Christian Sanz - chrissanz "at" gmail

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Vice President, Technology at Digital Entertainment Corporation of America (DECA)

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Christian Sanz - chrissanz "at" gmail’s Summary

DECA (Deca.tv) develops, finances, produces, distributes, and monetizes video-centric social properties. DECA is dedicated to bridging the gap between television and the Internet. The production value and editorial caliber of DECA properties have attracted some of the world's biggest sponsors, including Visa, BMW, Adobe, IBM, Verizon, Bank of America, Sandisk, and Dell.

At DECA Chris is responsible for recruiting, training, mentoring, motivating and leading their world class technology team as well as overseeing all aspects of identifying, architecting, developing, implementing and maintaining technology solutions to meet the company’s strategic business objectives

Chris’s prior experience includes

- Managing and building all technical aspects of Break Media’s newest successful startups: Chickipedia.com, Holytaco.com and Cagepotato.com

- Architecting Break.com’s technical infrastructure from the ground up, which currently sustains 30 million page views a day.

- Building Break.com’s engineering staff and establishing a productive and efficient build/dev and source control process.

- Leading the design and development of high profile and high traffic web sites while working at the Walt Disney Internet Group (ESPN, go.com, disney.com, etc).

- Collaborating with other engineers and developing Belkin.com’s first web shopping portal.

- Consulting and advising for many other successful web properties/startups.

- Four years of active duty in the United States Navy

Christian Sanz - chrissanz "at" gmail’s Specialties:

.NET, LAMP, Flash, Java, JavaScript, SQUID-cache, distributed systems, data caching, database design & administration, server & application architecture, web video, product & project management, high performance systems, XML/XSL ,and a startup guru.

Christian Sanz - chrissanz "at" gmail’s Experience

Vice President, Technology

Digital Entertainment Corporation of America (DECA)

(Entertainment industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for overseeing all aspects of identifying, architecting, developing, implementing and maintaining technology solutions to meet the company’s strategic business objectives as well as managing schedules, budgets and staffing for multiple simultaneous projects.