Jason Cortes, started gaining a passion for design while working with accessibility experts, and learning first hand about user needs while working as a developer for the region's largest healthcare provider in upstate New York. For the last 5 years he has worked as training specialist, and organizational developer in addition having an extensive background in full stack application development and system administration. In 2012 he helped found the AlbanyUX User experience group (http://www.albanyux.org), and actively facilitates training of accessibility/universal design topics. He has guided many application and website owners toward creating engaging/user-centric web sites and applications, with the goal of helping users gain efficiency by facilitating lean methodologies.