San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Advisor of Technology at Cottonwood Institute
- Creator at Test Run, LLC
- Instructor at UC Berkeley Extension
- Past
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- Product Manager. Movable Type at Six Apart, LTD.
- Lead Developer, SOAP::Lite at SOAP::Lite Development Team
- Manager, Platform Technology at Six Apart
- Product Manager, TypePad at Six Apart, LTD.
- Director, Product Management at Grand Central Communications, Inc.
- Senior Software Engineer at ShareYourWorld, Inc.
- Lead Developer, Search Technologies at NBCi, NBC Internet, Snap, Snap.com
- Interactive Developer at Landor Associates
- Education
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- University of California at Berkeley
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Byrne Reese’s Summary
Byrne Reese’s Specialties:
Web services, branding, design, documentation, leadership, team management, programming in Perl and Java, web site creation and management, product launches, protocols and API specifications, consensus building and more.
Byrne Reese’s Experience
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Advisor of Technology
Cottonwood Institute
(Education Management industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Advise Founder and Board of Directors on engineering and technical marketing for a Colorado based non-profit.
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Creator
Test Run, LLC
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)
As the creator and founder of Test Run, I am responsible for the vision, strategy and execution of the Test Run product.
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Instructor
UC Berkeley Extension
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)
“Introduction to Perl Programming”: Design and teach a course to instruct students about information technology and how to manage and how to maintain it using Perl. “Introduction to Web services”: Design and teach a course to educate students on emerging Web services standards and how to implement them.
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Product Manager. Movable Type
Six Apart, LTD.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — November 2008 (2 years )
As the Product Manager of Movable Type I led a team of 9+ engineers on two continents on a major relaunch of the Movable Type product. I also architected the launch of Movable Type as an Open Source product. In the two years I was Product Manager, worldwide revenues for the product more than doubled, downloads and community engagement increased by an order of magnitude. Responsibilities included: writing product specifications, project management, facilitating team meetings, bug triage, documentation, launch coordination with Marketing team, and more.
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Lead Developer, SOAP::Lite
SOAP::Lite Development Team
(Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — October 2007 (4 years 4 months)
Lead Developer for the SOAP::Lite SOAP toolkit written in Perl. Responsibilities include managing bug fixes and releases of new versions of the software, technical support on public mailing list and community management.
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Manager, Platform Technology
Six Apart
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 3 months)
As the Manager of Platform Technology I served as a Product Manager for all developer-oriented products across all the Six Apart hosted product line including Vox, LiveJournal and TypePad. I worked with engineers on creating specifications to achieve greater interoperability between Six Apart's services. I also managed the creation and launch of Six Apart's first premium advertising and sponsorship product offering, and I increased Google AdSense revenues over 150% and found formulas to increase it 500% on LiveJournal. Finally, I also represented Six Apart by working to drive requirements for the AtomPub IETF Working Group.
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Product Manager, TypePad
Six Apart, LTD.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)
As the Product Manager for TypePad I was responsible for the strategic and tactical product direction and development of Six Apart's hosted blogging service TypePad. In that time I oversaw the release of over 20 updates to the TypePad blogging service and worked with engineering to create a more agile development process reducing the release cycle from 8 to 3 weeks. Responsibilities also included project management, authoring of product and functional specifications, and engineering management.
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Director, Product Management
Grand Central Communications, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — July 2004 (3 years 11 months)
Helped to redefine and articulate the company's vision and primary market value proposition. Spear headed major re-launch and redesign of company's flagship product. In extraordinary short time period, built team from scratch to deliver collateral to engineering necessary for the implementation of product. Developed product roadmap, worked with project management on managing development and release process, member of patent advisory committee, and advised CEO on acquisition targets and key alliances.
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Senior Software Engineer
ShareYourWorld, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)
Worked as design and technical lead in conceptualizing, designing, documenting and implementing all product initiatives for the main consumer website at http://www.shareyourworld.com, a website running on Linux, utilizing MySql, PHP, JSP, and Java Servlets (Resin and Jserv engines).
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Lead Developer, Search Technologies
NBCi, NBC Internet, Snap, Snap.com
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NBCI; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Was one of the lead software engineers on the Search and Directory team managing the front end to the search application serving millions of users a day. Designed and developed backend technologies to enhance performance and functionality on a system using proprietary search technologies, Verity, Solaris, and Sybase while working almost exclusively in C.
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Interactive Developer
Landor Associates
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)
November 1997 — September 1998 (11 months)
Design, program and maintain intranet/extranet running on Windows NT using IIS, NTMail, and MS-SQL Server. Administrate Interactive Group’s web and mail servers. Act as intermediary between technical staff and clients. Advise Project Managers on technological solutions. Evaluate and recommend 3rd party software and hardware for purchase and use.
Byrne Reese’s Education
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University of California at Berkeley
BA , Anthropology and Computer Science , August 1993 — May 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- Residential Life Assistant, Bowles Hall Association
