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Development Team
Contact Information

John Galinato - Project Management
Cornell, BEE and MEE, 1968
Hobbies: building, drawing, tennis and blues guitar
Heroes: Calder, Don Quixote, Rube Goldberg
Quote: "Holy Catfish!"  Batman
Website | PPT Bio | Scratch Bio | Resume

Liu Huan - Platform Development
MIT Class of 2010, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Hobbies:  I love robots!
Heroes: Fox Mulder, Richard P. Feynman, 
Yao Ming (Liu Huan and Yao Ming are from Shanghai.) 
Website

Jamie Mckiernan - Graphic Design
BFA Animation & Illustration, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Hobbies: Animation, gaming, Watching 1940's movies 
Heroes: Bill Watterson, Fred Astaire, Pixar Animation
Favorite Quote: "A litte nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" ~Willy Wonka
Website

Jacob Bredthauer - Platform Development
MIT Class of 2011, Math and Computer Science
Hobbies: MIT a capella singing group
Heroes: My Parents; Tom Osborne
Favorite TV shows: Lost, 24, Heroes
Website

Aditi Dugar - Content Development
Cornell Class of 2011, Mechanical Engineering
Hobbies: Singing, piano, running
Heroes: Sara Bareilles, Steve Jobs
Quote: "Friends are people who know the words to the song in you heart, and sing them back when you have forgotten them."
Resume
Will Chou - Platform Development
M.Eng CS, Cornell Class of 2009
Hobbies: Bboying (breakdancing), volleyball, and computer games when I have the time (never).
Heroes: My dad
Favorite Quote: "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
Blog | Bboying Video
Peter Wei - Business Development
Hofstra Class of 2011, MBA
Hobbies: 
Heroes: 
Favorite Quote: 
Stephen Wong - Platform Development
BS EE, Cornell Class of 2010
Hobbies: Building things (working on Parkour'ing)
Heroes: Dad, Steve Jobs, Oda Eiichiro
Bio

Hearson Zhang - Platform Development
Computer Science, Purdue University Class of 2012
Hobbies: Computers, Robots, Math, Flute and Guitar
Heroes: KITT and Alan Turing
Favorite Quote: "Let's do it the engineer's way!"
Bio
Jeanne Harran  - Business and Content Development
B.I.D Industrial and Interaction Design, Syracuse University 2009
Hobbies: running, sketching, building with legos and premium quality junk
Heroes: My mom, Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, Charles and Ray Eames
Website

Dexter Eames - Hardware Development
MIT BS EE
Hobbies: West African dancing, designing microprocessor circuits
Heroes: Nelson Mandela, The Dali Lama, Albert Einstein
Pete Buletza - Platform Development
A.B. Computer Science at Harvard, Software Architect
Favorite Activities: playing soccer, tennis, volleyball and golf;  hanging with Sharon and Giggs
Favorite Heroes: Bob Marley, Roy Keane
LinkedIn
Ann Butler - Content Development
Harvard Graduate School of Education, MEd
Hobbies: yoga, hiking, and knitting
Heroes: Charles Darwin

Naseem Makiya - Content Development
Harvard Class of 2008, Psychology and Film/Video
Hobbies: Basketball, pool, music
Hero: Mugsy Bogues 
Naseem joined the Build-It-Yourself crew when he was 9.
Seth Mastin - Platform Development
BS in Computer Science from MIT in 2005
Favorite Activities: art and movies
Heroes: Indiana Jones
Favorite Quote: "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't -- you are right." ~Henry Ford

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