Experienced Product Badass
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Founder at Listiza LLC
- Past
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- Director, Product at JibJab Media
- Product Manager, User Experience and Design at Citysearch
- Architecture Engineer at Citysearch
- Software Engineer at Citysearch
- Web Developer at Simple Star, Inc.
- Education
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- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Oberlin College
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Daniel Romano’s Summary
Passionate Web professional specializing in product management and development for consumer internet applications and services. Innovative thinker and creative problem solver with a solid technical and artistic background. Successful track record shepherding products and services through the entire product life-cycle: ideation, financial modeling, design, development, usability testing, and launch. Apt manager and team builder with experience recruiting, developing, and motivating cross-functional teams.
Daniel Romano’s Specialties:
Product Strategy, Management, and Development.
Design, Information Architecture, and Usability Testing.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Team Building, Recruiting, Management.
Scrum Agile Development.
Daniel Romano’s Experience
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Founder
Listiza LLC
(Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
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Director, Product
JibJab Media
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Led user experience and product design for the 2008 ElfYourself experience. Monetized the experience through the sale of digital downloads and personalized gifts.
Oversaw and launched the massively popular Starring You! and JibJab Sendables eCards product lines, serving 3 million monthly visitors.
Aggressively developed multiple high value and recurring revenue channels: a la carte pricing, subscriptions, and digital goods and gifts.
Lead information architecture, user flow production, wire-framing, and usability analysis. -
Product Manager, User Experience and Design
Citysearch
(Public Company; Internet industry)
October 2006 — August 2007 (11 months)
Directed the first complete redesign of Citysearch in over 4 years. Built and managed a cross-functional design and front-end engineering team.
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Architecture Engineer
Citysearch
(Public Company; Internet industry)
May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)
Architected migration from aging legacy Perl code base to a scalable Java platform with Spring MVC, Tiles/JSP, Hibernate, AJAX, XHTML.
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Software Engineer
Citysearch
(Public Company; Internet industry)
October 2005 — May 2006 (8 months)
Responsible for web applications development and maintenance using mod_perl, Oracle, and Apache
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Web Developer
Simple Star, Inc.
(Internet industry)
September 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 2 months)
