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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:

• Berkeley Institute of Design
• RSSP-IT (formerly Residential Computing)

Simon completed his final degree in May 2009 with the writing of this Masters thesis.

Self

My Résumé
A user-friendly résumé? I try.

Sybak Blog
The Blog of CalMap and More

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

Past

APUSH4
Ms. Wold's AP US History class loves flashcards

Rubik's Cube Primer
Helping out a Rubik's Cube DeCal