RYAN T. GRAFF 25 Indian Head Rd :: Wrentham, MA 02093 :: 401-965-8687

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Technical Summary

Languages

AngularJS, jQuery, ActionScript 2/3, MXML(Flex 2,3,4 with Adobe AIR APIs), PHP,

JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS/Flex CSS, SQL

Applications

Flex/Flash Builder 2/3/4, Packager for iPhone, Flash Catalyst, Eclipse, Flash, FLV Encoder,

Apache Web Server, Dreamweaver, Front Page, MS Office All, Open Office All, Photoshop,

Illustrator, AE 6.5-CS3, Encore DVD Authoring, Star UML

Databases

MS Access/ODBC, MySQL/SQLite, FF/Flat File SQL Emulation

Operating Environments

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/MCE/Vista, Linux (Debian/Gnu), Mac OS 8 – OSX

Software Frameworks/Platforms

ActionScript 3: Mate (mah~tay) (MVC/Event Driven/Tag Based), Swiz (Metatag based AS3

MVC), Cairngorm (MVC/Event Driven). Web Client/Server: jQuery (Query based object

manipulation for html/javascript), CubeHenge (All-in-one SMB application/content platform)

Notable Concepts

Object-Oriented Programming, Rich Internet/Mobile Applications, MVC

frameworks, web site design/development, debugging and testing procedures,

relational and network database design and manipulation techniques, generic

CRUD MySQL db interface design, Rich CMS application design/development,

Dynamically Generated Forms, CubeHenge (more information below.), Guide UI

iPad App (GuideUI.com).

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Recent Projects

NVIDIA GTC Event Registration System (registration.gputechconf.com)

(Independent) Software Architect

UI/API/Services architecture (based on CubeHenge, see below) including

advanced security with anti-CSRF, conference scheduler UI/UX, Flex based

administration console.

Designed and implemented a suite of services to intake and manage various forms of

conference related data such as:

1. User accounts

2. Sessions/Posters

3. Types/Topics metadata for sessions/posters

4. Schedule entries for accepted sessions

5. E-commerce related transaction, orders and packages

Developed a dynamic administrative console (Adobe Flex) including the following features:

1. Dynamic forms able to change and add elements when tables are changed

2. Form elements for various data type, ranging from date entry and e-mail validators to

relational item search and select components for both “one” and “many” relationships

3. Live/Flat export of query results

4. Report generation

5. Promo-code generation

Implemented e-commerce transaction system via the PayPal WSP Pro API.

Constructed various front-end application views including:

1. Order/package selection, incorporating advanced rules for automatic selection/deselection

based package type and time-frame limits

2. Animated scheduling UI including slide scrolling and session swapping animations with

background AJAX service calls to validate schedule selection

3. Real-time form field validation

4. Real-time data binding framework for live updates between models and views

Designed and engineered a dynamic questionnaire service with the following features:

1. Answer data-type designation, using arbitrary html form elements, checkboxes, drop-downs,

etc.

2. Required questions

3. Question grouping

4. Package/order/promo-code dependent questionnaire generation rules

5. Dynamic answer table field configuration to accommodate admin created questions

Integration with on-site conference check-in service, ITN.

Guide UI – Dynamic Human User Interface (GuideUI.com) (Independent)

Software Architect

Designed, marketed and deployed state-of-the-art dynamic human user

interface application for mobile devices, initially the iPad.

Designed a mobile grade MVC framework (Guidance) to de-couple classes while maintaining a

light footprint for a common mobile environment.

Optimized all bitmap based graphical assets for use with native mobile GPU processing.

Developed multi-functional list rendering components with complex item recycling logic to

maximize user experience and awareness of UI state.

Produced a desktop companion application (Guide Server) utilizing the AIR 2.0 ServerSocket to

enable object storage and input simulation pass-through from the mobile UI to the target

computer (Currently Mac OS X, Windows version is still in production).

Crafted a custom interface to wrap around the features of PFI (Packager for iPhone) as Adobe

had not yet provided one for projects external to Flash CS5.

T-Mobile – QuikView POS/Customer Service Application (Subcontractor for

Universal Mind) Software Engineer

Infrastructure Team Member: Assisted in the refactoring of an ActionScript 3/

Flex 3/Adobe AIR point of sale and customer service console. Also provided

research for moving the codebase to the Flex 4 framework.

Used Adobe Illustrator, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 to demonstrate the abilities of the

Flex 4 framework with Spark components.

Assisted in the refactoring of assets from various 'older' MVC frameworks to Parsley.

Shared architectural concepts with, and instructed members of several multi-national, developer

teams.

CubeHenge Server (CubeHenge.org) Open Source Authentication, Live ORM

Database Abstraction, File Management and View Templating System

(Independent) Software Architect

Exacted development from extensive planning, long term research and

experience into a lightweight AMFPHP based “all-in-one” SMB custom

application and content platform.

Utilized knowledge accumulated over the course of a long career of PHP/AMF/Flash/Flex/XML/

JSON/MySQL and the most commonly available personal and/or SMB class web hosting

packages to produce a suite of services which is universally executable while maintaining a

simple drag and drop to FTP means of installation.

Key goals accomplished:

1. Integrate OS style authentication into the AMFPHP gateway controller for any installed

service without coupling with the service.

2. Automate the construction of hierarchical object result sets drawn from a relational MySQL

database using convention over configuration to simplify management of object relationship

mapping while leaving the mapping information in a fully open and extensible state.

3. Allow querying of the above mentioned automated ORM system via an API with extreme

resistance to SQL injection tactics.

4. Create a full featured file management API to allow development of file management oriented

applications with rapid and reliable results.

5. To allow users to bypass the low maximum size for file uploads on common web hosting

servers.

6. To provide a simple yet versatile API for automatically injecting data from any source into one

or multiple copies of a public view which could be created with html/javascript/css or any sample

of code stored in a string format.

7. To provide an easy to use interface to allow fundamental interaction with key features of the

overall platform.

Kodak Gallery – Preservation Books Printed Photo Book Creation Application

(Subcontractor for Universal Mind) Software Engineer

Assisted in the production of an ActionScript 3/Flex 4 photo/printing related

software library and photo book user interface.

Used Adobe Illustrator, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4 to bring designers' visions to the Flex

based printed photo book layout/creation application.

Extended various existing components such as a Flex flip book to support compatibility with the

libraries specialized components while increasing efficiency through data renderer caching and

list virtualizations which implemented extended versions of the Flex 4 LayoutBase class.

Integrated data and visual components through means of the Swiz MVC framework and a

presentation model.

Intuit Workplace Cloud Application Platform Marketing Site (Subcontractor for

Universal Mind) Software Engineer

Produced user interfaces for consuming cloud application offerings.

Created an application showcase with a highly dynamic UI utilizing the Adobe Flex framework to

consume XML feeds and allow users to page data in a 5-up sliding horizontal list.

Produced a custom, Brightcove driven, Intuit branded video player for use in both XHTML and

Flex environments.

Implemented jQuery/JavaScript/CSS/HTML pop-up frame/API to facilitate the use of above

mentioned Intuit branded video player.

Offered in-depth knowledge and experience of the Adobe Flex framework, JavaScript, HTML

and CSS to Intuit developers.

Intuit IPP Workbench Cloud Application Platform Management Tool

(Subcontractor for Universal Mind) SQA Engineer

Provided manual and automated use case testing in addition to occasional

consulting to provide solutions and suggest approaches.

Worked with Silk Test Pro to compile several reusable automated use case tests.

Manually performed use case testing to provide thorough inspection of application performance.

Offered in-depth knowledge and experience of the Adobe Flex framework to Intuit developers.

Hasbro Helios Flex CMS (Subcontractor for Universal Mind) Data Integration/UI

Developer

Assisted in the production of a custom CMS for Hasbro.

Worked with Mate MVC framework to integrate a custom graphics based UI with CF services.

Skinned UI components using CSS, Images and Flash UIMovieClip assets created with the Flex

Kit plug-in for Adobe Flash.

Created dynamically generated forms which pulled properties, datatypes and metadata from a

target object/VO in order to display various components, apply labels and mappings of values.

Insured all user accessible string values were i18n compatible and could be changed at runtime

based on a selected locale setting.

Oco, Inc. Data Visualization Platform (Subcontractor for Universal Mind) Lead

Consultant, UI Designer/Developer

Gave consultation regarding possible improvements for the platform as well as

integrating requested enhancements.

Restructured layout of data views for Oco’s Multi-Dimensional Data Chart based application.

Implemented industry best practices to improve ease of use while conforming to strict preexisting

guidelines for aesthetics and current user familiarity with application features.

Cengage Learning MS Office Training Flex Application (Subcontractor for

Universal Mind) UI Designer/Developer/Skinner

Assisted in the recreation of Microsoft Office 2007 as an internet based Training

Application in Adobe Flex.

Created MS Office styled/functioning components to be re-used across all Office application

modules.

Created UI components for the PowerPoint module including slide displays, slide thumbnail list

and ribbon components.

Conceptualized/Developed Slide-Builder AIR application to assist third party content providers to

layout slides for various lessons. Slide-Builder included the ability to import, move and resize

images – place, format and layout rich text areas – apply fully customized drop shadow and

glow filters to any layer – formatting and filter editing forms were generated dynamically based

on the component represented by the selected layer. Slide-Builder was designed to export

standardized XML to allow the PowerPoint module to rebuild a slide at runtime.

Assisted in the development of advanced text formatting, selection and manipulation for the MS

Word module.

nDevor RCMS (Flex based Rich CMS RIA) (Sept 07 – Apr 08) Project Manager,

Lead Developer, Lead Designer, Conceptual Developer

Conceptualized, designed and developed UI and server side application.

Includes the use of Flex modules to provide third party developers a means of extending the

system.

Pages are built via drag and drop and the CMS features a full layout UI as one would expect to

find in Adobe Illustrator/Page Maker etc as opposed to be limited to textual content and

formatting.

Dynamic generation of article lists in which the items in the list are page layouts unto

themselves.

Includes a full file management system with multi-drag and drop file/folder organization as one

might expect to see in an operating system's file browser.

The approach to the server-side data handling was to simply send an object, of any type, to the

server and allow it to handle the storage dynamically. This approach allowed an extremely rapid

development of the client-side UI while allowing the server and MySQL database to natively

handle security. This framework allowed me to develop a very in-depth application within a

limited budget and time frame. An application of this depth, with such constraints, would not

have, otherwise, been possible without this approach to data storage and handling.

Lifenaut.com (May 07 – Current) Project Manager, Lead Designer, Lead UI

Developer, 3D platform engineer

Created a Media Based Community Driven RIA using Flex 2, MySQL, XML, and

PHP.

Includes file upload, server-side file conversion, internal messaging system, 3d view of social

connections, 3d life line view, and uses Yahoo! Maps API for a map view of geographical points

of interest.

FBCB2 (Military Training Course Scheduling Adobe AIR Application) (Sep07 –

Current) – Lead Designer

Implemented custom Flex CSS with embedded UI graphics. Designed multiview

layout.

Dev.connect Chat Application (Adobe AIR beta Platform) (Jan 08 – Mar 08) –

Project Manager, Lead Developer, Lead Designer

Developed custom 3D Windows Vista like chat/pm pop-up window classes.

Implemented custom Flex CSS with embedded UI graphics with the goal of giving the

application a 100% unique(non-default Flex component) appearance.

Techspatch.com (Technician/Installation/Equipment management RIA) (Dec 06 -

Current) – Lead Designer, Recently overtook Lead UI Development

On-line Scheduling RIA for an alarm installation company.

Implementing Flex 2, Red5/JAVA/Jetty, Remote Objects and utilizing the Cairngorm MVC

framework.

The application is a full drag and drop Job Board that tracks all employees and installation

schedules.

Tracks the entire customer listing as well as all service calls and funding reports.

The administration section has full reporting features as of installs broken down by technicians,

offices, lead generators, or sales reps among other reports.

Features an internal messaging system to further enhance the communication of the entire

company.

In House (Connect Studios) (Feb 08 – Mar 08) – Project Manager, Lead

Developer

Developed a Multi-User RIA allowing control over a media player with a live web

cam and in-line text chat.

Implemented a Flex 3 UI to connect with a Red5/Java server application.

Universal Abilities

Self-managed with ability to create “on the fly” solutions to increase efficiency.

Able to engage all parties involved in projects to improve the odds of synergistic

relationships.

Recognize where to draw the line between productivity and quality given budget

and time constraints.

Experience with expressing complex concepts in “layman” terminology.

Always ready to push the envelope to meet and exceed client expectations.

Employment History

Independent Consultant/Graphic Designer/Internet Applications Developer

(DBA Resist Design) - May 1998 – Current

Universal Mind – Software Engineer/Consultant – June 2008 – October 2010

Connect Studios – Senior Rich Applications Designer/Developer - Feb 2007 –

June 2008

CRI Communications – Senior Internet Applications Designer/Developer,

Network Administrator/Engineer, Multi-media Technologies

Consultant - Mar 2002 - May 2005