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Benjamin Oakes

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Hi, I'm Ben Oakes and this is my geek blog. Currently, I'm a Software Developer at Hedgeye. Previously, I was a Research Assistant in the Early Social Cognition Lab at Yale University and a student at the University of Iowa. I also organize NewHaven.rb. I do development with Ruby, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, and CSS. I have an amazing fiancée named Danielle Smith.

Design

I really don’t consider myself a designer. (I mean, seriously, I majored in Computer Science. CS majors aren’t exactly known for their artistic talent.) But, I do enjoy dabbling with HTML/CSS, Premiere/iMovie, Photoshop/Gimp, Inkscape, and pencil/paper on occasion.

At one point, I had thought I wanted to be a cinema major, so I put some effort into my graphic design, filming, and video editing chops. I haven’t done that seriously since around 2006, but it’s still fun to look back at what I’ve made. I’ve picked some samples that I thought would be worth sharing instead of letting them rot away on some hard drive.

I’m planning to upload examples over time with accompanying blog posts.