Papers &amp; Presentations

Bank of America Client Advisory Council

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July 2022

Marketing's Marketing Problem

Presented by

Elaine Ezekiel

Marketing's Marketing Problem

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July 2022

Generous Acts of Attention

Presented by

Elaine Ezekiel

Generous Acts of Attention

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Small Giants Summit

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May 2022

Routines and Flourishing at Work

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Routines and Flourishing at Work

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University of Michigan, Ross School of Business

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February 2022

Tech Talk for Women in Computing

Presented by

Anjali Munasinghe

Tech Talk for Women in Computing

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Michigan State University

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November 2021

Job Crafting as an End to the Endless Work-from-Home Debate

Presented by

Elaine Ezekiel

Job Crafting as an End to the Endless Work-from-Home Debate

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A2 Tech Talk, SPARK's A2 Tech 360

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October 2021

Masked Up and Mission Driven: How (And Why) Small Giants Are Returning to the Office

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Masked Up and Mission Driven: How (And Why) Small Giants Are Returning to the Office

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Small Giants 2021 Summit

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April 2021

Culture of Learning

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Culture of Learning

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Small Giants Leadership Academy

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March 2021

The Challenge of Ethical Design

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The Challenge of Ethical Design

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UXOK

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February 2021

The Atomic Accelerator: Staffing a 100-Year Company

Presented by

The Atomic Accelerator: Staffing a 100-Year Company

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GLSEC@home

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November 2020

How to Render Twenty Thousand Rows without Crashing Chrome

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How to Render Twenty Thousand Rows without Crashing Chrome

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Code PaLOUsa

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August 2020

Defining Your Culture

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Defining Your Culture

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Atomic Object — Ann Arbor

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January 2020

Tidying Up Design

Presented by

Tidying Up Design

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MWUX 2019

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October 2019

Writing Code that (Practically) Writes Itself with Typescript

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Writing Code that (Practically) Writes Itself with Typescript

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Strange Loop

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September 2019

Scaling Your Impact with Shared Ownership

Presented by

Scaling Your Impact with Shared Ownership

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Good for Michigan

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July 2019

Thinking in SQL: Going beyond “find record 5”

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Thinking in SQL: Going beyond “find record 5”

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Kansas City Developer's Conference

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July 2019

Let's Sort Out Sorting: How to Think About Sorting like a Computer

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Let's Sort Out Sorting: How to Think About Sorting like a Computer

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Beer City Code

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June 2019

AIGA Case Studies

Presented by

AIGA Case Studies

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AIGA Detroit

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May 2019

Amplify Your Culture of Ownership Through Employee Ownership

Presented by

Amplify Your Culture of Ownership Through Employee Ownership

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Small Giants Summit 2019

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May 2019

Mind the Gap: Bringing Design, Management, and Development Practices Together

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Mind the Gap: Bringing Design, Management, and Development Practices Together

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Agile & Beyond 2019

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May 2019

Think Long Term

Presented by

Think Long Term

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Positive Business Conference 2019

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May 2019

How to Grow as a Leader

Presented by

How to Grow as a Leader

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Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing

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March 2019

Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing: Panel Discussion

Presented by

Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing: Panel Discussion

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Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center

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March 2019

"Tidying Up" Information Architecture

Presented by

"Tidying Up" Information Architecture

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2019 World IA Day Ann Arbor

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February 2019

Seeking System Zen with Universal TypeScript

Presented by

Seeking System Zen with Universal TypeScript

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Full Stack Toronto

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November 2018

Making Work Matter

Presented by

Making Work Matter

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REBar GR

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September 2018

Understanding TypeScript's Structural Type System

Presented by

Understanding TypeScript's Structural Type System

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Strange Loop

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September 2018

The Modern Command-line Tool Stack: Pipenv, Click, and Friends

Presented by

The Modern Command-line Tool Stack: Pipenv, Click, and Friends

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PyOhio 2017

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July 2018

Electron in the Real World

Presented by

Electron in the Real World

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Beer City Code

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June 2018

The Art & Craft of Secrets: Using the Cryptographic Toolbox

Presented by

The Art & Craft of Secrets: Using the Cryptographic Toolbox

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Fluent

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June 2018

Buckets of Testing – working in a multi-project environment

Presented by

Phil Kirkham

Buckets of Testing – working in a multi-project environment

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Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Assn

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March 2018

Introduction to Test-Driven Development

Presented by

Introduction to Test-Driven Development

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Grand Valley CIS Computing Club

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October 2017

Compassion

Presented by

Compassion

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Creative Mornings Grand Rapids

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September 2017

Intro to GraphQL

Presented by

Andy Peterson

Intro to GraphQL

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BarCamp Grand Rapids

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August 2017

Using Higher Order Functions to Build SQL

Presented by

Andy Peterson

Using Higher Order Functions to Build SQL

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BarCamp Grand Rapids

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August 2017

Security Hygiene for Software Professionals: Lightning Edition

Presented by

Security Hygiene for Software Professionals: Lightning Edition

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PyOhio 2017

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July 2017

"Ladies First" Women in Tech Conference

Presented by

"Ladies First" Women in Tech Conference

, Nora Bouchard; Meredith Bronk, Kristian Grant, Brianna Marshall, Andrea Wallace

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June 2017

How to Make Data Make Sense: Choosing the Right Visualization

Presented by

How to Make Data Make Sense: Choosing the Right Visualization

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Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference

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May 2017

Design for the Design Illiterate

Presented by

Jonah Bailey

Design for the Design Illiterate

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MHacks 9

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March 2017

Why Developers Should Care About Design

Presented by

Why Developers Should Care About Design

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MHacks 9

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March 2017

The Importance of Diversity in the Technology Industry

Presented by

The Importance of Diversity in the Technology Industry

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Midwest Tech Project's G Code Gala

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February 2017

Testing your Swift Code

Presented by

Testing your Swift Code

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CodeMash

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January 2017

Using iBeacons in iOS with Swift

Presented by

Using iBeacons in iOS with Swift

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CodeMash

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January 2017

When Things Go Wrong: A Toolkit for Handling Harassment

Presented by

When Things Go Wrong: A Toolkit for Handling Harassment

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Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing

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January 2017

IoT Made Easy with Particle

Presented by

Jordan Schaenzle

IoT Made Easy with Particle

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Embedded GR Meetup

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September 2016

SLICING UP FUN - Testing Out Your Mobile Apps

Presented by

Phil Kirkham

SLICING UP FUN - Testing Out Your Mobile Apps

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Targeting Quality 2016

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September 2016

A Tool for Reigning in Self-Doubt

Presented by

A Tool for Reigning in Self-Doubt

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AndConf 2016

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August 2016

Panelist, PowerUp Tech Fair

Presented by

Panelist, PowerUp Tech Fair

Power Up Technology Fair

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August 2016

Command Injection, or How /bin/sh can rm -rf your server

Presented by

Command Injection, or How /bin/sh can rm -rf your server

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PyOhio

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July 2016

Episode 37: Hybrid Xamarin Apps

Presented by

Episode 37: Hybrid Xamarin Apps

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Gone Mobile Podcast

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July 2016

Bringing Functional Concepts to OO Languages

Presented by

Bringing Functional Concepts to OO Languages

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Grand Rapids Functional Programming Meetup

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June 2016

Diversity Is In Our DNA

Presented by

Diversity Is In Our DNA

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West Michigan Design Week

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April 2016

Welcome to the Dark Side: Anticipating Threats with Dark Personas

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Welcome to the Dark Side: Anticipating Threats with Dark Personas

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Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference

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April 2016

We’re All Software Companies Now – How Software Can Help Companies Innovate & Serve Markets Better

Presented by

We’re All Software Companies Now – How Software Can Help Companies Innovate & Serve Markets Better

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Techweek Detroit

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April 2016

Atomic's Process and 5 Design Techniques You Can Try Without "Design" Experience

Presented by

Atomic's Process and 5 Design Techniques You Can Try Without "Design" Experience

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Grand Rapids Area Professionals for Excellence

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November 2015

Careers in Software Development

Presented by

Jason Porritt

Careers in Software Development

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Hudsonville High School Java Class

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November 2015

Implementing the Elm Architecture in ClojureScript

Presented by

Implementing the Elm Architecture in ClojureScript

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Clojure/conj

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November 2015

Monads for Real People

Presented by

Monads for Real People

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GR Functional Programming Meetup

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November 2015

Startup Grind Interview with Carl Erickson

Presented by

Startup Grind Interview with Carl Erickson

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Startup Grind Lansing

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October 2015

The Craftsperson's Toolbelt

Presented by

Jason Porritt

The Craftsperson's Toolbelt

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GVSU Computing Club

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October 2015

Understanding DevOps

Presented by

Understanding DevOps

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GVSU Computing Club

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October 2015

Communicating Sequential Processes

Presented by

Communicating Sequential Processes

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SoftwareGR

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September 2015

Configuring Laptops with Ansible

Presented by

Configuring Laptops with Ansible

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DevOps West Michigan

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September 2015

Drawing the Performance of your Web App

Presented by

Drawing the Performance of your Web App

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SE Michigan JavaScript

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September 2015

From Code to Production

Presented by

From Code to Production

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GRWebDev

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September 2015

Ember Data Roller Coaster

Presented by

Ember Data Roller Coaster

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SE Michigan JavaScript

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June 2015

Team Health Checks

Presented by

Team Health Checks

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Agile Leadership Network West Michigan

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June 2015

Intro To Python

Presented by

Intro To Python

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Girl Develop It Ann Arbor

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May 2015

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Better Compression with a Reversible Sort

Presented by

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform: Better Compression with a Reversible Sort

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!!Con

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May 2015

Craftsmanship as Competitive Advantage

Presented by

Craftsmanship as Competitive Advantage

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HighEdWeb Michigan

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April 2015

Meet Atomic Object

Presented by

Jason Porritt

Meet Atomic Object

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Western Michigan University

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April 2015

The Right Kind of Startups

Presented by

The Right Kind of Startups

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Techweek Detroit

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April 2015

5 Lessons from My First 5 Years in the Industry

Presented by

5 Lessons from My First 5 Years in the Industry

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Kendall College of Art & Design IxDA Student Chapter

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March 2015

"What Is Good Design" A Research-Driven Investigation

Presented by

Matt Fletcher

"What Is Good Design" A Research-Driven Investigation

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Speaking of Design Meetup

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February 2015

Deconstructing Single Page Applications

Presented by

Deconstructing Single Page Applications

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CodeMash

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January 2015

Companies for Craftspeople

Presented by

Companies for Craftspeople

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1DEVDAY Detroi

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November 2014

Lean IT – Software Development & Deployment (Panel Discussion)

Presented by

Lean IT – Software Development & Deployment (Panel Discussion)

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Information Technology Management Association

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November 2014

Sketchnotes: Harnessing the Messy Mind

Presented by

Sketchnotes: Harnessing the Messy Mind

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AtomicCon

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November 2014

The Intersection of Clients and Design

Presented by

Taylor Vanden Hoek

The Intersection of Clients and Design

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WordCamp Grand Rapids 2014

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October 2014

make and redo for Building and Automation

Presented by

make and redo for Building and Automation

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DevOps West Michigan

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October 2014

Configuration Management Testing with Chef

Presented by

Configuration Management Testing with Chef

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DevOps West Michigan

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September 2014

Stage Fright: Don't Be Phased By Compilers

Presented by

Stage Fright: Don't Be Phased By Compilers

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Detroit Lambda Lounge

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September 2014

Content Marketing at Atomic Object

Presented by

Content Marketing at Atomic Object

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Ann Arbor SPARK - Michigan Marketing Minds

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August 2014

Talent in the Tech Industry

Presented by

Talent in the Tech Industry

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The Right Place Investor’s Breakfast

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June 2014

The Path to "Software Developer"

Presented by

The Path to "Software Developer"

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Samsung Mobile App Academy

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June 2014

Extinguishing the Flame War on Quality and Automated Testing

Presented by

Extinguishing the Flame War on Quality and Automated Testing

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Google IO Extended Grand Rapids

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May 2014

Introduction to Emmet (Lightning Talk)

Presented by

Introduction to Emmet (Lightning Talk)

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South East Michigan Javascript Users

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April 2014

Introduction to Machine Learning

Presented by

Introduction to Machine Learning

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Ann Arbor Craftsman Guild

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April 2014

Why execution matters for innovation – Integrating software development and Human-Centered Design

Presented by

Why execution matters for innovation – Integrating software development and Human-Centered Design

, John Wettersten (IDEO)

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Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference

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April 2014

Going Mobile: From Idea, to Development, to Final Outcome

Presented by

Going Mobile: From Idea, to Development, to Final Outcome

, Mark Van Holstyn, Josh Hulst

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Mobile Technology Assn. of Michigan

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March 2014

Hey, Girl. You know you want to be a software developer.

Presented by

Hey, Girl. You know you want to be a software developer.

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Oakland University Women in Computing Lecture Series

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March 2014

Practical Abstraction

Presented by

Practical Abstraction

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Detroit Lambda Lounge

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March 2014

14 Years of TDD: What We’ve Learned at Atomic Object

Presented by

14 Years of TDD: What We’ve Learned at Atomic Object

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Agile Groupies

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January 2014

Whirlwind Tour of Writing Games in Ruby

Presented by

Whirlwind Tour of Writing Games in Ruby

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Scale 12x

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January 2014

Communicating with a Fist Full of Wires

Presented by

Communicating with a Fist Full of Wires

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CodeMash

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December 2013

Cocoa Auto Layout – Part Deux

Presented by

Cocoa Auto Layout – Part Deux

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Ann Arbor CocoaHeads

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November 2013

Inclusive & Accessible UX Practices – How Low-Fidelity Artifacts Promote Whole-Team Collaboration

Presented by

Inclusive & Accessible UX Practices – How Low-Fidelity Artifacts Promote Whole-Team Collaboration

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Balanced Team Conference

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October 2013

The Role of UX and Usability Testing at Atomic Object

Presented by