Work in a challenging web development or business/systems analysis position in the Indianapolis, IN area where I can contribute my drive and continue to learn advanced skills and concepts.
Reliable, precise and motivated.
Deft movement between large vision and small details.
Proven ability to lead design and development of projects in teams and independently.
I was responsible for creating an educational game at all stages of its development including invention, market research, design, testing, and marketing. I was also responsible for managing employees and interns, managing relationships with clients like Brown, Cornell and Northwestern Universities, organizing 20 large events at college campuses throughout North America, leading workshops for students and faculty at universities such as Stanford University, and developing course material for upper-level college classes. We won a MacArthur Young Innovator award, placed second in the Purdue Burton Morgan Business Plan Competition, and represented Purdue University at the National Idea to Product Social Entrepreneurship Competition.
I was responsible for developing and updating web applications in PHP and MySQL, installing a content management system based on ASP.NET called Umbraco, and developing websites with XHTML, CSS and jQuery.
I was responsible for creating an educational game at all stages of its development including invention, market research, design, testing, marketing, and completing an academic study of its effects through the University of California at Irvine. The game was funded by a prestigious MacArthur Foundation award.
I was responsible for interviewing colleagues, developing their project websites, streamlining Dreamweaver templates, editing images, and converting web applications from ASP to PHP.
Created group of 150 artists at Purdue University. Led public spectacles to spread joy. PBS Frontline showed one to over 3 million people.
In progress. An experiment in navigating social networks to find and interview Indianapolis's most brilliantly inspired souls.
In progress. An experiment to combine Generosity.org, Where's George? and the concept of paying good deeds forward. Indianapolis denizens will be able to do random acts of kindness, pass along a plastic card representing this deed and track the card's journey online.
Know No Stranger is an Indianapolis-based artist collective which makes, "enjoyable activities that inspire creative participation." Read the NUVO article here.
Couchsurfing is an international network that, "connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries and territories around the world." Locals show travelers their city and often host them in their home.
Daniel Poynter — daniel.poynter@gmail.com — (765) - 588-3620