Aaron Newton

Aaron Newton

UI Developer at Cloudera

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
  • Product Manager at CNET Download.com Music & Video
  • President and Co-founder at Epitonic.com
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Aaron Newton’s Summary

I am the UI Developer at Cloudera.com, I contribute to the MooTools JavaScript Framework, and I blog about JavaScript and web development in general.

Aaron Newton’s Specialties:

Product Management, Product Design, Information Architecture, Technical Design, Java/PHP/Ruby, Javascript/AJAX/etc, CSS, Photoshop, Management (of staff), Hiring


Aaron Newton’s Experience

  • UI Developer

    Cloudera

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    February 2009Present (10 months)

  • Startup Guy / Founder

    Iminta.com

    (Public Company; CNET; Online Media industry)

    November 2007Present (2 years 1 month)

  • Contributor

    MooTools

    (Internet industry)

    March 2006Present (3 years 9 months)

    I'm a contributor to MooTools where I authored the original documentation (http://docs.mootools.net), contributed to the source code, as well as other various tasks.

  • Apress Author: MooTools Essentials

    Apress

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

    January 2008August 2008 (8 months)

    Authored "MooTools Essentials: The Official MooTools Reference for JavaScript and Ajax Development", a ~250 instructional manual for the MooTools JavaScript framework. The online companion can be found here: http://www.mootorial.com

  • Senior Product Manager

    CNET Networks

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CNET; Online Media industry)

    January 2007November 2007 (11 months)

    Senior Product Manager: Application Development
    My main focus during this period was product managing our CMS development for CNET's Redball network (Download.com, News.com, Reviews.com, CNET.com). I continued my work on our javascript platform and managed my blog: http://clientside.cnet.com

    In addition to these main tasks I contributed to numerous technologies and features developed during that period.

  • Product Manager

    CNET

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CNET; Internet industry)

    September 2005January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

    My current roll is less rigidly defined than my previous one. I'm focused on developing personalization technologies and also implementing 'web 2.0' concepts across the CNET network.

  • Product Manager

    CNET Download.com Music & Video

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CNET; Internet industry)

    December 2003September 2005 (1 year 10 months)

    I was brought in to launch CNET Download.com's music property. I helped design, both technically and graphically, almost all aspects of the site, hire and manage the staff, and grow the business to profitability inside of a year.

  • President and Co-founder

    Epitonic.com

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

    January 1999December 2003 (5 years )

    Founded, designed, built, and developed www.epitonic.com. Fundraised, hired staff, developed business plan, was press figure of sorts with quotes in Wall Stret Journal, Wired, New York Times and otheres.


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Aaron Newton’s Interests:

JavaScript, UI Development


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