Geoff Peters

Robson Square in Downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada

A view from the SFU Webcams.

	Hi, I'm Geoff, and I love design and new media. I am making a living in Vancouver BC Canada as a software developer and creative professional.
	I specialize in software development with a focus on user interactions (web, mobile and desktop) piano performance with a focus on jazz (live ensemble and studio session work) music composition (music published in Conservatory Canada series, composed for several films) photography (a published food photographer, also enjoy photography as a hobby) video production (focus on editing, primarily for the web, created channel on Youtube with over 150000 views) online marketing and branding (worked as a SEO consultant, launched and maintain several popular blogs, utilize social media)
	My band, the Geoff Peters Trio performs in the Vancouver area. We also have a CD which is available for purchase online or through iTunes.
	I created VeryRelated.com. It generates mind maps of related words and concepts, based on the Yahoo Search API.
	I am an avid food blogger and write reviews of Vancouver restaurants on my website. Find out some great Vancouver restaurants at DineOutHere.com.
	I created Chordzoo.com, which lets you listen to musical chords and then rate and describe them.
	While I was studying computing science and business at Simon Fraser University, I had some spare time to create a website about first names and gender. It's called the Baby Name Guesser and was able to determine the gender of names using the Google Web Search API. Google has since discontinued their SOAP Web Search API, but my site is still a useful tool for suggesting baby names. Back when I was in school I also created a website called the Celebrity Ranker, which used Google and Yahoo web services to find info about popular celebrities. For a fun project I created Make Google Laugh, where users would type in jokes to see if Google would laugh at them. It amazingly amassed a database of over 60,000 jokes before Google discontinued their SOAP Search API.
	I worked at Nokia Mobile Phones for a year as a contractor while I was still completing my B.Sc. degree. I still have an interest in mobile phone software development, and in my spare time created a Java based Tip Calculator. It's called GeoTip and will calculate the tip for you at restaurants. It's available for free download. I'm pleased it has been getting good reviews from users on its simplicity and ease of use.
	As a summer project back in 2006, I created Instant Color Schemes, a website which generates color schemes related to words or phrases you enter. It works by grabbing colors from images through the Yahoo Image API.

	If you are a musician, learn how to make recordings using Minidisc, and share them on the Internet. Here is a quick tutorial guide that I put together on this topic.
	One of my former class projects was an application called Music Explorer, which used fourier transforms to analyze the frequency composition of music clips. It's useful for discovering overtones and identifying chords.
	CorrectWeather.com was a project I started in my spare time in 2006 to calculate the accuracy of weather forecasts.
	My web site "Instant Art" creates strange ascii-art images based on words that you type in.
	I have posted a scan of a user's manual for a 1930's Underwood typewriter. This was high technology for its time, complete with touch tuning and a "Variable Line Spacer Platen Knob".
	I've posted a few really old writings from school.
	For a friend I created Chess Club Central, a very simple, open source web application to manage rankings for an amateur chess club. Some chess clubs around the world are currently using it.

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Also check out Ken Perlin's Web Site. He won an Academy Award for computer graphics, invents cool and useful stuff, and is a master at creating little java applets that prove a point.