Ed Menendez

Current

Co-Owner at Hollywood Draft
Owner at Digital Haiku Corporation

Past

Director of Development at Fanball.com
New Systems & Architecture Consultant at Paramount Pictures
Director of Engineering at Z.com (Idealab! start-up)

Consultant at Cendant Software (now known as Vivendi Universal Games)

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Ed Menendez’s Summary

Systems architect experienced building high traffic systems and salvaging stagnant projects. Executive's technical right-hand able to get the project done.

Ed Menendez’s Specialties:

System architecture, database architecture, web architecture, rapid development and managing technical teams, offshoring, technical writing, internationalization, high performance web sites, fantasy sports.

Ed Menendez’s Experience

Co-Owner

Hollywood Draft

(Entertainment industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Owner

Digital Haiku Corporation

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)

Create eCommerce sites, web applications and games for companies such as Paramount Pictures, NASCAR, eBay, PGATour, HGTV, Golf Channel, Fanball, Urban Decay, Hard Candy, Kaplan and more.
Director of Development

Fanball.com

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; L; Sports industry)

April 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Oversee on-shore and off-shore development staff. Expand development capacity.

Bring in a project methodology and system to improve quality. Create an integrated login system for 5 different properties acquired by parent company.

Manage the creation and maintenance of over 60 different online games for the company and 3rd party customers including NASCAR, AOL, NBC, HGTV and PGATour.
New Systems & Architecture Consultant

Paramount Pictures

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — April 2007 (6 years 8 months)

Create a music clearance system used by the TV group for episodic television. Provide guidance implementing new IT systems, including database design, application design, security architecture, test & implementation strategies.
Director of Engineering

Z.com (Idealab! start-up)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1999 — May 2000 (7 months)

Create database and web application infrastructure to bring an innovative web entertainment portal online. Lead team development of infrastructure projects to allow for easy and inexpensive ad serving and content management.
Consultant

Cendant Software (now known as Vivendi Universal Games)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 8 months)

Architect and create a sales management client/server system with various web interfaces. Integrate previously separate corporate systems.