Jean-Paul Cozzatti

Current

• Product Synthesist at Twitter

Past

• Technical Director at AIM Lifestream | Bebo | AOL
• Senior Technical Manager at Bebo
• Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!

• Senior Engineer at Sapient
• Web-Ganesha at BabyCenter.com

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Westwood

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Jean-Paul Cozzatti’s Summary

Of late, I'm focused on product and technical development and management of real-time social applications. I've experience building web applications and products leading to three acquisitions (babycenter.com/etoys, adjacency/sapient, bebo/aol). My core strengths lie in web technologies, development process, technical management, acquisition integration, hiring, team building, managing creatives, hands-on production, data and stats analysis, rapid iterative testing, skunkworks R&D.

Jean-Paul Cozzatti’s Specialties:

Java, PHP, Javascript, HTML/CSS,
JSON, AJAX/DHTML(YUI,jquery), MemCache, Design and Use of WebServices
Ruby/Rails, SQL
Apache, TomCat, Jetty, Hadoop
MySQL, Oracle, phpmyadmin, SQLloader, Erwin, TOAD
UNIX: Linux, FreeBSD
SVN,CVS
Photoshop, Illustrator

Jean-Paul Cozzatti’s Experience

• Product Synthesist

  Twitter

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2009 — Present (2 months)

• Technical Director

  AIM Lifestream | Bebo | AOL

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  February 2009 — December 2009 (11 months)

  *Conceived, launched, and managed Technical and Product development of the lifestream platform and lifestream product line.
  *Managed Discovery Teams and designed products using: Hadoop, Taste, and Solr

• Senior Technical Manager

  Bebo

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — February 2009 (6 months)

  *Reported directly to VP of Engineering/Product
  *Team Creation and Hiring
  *Responsible for exceptional leadership and delivery of innovative products @ Bebo.
  *Led the integration of the acquisition of Socialthing.com.
  *Product and technical development of the Social Inbox - Social Feed and Mail aggregation and Social Discovery (Search and Recommendations)
  *Product and technical development of new profile and front page.

• Technical Yahoo!

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  November 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  Web Development (JS/PHP/MySQL/AJA{X,S}} for y!360 and y!mash from concept to beta.
  *Learned deep js and web development science from Doug Crockford and the YUI crew.
  *Foos

• Senior Engineer

  Sapient

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; sape; Internet industry)

  March 1999 — July 2001 (2 years 5 months)

  * Worked with director and project manager to create mid-level plans and track daily activities for multi-disciplinary team for the full development lifecycle of award-winning Web sites and applications. Clients included several Fortune 500 and major international companies such as janus.com, caterpillar.com, merloni.com, bankyou.it.
  * Consistent on time delivery of software projects in team-lead role.
  * Selected from peers to serve as a technical "seed" in Sapient Italia (Milan, Italy) 2000-2001.
  * Taught software development best practices: project estimation, software release, coding standards.

• Web-Ganesha

  BabyCenter.com

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

  August 1998 — January 1999 (6 months)

Jean-Paul Cozzatti’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  B.S , Physics/ Molecular Biophysics , September 1991 — June 1996

• Westwood

Additional Information

Jean-Paul Cozzatti’s Groups:

•    The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
•    ex-Yahoo web developers

Jean-Paul Cozzatti’s Contact Settings

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• reference requests
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