My name is Sue, and I dig web development, design, agile development and bears.

I have a bachelors in psychology and thought I'd spend my adulthood programming MRI machines and doing lab work. Instead I ended being one of the task force whose mission is to build the internets.

I love coding. I love bug fixing and problem solving. Headphones on, photoshop and textmate open, I can spend hours building away contently. And to think, I once had a college counselor tell me not to pursue CS because "its hard." (Don't go to Boston University, kids.)

I work for Isobar North America as a Senior Front-End developer. Client's come to us to create or update their web presence. Each site is a new set of requirements: SEO requirements, Accessibility/Section 508, localization/international support, CMS, built kits, social networks, facebook games, sites with 50K daily traffic and sites with 5m daily traffic- I have built them all.

In the last year (2009) I started working towards a Masters in Computer Science. After my first semester, I fell in love with PHP & MYSQL. Second semester, I took Data Visualization and learned so many design and UI principles that I can't look at even a simple bar chart without being critical. I'm currently working on a visualization heavy project using processing.js. Fun times! Next semester: Ruby on Rails!

I also toy with video game programming and development as a hobby. I play with opensource platforms like second life and Unity 3D and python libraries for 8bit style games. I spend a lot of my free time in Photoshop, Illustrator and Blender (3d modelling).