Samuel Luescher: Designer/Developer

Summary

Samuel is a full-stack developer and trained designer with a focus on interactive systems. Currently, he is a a graduate student with the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He studied Visual Communication at the Basel School of Design and the Cooper Union in New York City. He has been developing and designing applications and services for the web, mobile and desktop systems for over a decade.

Often involved from initial concept to wireframe to implementation, Sam's work ranges from responsive and beautiful interfaces, scalable backends able to process large datasets, native iOS applications, onto experimental ventures in HCI research and interactive mixed-reality installations with an artistic perspective. 

Sam has a love for MVC frameworks in various scripting languages and austere Swiss graphic design. He is an active free and open source software contributor, and he has taught both typography and web development workshops at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Technical Skills

15+ years experience in Object Oriented Programming and Scripting.
A lot of actual software development using C++, Objective C, Javascript, Python, Ruby; as well as Assembly Language and Delphi in earlier days.

10+ years experience with Web Technologies and Web Application Development. In-depth knowledge of SQL as well as NoSQL (MongoDB) database programming. 

5+ years experience with electronics and hardware programming using popular platforms such as Arduino, openFrameworks, Processing etc.

Graduated Designer, well-trained in the areas of Print and Screen Typography, Digital Photography, Interaction Design, Image Editing, 3D and Motion Design.

Languages

English, full working proficiency. German (native speaker),
French, basic Spanish (both written and spoken).

Conferences

	ACM SIGCHI Conference 2013 Paper Sublimate: State-Changing Virtual and Physical Rendering to Augment Interaction with Shape Displays with Leithinger et al.
	ACM SIGCHI Conference 2012 Short paper: Point-and-Shoot Data with Lin, Rich, and Salzberg.
	Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)'s 2012 International Conference, Boston 2011 Short paper «Self-Organized Design Education» with Kim, Lee, and Marwah.

Awards