Bert Arians

Current

Software Development Manager at VeriSign

Past

Technical Director Social Networking and Community Applications at AOL
Sr. Technical Manager AIM and Social Networking at AOL
Sr. Technical Manager at AOL - Search & Navigation

Sr. Software Engineer at AOL - Search & Navigation
Software Engineer at TRW
Software Engineer/Manager at CSC
Art Director/Software CM at TRW

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Education

Marymount University
Pennsylvania School of Art and Design

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Bert Arians’s Summary

Experienced Technology Director with substantial experience in managing global development teams and delivering quality products within budget and on schedule. Nine year AOL veteran with over twenty years of professional experience currently leading engineering for AOL’s Social Networking strategy. Managing a large staff of global engineering teams with an annual budget of $15M. Teams are responsible for building social AIM products to compete with market leaders and AIM Profiles is currently ranked third in the United States with over ten million active users.

Strong skills as a strategic and organizational leader
Software Engineering background with current technical skills in Internet technologies and Internet business challenges
Enthusiastic about strategic conceptualization and implementation, capable of bridging the gap between product development & business
Use both traditional and iterative/agile development methodologies
Proven record of on-time delivery of complex products that scale to millions of simultaneous users

Bert Arians’s Specialties:

Strategic and Organizational leadership, SCRUM Master, Business Process Re-engineering, Software Development, Software Development Process Management, Technology Software Integration, Internet Application development, Backend System development, Team building, Team career management, Project execution, Resource planning and management

Bert Arians’s Experience

Software Development Manager

VeriSign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)
Technical Director Social Networking and Community Applications

AOL

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

June 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 5 months)

Leading a large global organization with a $15 million personnel budget, with teams in India, Ireland, Dulles VA, and Mt. View CA. Responsible for leading product development for many multi-national development projects, AIMProfiles, MyAOL, BuddyUpdates, AIM Chat, www.circavie.com, and www.ficlets.com. Products developed for all versions of web browsers on Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux using the following technologies: C, C++, Apache, Java, JavaScript, CSS, XML, Ruby on Rails, and Web 2.0 technologies. Transformed teams from waterfall to an Agile Scrum process, which resulted in significant throughput improvements. Judicious selection of engineering platforms, technologies, and processes that guarantee quality, reliability, scalability, and performance of social and community web systems. Team is responsible for turning around an 8 year downturn in Social profile page views and unique visitors to one of solid growth month over month and is ranked third in the United States.
Sr. Technical Manager AIM and Social Networking

AOL

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

July 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 11 months)

Manager of instant messaging host infrastructure responsible for delivering up to two billion messages per day across AOL, AIM, and ICQ. Building and managing AOL's AIM Pages social network development team. Lead team to build out open APIs and the first Open AIM policy and website.
Sr. Technical Manager

AOL - Search & Navigation

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

November 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Lead the AOL Keyword and search infrastructure platform team responsible for delivering billions of keyword page requests per day and 24 million search requests per day.
Sr. Software Engineer

AOL - Search & Navigation

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

June 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 5 months)

Developed AOL search applications integrating search platform infrastructure, and designing index schemas for AOL@School search, AOL Kids Search, AOL Teen Search, ICQ search and AOL Hometown search. HTML, CSS, Perl, TCL, C, C++
Software Engineer

TRW

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

1997 — 1998 (1 year)

Windows NT, OO C++, Rational Rose, Rational process, UML, Design patterns
Software Engineer/Manager

CSC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

1993 — 1996 (3 years)

UNIX, C, C++, Orcacle Forms, Oracle Call interface, Sybase, Perl
Art Director/Software CM

TRW

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

1987 — 1993 (6 years)