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WORK EXPERIENCE
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5/2010
Director, Technical Project Management
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Thumbplay, Inc.
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New York City, NY
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Managing the buildout of the largest streaming music catalog on the Web (10mm tracks) while responsible for all web services powering Thumbplay Music, a subscription based streaming music service.
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1/2007 - 5/2010
Director, Global Experiences & Technologies
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AOL LLC
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New York City, NY
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- Acted as general manager and business owner for several facets of the Netscape brand including Propeller.com (originally Netscape.com), a social news site; My.Netscape, a personalized start page; Netscape Navigator, a Mozilla-derived web browser.
- Built a thriving community of 500k+ members on the social news site. As such, managed user policing, spam detection and other abuse while promoting quality news content. Managed member feedback to ensure products met with member satisfaction.
- Oversaw development of several extensions to aid in distribution of Propeller news, including a Facebook application, fan page and Facebook Connect implementation; a Twitter module and Twitter OAuth; and a robust email notification system.
- Aided Surphace, owned and operated by AOL, in launching a self service version of their Sphere Related Content module, called "s4". Two months after the launch of the private beta, the module is live on hundreds of sites and exceeds 500k page views per day. Participated in defining product requirements, UX, wrote the Wordpress plugin and defined CRM strategy.
- Acted as product lead for a major improvement to a Java servlet-based community platform which supports article comments and message boards for sites such as FanHouse, AOL News, Daily Finance, Politics Daily and Black Voices. Introduced REST and JavaScript APIs to simplify client installs, improve platform compatibility, and power a new and improved moderation console.
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3/2006 - 1/2007
Principal Software Engineer
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AOL LLC
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New York City, NY
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- Part of core engineering group responsible for rewrite of www.netscape.com, a relaunch of the site aimed at social news. Architecture is based on the LAMP stack, using mySQL + memcache for session and cache management.
- In the role of core contributor to the site architecture, responsible for several of the core modules including, but not limited to: a live event tracker, a rotating block of editor-emphasized content called "Dynamic Leads", several personalization features in the private member area, in addition to the admin tool suite and build/deployment tools.
- Full technology list includes: Red Hat Linux, Apache 2.0.x, PHP 4.x, mySQL 4.x, JavaScript, memcache.
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10/2005 - 2/2006
Senior Software Engineer
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Ask Jeeves, Inc.
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Irvington, NY
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- Created an online poll system for use in the Ask Jeeves "Smiley Central" browser toolbar. Utilized Java Spring, J2SE 5.0, JSP w/JSTL on Tomcat connecting to an Oracle database.
- Acted as core contributor on a new portal architecture for Ask Jeeves and a first implementation called Smiley Today! This involved writing a portlet-style framework using Spring, J2SE 5.0, the Velocity API, and simple Java sockets to connect from client farm to server farm. The architecture included JMX management extensions, custom class loaders, independently deployed components and services, and a comprehensive service cache layer.
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1/2005 - 9/2005
Contractor
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Independent Contracts
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New York City, NY
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Developed several projects using a range of technologies, including: - A Java v1.4.2 Swing client application, deployed on Windows and Mac OS X, using Jakarta Commons code as well as a customized application layer for http transfers of digital images to a central image processing server. This work involved the full cycle of software development, the development of which involved Java 2D Graphics processing, threading, and full customization of the Jakarta HTTPClient packages. Deployment of this application involved the use of Advanced Installer for Java for Win32 deployment, and a standard internet-enabled disk image distribution for Mac OS X.
- A billiards league scheduling system, utilizing a standard LAMP architecture.
- A generic DB to XML translation utility, written in J2SE (v1.4.2), to pull from an Informix DB and transfer resulting XML via http to a CGI receiver.
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5/2002 - 1/2005
Technical Yahoo!
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HotJobs.com, A Yahoo! Company
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New York City, NY
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Managed and acted as lead developer on several projects for the public facing hotjobs.yahoo.com. The technologies used for these projects included C, C++ and PHP on FreeBSD. Projects included: - Integration of the proprietary Yahoo search engine technology into the hotjobs site for job searching.
- Created a scalable co-branding solution for partners of HotJobs.
- A complete site redesign including a platform upgrade to PHP.
- Creation of adapters for existing proprietary I/O proxy system.
- Extensive work with a legacy C/CGI/Pro-C/Oracle platform for several minor upgrades to the HotJobs site.
Participated in a number of research and development projects, including: - application of a similarity thesaurus for matching jobs to resumes.
- creation of a job recommendation engine using a combination of behavioral analysis and an affinity engine.
Participated in an extended study into a new platform encompassing backoffice systems and a new version of hotjobs.yahoo.com for paid members. Plans for the new platform included using a JBoss application tier and Siebel. -
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11/1999 - 12/2001
Manager, E-Commerce Systems
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Accordia (formerly Online Retail Partners)
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New York City, NY
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- Developed and managed development on all software enhancements for ULTA.com, including the front end site, search engine, static page generation, and intranet tools for content management in addition to all back end eCommerce applications.
- Provided technical integration services on the Accordia custom platform with BeFree and Yahoo!
- Technical lead on transition of ULTA.com from the Accordia custom platform to a Broadvision-based site.
- Managed eight-person team to build and support Accordia's back end eCommerce applications.
- Worked closely with clients to manage feature enhancement requests from concept to rollout; provided strong Level 2 support on real-time issues for all eCommerce applications.
- Supported an EJB-based message passing software (eComm) for two existing clients, used for handling orders, fulfillment tracking, inventory processing, financial transactions and reporting implemented with XML, XSL, Oracle AQ and third party services such as Cybersource.
- Supervised the launch of and gave ongoing support to ULTA.com, a 25K sku based eCommerce site, whose eComm implementation involved IBM MQSeries and SQL Server.
- Managed implementation of JSP/Java-based front-end customer service application.
- Oversaw enhancements to product catalog replication agent, implemented in Java and using a rule engine to determine validity and accuracy of data.
- Designed, developed, and implemented DSS data warehouse for all existing clients. The java-based software included sales and clickstream analysis.
- Mandated the use of Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest for source control and bug tracking.
- Mentored junior developers and organized training courses in software development and database management systems.
- Responsible for all company data models, and all database schema changes.
- Developed a framework for all incoming database maintenance requests.
- Developed and implemented web-based application monitors for use in Operations.
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5/1997 - 10/1999
Manager, Master Titles Database
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Barnes & Noble, Inc
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New York City, NY
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- Designed and implemented COBOL scripts to load Informix databases.
- Lead designer in dynamic company intranet site for executive use in viewing aggregate statistics of data progression, as well as granular looks at incoming data by vendor.
- Designed data entry standards, taught users how to use PowerBuilder applications to maintain product database.
- Oversaw development in third-tier ETL tool (Sagent) for propagating data from an Informix database to a SQL Server database.
- Represented master product database with external associations (ex/ AAP), as well as internally.
- Supervised team of consultants in data loading and reporting tasks.
- Ran a business intelligence unit of four employees in order to better centralize requests of the product database and distribute knowledge evenly within the group. Developed official standards for vendor submission of data.
- Responsible for a product database submissions unit of five employees to centralize incoming data and transfer knowledge within department.
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