About Simon Tan » Mobile Product Manager
Simon Tan has been a product manager at Atlassian, working to deliver next generation mobile experiences for collaborative teams.
Prior to working at Atlassian, Simon was a Product Manager at Box, working to deliver enterprise-grade mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows platforms.
Prior to working at Box, Simon was a Program Manager in the Azure Application Platform Team at Microsoft, designing web development tools that can be found in the latest releases of Visual Studio and Microsoft WebMatrix.
Simon earned these long-winded degrees from the University of California, Berkeley:
- Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a Minor in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- Masters of Science in Computer Science with an emphasis in Human-Computer Interaction
Simon was affiliated with the following on-campus organizations:
Simon completed his final degree in May 2009 with the writing of this Masters thesis.
Research
Collaborative Games on Mobile Phones
An exploration into creating and testing a game with children in rural India
Highlighting use of: J2ME
Illuminac Lighting w/Voice
Array lighting control with speech
Highlighting use of: XHTML+Voice
Hesperian Foundation Digital Library
The world's first universally-accessible digital library of healthcare for developing regions
Highlighting use of: Ruby on Rails
Coursework
Physical Battleship
The classic strategy game turned into an embodied experience
Highlighting use of: Adobe Flex Builder
Nominal Color Encoding Generator
A color palette generator that considers sound color use guidelines
Highlighting use of: Simulated Annealing
Map of the Internet
An interactive visualization of the space of IPv4 addresses
Highlighting use of: Flare Toolkit
CalMap
The UC Berkeley Mapping Solution, a Google Maps project for the campus
Highlighting use of: Google Web Toolkit
Skilift Optimizer 2009
The latest innovation in skilift resort optimization
Highlighting use of: Agile Development
Prodigious!