
Software Architect at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area

Software Architect at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Responsible for the architecture and security for Yahoo's identity, authentication, and account management services.
OpenID Foundation community board member, serving on the specifications, security, and usability committees. Contributor to the OpenID and OAuth specifications.
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
January 1997 — March 2005 (8 years 3 months)
Technical Lead - Streaming Media Infrastructure
- Architect and lead engineer for AOL’s streaming audio and video platform. Designed video ad insertion system resulting in over $12M in advertising revenue within 9 months of release.
Technical Lead – AOL Streaming Media On Demand Streaming Server - Designed and implemented audio and video streaming server, streaming over 450TB monthly.
Technical Lead – Netscape Network Dashboard
Led team of 3 developers and 1 interface designer to build a web toolbar used by over 50 websites, receiving over 60 Million daily page views.
· Technical Lead – AOL Shopping
Led team of 4 developers to extend AOL’s web browser to provide price comparisons and to autofill credit card information when shopping online.
· Developer - Netscape Directory Server (LDAP Server)
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1996 (less than a year)
Hacked Interactive Television servers for cable TV set top boxes.