
CTO at Zynga
San Francisco Bay Area

CTO at Zynga
San Francisco Bay Area
Hands on product development of large scale, high availability, data driven internet applications, products, and properties.
Data junkie, data analysis, databases, architecture, log analysis, OLAP, OLTP, large scale, high availability
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Manage engineering, operations, support, user experience and product development for technorati.com, the leading blog search engine and destination for finding out what is happening on the live web right now.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Run the team responsible for user experience and product development for technorati.com, the leading blog search engine and destination for finding out what is happening on the live web right now.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
August 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 7 months)
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2004 (3 years )
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
(Internet industry)
2000 — 2000 (less than a year)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years )
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1993 — 1997 (4 years )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
February 1990 — June 1993 (3 years 5 months)
Led team of software developers in development of Contact, Sales, Marketing, and Lead Managment systems for Oracle's Application division and internal MIS.
Mathematics/Computer Science 1980 — 1984
Graduated from Pitzer College, another of the 5 Claremont Colleges, with a Bachelor's in Theatre while completing major course work in Math/CS program at Harvey Mudd.
consumer facing products, large scale internet properties, data architecture, people powered communication