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Richard White

Founder of UserVoice.com and focused on product design specifically UI and interaction. San Francisco

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://uservoice.com
Industries: Internet
Skills: AJAX, HTML / CSS, Rails, Software Engineering, Web Development
Location: San Francisco
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: North Carolina State University

FEATURED STARTUP

UserVoice

UserVoice UserVoice

UserVoice is a service (SaaS) that enables companies to efficiently collect feedback and gain customer insight for product & brand innovation.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: UserVoice
Position: Founder
Time period: October 2007 - Present

Employer: SlimTimer.com
Position: Founder
Time period: June 2006 - Present
Description: Designed, developed, deployed and marketed one of the top web 2.0 time tracking tools:
SlimTimer.com. SlimTimer has now been rolled up into my new venture Underpaid Genius.

Employer: Underpaid Genius
Position: Founder
Time period: May 2007 - October 2007

Employer: Self-Employed
Position: Freelance Interaction Designer (Web)
Time period: July 2006 - December 2007
Description: I designed and built rapid, early stage interaction prototypes (XHTML/CSS/JS) of core areas of functionality (~3-6 pages) for new web applications in short interations (10 hours per iteration / 60 hours total) for the following companies:
* Userplane.com
* CardPricer.com
* StartForce.com
* Globat.com
* Area17.com

Employer: ActiveScaffold.com
Position: Project Lead
Time period: February 2006 - October 2007
Description: * Built the AjaxScaffold(.com) and open source Ruby on Rails plugin for generating AJAX admin interfaces for your database tables. Over 30,000 people downloaded it on RubyForge.
* Lead a team of 5 developers to create ActiveScaffold(.com), a follow-up/major rewrite of
AjaxScaffold, which *dynamically* created AJAX admin interfaces based on a configuration DSL we designed. I was in charge of general project direction and did some of development myself. I'm now mainly focused on project direction and usability.

Employer: Kiko.com
Position: User Interface Designer
Time period: October 2005 - July 2006
Description: * Designed a new CSS driven, standards compliant interface for Kiko.com v2.0 launched in March 2006.
* Designed the user interface for YouLookFamiliar.com a site that helps keep families in touch

Employer: Kadro Solutions
Position: Web Developer
Time period: November 2004 - November 2005
Description: # Developer on Food Safety Auditor, a field service automation solution that combines a handheld application for capturing food safety audits with a web-based backend for audit archival, reporting, and administration. Integrated external XML-based data feeds, created an applet interface for organizational hierarchy management and improved an existing on demand reporting subsystem.
# Redesigned the web interface for FSA with an emphasis on consistency and usability across a wide array of features, while ensuring that it is flexible enough to adapt to clients# branding needs.
# Developed a web-based time tracking tool used internally to monitor resource utilization.
Generated user buy-in and an operational system in under a week using rapid iterations of UI prototyping, development, and usability testing.

Employer: Hospital Communications Systems
Position: Freelance Developer
Time period: September 2004 - June 2006
Description: • Developed an internally managed extranet with customer-specific product pricing and availability.

Employer: NetCentrics
Position: Applications Developer
Time period: June 2003 - November 2004
Description: # Led a small development team on MeetingStudio, a web-based collaboration application for planning and reviewing organizational meetings, through project conception, multiple redesigns, testing, and deployment. Created an intuitive web interface for managing meeting information and also created Web services that enabled integration with Microsoft Outlook via a custom plug-in.
# Developed an internal knowledgebase web application and integrated it with an existing PHP bug tracking system by creating Web services for each system.
# Spearheaded twice monthly presentations on topics relevant to software development. Personally presented #Advantages of Open Source Software# and #Leveraging Web Services.#
# Designed a UI for the user time tracking module of a custom intranet. Web interface mimicked the responsive user experience of the Excel spreadsheet it was replacing by using AJAX techniques to update row and column totals as the user entered data in individual cells.

Employer: Collective Core
Position: Chief Software Engineer
Time period: June 2000 - June 2003
Description: # Developed a schedule-based video delivery system marketed to healthcare facilities for creation of in-house patient education television channels.
# Developed all aspects of the system: desktop management console, control server, video
servers, and RPC interfaces between components.

EDUCATION

University: North Carolina State University
Time period: 1999 - 2003
Degree: Computer Science, BA

INFORMATION

Memberships: Advanced Undergraduate Research In Computer Science (AURICS)
Awards: Boy Scouts of America # Eagle Scout
Richard White

Richard's Startups (1)

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  • UserVoice

    UserVoice

    UserVoice is a service (SaaS) that enables companies to efficiently collect feedback and gain customer insight for product & brand innovation.

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  • PlayStation Universe (PSU.com)

    PlayStation Universe (PSU.com)

    Largest independent PlayStation site worldwide. Took strategic investment from Gorilla Nation Media, one of the largest ad sales companies in the US. 7.5m pageviews & 120,000 members.

  • Weebly

    Weebly

    Weebly helps make web creation easy.

  • Dropbox

    Dropbox

    Changing the way people think about storing and sharing their files. Y Combinator funding in summer 2007.

  • HolyLemon

    HolyLemon

    Started off as a place where I uploaded the Flash animations I made, and has now grown over four years into a fully-fledged, profitable entertainment destination. It was one of the first humor sites to embed video into the browser (old school no...

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