Palantir Technologies — known for its focus on solid engineering as the solution to all challenges — is one of the most respected companies in the Silicon Valley. As an engineer on the business development team at Palantir, my work varies widely from week to week, from branding and marketing to web design and applications development.

Palantir has the kind of company culture where individuals are given a high-degree of autonomy in choosing how they will achieve their goals.

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Slips is a web app targeting the time-entry, invoicing and client management needs of attorneys. Initially, these needs seemed well-served; dig a little deeper and one finds a field of mediocre offerings, and that this is a user community that has been passed over by the world of skilled designers.

The result: attorneys are treated to engineer-designed interfaces that are reminiscent of Windows 3.11. What few web apps do exist in this space are merely creating in the browser what is already on the desktop.

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Gamestepper is an upcoming social network for art and design students. It focuses on organizing users around their art and accomplishments, and on creating local communities. I was approached by Gamestepper to draw up a set of features that would comprise an excellent application. I then made some mockups to show how various features would work together. Gamestepper is an ambitious project, involving forums, content management and light social networking features.

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The National Writing Project is a national non-profit that facilitates the professional development of teachers in order to increase access to high-quality writing education for all learners. This is done through the disbursement of funds to satellite organizations nationwide, and then tracking the activities of those organizations over the course of the year.

High-quality data is critical to any mission-oriented organization, from which decision makers can ascertain to what extent the mission is being completed. For NWP, the Site Profile System is the key reporting application from which the organization can draw its understanding of the current state of its mission. The Site Profile System is critical to the NWP.

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Click Group is a leader in online advertising and a premiere Yahoo Paid Inclusion partner. I worked at Click Group for more than one year, primarily on a client management application which enabled account managers to control the deployment of advertisements across multiple traffic channels.

When I came to Click Group, the existing system was stretched beyond all usefulness and was in need of a modern replacement. We upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5, which enabled us to use Object-Oriented Programming.

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