Francis Li CONTACT mail@francisli.com http://www.francisli.com/ WORK EXPERIENCE AudioPress, San Francisco, CA September 2009 - Present Co-founder/CTO Leading the design and development of the AudioPress platform and mobile app. AudioPress is your single source audio digest for spoken word content. Featured by Apple upon launch in the AppStore in October 2010 and picked as a Top Trend in New News apps in iTunes Rewind 2010. Tiny Pictures, San Francisco, CA February 2008 - February 2009 VP, Product Led the product team in designing and developing Radar across desktop web, mobile web & apps, third-party social networks, and messaging. Assisted in business strategy and partner engagement. February 2007 - February 2008 Director, Mobile Designed and developed the Radar mobile app, mobile website, and SMS alerts program. Supervised in-house porting of the mobile app. January 2006 - January 2007 Sr. Mobile Developer Architected and developed the Radar Java ME mobile app. Glu Mobile, San Mateo, CA December 2003 - December 2005 Software Engineer Lead developer of Java ME games and networked apps, contributer to concept development and user interface design, prototyping, and evaluation. MetaDesign AG, Berlin, Germany July 2002 - September 2002 Intern, IconMobile Solutions Prototyped new services for mobile phones and wireless networks, including designing for the i-Mode platform and location-based network, next generation handsets, and the Java ME application platform. Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA May 2000 - August 2000 Researcher Intern, Network Communities Group Assisted in the design and development of Awarenex, a system that provides awareness information for initiating communication between users of mobile and desktop computing and communication devices. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA January 1999 - August 1999 Researcher Intern, Collaborative & Multimedia Systems Group Assisted in the development and evaluation of the Microsoft Research Annotation System (MRAS). Also the principal investigator in the design and evaluation of software for browsing and skimming digital video. DESIGN SKILLS Concept development Participatory design (brainstorming, affinity diagramming), storyboarding and experience prototyping, rapid prototyping on actual technology platforms Management Wireframing, PRD/specification writing, engineering management and bug tracking TECH EXPERIENCE Server RoR: Full stack Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails on Google AppEngine Java: Apache Tomcat, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Servlet/JSP/JSTL LAMP: Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP Amazon Web Services: EC2, S3, SimpleDB, SQS, RightScale Mobile and embedded Application: Apple iOS, Google Android, Java ME, RIM Blackberry, Flash Lite Web: xHTML MP, WML, WURFL Web Browser: Flash/ActionScript, HTML/CSS/JavaScript/AJAX, YUI, jquery, Prototype Services: Facebook Developer Platform, Facebook Connect, SOAP/REST API integration Desktop Java SE (Swing/AWT), Flash (AIR), Windows (C++/MFC, C#/WPF) TEACHING & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS RailsBridge Women in Rails Open Workshops December 10-11, 2010 February 4-5, 2011 Volunteer instructor. Introduction to Ruby on Rails and Internet software engineering. California College of Art, San Francisco, CA October 12, 2008 Processing workshop. MobileCampSF2, San Francisco, CA June 14, 2008 Mobile Processing session. MobileCampSF, San Francisco, CA November 3, 2007 Mobile Processing session. UbiComp 07, Innsbruck, Austria September 16, 2007 Presenter and participant in the Mobile and Ubiquitous User Experience workshop. Mobilized!, New York, NY May 6, 2007 Mobile Processing workshop. The Art Institute of California, San Francisco, CA July 12, 2006 - September 27, 2006 Games for the Net, Summer 2006. Atmosferas, Lisbon, Portugal May 15, 2006 - May 19, 2006 Mobile Processing workshop. The Art Institute of California, San Francisco, CA January 14, 2006 - March 25, 2006 Games for the Net, Winter 2006. PUBLICATIONS Extension 7: Mobile Francis Li (2007). In C. Reas, & B. Fry, Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers and artists (pp. 617-631). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Supporting Collaborative Teams in Engineering Education Francis C. Li, James A. Landay, Anthony D. Joseph. In Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, June 24-27, 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico. End-User Perceptions of Formal and Informal Representations of Web Sites Jason I. Hong, Francis C. Li, James Lin, James A. Landay. In Extended Abstracts of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2001, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 5, 2001, pp. 385-386. ConNexus to Awarenex: Extending awareness to mobile users John C. Tang, Nicole Yankelovich, James "Bo" Begole, Max Van Kleek, Francis Li, Janak Bhalodia. In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2001, 2001. 3(1): pp 221-228. Browsing Digital Video Francis Li, Anoop Gupta, Elizabeth Sanocki, Li-wei He, Yong Rui. In CHI Letters: Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2000, 2000. 2(1): pp. 169-176. A Framework for Asynchronous Collaboration Around Multimedia and its Application to On-Demand Training David Bargeron, Anoop Gupta, Jonathan Grudin, Elizabeth Sanocki, Francis Li. In Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34), January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM), Copyright 2001 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 10 pages. NotePals: Lightweight Note Sharing by the Group, for the Group Richard C. Davis, James A. Landay, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis C. Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, Ben Schleimer, Morgan N. Price, and Bill N. Schilit. In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 99, Pittsburg, PA, May 15-20, 1999, pp. 338 - 345. NotePals: Sharing and Synchronizing Handwritten Notes with Multimedia Documents James A. Landay, Richard C. Davis, Victor Chen, Jonathan Huang, Rebecca B. Lee, Francis C. Li, James Lin, Charles B. Morrey III, and Ben Schleimer. In Handheld CSCW Workshop, CSCW '98, Seattle, WA, November 14, 1998. PATENTS Skimming continuous multimedia content Anoop Gupta, Li-wei He, Francis C. Li, Yong Rui, inventors. Microsoft Corporation, assignee. United States patent US 7,506,356. March 19, 2009. EDUCATION Interaction Design Institute Ivrea Masters in Interaction Design, 2003 University of California, Berkeley M.S. Computer Science, College of Engineering, 2001 University of California, Berkeley B.A. Computer Science, College of Letters and Science, 1998 Highest Honors in Computer Science Highest Distinction in General Scholarship Member: Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society Member: Golden Key National Honor Society Member: Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society for the Computing Sciences) Santa Rosa Junior College Member: Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society for Two-Year Colleges)