Employment History
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- Widget and syndication consultant connecting Fortune 500 companies in media, pharmaceuticals, and consumer electronics sectors to the syndicated Web.
- Globally-recognized speaker on the Web as a platform, content syndication best practices, and widget integration.
- Featured developer of the YUI JavaScript libraries.
- Creating social media analytics tools to track the people-based Web and its connections. Gathering large correlated data sets for deep author knowledge.
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- Produce and organize annual sold-out Widget Summit event including sourcing speakers, attracting sponsors, managing vendors, and marketing key ideas and benefits to approximately 250 product and development leads.
- Build custom conference management software in Python, Django, and YUI integrating best practices of the modern Web such as social network awareness, secure payment processing, and personalized visitor experiences.
- Project manage a complex one-man show including vendor management, outside contractors, event logistics, marketing, server management, website development, press relations, sponsor contracts, and much much more.
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- Collect, publish, and correlate information on web technology startups based in the United States.
- Combine close to 50 data APIs for detailed company, product, person, and investor data. Connect data to public records databases such as SEC, and state corporate records.
- Measure public-facing data on total site visitors, market awareness, and other health factors.
- Custom backend powered by the Python programming language, Django Web framework, YUI JavaScript libraries, MySQL, and Linux inside virtualized server instances.
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- Build a centralized feed aggregation and delivery service for internal client teams including Windows Live Hotmail, Live.com, Messenger, Alerts, and more.
- Power synchronization, sharing, and discoverability of RSS and Atom syndication feeds across multiple online and offline products covering over 500 million global users.
- Acted as a central resource for syndicated data experiences across over 35 product teams in various stages of development.
- Wrote detailed product specifications, led review process, assisted with database design considerations and wrote wireframe code.
- Managed a small team of shared development and QA resources in coordination with a shared development manager.
- Represented company interests throughout the industry to build new syndication standards and best practices.
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- Search, index, and resyndicate the emerging world of weblog publishing within minutes of any author hitting the "Publish" button.
- Identify, specify, and communicate the largest outstanding product issues among an audience of publishers, readers, and brand managers.
- Create new products and modify existing offerings to serve key market drivers and revenue sources.
- Manage and support the Technorati developer community including partnerships with blog hosting providers, independent developers, and foreign-language joint ventures.
- Oversee search quality and web content policy enforcement efforts including anti-spam. Led two industry summits to define best practices and promote collaboration among over 20 peers.
- Product lead for syndicated data consumption and distribution across tens of millions of blogs. Developed widgets to extend the reach of core products.
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- Managed site migration to web-standard markup for high-performance websites using xHTML and CSS. Product lead on a team of 4 developers, one designer, and one statistician.
- Added RSS syndication to over five million webpages including private feeds serving site partners such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL.
- Direct profit and loss responsibility for unpaid referral traffic including search engines, developer APIs, self-serve affiliates, and co-brand partners.
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- Collected and analyzed traditionally dark data on behalf of institutional investors requesting fiduciary oversight for billions of dollars worth of assets.
- Authored data collection and analysis tools for a quantitative approach to venture capital funds, private real estate, hedge funds, and emerging markets.
- Responsible for converting the finely-honed market specializations and industry knowledge of top company executives into actionable data-driven processes.
- Expanded serviceable markets through intelligent data gathering ahead of market needs including socially-responsible investing, minority ownership, and any custom client requirements.
- Built distributed data gathering tools for remote submission of up-to-date data by fund managers and their staff. Custom software written in JSP, powered by Tomcat, and displayed to the end-user using PDF workflows backed by XML.
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- Technical founder of high-end sporting goods e-commerce site and traditional retail business located in Southern California.
- Built and managed retail website as a central processing hub between syndicated storefronts such as eBay, Yahoo!, or Major League Baseball. Web operations leveraged J2EE, EJB, Oracle, and Linux.
- Negotiated preferred pricing and procurement relationships with large distributors and manufacturers.
- Created custom supply chain software to link remote offices and key suppliers.
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- Rearchitected business software and operations leading to company sale within 6 months.
- Managed two programmers and four web designers.
- Redesigned an online marketplace and billing system for small business owners. Incorporated partner technology and straight-through-processing into a seamless integrated storefront.
- Migrated company technology from Visual Basic and SQL Server to C# and Oracle 9i.
- Prepared web properties to enter the international marketplace, incorporating privacy and legal concerns.
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- Developed search and data relevancy programs for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory analysis of the Mars rover program (Athena).
- Created web crawling agents for persistent search, analysis, and ranking of corporate and scientific data sets. Custom-built servers and software to handle specialized tasks and provide optimal power consumption, data I/O, and low bandwidth consumption.
- Authored Python notification libraries to enable immediate action including the first integrated SMS messaging public library.
- Presented detailed technical concepts before potential clients and closed sales.
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- Manage site data content accuracy and content partner relationships in computing, electronics, photography, and video game categories.
- Reverse engineered merchant pricing structures to predict accurate shipping and tax data for any ZIP Code in the United States.
- Worked with Red Hat Linux and customized MySQL cluster implementations supporting multiple languages and hundreds of external partners.
Previously:
- National-level soccer coach representing San Jose, Los Angeles, and the United States on the world stage.
- Authored a few shareholder resolutions for Fortune 100 companies promoting social responsibility and increased online investment in the mid-1990s.
- Researcher and writer featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and other publications for early e-commerce efforts in the commercial web.
- Created my first commercial site in 1995 to share local travel, food, and vendor recommendations.
- I authored my first website in 1991 to share research on global warming.
Education:
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BA in Economics, minor in Computer ScienceUniversity of California, Los Angeles
September 1997-June 2001
Publications:
- "Spidering Hacks" O'Reilly & Associates, October 2003
