Jimmy Byrum

Llao Llao

En camino

Patagonia

El Chaltén

Los Antiguos

Bariloche

Volcán Villarrica

Iquique

Valle de la Luna

Cañon del Colca

Lago Titicaca

La Habana

Липя

Antarctica

Morocco

Sahara Desert

I'm curently a Lead Engineer at CreativeLive. Most recently I led the creation of a custom CMS and new ecommerce system.
While getting into Bitcoin, Erin Gallup and I learned quite a bit about money. We gathered up what we learned into the Currency Cheatsheet.
I built this as a way to keep track of my Bitcoin transactions, which are spread across a few different wallets and exchanges.
I worked with a startup based in Cambridge, MA for a few years. We made an app that lets consumers send a message to any business in North America and get a text response in minutes. I built the consumer website, a web application for our call center, and the Android app. I also do anything else that needs doing.
I worked with a Designer to build out the Kobo Funds website over a two month period in the summer of 2013.
I took some time off in 2008 to be a volunteer English teacher in Chile. For six months, I taught at Liceo Polivalente Hernando de Magallanes in Porvenir, which is a small town on the Tierra del Fuego. After that, I traveled for six months, starting in Antarctica and then making my way north along the Andes.
I made two versions of the Yahoo! home page back in the day (2004) while working in Sunnyvale, CA. In 2006, I transferred to the London, UK office and worked on the European sites. I also worked on the Starbucks Digital Network project in late 2010 doing mostly mobile web development.

Javascript Libraries

Vault.js Key-Value Storage of true data types for the browser and node.
Voice Commands Abstraction layer for adding voice commands to websites.
Use voice commands on this website
Cache Stack Cache functions (until they expire) and stack callbacks (for longer running functions).

Resume on Google Docs

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Jimmy Byrum

Resume on Google Docs

Voice and Keyboard commands

This website understands voice commands for navigation.