Digital product strategy and code powering large web platforms. Define product strategy, goals, and required assets before entering into a completely new development area for client companies.
Past and current clients include American Express, General Electric, Viacom, Louis Vuitton, eBay, Twitter, Mozilla, WordPress.com, and the government of Hong Kong among others.
Build a syndicated content datastore based on RSS and Atom formats for internal product clients ranging from a beta group of 10 million active users to 500 million active users.
Create an API platform based on the needs and product release schedules of products such as Hotmail, Messenger, and Profiles.
Product manager focused on improving the total size, freshness, and quality of the Technorati search index by delivering publisher-friendly features and creating new industry partnerships.
Led partnerships with major search engines and software publishers to combat spam and improve content freshness and index quality.
Improve unpaid referral traffic for NexTag's shopping comparison pages as the site expanded into the services sector (travel, education, loans). Led partner API development.
Rewrote the NexTag website improved search engine visibility and site speed using xHTML, CSS, dynamic JavaScript content, and syndicated RSS 2.0 feeds.
Led the company's expansion into new asset classes through improved data, software, and analysis tools. Attended executive steering committee meetings to identify gaps in technology and data coverage based on the changing needs of our institutional investment clients.
Expanded investment manager and underlying portfolio data with custom data gathering and analytics solutions in private real estate, REIT hedge fund, venture capital, and socially-responsible investment verticals.
Technical cofounder of a premium sporting goods merchant supporting direct sales and third-party listing platforms such as eBay, Half.com, Yahoo! Stores and Amazon.
Lightweight inventory management system based on wholesale supplier and manufacturer-direct availability.
Connect merchant inventory to Internet marketplaces and real-time pricing data on eBay, Yahoo!, Amazon zShops, and more.
Led a product team of two programmers and four designers.
Successfully sold the company to American Express as part of its OPEN small business tools.
Persistent semantic search engine based on NASA and JPL deep space data processing systems reapplied to specific web verticals.
Real-time notification libraries drove communication between a data tier, web tier, and subscription alerts platform.
First employee at shopping comparison engine comparing prices between Internet merchants and their drop-ship suppliers. Designed algorithms to better define the total cost of an ecommerce transaction including sales tax and reverse-engineering shipping rates.
Integrate third-party data sources for competitive advantage, data completeness, and consumer confidence.
Macroeconomics applied to large data sets through computer programming. Worked with 2000 U.S. Census databases to better understand TIGER zones.
Specialized in the economies of the Pacific Rim including studying the economics of Japan at Kyoto University during the Koizumi reforms.
Niall lives in San Francisco, California. He holds dual-citizenship in the United States and Ireland for easy travel and work authorization.
