Advanced Products / Brickhouse at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Sr. Director, Advanced Products / Brickhouse at Yahoo!
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- Head of Yahoo! Developer Network at Yahoo!
- Director, Platform Evangelist at Yahoo!
- CTO at InfoWorld Media Group
- VP of Technology / CTO at Salon.com
- Director of Applications Development at CNN - Sports Illustrated Interactive / CNNSI.com
- Technical Product Manager at CNN Interactive / CNN.com
- Education
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- Duke University
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Chad Dickerson’s Summary
Versatile technology product executive with broad experience in product and software development.
Chad Dickerson’s Specialties:
bringing startup innovation to large companies, web services, open source, capacity planning, e-commerce, content management, weblogs, RSS, organizational hacking
Chad Dickerson’s Experience
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Sr. Director, Advanced Products / Brickhouse
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
December 2007 — Present (6 months)
Drive strategy and manage product development on early stage ideas and products within Yahoo, leading a cross-functional team of 30+ engineers, designers, and product managers that incubates version 1.0 products, brings them to market, and hands them off to Yahoo’s operating business units for incorporation into core Yahoo! products when appropriate. The Advanced Products and Brickhouse teams have shipped:
Yahoo! Live (http://live.yahoo.com/), a live social video broadcasting platform for consumers with API for developers in which users can create their own web-based broadcast channels and interact with their audience via video, audio, and text. Reached over 1MM users in first month of operation.
Fire Eagle (http://www.fireeagle.com/), a location platform for developers which allows Yahoo! users to share their location with sites and services online in a secure manner with granular control over privacy. -
Head of Yahoo! Developer Network
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Online Media industry)
June 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 7 months)
I ran the The Yahoo! Developer Network (http://developer.yahoo.com/), the central source for developers to leverage the Yahoo! platform in their own applications. The Yahoo! platform consists of web services and SDKs that allow developers to build software and services that leverage Yahoo's platform excellence, highly-scalable infrastructure, and leadership position in online social media.
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Director, Platform Evangelist
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Online Media industry)
August 2005 — June 2006 (11 months)
Drove early open platform initiatives at Yahoo, advocating open platforms for third-party developers to drive business value and user engagement.
Created and designed Yahoo! Hack Day program, an internal innovation program, and implemented it globally. The Hack Day concept has been copied by companies ranging from small startups to IBM.
Won 2006 Yahoo! Superstar Award, the most prestigious employee award at Yahoo! given annually to twelve top performers at Yahoo! worldwide. Awarded 2006 Yahoo! Odyssey Award for contributions to international engineering. -
CTO
InfoWorld Media Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
April 2001 — August 2005 (4 years 5 months)
Managed all aspects of technology, including infrastructure, networking, software development, web site production, Test Center, and help desk for InfoWorld. Wrote CTO Connection for InfoWorld’s print magazine, web site, and a weekly e-mail newsletter. Evangelized emerging media technologies within InfoWorld and across IDG, including RSS, weblogs, and podcasting. Reported to the CEO.
Advisory board member and co-chair of publishing track for IDG Syndicate conference (May 2005) -
VP of Technology / CTO
Salon.com
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
July 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 10 months)
Managed infrastructure, networking, software development, site production, and desktop support . Created and managed long-term plans for all technology initiatives, including web publishing systems, content redistribution/syndication, and web serving capacity. Hired and managed systems administrators, software developers, support staff, and production staff. Transformed a weak IT organization into one known for its open source, Linux, and CMS expertise. Led one of the earliest Linux migrations, successfully migrating Salon’s infrastructure from Windows NT to Linux in April 1999. Scaled Linux-based infrastructure from 10M monthly page views to 60M page views. Led the development of a custom CMS and personally sold a license for the system to Primedia (NYSE:PRM). The system, now open source and known as Bricolage, was reviewed by eWeek Labs, which called it “one of the best content management systems eWeek Labs has seen, even eclipsing some of the best-known commercial products.”
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Director of Applications Development
CNN - Sports Illustrated Interactive / CNNSI.com
(Online Media industry)
February 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 5 months)
Founded and managed the development team that built and launched the CNNSI.com web site, a joint venture between CNN and Sports Illustrated, working directly with the General Manager and Executive Producer. Managed the seven-person technical team (six software developers and one webmaster) that continued development of the site. Proposed capital budget, determined hardware and software needs, and managed ordering of hardware and software. Served as the principal technical contact for business deals with third parties, and managed relationships with partners (Intel, CNET, Pathfinder, Microsoft, Yahoo!). Provided the overall technical vision for CNN/SI Interactive including the design, testing, and implementation of workflow tools, content automation, content management, content distribution, and site design. Worked with infrastructure group to deal with capacity planning, bandwidth needs, and scaling servers for large events.
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Technical Product Manager
CNN Interactive / CNN.com
(Online Media industry)
May 1996 — January 1997 (9 months)
Created business proposals for CNN Interactive projects. Provided technical vision for the leveraging and distribution of CNN Interactive content on the web and in other electronic media. Designed, developed, maintained, and/or supervised the implementation of CNN Interactive software products and reported progress at regular intervals. Coordinated product rollout, including management of development teams. Developed software and worked with software vendors to integrate third-party products with in-house systems. Advised executive team at CNN Interactive on the technical feasibility of business initiatives. Worked with editorial and technical teams to create more efficient production processes and systems. Developed systems to leverage and manage wire content, with emphasis on sports material.
Chad Dickerson’s Education
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Duke University
BA, English, September 1990 — December 1993
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Chad Dickerson’s Honors:
Yahoo! Superstar Award - 2006
Yahoo! Odyssey Award for contributions to Int'l Engineering - 2006
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