Summary
Technology leader specializing in syndicated content distribution through feeds and widgets.
Employment History
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- Build web strategy and product for Fortune 500 companies in a consultant role. Specializing in front-end engineering, feed syndication, widgets, API platforms, and high-performance global distribution networks.
- Produce three Widget Summit conferences since 2006 covering major widget platforms and implementation best practices. 250 attendees, 40 speakers, 25 sessions, and 5-10 sponsors across two-day annual events in San Francisco.
- Develop conference management software, credit card processing systems, and customer and vendor relationship management functions to power Widget Summit and its 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 market. Utilized over 25 data sources for full information on all data types. 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. Guest lecturer on Web development at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Spring 2008.
- 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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- Build a centralized data store and distribution hub for syndicated data feeds including RSS, RDF, Atom, and iCalendar. 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 shared development, 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. Developed widgets to extend the reach of core products.
- 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.
- Manage and support the Technorati developer community including partnerships with blog hosting providers, independent developers, and foreign-language joint ventures.
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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 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 private real estate, venture capital funds, hedge funds, and developing nations.
- 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 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 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 (Project 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.
- 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
