Internet Construction Worker
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Vice President / Director, Technology at Publicis Modem
- Past
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- Software Engineer at Revcube
- Interface Engineer at LinkShare Corporation
- Senior Software Architect at Hungry Minds
- Chief Web Engineer at Silicon Energy
- Webmaster at Ikonic Interactive
- Designer at Solis Design, Inc.
- Education
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- New York University
- University of California, Berkeley
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Christopher Ditto’s Summary
Christopher Ditto’s Specialties:
Engineering Team Leader/Manager, Skilled Internet Engineer, Articulate Communicator, Published Author/Capable Speaker, Experienced Technical Architect, Operational Efficiencies, Creative Problem Solver, History of successful award-winning sites
Christopher Ditto’s Experience
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Vice President / Director, Technology
Publicis Modem
(Public Company; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
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Software Engineer
Revcube
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Architected and built much of Revcube’s first generation optimization system (Employee #4). Designed and coded using open source technologies including: Java, JSP, Apache, Tomcat, XML, MySQL, CVS, Eclipse, encryption (Blowfish, SHA-1), AJAX, XHTML, PHP and DB connection pooling. Designed/coded Web-based reporting system, allowing reports to be saved, scheduled, exported, viewed on a cell phone (WAP, XHTML Mobile), uploaded to an iPod, and read as a feed.
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Interface Engineer
LinkShare Corporation
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year )
Worked on re-architecting and rebuilding LinkShare’s Web-based software. Work included a new software architecture, an iterative migration from a two-tier PHP to a three-tier Java-based J2EE system using Oracle, Web services and Struts. Also built an encrypted image based challenge/response system in Java, a Web services client in both JSP and Flash, and initiated a Java language tokenization project.
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Senior Software Architect
Hungry Minds
(Internet industry)
April 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Designed and built Hungryminds.com (online-education portal) back-end architecture and publishing system (listed as co-inventor on three related patent applications.) Designed and coded Hungry Minds CMS, a Web-based application allowing 35+ employees to create, interlink, and preview site content. Built XML/XSL based template system to publish 80,000+ Web pages/day. Worked with Google in developing their 3rd party search XML specification and believe that I was the first 3rd party developer to utilize it. Hungry Minds is now owned by Wiley Publishing [JWA].
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Chief Web Engineer
Silicon Energy
(Public Company; ITRI; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Architected and programmed from scratch (employee #4) the Web front end of a software product allowing Web-based control of building control systems (eg. thermostats, lighting, electric meters in skyscrapers, college campuses, and retail chains). Designed and built ActiveX controls, all ASP pages, HTML, graphics and contributed significantly to the SQL Server DB design. Built an interactive 3D library for Web-based 3D visualization of building data and programmed a 3D environment for visualizing real-time data feeds. Silicon Energy was bought by Itron [ITRI].
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Webmaster
Ikonic Interactive
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
Technical lead on numerous Web site projects for Fortune 500 companies. Designed, coded and managed technical development of complex sites and pitched many new clients. Clients included Microsoft, DirecPC, American Express, Livent, Amnesty, Toshiba. Ikonic was purchased by US Web before becoming marchFirst.
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Designer
Solis Design, Inc.
(Internet industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Multimedia authoring, programming, interface design, 3D modeling, drafting bids, budgeting, on-site consulting and support. Projects included developing a prototype for the Commander’s Tactical Display of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, Shockwave development for Macromedia, PADI Scuba Diving CD ROM, Pacific Bell training CD. Solis was purchased by Macromedia [MACR].
Christopher Ditto’s Education
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New York University
MA , Journalism , 2001 — 2002
Top Student in Portfolio Journalism Award
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University of California, Berkeley
BA , Rhetoric, Geography , 1990 — 1994
Graduated with Honors in rhetoric.
- Activities and Societies:
- Lightweight Crew Team 90/91
Ski Team (91/94)
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The Content Wrangler Community
Christopher Ditto’s Honors:
Webby Award Winner 2008 - IT Hardware/Software
Webby Award Finalist 2007 - Insurance
Webby Award Honoree 2007 - Pharmaceuticals
WMA WebAward - Best Pharmaceuticals Website
Microsoft Internet Advisory Board: Board member 1997
Golden Gate University: Adjunct faculty member 1997 (Advise faculty re. Internet)
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