VP Engineering at SharesPost
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- VP Engineering at SharesPost
- Past
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- Solutions Director, Strategic R&D at AT&T Interactive
- Founder at ZeraWeb, Inc.
- VP Western Region at MomentumSI
- Independent Consultant at ZeraWeb, Inc.
- Director Of Enterprise Solutions at MomentumSI
- President and CEO at SchoolPeople, Inc.
- Education
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- University of Michigan
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Dan Yoder’s Summary
Over two decades of experience in all aspects of software business, including design and development, architecture, and sales and marketing.
Dan Yoder’s Specialties:
Web applications, Web application / mobile architecture, Ruby, Rails, HTML / CSS, Ajax / JavaScript. Author of the Waves Web application framework and DateJS libraries. Recognized speaker on Ajax, Ruby, and REST.
Dan Yoder’s Experience
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VP Engineering
SharesPost
(Computer Software industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Helped launch first private equity exchange, attracting $200M in posts from over 7,000 members in just 3 months. Hands-on role involving all aspects of design and development, taking a demonstration prototype and converting it to a scalable and reliable exchange. Fast-paced Agile approach with frequent releases. Rails, jQuery, Selenium, Mechanize.
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Solutions Director, Strategic R&D
AT&T Interactive
(Public Company; Internet industry)
March 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 3 months)
Strategic capability development for Web, Mobile, IPTV market leader. Built team from 2 developers to 28, including numerous world-class Ruby and iPhone developers. Developed agile delivery process and culture that could take apps from concept to production in 2-4 weeks. Delivered one of the first voice-based local search application for the iPhone in partnership with AT&T Labs. Deployed consumer research prototypes with more than 100,000 cumulative downloads across both iPhone and Android platforms, pioneering disruptive consumer experience features (voice, gesture, crowd-sourcing) and advanced technologies (REST services, thin-client mobile architecture, search). Several of these prototypes were recognized in the media as best of class. Delivered Lucene-based JRuby search engine technology.
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Founder
ZeraWeb, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
August 2003 — February 2008 (4 years 7 months)
Founder of Web architecture consultancy focused on Ruby and Ajax. Developed numerous open source projects, including the Waves Web architectural framework, DateJS, and many others.
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VP Western Region
MomentumSI
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for defining overall strategy and operations for Western Region of $10M/year national enterprise software consulting firm specializing in SOA. Launched SOA Governance program, built $1M+ pipeline and closed initial accounts (Disney, The Gap, Intuit) for "greenfield" territory. Also managed delivery for strategic east coast accounts.
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Independent Consultant
ZeraWeb, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 4 months)
Delivered SOA training and architecture consulting for a variety of Global 2000 accounts.
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Director Of Enterprise Solutions
MomentumSI
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2002 — June 2003 (1 year )
Launched company's first enterprise-focused practice that later became the foundation for SOA practice, the company's core business. Assisted in closing $2M in business and managed key accounts.
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President and CEO
SchoolPeople, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — September 2001 (2 years 5 months)
Founded and ran dot-com startup focused on provided community portals for K-12 markeet. Raised $2.5M in startup financing and delivered one of the first student-centric Web portals in the industry.
Dan Yoder’s Education
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University of Michigan
BS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1989
Specialized in Artificial Intelligence at Michigan's Distributed AI Lab under Dr.Edmund Durfee. Worked on MICE DAI testbed writing CLOS (Lisp) on TI Symbolics workstations.
- Activities and Societies:
- Track and Field, Writer for Michigan Review, Intramural Basketball, Intramural Soccer. Also started and ran technical writing services company and development contracting firm whose clients included the University of Michigan.
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Dan Yoder’s Interests:
Music composition, arranging, and production. Web-based music distribution. Sports, including basketball, volleyball, swimming, surfing, and hiking.
Dan Yoder’s Groups:
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University of Michigan Alumni -
Rubyists
Dan Yoder’s Honors:
Speaking Engagements:
- Goruco (NYC RubyConf) in May 2009.
- MIndshare in May 2009.
- LA RubyConf in April, 2009.
- RubyConf in November, 2008.
- LoneStar RubyConf in September, 2008.
- The Ajax Experience in July and November, 2007.
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