Professional Highlights

References	Software Development Examples
Funding Raised	Project Examples
Technology Writing	Research
Journalism Clips	Patents
Media Clips

References

Microsoft Director of Technology Keith Rowe (pdf)
CEO Michael Cann, WineCountry Media (pdf)
Luvvie Ajayi, Black Women in Politics Database (pdf)
Carl Coryell-Martin re: The Herbfarm’s $332K Meals for Hospitals
Avery Trufelman, Podcaster: “I had this little pipe dream for a twitter bot, which Jeff immediately volunteered to build, entirely free of charge. He made it happen quickly and efficiently, and handed me the reins for complete creative control. Whenever it appears in my feed, I feel very grateful.”

Funding Raised

Raised $2 million in funding as CEO of startup GiftSpot. Built 35-person company in three months and set strategic direction. Acquired by GiftCertificates.com within one year.
Raised $689,500 in three grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to develop Facebook applications for education research and journalism partnerships.
- Newscloud Study Shows Facebook As A Tool For Transferring News
- Newscloud To Make Facebook-connected Communities Easy
Raised $580,000 in two grants from the Omidyar Foundation and AspirationTech to expand development of a suite of technology services for nonprofits.
- Groundspring.org Acquires ActionStudio, Adds Engagement and Advocacy Tools (CSR Wire)
Raised $332,169 in six weeks for The Herbfarm’s COVID-19 Meals for Hospitals. Launched GoFundMe and Patreon and managed donor communications and PR. See Reference.

Project Examples

Here’s examples of a selection of publicly available work:

LOANtuitive (application not yet fully public) – Hired as the first employee to recruit and build a technology team for a commercial real estate startup. Recruited key developers, contractors, design partner, investor and advisor. Running product definition, design and development and actively coding. Launched MVP in 3 1⁄2 months on scalable AWS infrastructure.
Authored Protecting the Privacy of Your Video Conversations (pdf) for Aspiration, a deep dive on security failures with Zoom and the strength of Signal app.
WineCountry — acted as a technical program manager for the major redesign and rebuild of the suite of websites including Sonoma, and NapaValley. See Reference from CEO Mike Cann.
Brush of Seattle and Portland Wild — community projects using Google Maps JavaScript API with a collaboratively gathered collection of Seattle’s and Portland’s street art including Seattle’s COVID-19 storefront art and Portland’s heritage trees and both cities’ Little Free Libraries. See also A Web Developer Created a Site Mapping Portland’s Murals, Heritage Trees and Neighborhood Book Shares (Willamette Week)
Meeting Planner — my earlier startup effort to simplify planning social meetups and business meetings.
Black Women in Politics Candidate Database — I reached out to Luvvie Ajayi to voluntarily build a fully manageable candidate database expanding on their static list of candidates. The site was built quickly in time for the elections. Its detailed administrative/moderator back end is not viewable. See Reference.
MSN News and MSNBC. Promoted twice in one year for technical leadership in launching Microsoft’s News site at MSN and its later joint venture with MSNBC on the Internet. See Reference by Director of Technology Keith Rowe.
Microsoft At Work
- I started with Microsoft Research at age 20 as the At Work team’s Program Manager. At Work was intended as a long term effort to license an embedded Windows OS for office devices.
- TV Commercial of Microsoft At Work Fax provides a glimpse of the early touch screen UX I prototyped and managed usability testing for with two Microsoft graphic designers
Reifman et al v. Canary Connect Inc, Lead plaintiff in consumer security camera class action case.

Software Development Demos

Demo of MeetingPlanner’s Responsive JavaScript Calendar Date Time Picker — For Meeting Planner, I coded a responsive JavaScript calendar date and time picker. It allows selection of multiple date times, scrolling through and date time ranges, a drag handle for changing meeting length, and drag and drop date time change.

Demo of MeetingPlanner’s Responsive JavaScript Calendar Date Time Picker

Meeting Planner’s Multiple Language Google Translate Integration with Yii Framework — While building Meeting Planner and writing programming tutorials for a startup series at Envato Tuts+, I wrote one about using the Yii Framework’s translation files and I realized that imperfect translations could be automated by integrating them to Google Translate. This video demonstrates how Meeting Planner has imperfect translations for about 20 languages generated completely by Google Translate. The video shows language resource file examples as well as sitemaps that allow international users to discover the Meeting Planner service.