Steve Ganz

Current

Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn Corporation

Past

Staff Web Developer at PayPal, an eBay Company
Sr. Web User Interface Architect at McAfee, Inc.
Sr. User Interface Developer at Printable Technologies

Sr. Web Designer at Collabria, Inc.
Consultant (Self-employed)
Producer at 3G Productions

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Education

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Leland High School

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Steve Ganz

Steve Ganz’s Summary

Steve Ganz is passionate about connecting people, semantic markup, sushi, and disc golf - not necessarily in that order. Currently obsessed with developing the user experience at LinkedIn, Steve is a second generation Silicon Valley geek and a veteran web professional who has been building human-computer interfaces since 1994.

Steve Ganz’s Specialties:

I have skills in bow hunting and nunchucks. Other skills are:

HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, W3C, web standards, front-end engineering, user interface development, user-centered design, usability, accessibility, semantic markup, microformats, POSH

Steve Ganz’s Experience

Principal Web Developer

LinkedIn Corporation

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

November 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Building the core user experience, developing best practices for front-end architecture, leading the implementation of microformats, championing data portability enabling technologies, and identifying and evangelizing new patterns in social design.
Staff Web Developer

PayPal, an eBay Company

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

September 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Joined PayPal to evangelize, teach, and implement W3C Web standards in an effort to separate the front-end architecture tier into distinct structural, presentational, and behavioral layers.
Sr. Web User Interface Architect

McAfee, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MFE; Computer & Network Security industry)

June 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 3 months)

Converted to full-time employee after being brought on for a one month contract in June 2003 and making an immediate contribution to the Web Services group in areas of usability, accessibility and presentation layer coding optimization. Leading the way towards uniform and company-wide adoption of coding conventions based on W3C Web standards.
Sr. User Interface Developer

Printable Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Printing industry)

June 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Given increased challenges and responsibilities after Printable acquired Collabria's intellectual property; led integration of complex product suites.
Sr. Web Designer

Collabria, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Printing industry)

April 1998 — June 2001 (3 years 3 months)

Hired as employee number one to play a key role in the development of Collabria's award-winning flagship suite of e-commerce procurement, supply chain, and productivity applications.
Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 1995 — April 1998 (3 years 4 months)

Designed, developed, and maintained dynamic web sites and intranets for small businesses, major corporations, and start-up ventures.
• Sun Microsystems, 1995: Converted thousands of pages of product data-sheets and white papers from FrameMaker to HTML. Designed, tested, and implemented innovative software that automatically converted FrameMaker tables to HTML tables.
• Communication Intelligence Corporation, 1996: Developed the first external web site for CIC using an organized layout, logical directory structures and intuitive naming conventions. Trained in-house Webmaster to maintain and extend the website using custom templates.
• Aspect Development, 1996: Provided early user interface design and database programming for an online product catalog developed exclusively for Siemens Corporation.
• Corporate Store, 1997: Designed user interface for online print procurement and order processing system.
Producer

3G Productions

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years)

• Produced and directed industrial videos; handled multiple responsibilities including pre-and post-production, filming, and editing.
• Created video training manuals for a popular management software solution.
• Produced introduction video for an automated online ordering system.

Steve Ganz’s Education

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Theatre, Film, Television 1986 — 1990
Leland High School

Radio Broadcasting 1983 — 1986

Activities and Societies:

KLEL 89.3 FM, Drama