Consultant at Talend
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Consultant at Talend
- Founder at Village the Game
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- Member, Board of Directors at Panango
- Software Developer, Project Manager at Numedeon, Inc.
- Volunteer/Intern at YWAM
- Software Engineer at Technology Management Associates
- Software Engineer at Object Sciences Corporation
- Software Engineer at ITT Industries
- Developer, Project Manager at Students Sharing Coalition, Inc.
- Education
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- New York Film Academy
- United States Marine Corps
- The Johns Hopkins University
- Manhattan GMAT
- Middlesex High School
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Darian Hickman’s Summary
Software Engineer for many web, java, linux, database driven applications. Transitioning to Business Development and Marketing. Social Entrepreneur focused on promoting effective, sustainable economic development in poor nations through interactive media such as Village the Game.
Darian Hickman’s Specialties:
game production, project management, marketing strategy, start-ups, business planning, social enterprise modeling and simulation, international development, social enterprise analysis, game design, consumer internet, building team
Darian Hickman’s Experience
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Consultant
Talend
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
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Founder
Village the Game
(Entertainment industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Founded Village the Game (http://www.villagethegame.com) to produce a series of video games to promote successful social ventures in Third World development.
a. Recruited and managed 3 man dev team to build functional demo of Village.
b. Interviewed social entrepreneurs on location in Kenya and India to learn how best to model their organizations inside Village the Game.
c. Networked with Stanford University students and faculty engaged in social ventures.
d. Received press from SF Chronicle, WorldChanging.com, and many blogs and podcasts building a fan base for Village the Game.
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Member, Board of Directors
Panango
(International Trade and Development industry)
May 2007 — April 2009 (2 years)
Panango is a student run non-profit organization dedicated to equipping rural populations in Papua New Guinea with the English skills necessary to act as effective community advocates on a variety of environmental, educational and health issues while simultaneously preparing program volunteers to become social entrepreneurs. Through a combination of mentorship, hands on experience, and entrepreneurial simulations such as Village the Game, Panango creates a positive feedback loop where students are trained to find community needs and respond with their own innovative social ventures. In addition to teaching English and empowering villagers, Panango volunteers develop a forward thinking, activist approach to service: finding needs while meeting needs.
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Software Developer, Project Manager
Numedeon, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
May 2008 — November 2008 (7 months)
I developed software for Whyville.net, managed production of sponsored content inside Whyville, created competitive analysis, conducted surveys of users to determine most effective improvements to Whyville.
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Volunteer/Intern
YWAM
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Religious Institutions industry)
May 2005 — January 2006 (9 months)
a. Trained youth groups from various churches how to do overseas missions.
b. Taught street drama to convey message of the Gospel.
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Software Engineer
Technology Management Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Defense & Space industry)
June 2004 — April 2005 (11 months)
Software engineer for Techma.com. Required a lot of Oracle Java development; transforming xml docs to oracle records. The cooler part of that job though was visualizing map data with JSP web apps.
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Software Engineer
Object Sciences Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; SAIC; Defense & Space industry)
October 2003 — June 2004 (9 months)
My daily responsibility was integrating OSC's proprietary visualization tool called Cities of Information with our client's servers. It involved a lot of Java development on Linux, Windows, and SUN servers. The job also required a lot of JBOSS development, and experimenting with COTS products like VMWARE for testing.
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Software Engineer
ITT Industries
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ITT; Defense & Space industry)
January 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 10 months)
My first non-startup gig out of college. Actually the only time I've worked for a company that was older than me. Most of my responsibilities were writing Java on a Linux platform and also some PERL scripts for testing. A little bit of testing too.
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Developer, Project Manager
Students Sharing Coalition, Inc.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
September 1997 — November 2000 (3 years 3 months)
Project Manager, Web Developer, Students Sharing Coalition, Sept 1997 - 2000
Aside from the Village the Game, this was the best job I have ever had.
(1) Founded and directed high school group to address labor rights of developing nations.
(2) Wrote successful grant proposal to fund multimedia lab for the homeless.
(3) Trained and managed students in renovation of low-income housing with Habitat for Humanity.
(4) Designed, built, maintained, managed content, and hosted StudentsSharing.org on my Linux, Apache server.
(5) Installed office LAN and maintained office workstations.
Darian Hickman’s Education
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New York Film Academy
acting , Acting, Filmmaking , 2006 — 2006
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United States Marine Corps
Enlistment , Infrantry, Rifleman , 2003 — 2003
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The Johns Hopkins University
1997 — 2001
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Manhattan GMAT
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Middlesex High School
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Darian Hickman’s Interests:
Social Enterprise, Video Game Production, International Development, Garage Games, Entrepreneurship, Internet, God
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