Digital Ninja
Santa Barbara, California Area
Digital Ninja
Santa Barbara, California Area
End to end digital product development experience, from video to audio to internet to wireless.
advertising, audio, video, mobile, content management, syndication, maintenance, documentation, acquisitions, due diligence, agile development, rapid growth
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Product/process/platform design and management at a start-up incubator.
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)
Managed development of the company's first BI solution to see into over 5 billion monthly ad impressions.
Managed development of a custom campaign management system integrated with DFP, Salesforce and Great Plains
Managed development of Springboard, a brand-able content syndication platform
Built an Ad Sales production team and managed development of the MidTail Toolbox
(Online Media industry)
January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years )
Managed and grew a small team to 25+ employees, interns and contractors. Introduced performance bonus system and opened a new office
Managed development of Quizilla.com (sold to Viacom)
Managed the Atomic Online division in multiple roles
Led web projects in advertising, audio, video, mobile, content management, development, syndication, maintenance, documentation, acquisition, and due diligence
Development in Perl, PHP, MySQL, Python, C++, VB/ASP, Ruby, Flash and Java
(Online Media industry)
June 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Sole proprietorship working on a variety of audio, video, web and software related projects
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Worked on a variety of e-commerce web development projects.
Projects included: Nevada Museum of Art, Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe, Carson City Visitors Bureau, Incline Village Convention and Visitors Bureau, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Embassy Suites Resort.
(Online Media industry)
December 1999 — September 2001 (1 year 10 months)
Built a development team from scratch at the height of "the boom"
Oversaw development of a suite of wired and wireless medical information products
(Media Production industry)
December 1997 — July 1998 (8 months)
Responsible for all technical concerns for an award winning new media design start-up
Produced Adobe's trade show demos for Acrobat, AfterEffects, PageMill and Photoshop
MBA , International Business , 1996 — 1997
Class Representative
Intern projects with Alcatel and Bay Networks on EMEA marketing strategies for ATM and ADSL products
B.S. , Aquatic Biology , 1991 — 1995
Minor in Sports Management
Captain, Triathlon Team
Chairman, RecCen Governance Board
Head Lifeguard
music, books, bikes, boards, mountains and oceans
Certified ScrumMaster