Joshua Gross

New York, New York
joshua@​gross.​is
unwieldy​.net

Expe­ri­ence

Plan­e­tary Cor­po­ra­tion

Spring 2012 — Present • UI Design & Devel­op­ment Consultant

Work­ing closely with clients to plan new prod­uct approaches to max­i­mize value; archi­tect­ing, design­ing, and build­ing user inter­faces for a vari­ety of clients such as Google, Hyundai, Canon, Coca-​Cola, HelloFax and others.

Jux

Sum­mer 2011 — Spring 2012UI Designer & Web Developer

Lead and exe­cuted the design and expe­ri­ence of the web­site on mobile and tablet plat­forms; enhanced and fur­ther devel­oped the user expe­ri­ence of the desk­top website.

Mozilla Cor­po­ra­tion

Moun­tain View, Sum­mer 2010 • Intern

Lead and devel­oped new open source sup­port soft­ware project for SUMO (sup​port​.mozilla​.com) web­site; imple­mented bug fixes and fea­tures as part of the SUMO team.

Telekom Malaysia Berhad

Malaysia, Jan­u­ary 2010 • Contractor

Trained a group of ten indi­vid­u­als over a two day period; devel­oped and exe­cuted les­son plan and pre­sen­ta­tions on the topic of JavaScript.

Ajax IM

Sum­mer 2005 — Fall 2010 • Developer

Devel­oped one of the first AJAX-​based instant mes­sen­ger clients; con­tin­ued and on-​going devel­op­ment imple­ment­ing bleeding-​edge tech­nolo­gies; uti­lized HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, MooTools, Pro­to­type, and Adobe Photoshop.

Vis­Trac

Sum­mer 2008 — Spring 2009 • Founder

Devel­oped aggre­gated usabil­ity met­rics suite using mouse and con­tent ana­lyt­ics; uti­lized HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, MySQL, Mem­cached, Linux, LightTPD, and Adobe Photoshop.

Skills

Pro­gram­ming
  • HTMLFlu­ent, 16 years
  • CSSFlu­ent, 16 years
  • PHPFlu­ent, 14 years
  • Javascript/​AJAX • Flu­ent, 11 years
  • Node.js • Flu­ent, 6 years
  • Python • Pro­fi­cient, 2 years
Design
  • Adobe Pho­to­shop • Flu­ent, 14 years
  • Adobe Illus­tra­tor • Pro­fi­cient, 7 years
  • Adobe InDe­sign • Pro­fi­cient, 7 years
Tools
  • jQuery
  • Zepto
  • Git
  • JSON
  • XML
Plat­forms
  • Mac OS X
  • Nginx
  • Linux
  • LightTPD
  • Mem­cached
  • MySQL
  • Post­greSQL
  • Mon­goDB
  • Microsoft Win­dows

Edu­ca­tion

Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity in St. Louis

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
BFA 2011
Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Design Major

Hon­ors & Activities

Aca­d­e­mic Hon­ors
  • Dean’s List • Fall 2007, Spring 2010
Activ­i­ties
  • KWURFall 2007 — Spring 2008