Jeff Keen
extended interactive resume at cv.keen.meExperience
Tempo Labs
Since 2014 | Founder
Provided a variety of development & design consulting services for a dozen or so clients, ranging from team augmentation, mentoring, UX design, visual design, and technical writing. Greatest hits below.
Dubbletrack ↗
2017-Present | Solo Project / Volunteering
Designed and developed a set of user-experience focused applications that enable community & public radio stations to provide listeners with advanced features that may otherwise be out of reach. In the end I hope it eliminates pledge drives.
Every broadcast you hear on 91.7 KOOP has a DJ using dubbletrack behind it.
New York Public Radio ↗
2016-2020 | Senior Software Engineer
Led a team in the redesign/relaunch of multiple WQXR listening experiences. Championed sane API design & best practices. Mentored junior developers.
Surgically extracted the organs of two giant monolithic apps into seven slimmer feature-focused and sharable modules. The project was a technical success, but later proved to be not a practical success, creating a tangled web of dependencies that ultimately slowed progress. Sometimes DRY is not the way.
Built the frontend audio infrastructure that powers all NYPR sites.
Assemble Systems ↗
2015-2017 | Senior Software Designer
Led user experience and visual design improvements for their 3D modeling and architectural/construction tool. Simplified complex concepts and jargon into easily grokked interfaces.
Spiceworks ↗
2008-2014 | Senior Software Engineer, UX Lead
Played several roles as the company grew from 25 employees to 250+, from feature work in Rails, to leading UX efforts throughout the application, to having more of a product designer/creative thinker role, often being pulled into other department meetings to help come up with new ideas.
Open Source Projects
Ember Stereo ↗
Originally built as an open source audio player for NYPR, this is a forked, renamed, and reimagined the project for modern times.
Tracking Number ↗
In 2010 I built a package tracker app named BoxWatch that didn't make it, but this tiny ruby gem that identifies all sorts of tracking numbers has stood the test of time.
Comma Splice ↗
A ruby gem to correct incorrectly formatted CSVs which turned into a problem that's actually kinda interesting.
Fun Stuff
Side Action Tuesday ↗
A weekly social group I started to regularly plug away on side projects.
latlmes.com ↗
Keeping the rick roll alive! (And based on the traffic it is very, very, alive)
Education
Minnesota State University
1999 – 2003 | Bachelor Of Science in Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
2006 – 2008 | Computer Science, 13 graduate credits
Contact
- 5205 Pin Oak Path, Austin TX 78745
- jeffkeen@hey.com
- (917) 575-6079
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Other Projects
Swimtopia ↗
2021
Ported a mobile swim-meet app from Cordova & Angular to Capacitor & Ember.
IBM with thirteen23
2021
Augmented a team of engineers building React components for IBM Watson/IoT Applications.
A Cloud Guru ↗
2020
Augmented a dev team in order to hit a crucial launch deadline for the new Courses redesign. It was a PHP job, and turns out PHP has improved a lot in the 10 years since I used it last. I like it now.
Happy Campers
2019 | Product Designer
UX, visual design, and branding for a site that helps parents choose summer camps for their kids. They joined forces with another company before even launching, but I'm really proud of the work.
One More Cloud ↗
2018
Wrote an intro technical blog series to Elastic Search, boiling down complex topics to a language mortals can understand.
Ping Identity ↗
2018
Built a privacy dashboard in React to assist with new GDPR regulations
Neighborly with 201-Created
2018
Ember.js consulting through 201-Created on a financial/investment app. Helped pioneer some fastboot testing utilities for mocking server-side rendered content. Provided assistance on advanced ember topics to staff developers.
Khorus ↗
2016
UX Audit to improve onboarding times and user retention. The changes I mapped out greatly simplified the application.
Twyla ↗ with thirteen23
2015
Built the first Twyla app for their company launch using Ember. It was super glitzy and involved a lot of cutting edge CSS and animation work.
Visa with thirteen23
2014
Prototyped options for their new Visa Checkout flow.
Ancient History
Columbia University Medical Center
2006-2008 | Data Manager/Programmer
Developed an online patient monitoring system for clinical drug trials used by doctors worldwide. This was in .NET, and .NET's idea of the web in 2006 is not my idea of a good time.
Innovative Laser Technologies ↗
2003-2006 | Electrical/Software Engineer
Designed electrical/control systems and software to run industrial vision-assisted robotic laser welding machines. This was super cool and interesting, and taught me that I really care about usability/UX.