About BlinkTag
Since 2007, BlinkTag has combined transportation planning, design, and software development.
Our team
Our team includes planners, engineers, designers, developers, and communications specialists.
Brendan Nee
Brendan combines transportation engineering with software development to build maps, rider information tools, and software for transit agencies. He develops web applications and APIs with JavaScript and Node.js. His open-source transit work includes node-GTFS, GTFS-to-HTML, and tools for working with GTFS, GTFS-Realtime, and extensions for ridership, operations, and timetables.
His mapping projects use OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, and Google Maps for transit information, bike routing, and walking tours. He has spoken internationally about transportation technology and open data, including at Colombia 4.0 in Bogotá, and published research in the Journal of the American Planning Association and Transportation Research Record.
His history with the web goes back to Netscape, when a blinking HTML tag was still a feature you might use on purpose.
Alec Berger
Alec helps organizations connect with the people they serve through writing, digital campaigns, and community outreach. He develops social media strategy and creates graphics and videos for social media and digital outreach. His work also includes website content, newsletters, surveys, and campaign planning for local and national clients, with a focus on equitable access to transit and safe, healthy transportation.
Before focusing on digital communications, he spent twelve years in radio as an on-air host and producer. He conducted interviews, voiced commercials, served as producer for a morning talk radio program, and emceed regional events. He has also volunteered with bicycle advocacy organizations and served on their boards.
He was blogging before Blogger existed, and his interest in transportation includes plenty of time on a bicycle.
Ruth Miller
Ruth brings transportation knowledge to product strategy and design. She led product management and business development at BlinkTag from 2013 to 2017 before joining Apple, where she managed the rollout of transit in Apple Maps across North America.
She also served as Head of Product for the MBTA’s Customer Technology Department, directing the development of tools for transit riders. She holds a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from MIT and a Master of City Planning from UC Berkeley, bringing both planning research and experience with large transit systems to her work.
Transit is also a volunteer interest: she has contributed her time to the TransitMatters Data Lab in Boston.
Preston Theler
Preston is a front-end web developer and interface designer. He brings bicycle advocacy experience and technical knowledge to transportation projects, and handles quality assurance with detailed, methodical testing.
Before working on the web, he was a bike mechanic and a luggage supervisor for a major airline. Those jobs taught him the value of attention to detail, customer service, and not losing bags.
He enjoys cycling, airplane photography, and vintage mountain bikes.
Trucy Phan
Trucy works across product design, front-end development, and project management. Her projects have ranged from virtual soldier research to accounting software for restaurants, giving her experience translating very different kinds of requirements into working interfaces.
She studied mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa and civil engineering at UC Berkeley.
She enjoys baking and teaching people Swedish.
Devin Nee
Devin’s background is in sound, lighting, and video production. He handles the audio and video components of BlinkTag projects.
He also makes sure all BlinkTag events are well lit and audible.
Jedidiah Horne
Jed co-founded BlinkTag. He works with transportation data, digital mapping, and data science. He spent three years at Apple and four at Uber analyzing geographic datasets for routing and map display.
His experience includes interpreting digital maps in local contexts and anonymizing user-generated location data.
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