Dorion Carroll

Dorion Carroll

CTO at Zynga

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • CTO Mafia Wars at Zynga
Past
  • Director of Engineering at Postini
  • VP Engineering at Neomeo
  • VP Engineering at VenusSports
  • Senior Director Engineering at Excite
  • Manager, MIS at Electronic Arts
  • Development Manager at Oracle
Education
  • Harvey Mudd College
Connections
331 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Dorion Carroll’s Summary

Hands on product development of large scale, high availability, data driven internet applications, products, and properties.

Dorion Carroll’s Specialties:

Data junkie, data analysis, databases, architecture, log analysis, OLAP, OLTP, large scale, high availability


Dorion Carroll’s Experience

  • CTO Mafia Wars

    Zynga

    (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

  • VP of Engineering

    Technorati

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    July 2007July 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.

  • Director of Product Development

    Technorati

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

    February 2006June 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.

  • Senior Engineer

    Technorati

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

    August 2004February 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  • Director of Engineering

    Postini

    (Internet industry)

    20012004 (3 years )

  • VP Engineering

    Neomeo

    (Internet industry)

    20002001 (1 year )

  • VP Engineering

    VenusSports

    (Internet industry)

    20002000 (less than a year)

  • Senior Director Engineering

    Excite

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    19972000 (3 years )

  • Manager, MIS

    Electronic Arts

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    19931997 (4 years )

  • Development Manager

    Oracle

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

    February 1990June 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.


Dorion Carroll’s Education

  • Harvey Mudd College

    Mathematics/Computer Science 19801984

    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.


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Dorion Carroll’s Interests:

consumer facing products, large scale internet properties, data architecture, people powered communication


Dorion Carroll’s Contact Settings

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