, and

InDesign.

DesigningExperience hand-coding HTML, CSS, and Javascript (including use of the jQuery framework).Extensive use of CSS frameworks, primarily Grid960 by Nathan Smith for static sites and Twitter Bootstrap for responsive sites.

Authored a small selection of jQuery plugins for my personal projects (available soon on my

).

DevelopingMastery of PHP, with extensive experience with PHP frameworks CakePHP and DrupalExperience creating structure of relational databases, handwriting MySQL queriesExtensive work with 3rd party API's such as Twilio, Postmark, Pingdom, and othersUnderstanding of the MVC paradigmFamiliarity with Ruby on Rails (Ruby), Django (Python), Java, Java Web Applets, and the iOS SDK

Other Pertinent Experience

Co-chairman of ThurtenE Carnival, Sigma Nu Gamma Omicron

In 2011 and 2013 I served (and am currently serving) as the co-chairman of my fraternity's participation in the

ThurtenE carnival, an annual community outreach event at Washington University. As co-chairman, my responsibilities

include managing the $15,000+ budget and coordinating the 40-person cabinet (as well as over 200 other participants)

The finished product is a large fa ade which houses a stage for our student-written and performed musical.

Co-founder, Jinbu

In "The Hatchery," a class at Washington University which has spawned businesses such as SalesForce and Schoology,

I worked with 4 other classmates to create Jinbu, an online service which provides application review, interview training,

and fact-checking services for international students applying to U.S. Graduate schools.

My role was to create mockups and design a special-use video chat software for closing the time gap between the US and China.

Our business plan and prototypes earned us a spot as finalists in the MADE in Missouri entrepreneurship competition. Unfortunately,

our members were spread across the world at the time of the announcement, and we were unable to participate in the final round.

Comedian and Writer, Mama's Pot Roast

Member of Washington University s premiere short-form improvisational comedy troupe throughout college.

Improvising with Mama s Pot Roast has taught me incredible lessons that can t be learned elsewhere.

Professor Bunderson of Washington University s Olin Business School saw the business value to the improvisational

creativity that Mama s Pot Roast was bringing to its members and hired us to host a workshop for his MBA students.

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