Dean Hunt is a broadly-trained interaction designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Georgia Institute of Technology
(Atlanta, Georgia)
2000–2007
GPA: 3.85/4.0 (last 70 hours)
Computer Science, B.S.
(Published thesis)
Science, Technology, and Culture, B.S.
(High Honors)
Emory University
(Atlanta, Georgia)
2007
Leeds University
(Leeds, England)
2006
Sarah Lawrence College
(Bronxville, New York)
2007, 2008
©2009
DESIGN & CMS
August 2008 – present
The Corless, San Francisco, CA
Corporate branding • Graphic and content design • Site development with custom content management system based on Movable Type • Publishing, maintenance, and some content development • Network management
DESIGN & CMS
December 2008 – March 2009
Tivix, San Francisco, CA
Graphic design and corporate branding across four sites • Information architecture for a scalable knowledge center (Movable Type) • Interactive design and usability consultation
WEB APPLICATIONS
August 2005 – March 2008
Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
Generalized and published previous technical innovations as software patches for web-based applications (see below) • UNIX development in an OO environment (enCore MOO)
DESIGN INSTRUCTION
January 2004 – December 2004
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Taught advanced object-oriented design practices in Smalltalk/Squeak: software engineering, interface design, group dynamics • Developed, consulted on, and graded student assignments
SOCIAL COMPUTING
August 2002 – May 2003
Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
Co-developed and published a web-based, multi-user, multi-media environment (a MOO space) based upon a literary text • OO-language and backend development, UNIX troubleshooting
EXPERIMENTAL WEB
August 2000 – May 2001
Wesley Center for New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology
Full life-cycle development of dynamic sites in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Flash • Teamwork and extensive interfacing with non-technical professionals
EARLY FREELANCE
August 1996 – July 2000
Monticello, GA
Designed, built, and rendered wireframes using Photoshop, ImageReady, trueSpace, and Flash • Backend admin with UNIX and Perl • Four years of programming cross-browser JavaScript and CSS
