I'm new the Bay Area, but I've been in California for nearly 15 years. I moved down here to look for work in the information architecture/interface design area.

I'm pretty good with Photoshop, but I prefer wire-framing with CSS3. Doing design iterations in Sass is much, much quicker than messing with unwieldy PSD files. I cringe at the term 'slicing' because it's such an inefficient use of developer time. I'm not even going to go into how useful Git is for keeping track of UI changes.

Of course, icons, typography, and heavy graphical work is far better suited to Photoshop.

As far as technical stuff, I write HTML5 and Sass in Vim. I try to make designs look as good as possible in Webkit-based browsers, and only after preliminary designs are done do I think about IE. I'm a fan of the graceful degradation school of thought.

I know a know a bit of Javascript and Ruby, knowledge retained from when I attempted to get into programming.

Esoteric templating languages are not a problem. I've worked with startups that used Rails/Haml, Django, and web.py. It's all HTML after all.

My portfolio: http://nylira.com

My resume: http://nylira.com/p/cv

Email: peng at nylira dot com