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A driven and experienced speaker, writer, trainer, and developer based in Rochester, NY.…

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jQuery Foundation

Oct 2009 - Mar 2016 6 years 6 months
Science and Technology
Advise and assist the Executive Director in the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. Prepare and approve the annual budget; act as ambassador for the Foundation and its mission. Duties are performed on a volunteer basis.
Engage with the developer community and jQuery members as the Developer Relations lead for the project.
Founded and co-hosted the Official jQuery Podcast with Elijah Manor. A weekly podcast where we talk with a key contributor to the jQuery community. Podcast…
Advise and assist the Executive Director in the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. Prepare and approve the annual budget; act as ambassador for the Foundation and its mission. Duties are performed on a volunteer basis.
Engage with the developer community and jQuery members as the Developer Relations lead for the project.
Founded and co-hosted the Official jQuery Podcast with Elijah Manor. A weekly podcast where we talk with a key contributor to the jQuery community. Podcast ran from 2009-2011, http://podcast.jquery.com

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NetTuts March 29, 2013

With the release of Windows 8, Microsoft introduced Windows Store applications, which can be authored using traditional web languages that leverage the underlying engines powering Internet Explorer 10. This means that jQuery 2.0, engineered to work best in modern browsers, is right at home in a Windows Store application!
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Script Junkie May 4, 2011

Building a web application with jQuery makes the task easier. Similarly, building a web application with a complex UI is made easier with jQuery’s sister project jQuery UI. With jQuery UI we have a collection of interactions, widgets and a theme builder at our fingertips that allows us to make a cohesive UI.
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O'Reilly Media November 9, 2009

jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this JavaScript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; this cookbook shortens the learning curve considerably. With these recipes, you'll learn patterns and practices from 19 leading developers who use jQuery for everything from integrating simple components into websites and applications to developing complex, high-performance user interfaces.
Ideal for newcomers and…
jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this JavaScript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth; this cookbook shortens the learning curve considerably. With these recipes, you'll learn patterns and practices from 19 leading developers who use jQuery for everything from integrating simple components into websites and applications to developing complex, high-performance user interfaces.
Ideal for newcomers and JavaScript veterans alike, jQuery Cookbook starts with the basics and then moves to practical use cases with tested solutions to common web development hurdles. You also get recipes on advanced topics, such as methods for applying jQuery to large projects.
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May 2014

Delivered three workshops on Advanced jQuery Techniques, Web Developers Toolbox and jQuery UI Foundations in Oxford, England.
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Dec 2011

With only a two month deadline we came together to program a redesign of the clients existing site into a new look and feel as well as new functionality. The deadline was January 1st to meet the New Years Resolution people who choose to lose weight for the new year.
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Apr 2012 - Oct 2012

Was the Account Manager for the appendTo team that worked on the programming part of the responsive redesign of time.com.
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2003 - 2009

Beginning with a rebrand, we were also responsible for a technical overhaul of the schools website. We built a custom CMS to meet their needs and then again in 2008 refreshed their ever growing site that had expanded to 40,000 pages and over 600 templates. We got it done on time.
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