Jacob
Jay

Peripatetic British designer, full-stack developer and entrepreneur.
      Specialising in web application architecture and user-experience.
Pastimes include interior design, mountain biking, and smelly cheese.
      Passionate about identity, resilience and the ‘slow’ philosophy.
Availability commencing spring '13 (re-location possible).

Elsewhere

→  Updates (Twitter)
→  Professional (LinkedIn), Personal (Facebook)
→  Photos (Flickr), Linkblog (Tumblr)
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Schedule (Dopplr), Events (Lanyrd)
→  Knowledge (Quora), Things (Pinterest)

Contact

→  jacob@verse.org (Email, IM, FaceTime, iMessage)
→  +1 646 583 3278 (SMS, Voice)
Text info to this number for my current location and local mobile number, calls and messages are forwarded.
→  Carcassonne, France

«What do you do?»

I apply multidisciplinary design to product and process, wherever opportunity or introspection strikes. I mainly work with online projects, but have experience extending from conceptualisation through to marketing, on varied projects as diverse as interior design and web-service APIs.

I am predominantly interested in the following sectors: e-Commerce / Marketplaces, Publishing / Identity, Decoration / Interiors / Fashion, Hospitality / Intentional Communities / Real Estate, Distributed Computing / SaaS / PaaS.

Currently

Previously

Latent

These projects are shelved, or only partially implemented. I'm always experimenting with concepts and models, rarely getting around to building them into businesses. If you'd like to partner and do just that, I'm listening…

Tech Skills

(Reverse chronological weighted summarisation.)

Google Transit, Geohashing (geospatial indexing), ZeroMQ, SQLite, Lua, CDNs, PivotalTracker, Ubuntu, JQuery, Mercurial, Eclipse, Java, oAuth, C# .NET, REST, ImageMagick, IPTC/XMP (image metadata), Web-service APIs, Nginx, FTP, Lighttpd, HTTP, SQL, RSS/Atom, DNS, InDesign, SMTP, Postfix, CSS, MivaScript, RunRev, GoLive, Apache, JavaScript, AppleShare, shell, Linux/BSD, FrontPage, Mac OS, CommuniGate, PowerTalk, AppleScript, HTML, HyperTalk, HyperCard, MS Office, Illustrator, Photoshop, XPress.

Addendum

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