james vreeland

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CTO at Me-trics
Lead Developer at Placesaver
Principal Interface Engineer at Organic, Inc

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james vreeland’s Summary

Frantically building little bits of the Internet

james vreeland’s Specialties:

django, python, xhtml, css, dom

james vreeland’s Experience

CTO

Me-trics

(Internet industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Lead Developer

Placesaver

(Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

Developed the core architecture of mobile platform and web based location bookmarking utility.

Users of the system can put virtual push-pins on a shared map of "found" locations from their mobile phone, reconcile those spots against previously existing API information (eg: Yelp customer reviews) and share there finds in external facing public feeds.

This allows, for example, friends from out of town to see where I recommend for lunch in the area, and a few good shops to find good deals on shirts.

Nerdy bits:
- RoR
- API (geoloc, Yahoo!, Yelp)
- dynamic RSS feeds
Principal Interface Engineer

Organic, Inc

(Public Company; Internet industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

connecting and loose fitting the pipes of the internet

Things recently done:
Concurrent ground up re-architecture and optimization effort on multiple brand sites serving ~8mil monthly page views.

Development of a CMS and workflow utility that required no changes to the client workflow or codebase while eliminating repetitive data entry tasks, and drastically increasing development efficiency.

Keynote presentation at MichiganFlashFest on extending the reach of rich media content beyond the traditional browser.

Oversight and mentoring of ~20 front-end developers.

Nerdy bits:
- CakePHP driven, API powered content publishing system
- SEO in XHTML fed Flash
- CSS optimization