Greg Schwartz
Director of User Experience at Mindswarms
| Headline: | Inventor |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Computing, Education, Entertainment, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Mobile, Travel |
| Skills: | AJAX, Databases, Editing, Engineering, Facebook platform, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Groups: | BASES, Stanford C.S. and E.E Engineers Group |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Receiving feedback, Sharing my projects |
| Tags: | User Experience |
| Schools: | Stanford University, University of California System - Irvine |
FULL BIO
Director of User Experience at Mindswarms.
Masters in Human-Computer Interaction from Stanford.
iPhone & web development.
Eagle Scout.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Mindswarms |
| Position: | Director of User Experience |
| Time period: | June 2010 - Present |
| Employer: | Front End Engineer and Designer |
| Position: | Playdom |
| Time period: | September 2009 - April 2010 |
| Description: | - Designed scratch card interactions and created Facebook wrapper for “Lucky Farkle”
- Designed UI for soon to be released iPhone version of Playdom’s top game; wrote code to support push notifications on the iPhone (Objective-C) and developed backend queue (PHP) - Designed and developed reusable components to send highly targeted messages to iPhone game players; also designed components’ admin tool UI, and developed the entire tool - Formed and ran regular meeting for engineers to collaboratively brainstorm and design features to add to existing games |
| Employer: | Jobs and Talent |
| Position: | Human-Computer Interaction Manager |
| Time period: | June 2009 - September 2009 |
| Description: | - Led overall website redesign, focusing on User Experience
- Introduced paper prototyping as a design tool - Performance review: “Combines a great ability to get the big picture with first class UI and UX execution skills, which results in smart prioritization and smooth workflow” |
| Employer: | Venrock, Palo Alto, CA |
| Position: | Interactive Prototyping Intern |
| Time period: | May 2008 - August 2008 |
| Description: | - Designed and pitched innovative traffic application utilizing street and freeway traffic APIs
- Designed and built prototype iPhone application to display Facebook Events on Google Maps, using Ruby on Rails and iPhone web application standards - Created iPhone based prototype of innovative in-car appliance that provided contextually relevant information to the driver based upon position, destination, and Internet content - Performance review: “Powerful mix of thoughtful product investigation, design, and development. Great presentation abilities.” |
| Employer: | Stanford University |
| Position: | Experience |
| Time period: | August 2007 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Course Assistant: Social Software
September 2008 to December 2008. Stanford University, CA - Provided A/B testing knowledge and experience to students in the course - Advised students, often on what directions their projects could take Course Assistant: Creating Engaging Apps Using Metrics on Facebook September 2007 to December 2007. Stanford University, CA - Setup and maintained machines on Amazon EC2 to host student applications - Provided debugging assistance on student applications written in PHP/MySQL Volunteer TGIF Party Coordinator, Computer Science Department April 2008 to present. Stanford University, CA - Bring the graduate Computer Science community together every Friday at 5pm over food, snacks, and drinks - Write humorous and playful emails to encourage attendance (typical attendance: 100 graduate students) based upon a new theme each week Community Assistant, Crothers Memorial Hall April 2008 to present. Stanford University, CA - Create community by hosting weekly Movie Nights and regular Social Hours (with budget for food) throughout the quarter |
| Employer: | Web Advanced, Irvine, CA |
| Position: | Lead Developer |
| Time period: | July 2005 - August 2007 |
| Description: | - Led development and design of $100,000+ system for lead acquisition and management;
codebase was more than 20,000 lines of C#, ASP.Net, and SQL Stored Procedures - Learned ASP.Net, C#.Net, and MapQuest APIs for rush project to display customer locations near customer address/route. System was “clearly head and shoulders above what [the customer] or Mapquest was expecting” -CTO - Received strong positive feedback from customers and requests for future assignment to their projects - Instituted C# unit testing on large project for Fortune 500 company; taught other developers philosophy and basics of unit testing - Developed Javascript and C# libraries for use in immediate project, and company-wide |
| Employer: | SuperCalendar, San Clemente |
| Position: | Partner and Chief Technical Officer |
| Time period: | July 2004 - November 2005 |
| Description: | • Rewrote product’s interface and backend to use modern technologies such as XHTML, CSS, Javascript and XMLHttpRequest (aka AJAX)
• Built features such as RSS output, AIM and SMS notifications |
| Employer: | Netreo, Inc., Irvine, CA |
| Position: | Web Application Programmer |
| Time period: | June 2003 - July 2005 |
| Description: | - Redesigned user interface and defined new interface standards for product family
- Single-handedly designed and built company intranet, including: custom trouble ticketing system, product documentation system, internal procedure and knowledge repository |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | University of California System - Irvine |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Information & Computer Science, BSc |
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Mark Wayman
Co-Founder of Social Gears (www.socialgears.com) formed to create social networking applications for Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, OpenSocial and the Web. Currently seeking an investor to co-fund application development. mark@socialgears.com