Posta is a new way to consume and interact with online video.
Posta
Development dates: 01/07 - 11/07 Role: Founder, Architect/Developer, Director of Technology Key skills: JavaScript, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, ActionScript, Perl, PHP5, MySQL Tools: prototype, moo.fx, ffmpeg, mod_perl, memcached, Facebook API Patent: Provisional application, May 2007
Posta lets users select still frames from major-label video content and order them printed 40" wide from high resolution sources, or add digital stills to their MySpace and Facebook profiles. The project features an unprecedented JavaScript user interface that enables frame-by-frame engagement with video.
Sprint Harmony was a fast-track contract project to create a JavaScript customer care application, allowing customer service representatives to interact with web simulations of a wide array of phones. Code complete was achieved in less than four weeks with a team of four developers.
Development dates: 7/05 - 9/06 Role: Architect, Development Lead Key skills: JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, Perl templating, Flash and ActionScript, dev. team leadership, process infrastructure Tools: prototype, moo.fx, script.aculo.us
Lexus Magazine Interactive was a chance to do some new things with Web 2.0 usability. Specifically, our goal was to use JavaScript interaction styles to create contextual interactivity — allowing the user to interact with the page without disrupting the reading experience. Originally a Flash site, we applied these new methods to improve usability, resulting in a 300% increase in site traffic in three months.
Development dates: 7/05 - Present Role: Sole Developer Key skills: C#, .Net Compact, Windows Mobile, JavaME, Perl, PayPal Integration, Usability, Product Management
Bankarama is the best selling personal finance application for Windows Mobile™ Smartphone. Usability has been refined such that recording a transaction (such as a debit card swipe) takes only a few seconds and can be accomplished while the receipt is printing. Simplicity and speed are king.
The project represents a successful end-to-end development and product management effort in the mobile arena. A JavaME version was additionally launched in November 2007.
Bankarama is available for trial download and purchase at leading mobile software distribution sites like Handango and Smartphone.net, in addition to Bankarama.com.
Development dates: 3/05 - 7/05 Role: Software Development Engineer (contract) Key skills: JavaScript, DHTML, C++, usability engineering, localization
Developed the Windows Vista Tablet PC's Pen Training application in C++, with an embedded web browser containing a DHTML user interface. Refined the user interface working with Microsoft internal graphic design and usability engineering teams. Built UI-based support for localization to 23 languages, including right-to-left Hebrew and Arabic.
The iPod has a problem. Music libraries of 80 GB — or around 15,000 tracks — can now be carried in the user's pocket... but the iPod's scroll wheel user interface hasn't evolved to handle the huge selection of information suddenly available. Threedef uses a novel approach to enabling rapid selection from a very large music library via ambiguous key input, using a keypad such as that found on a mobile phone.
Responsible for technical and user interface architecture of Performer, MusicNet's reference UI application for subscription streaming and downloads of digital rights-managed music.
Performer involved a browser-based experience powered by the secure MusicNet SDK via ActiveX. This architecture was a predecessor of today's popular AJAX methods. Performer was reskinned and launched as FYE Music in 2004.
Development dates: 3/03 Role: Web Applications Developer Key Skills: JavaScript, DHTML, Rapid Prototyping
The MusicNet Preview Client was an exercise in DHTML-based rapid prototyping to meet business development and regulatory needs. It was a functional mockup of a MusicNet client application created in three days. The mockup was then presented before a US Congress special committee investigating digital music distribution and digital rights management technologies.
Development dates: 10/01 - 9/03 Role: Web Applications Developer Key Skills: Perl, JavaScript, DHTML, Linux, Apache, MySQL, CVS
Created an object-oriented Perl based template and production platform for building, testing, and deploying the MusicNet Intranet and internal process automation. Continued to develop the Intranet on this platform for two years, producing over 30 internal applications.
Development dates: 11/99 - Present Role: Web Applications Developer Key Skills: Perl, JavaScript, DHTML, FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL
Comprehensive development of a commercial website using Perl to create a content management system, secure authentication, and detailed metrics analysis.
Jason Thane:: | Seattle, WA |
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