Todd Parker, Partner, brings over a dozen years of experience creating highly functional, accessible and intuitive interfaces that make the most of the technical and interface constraints of a broad range of devices, from wireless phones, to touch screen tablets, kiosks and web sites. Todd speaks on issues of accessibility and web best practices, including presentations at the jQuery Conference and Voices That Matter: Web Design. Prior to founding Filament Group, Todd worked at ZEFER Corporation and CSC Consulting as a principal experience designer. Todd's work has been recognized by Communication Arts magazine for design excellence.
Patty Toland, Partner, brings to Filament Group more than fifteen years consulting experience with corporate and institutional clients, with a focus on communicating complex messages across a range of media. Patty's expertise lies in developing robust information and communication strategies, including branding, constituent analysis, information architecture and system design, and writing. Prior to founding Filament Group, Patty worked at ZEFER Corp., US Peace Corps, Kohn Cruikshank Inc. and Harvard Business School.
Maggie Costello Wachs is Filament's coding and production master — she ensures the quality of everything that goes out the door, or gets posted to an extranet. Maggie is deeply knowledgeable about best practices in standards-compliant markup, CSS and JavaScript, and progressive enhancement, and brings that expertise to both client work and our publications and presentations. We worked with Maggie at ZEFER, and she joined Filament after a stint at The Monitor Group, where she worked with the CIO on rolling out internal technology initiatives and recruiting for the software development consulting group.
Scott Jehl brings deep UI design and development expertise to Filament projects, from creating visually compelling design concepts and intuitive functional system workflows, to developing accessible, standards-based markup and functional, accessible widgets that make an interface sing. Scott led the development of jQuery UI's ThemeRoller and CSS Framework, and is leading development of Filament Group's open-source EnhanceJS framework. Scott is also a public advocate of web standards and best practices, speaking at conferences like Delve NYC, the jQuery Conference and Voices That Matter: Web Design, and contributing to A List Apart. Prior to joining Filament Group, Scott worked for such clients as New England Journal of Medicine, Footjoy Golf, and Aspen Snowmass Resorts, and created WriteMaps.com, a web application for planning websites.