Chris Griffith
About
Chris Griffith is from San Diego, California, United States. Chris works in the following industries: "Software Development". Chris is currently Senior User Experience Designer at Nortek Control, located in Carlsbad, San Diego. Chris also works as Adobe Community Professional at Adobe Systems, a job Chris has held since Jan 2011. Another title Chris currently holds is Owner at AJ Software & Multimedia. In Chris's previous role as a Author at O'Reilly Media, Chris worked in until Jan 2017. Prior to joining O'Reilly Media, Chris was a Instructor at UC San Diego Extension and held the position of Instructor at Greater San Diego Area. Prior to that, Chris was a Staff Engineer at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, based in Greater San Diego Area from Apr 2007 to Nov 2015. Chris started working as Author at lynda.com in Dec 2013. From Nov 1997 to Apr 2007, Chris was Senior Software Engineer at Pacific Science & Engineering. Prior to that, Chris was a Programmer at Presto Studios from Jan 1995 to Jan 2000. Chris started working as Technical Director - CD-ROM Development at Interactive Plant, Inc in Feb 1997.
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Chris Griffith's current jobs
Overseeing the interaction design, visual design, user research and testing for the family of Nortek Security & Control products.
Focusing on mobile development, responsive web design and user experience using Adobe based solutions. Have presented at various Adobe sponsored events and conferences, as well as various user groups. Served as Community Manager for Flash Catalyst, and was a PhoneGap Build Champion.
Developed ConfiGAP, an application to assist PhoneGap Build developers in generating the config.xml file.(www.configap.com). Developed the several open source Brackets extensions that provide code hinting for many popular languages. Recently ported these extensions to work in the new Atom editor as well. Have designed and authored a variety of conference companion mobile applications for iOS, Android and mobile web. Clients include Adobe Systems, Qualcomm, NASA, and UXPA. Created the award winning Atomic Archive:Enhanced Edition CD-ROM and companion web site.
Chris Griffith's past jobs
Author of Mobile App Development with Ionic: Build Cross-Platform Apps with Ionic, Angular and Cordova
Developed and teaching Mobile Device Programming Concepts course as part of UC San Diego Extension's Mobile Device Program Certificate program. This online course introduces students to the various capabilities of mobile devices and PhoneGap development.
Principle Engineer for the User Experience team at Qualcomm. My role is to develop experience prototypes for mobile, desktop and wearables. Created a series of user interface explorations for the Toq smartwatch. Coded the responsive redesign of the gimbal.com website. Work closely with the user research team to architect and develop prototypes for usability studies. I am also a regular presenter for the internal Guru Talk series, focusing on web technologies and mobile interface design.
Author of "Up and Running with PhoneGap Build", "Building Mobile Apps with the PhoneGap Command-Line Interface", and "Multidevice Prototyping with Ratchet" online training courses.
I was a rapid prototype software programmer and interaction designer for a variety of projects.
I was a contract game programmer. I worked on Stephen King's F13 and Gundam0079: The War for Earth
I oversaw all the development of all CD-ROM based products. Clients included The Coca-Cola Company, Cartoon Netwrok and J. Walter Thompson (USMC)
I was a technical manager for several educational games.
Creating and conducting software and hardware tests on the EyeQ video card and companion software tools.