
Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area

Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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	connectionsSteve 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.
HTML, XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, W3C, web standards, front-end engineering, user interface development, user-centered design, usability, accessibility, semantic markup, microformats, POSH
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
	
(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.
	
Theatre, Film, Television 1986 — 1990
Radio Broadcasting 1983 — 1986
social design, human-computer interaction, disc golf
Usability Professionals Association, BayCHI, Silicon Valley WebGuild, PDGA, Social Graph Foo Camp, SXSW, Twitter, DataPortability
 BayCHI member
  
	BayCHI member UsabilityPro member
  
	UsabilityPro member PayPal
	Alumni on LinkedIn (PALs) member
   PayPal
	Alumni on LinkedIn (PALs) member PDGA member
  
	PDGA member eBay
	Employees and Alumni Group member
   eBay
	Employees and Alumni Group member South By Southwest member
  
	South By Southwest member Refresh -
	Promoting design, technology,and usability. member
   Refresh -
	Promoting design, technology,and usability. member Web
	Standards Design + Development member
   Web
	Standards Design + Development member• 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival Panelist
— "Social Networking and Your Brand" 
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2003 PDGA Volunteer of the Year