Employment History
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- Technology strategy and development leadership for Fortune 500 clients and high-growth Internet startups. Specialize in Internet ecosystems of search discovery, social media, connected devices, and browser performance on desktop and mobile. Modernizing publishing platforms for the modern, distributed Web.
- Rewrite businesses for the digital era through core planning, strategic partnerships, targeted acquisitions, and modern development techniques.
- Develop websites using the latest web development technologies including HTML5 (video and web storage focus), Google Gears, JavaScript (YUI, jQuery, raw) and CSS3.
- Build platforms for the distributed fragmented web including social media (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter), mobile (iPhone, Android, Nokia), and connected home entertainment devices.
- Create open-source video transcoding and distribution platforms using MP4 (H.264, AAC) and Ogg (Theora, Vorbis) formats. Support native client playback as well as Flash 9 and Silverlight wrappers.
- Produce three annual Widget Summit conferences covering major widget platforms and implementation best practices across the distributed Web. 250 attendees, 40 speakers, 25 sessions, and 5-10 sponsors participating in two-day events in San Francisco.
- Develop conference management software, credit card processing systems, and customer and vendor relationship management functions to power the Widget Summit web presence.
- Develop Startup Search, a critically-acclaimed industry intelligence tool data mining web technology startup companies, products, key employees, and investors in the United States. Utilized over 25 data sources for full information awareness. Python and Django server-side development with YUI-enhanced front-end. Featured YUI project for JavaScript excellence.
- Globally-recognized speaker on the Web as a platform, content syndication best practices, and widget integration. Delivered keynote presentations in China, Australia, and San Francisco in 2008.
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- Build a centralized data store and distribution hub for syndicated data feeds including Atom, RSS, and RDF. Service internal client teams including Windows Live Hotmail, My Live, Messenger, Alerts, and more.
- Authored corporate strategy and product specifications for syndication-powered services across over 30 product groups.
- Presented corporate vision to top executive teams for widespread adoption.
- Wrote detailed product specifications, led product review process, assisted with database design considerations, and wrote wireframe code for beta systems.
- Managed a small team of eight including shared development, database administrators, and QA resources in coordination with a shared development manager.
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- Discover, index, and resyndicate the world of weblogs within minutes of third-party publication.
- Product lead for syndicated data consumption and distribution across tens of millions of blogs.
- Identify, specify, and communicate the largest outstanding product issues demanded by company's audience of publishers, readers, and brand managers.
- 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.
- Developed web badges and widgets to extend the reach of core products.
- Manage and support the Technorati developer community including partnerships with blog hosting providers, independent developers, and joint ventures in Japan and Europe.
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- Managed site migration to web-standard markup for high-performance websites using xHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 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 search engine partners 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 private real estate, venture capital, hedge funds, and developing nations investment sectors.
- 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 many 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 co-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 small business retail software tying in-store inventory into a global sales market on eBay, Half.com, zShops, Yahoo! Stores, and more.
- Worked with parent incubator and board of directors to deliver a successful sale of their most promising property.
- Managed two programmers and four web designers.
- Performed full technology audit including software, database, and colocation. Migrated company technology from Visual Basic and SQL Server to C# and Oracle 9i.
- Sold to American Express and now part of the OPEN small business suite of services.
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- Developed search and data relevancy programs for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory analysis of the Mars rover program (Project Athena).
- Created web crawling agents for persistent search, analysis, and ranking of corporate intranets and scientist collaboration.
- Custom-built servers and software stack to handle specialized tasks and provide optimal power consumption, data I/O, and low bandwidth consumption.
- Authored real-time notification libraries in Python enabling immediate action for critical data. Published open-source SMS messaging library with improvements to Python core.
- Presented detailed technical concepts before potential clients to speed integration and close sales.
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- Manage crawler accuracy and content partner relationships in computers, electronics, photography, and video game categories.
- Reverse engineer shipping markup and sales tax data for all crawled merchants against ZIP Code in the United States.
- Prepare website localization into Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
- 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
