Greg Schechter

Current

• Software Dev Engineer at Amazon

Past

• Core Developer at YouTube
• Technical Yahoo for Search Submit and Yahoo Widgets Team at Yahoo!
• 3GSM System Tester at Motorola

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Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Connections

73 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Greg Schechter’s Summary

I'm a Web Guy who hopes I can enhance users’ lives through my creativity and ingenuity in the online technological space.

Greg Schechter’s Specialties:

Software Development, Front-end web work

Greg Schechter’s Experience

• Software Dev Engineer

  Amazon

  (Public Company; AMZN; Computer Software industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Core Developer

  YouTube

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  April 2008 — August 2008 (5 months)

  * Developing new features and feature tweaks for YouTube's Discovery team.
  * Developed the first iterations of the QuickList Toolbar, which is a persistent bar at the bottom of the screen that allows users to more effectively manage and view their QuickLists and PlayLists.
  * Leading the proposal to make YouTube the world's largest deployment of semantic markup.
  * Set up analytics and developed new user interface for YouTube’s click to buy monetization initiatives.

• Technical Yahoo for Search Submit and Yahoo Widgets Team

  Yahoo!

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

  May 2007 — March 2008 (11 months)

  * Created widgets for the Yahoo Widget gallery.
  * Automated the billing reports for all of Search Submit’s content providers and resellers.
  * Developed a variety of hacks which competed in Yahoo’s various competitions.
  * Won Best Hack at Yahoo! Internal Hack Day Summer 2007, the details of which are confidential, as this feature was judged innovative enough to be implemented in the future.

• 3GSM System Tester

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Consumer Electronics industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  • Conducted tests on many of Motorola’s upcoming 3G cell phones
  • Designed and created all software components of an automatic sim dispenser. Using PHP and MySQL I independently created a web-based system where workers can reserve, check out, and check in sims to use for their testing
  • Assisted in the creation of the new mobile devices system test website. Gathered and formatted contact and region specific information for the international regions of our team.

Greg Schechter’s Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  BS , Computer Science , 2005 — 2009

  Minor in Mathematics

  Activities and Societies:

  ACM, SigSoft, Hillel, Unit 1,

Additional Information

Greg Schechter’s Websites:

• My Website

Greg Schechter’s Groups:

ACM, SigSoft,

•    UIUC Networking

Greg Schechter’s Honors:

Yahoo! Search Monkey Developer Challenge: Best Enhanced Result
Crowe Chizek and Company LLC Outstanding Computer Science Student 2008
Yahoo! Internal Hack Day Summer 2007: Best Hack for a confidential project.
Yahoo! Intern Widget Contest: Best Use of Yahoo! APIs
Yahoo! University Hack Day 2006-2007: First place for Slide Rule Widget at both UIUC and National competitions
Engineering Open House 2006: Collaborative Text Editor received 3rd place in the category of the theme exhibit ‘Beyond Imagination’
Paul Horwitz Compassion Scholarship 2005
Eagle Scout: 2004

Greg Schechter’s Contact Settings

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