Dusty Jewett's Resume

Led team of 4 developers to create a full-featured WebApp for Real's Music/Photo/Video Cloud solution. Coordinated with five other dev teams, along with Design and QA, to be the 'first adopter' of many new features and designs.
Architected many of the systems that drove the UI, including a system that could query and cache multiple levels of data, and a navigation system that could handle the complex UI paradigms the designers dreamt up (though the most complex never shipped).
Developed many custom UI Components, including a complex and animated breadcrumb bar, TileLists that could handle non-sequential loading of data, and screens that behaved differently based on the state of many different variables (though I argued against the last one, on usability issues, and lost).

Developed a prototype application that replicated the Flash/Flex client/server communication in HTML/JavaScript.

Currently working on an HTML/JS application that uses one codebase to power both a Web App and a Chrome/Firefox/IE Extension. Created a custom module for Backbone that enables transparent JSONP communication.

Designed and developed an enterprise-wide Flex UI-Component framework. Created a component structure that allowed on-demand loading of modules and localization data, allowing the modules to be loosely coupled to each other, but maintain strongly-typed data interfaces.

Led team that owns every component that touches any financial transaction throughout all new markets. Focused on the creation of UI components that were customizable to the specific usage, but were able to maintain the business logic that was required for company-wide auditing requirements. I often had to find compromises between the business/legal requirements and the requests of an individual department.

Created applications and content templates that allowed our developers to maintain high quality and high efficiency.
Developed interactive diagrams and software simulators for web-based and classroom instruction.

Created the Identifi.mobi Android application as a way of learning new technology. Fully developed three separate versions, one fully AIR application, one Hybrid AIR/Android version, and just recently migrated to an AIR/ANE implementation. With the AIR/ANE nearly finalized, I expect to start development on the iOS version soon.

Managed Meetup / User Group for developers in the Seattle Area. From 2007-2011, group was focused on Flex development. In late 2011, we expanded to include HTML/JS development, changing our name to Seattle Web App Developers in the process. We meet once a month, and I often give short intro-to-X talks, prior to a main speaker. Usually once or twice a year, I give a longer 2-hour presentation. I also speak at other meetups, having spoken at the ColdFusion and Android user groups.

I have contributed three bugfixes to Adobe Flex. I expect to be able to continue my contributions after the migration to Apache Flex has stabilized. I was an initial member of the Spoon Project, which helped Adobe transition Flex to Apache.

Ported Flex 4 application previously developed into an HTML5/JS application, as users started requesting the ability to use the product on their tablets. Utilized Backbone, jQuery and HighCharts to create an application that was as functional on the small iPad screen as it was on the desktop.

Developed a Flex application using to collect and calculate performance indicators for school districts, providing them with the necessary data to increase efficiency. Utilized the Swiz framework, along with the then-beta version of Flex 4 to create a dynamic application which has greatly improved customer interaction and usage.

Worked on an application that allows teachers and school administrators to access and explore district-wide data. Optimized visualizations to decrease memory usage by 25% and improve performance by up to 50%.