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Early in his career, Dean developed a passion for the user experience aspect of information processing and has concentrated on Internet technologies for the past decade. Numerous global organizations, including AT&T, GE Capital, Prudential Financial and Thomson, have benefited from his information presentation and user experience expertise.

Throughout his career, Dean developed several methodologies that efficiently utilize rapid visualization of requirements to ensure stakeholders agree on a common vision of the proposed solution. Additionally, he was an early adopter of rich user interactions, now known as rich internet application technologies, and is a recognized expert in underlying RIA technologies, including JavaScript/ECMAScript, CSS, DHTML/XHTML and cross-browser compatibility. Furthermore, Dean personally designed and developed several RIA/AJAX-based frameworks that utilize normal HTML and lightweight JavaScript function calls, allowing developers with minimal RIA technology experience to develop such applications with ease.

Dean earned a BS from Emory University in Atlanta.