
Senior Platform Manager at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Platform Manager at Facebook
San Francisco Bay Area
Dave is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Currently, he is the Senior Platform Manager at the internet’s leading social utility, Facebook.
I specialize in change, positive disruption and making ideas happen. My talents lie in technology, product strategy, innovative design, social software, uncommon marketing, business development, and all things internet.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Lead the launch of Facebook Platform, which revolutionized the software industry by opening the social graph to developers, enabling the creation of rich applications with social context. Since launch, over 40,000 applications have been created and installed over 1 billion times by over 80 million people worldwide. And, the Facebook Platform ecosystem has grown to over 400,000 developers in 160 countries.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
Founding advisor at Rupture, working alongside co-founders Shawn Fanning and Johnathan Baudanza to define product and market strategy. Rupture lets you connect, share, and achieve with your friends in all games, on all platforms.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
March 2006 — October 2006 (8 months)
Product and market strategy for creation and collaboration technologies. Including iLife, iWork, iTunes U, and Mac OS X Leapord internet technologies. Worked to turn Mac OS X into the most advanced web development platform on earth by integrating technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, and other key technologies and frameworks.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Lead higher education student marketing strategy and execution worldwide. Pioneered social media marketing strategy by becoming Facebook's first key business partner. Managed worldwide network of over 900 student marketing representatives.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
Founded to focus on innovation in web application development, intelligent design, social software, and technology in a variety of markets.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
BA, Economics, Business, Technology, Media, 1999 — 2003
emerging technologies, positive disruption, social software, technology, blogging, web applications, social networking, change, investing, skiing, kiteboarding, cycling, traveling