Gary T. DuVall
may 2012
About Me
Fourteen years of multi-disciplinary, award-winning industry experience. Provides technical direction; leads and mentors teams; and somehow still manages to get his own hands dirty pragmatically evaluating and adopting emerging technologies.
Has a passion for developing both engaging, content-rich user interfaces suited to audience and the production of underlying, functional code following industry best practices to enrich the overall user experience.
Cool under pressure and always carries a keen sense of humor about him. And he can't stop learning.
Proficiencies
- Technical Direction
- Team Leadership & Mentoring
- Project Management
- Development (Multiple Flavors)
- UI/UX Design
- Content Management/IA
- Social Media/API Integration
- Wicked Coffee-Making
Current Status
Currently employed full-time; unavailable for assignment.
Contact
- i@8hrs.net
- 312.285.0228
Associations
User Interface Architecture, Technical Direction & Leadership
industry professional since 1998 · additional details available in resume
A Hand-Picked Basket of Fruitful Experiences
Reason Magazine »
Project leadership and ongoing management; technical direction; UI/UX prototyping, design, and development; feature ideation and execution; IA for 40 years of content; ongoing enhancement to Reason's proprietary content management system.
Reason Magazine, as a result, became a Webby Award Honoree in 2008 and also took home awards that year for Best News Organization Website (1st Place) and Best Design and Layout (2nd Place) in the L.A. Press Club Awards.
Reason.tv »
Project leadership and management; technical direction; UI/UX development; feature ideation and execution; media integration and multi-channel distribution; content management system development.
Radio Hibiki (webOS) »
As one of the first developers on Palm’s webOS smartphone platform via the Early Access (SDK) Program, I developed the highly-rated ‘Radio Hibiki’ SHOUTcast, Icecast, and direct MP3/AAC stream player utilizing Javascript, AJAX (Prototype), HTML5 Audio API, Local Storage, and Palm's Mojo SDK.
Radio Hibiki generated nearly 30,000 downloads of its free "homebrew-distributed" edition, boasted a 10:1 conversion ratio to paid users, and carried a 4.4/5.0 rating prior to its discontinuation in January, 2012, ending as the highest-rated and most commercially successful paid streaming audio application on the platform.
Tax Foundation »
Project leadership and management; technical and art direction; IA and UX for rapid access to nearly 80 years of publications and documents; microsite design and development; content management system development.
Lamp of Liberty »
Project leadership and management; technical direction; UI prototyping, design, and development; localization (Arabic) and cultural considerations; identity design; feature ideation and execution; content management system development. (*)
FIRE »
Project leadership and management; site UI and content management system development; technical and art direction; social integration using the Facebook Platform and JavaScript/AJAX widgets. (*)