Aaron Granick

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at Searchme

Past

• Senior Interactive Developer at imeem
• Interactive Developer at MySpace.com
• Software Developer (Contract) at Intel

• Software Developer (Contract) at HP
• Security Consultant at AsTech Consulting
• Software Developer (Contract) at CKE
• Software Developer (Contract) at Wells Fargo
• Software Developer (Contract) at Red Dot Net
• Software Engineer at Midway Home Entertainment
• Software Engineer at Systems Engineering Associates

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Education

• University of California, San Diego

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Websites

• Personal Homepage

Aaron Granick’s Summary

Senior-level software engineer with over 13 years experience developing software applications on various platforms using a wide variety of languages and frameworks. Wide exposure to internet protocols and systems.

Aaron Granick’s Specialties:

Flash/Actionscript 2, Flex/Actionscript 3, Dynamic CSS Skinning, Sophisticated Flash/Javascript interactions using LocalConnection and ExternalInterface

Aaron Granick’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  Searchme

  (Information Services industry)

  June 2008 — Present (4 months)

  Research & development of advanced Actionscript 3 applications

• Senior Interactive Developer

  imeem

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Developed all the Flash music players on the popular social music site imeem.com including both single track and playlist players as well as the embedded music player widgets.
  
  To support early versions of Flash, I developed two players with identical functionality, one in AS2/Flash for Flash 7+ and one in AS3/Flex 3 for Flash 9+. Both players support advanced features like dynamic CSS skinning and resizing, as well as all the different required contexts (single/playlist/embed/standalone/etc...)
  
  Developed several Adobe AIR applications including a desktop music player, a bulk file uploader, iTunes importer, and a simple jabber chat client.
  
  Implemented a continuous build system using CruiseControl/Antennae for all Flex projects to ensure an always working build. This proved very important as the team grew in size.
  
  Developed the current imeem instant messaging service using djabberd/Perl.

• Interactive Developer

  MySpace.com

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

  Developed several media players using Flash 8 / Actionscript 2, including the main video player on MySpace TV.
  
  Developed several Flex/Actionscript 3 applications, including a MySpace IM client.
  
  .NET development of several new site features: movies, film, and comedy sections.

• Software Developer (Contract)

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 9 months)

• Software Developer (Contract)

  HP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — April 2005 (5 months)

  I worked with the Media Solutions Group at HP to produce a rich user interface in Flash as part of their Media-On-Demand solution.

• Security Consultant

  AsTech Consulting

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

• Software Developer (Contract)

  CKE

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Restaurants industry)

  October 2003 — December 2003 (3 months)

• Software Developer (Contract)

  Wells Fargo

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2003 — October 2003 (8 months)

• Software Developer (Contract)

  Red Dot Net

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 2 months)

• Software Engineer

  Midway Home Entertainment

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Games industry)

  February 2000 — June 2000 (5 months)

• Software Engineer

  Systems Engineering Associates

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1997 — January 2000 (2 years 2 months)

  Developed applications for financial systems using C++, DCOM, and SQL.

Aaron Granick’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  1995 — 2000

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