= Contact Information = Niall Kennedy 747 Natoma Street, #203 San Francisco, CA 94103 Email: jobs@niallkennedy.com Blog: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/ Cell: +1 415-425-2417 = Employment History = Hat Trick Media President August 2006 - present 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. Microsoft Product Lead, Windows Live RSS Platform April 2006 - August 2006 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. Technorati Product Manager, Community February 2005 - February 2006 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. NexTag Product Manager, Search November 2004 - January 2005 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. Callan Associates Product Manager, Emerging Products February 2002 - October 2004 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. AEOsports Founder, CEO January 2001 - December 2002 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. AutoBill Auction Product Lead February 2001 - June 2001 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. Personal Spider Lead Programmer July 2000 - September 2000 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. PriceGrabber.com Content Manager September 1999 - June 2000 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. = Education = University of California, Los Angeles BA in Economics, minor in Computer Science September 1997 - June 2001 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.