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I was fortunate enough to be given the time and freedom to develop custom auto email signatures that worked for our clients using Lotus Notes.

I built out data in Jobster's recruiter application to demo at the launch of Jobster, and later for the sales team to demo the service (ficticious "Red Brick" company). I also helped to develop a formal Customer Referral program.

This one. Jobster.com as it is now started about April of this year. At that point, Jobster was more focused on recruiters, and the only real "consumer" (meaning non-recruiter) application was meta job search. Ray, Ryan, and I, three developers, kind of took over the project, and had a couple months to come up with a beta-able prototype. The first prototype just contained our core idea that people answer questions about their experiences at companies in order to provide insights about their companies, themselves, and their careers. A few months and lots of work from many other people later, here it is.

We also used the opportunity to experiment with ruby on rails (honestly, I don't think we could have done it without it), and now pretty much every page on the site is at least partially served up by a rails app....

I worked on replies to answers, which just shipped, oh, about an hour ago. Hey, someone reply to this!

I work on Targeting and DirectPost; we're working to apply some of the sophisticated ideas from other areas of online advertising to jobs.

I led the UI design for user profiles of which my favorite feature is the drag and drop tags stack ranking tool. I'm also really excited about Superstar tags in general as a means for job seekers to distinguish themselves from their colleagues, and match to jobs they might be well qualified for.

redesigning the user experience for people looking for jobs. the idea was to make jobster less of a job board and more a way for people to network their way to a job. our designs featured web 2.0 technologies and idealogies. this page is an example...

This saucy little application you are looking at right now. Laurel, Ryan, Joe, Jess and I whipped this bad boy up using Ruby on Rails and a desire for 'job centered' application that we would use. Help us make it better!

PLEASE SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK.

You're looking 'at' it! I helped our stellar design and developer team bring this set of interactive and fun features to life for Jobster. Ultimately, we're building a great way to give job seekers insight into what it will really be like to work at a specific company, and we're trying to make it easy for people to connect with each other. And it's very much a work in progress; we'll be iterating daily as we hear from people like you!...

You're looking at it! Four of us built this site with Ruby on Rails. Our small team that was able to innovate rapidly and autonomously (with occasional input from a PM and Designer, of course).