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Resume - Dylan Greene


(703) 738-3046
Falls Church, VA

User Interface Designer * User Experience Lead
Web 2.0 Application Developer * Entrepreneur

I am currently seeking cool jobs and contracting engagements,
preferable in the DC-Metro area.

Experience

CourseReviews.com
Founder, Owner, Developer
Falls Church, Virginia
1999 – May 2005 (side-project)
May 2005 – current (full-time)

CourseReviews started as TeacherReviews in college dorm room in 1999. Working with an investor to help gather new partnerships so that the site will make a few extra bucks.

  • Designed, built, and manage system used by millions of students around the world.
  • Secured partnerships, and acquired several similar competing student-run sites.
  • Designed and created features such as:
    • AJAX system for searching for schools and creating reviews.
    • Highly-scalable MS SQL backend.
    • RSS feeds for new reviews and OPML for professor and course listings.


DABU.com
Founder, Owner, Developer
Falls Church, Virginia
Side project: 1999 – current

Created DABU because in 1999 there weren’t any good tools for putting digital photos online. Created advanced framework (also used by CourseReviews) for simplifying web development of large complex popular web sites Personal site (DylanGreene.com) is an example DABU site.

  • Created custom framework using ASP, MS SQL Server.
  • One of the first tools with online photo sorting and manipulation.
  • The first and maybe only blogging tool written in VBScript/ASP.
  • Designed and created features such as:
    • Partial-page caching, URL-redirect, custom template – all created using ASP.
    • Unlimited domain name support, with on-the-fly domain support (x.dabu.com and x.com).
    • Support for RSS, OPML, comments, captions, anti-spam, AJAX, XML-RPC, etc.
       

webMethods, Inc
Senior Usability & Design Engineer
Fairfax, Virginia
June 1999 – May 2005

Introduced the ideas and concepts of usability to webMethods when it was just 101 employees, helped create and grow the usability team as it reached 1000 employees.

  • Lead the interaction design for most webMethods products.
  • Created user personas based on customer interviews.
  • Designed and constructed templates for web-based tools.
  • Built numerous prototypes and mockups using PowerPoint, Visio, HTML, etc.
  • Designed for localization (typically Japanese and German).
  • Example work:
    • Redesigned web-based administrative system.
    • Design of web-based portal framework.
    • Design and prototype of Java Swing-based service-orientated architecture development tool.
    • Design of common installation software used by all webMethods software.
    • Designed and built web-based tool for automatically creating splash screen graphic.
    • Created design standards and guidelines.
       

Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Research
Student Consultant
College Park, Maryland
1998 – 1999

Acted as the Microsoft representative at University of Maryland’s main campus to help Microsoft understand why their tools were not being used by computer science professors. By providing solutions for professors’ concerns and building a relationship between Microsoft and the university, helped introduce Microsoft’s tools into Maryland’s computer science classrooms for the first time.
 

Microsoft Corporation
Internet Explorer
Program Manager (internship)
Redmond, Washington
Summer 1998

Responsible for adding a new level of security in Internet Explorer (IE) and redesigning the IE Security tab. Designed and supervised the creation of a new IE administrator features. Worked with internationalization, documentation, developers, standards, and testing to minimize design compromises and guarantee deliver new features on time. Features and user interface design work are still used in Windows XP, Office 2003, IE6, and current betas of Office 12 and Windows Vista.
 

Microsoft Corporation
Site Server
Program Manager (internship)
Redmond, Washington
Summer 1997

Created the specifications, prototypes, and other designs for portions of Site Server Core. Worked with other program managers, developers, and testers on wizards for creating professional-quality web sites for users without web development experience.
 

University of Maryland Diamondback
Regular Columnist: “Reality Bytes”
College Park, Maryland
1996 – 1997

Wrote computer-related articles for a non-computer-savvy audience of one of the top rated and most read school papers in the nation. Topics include hardware and software reviews, guides for buying a new computer, and one of the first articles in any major publication about MP3’s.
 

WashingtonPost.com
Internal Applications Developer (internship)
Roslyn, Virginia
1996

Designed and created the system that all WashingtonPost.com editors used until recently for automating the extremely tedious and error-prone process of posting articles to the finicky and otherwise easily breakable WashingtonPost.com web site.


The Windows 95 Starting Pages
Founder, Owner, Developer
College Park, Maryland
1994 – 1997

Created one of the early popular web sites. Was known as the leading place to find information and software for Windows 95, and was more popular than Microsoft’s own site. Created an early web automation tool for updating the web site called WebMatic. One of the first sites utilized by DoubleClick for banner ads, and known as a showcase for (then) new web technologies such as frames and Java.

Education

University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
1994 – 1999
BS in Computer Science – Graduated May 1999.
GPA: 3.0 overall, 3.2 in major. Member of University Honors Program.

References

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This page: http://www.DylanGreene.com/resume (updated March 2006)
Personal site: http://www.DylanGreene.com