About Dylan
Who is this guy?
- My Contact Information
- My Resume (or résumé, I'm never sure which is best)
If you've been on the web for a while (10+ years!), you might remember my
Windows 95 site, The Windows 95 Starting Pages, formally at Dylan95.com. It was
one of the first sites to fully utilize tables (ooh), transparent and animated
gifs (aah), frames (coool), and java applets (wow) for a popular Windows Start
Menu-looking navigation.
I used the web automation knowledge gained from running that site to build tools
for WashingtonPost.com which automated the tedious updating of their web site -
then brand new and very manually updated by editors who didn't know HTML.
After WashingtonPost.com I was an PM intern at Microsoft, on Site Server (Summer
97), and on Internet Explorer (Summer 98). The IE security tab I designed seven
years ago is still in IE, Windows, and Office today. Lots of stories from that
one damn dialog...
Near the end of college I started
TeacherReviews.com , a site where students share reviews of their
professors. Most professors love the site, but the few that don't
unintentionally generate great press. Any news is good news.
After graduating from Maryland, I joined webMethods, where I honed my usability
skills. After six years, going from 100 employees to 1000, and dodging many RIFs,
it was finally my turn to leave, and I very happily left to work on my midnight
projects full time.
One of those projects started as a tool to automate this web site. I had
thousands of photos that I wanted online, plus captions, sorting, and rotating,
and all fast and easy. Over the last five years
DABU.com has matured to a great hosted service that I've found impresses
those turned off by typical blogging tools and the impersonal nature of photo
collection sites like Flickr and Snapfish. I hope to launch DABU in the next few
months and will target people who have digital cameras, don't know what to do
with their photos, and want a personal site from which to host them.
I enjoy building web sites, usability consulting, biking, discovering,
traveling, and people watching.
This site hosted compliments of QuickMortgageLoan.com.