Daniel Romano

Experienced Product Badass

Greater Los Angeles Area

Current
  • Founder at Listiza LLC
Past
Education
  • The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Oberlin College
Connections
245 connections
Industry
Online Media
Websites

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

  • Founder

    Listiza LLC

    (Internet industry)

    August 2007Present (2 years)

  • Director, Product

    JibJab Media

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

    August 2007December 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 2006August 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.

  • Architecture Engineer

    Citysearch

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    May 2006October 2006 (6 months)

    Architected migration from aging legacy Perl code base to a scalable Java platform with Spring MVC, Tiles/JSP, Hibernate, AJAX, XHTML.

  • Software Engineer

    Citysearch

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    October 2005May 2006 (8 months)

    Responsible for web applications development and maintenance using mod_perl, Oracle, and Apache

  • Web Developer

    Simple Star, Inc.

    (Internet industry)

    September 2004October 2005 (1 year 2 months)


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