Senior Software Engineer at AOL
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
- Past
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- Web Developer at Meca Communications
- FITC Web Developer at UC Santa Cruz
- Student Affairs Web Developer at UC Santa Cruz
- Developer at Moon Valley Software
- Web Specialist at Knight Ridder Digital
- IT Service Manager at Innovative Concepts (Sole Proprietorship)
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Cuesta College
- Connections
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- Industry
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Jose Hernandez’s Summary
I have a background in software, film and video, design and advertising.
Jose Hernandez’s Specialties:
CSS, HTML, Podcast, Vlog, Video, UI Design, Graphic Design, Javascript, Actionscript, Coldfusion, JSP, PHP, Wiki, MediaWiki, PHPBB, Wordpress, API, SEO, CVS, SVN, CMS, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Omnigraffle, Powerpoint, Final Cut, Premiere, Flash, Combustion, AfterEffects, DVD Studio, Encore, Multimedia, DVD, Authoring, Pre-Press, Audio Recording, Mixing, copy editing, Spanish, Storyboards, script, flowchart, presentation, training, blogging.
Jose Hernandez’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
AOL
(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Provided custom solutions and training support to Sales, Ad Operations and Ad Production teams in San Francisco, London, New York, Sydney, Los Angeles and India. Helped grow Sales revenue to 9 figures.
Additional support to Editorial, Business Development, Marketing, Business Intelligence, i18n, PR, Safety, Customer Service, capturing all internal requests for engineering support.
Supported all custom content and promotional tools: Sponsored profiles, sponsored areas, sponsored videos, timelines, contests, ad tags, etc.
Designed and built the UI portion of the Bebo Campaign Management System and Sponsored Area ad server.
Contributed wireframe UI sketches, template logic and CSS/JS for high volume pages, especially those involving ads.
Provided external support of Open Media Platform and Open Applications Platform to ad agencies, creative agencies and media partners such as CBS, MTV, SONY, Ustream, etc. -
Senior Software Engineer
Bebo
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; TWX; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
At Bebo, I work closely with Ad Operations, Sales, Business Development, Marketing and Engineering teams to design, build and maintain advertising products and tools.
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Consultant
Bonnets and Lace Photography
(Arts and Crafts industry)
1993 — Present (16 years)
This is my mother's photography business that I help out with.
* IT support
* Photoshop production, training
* Assistant photographer
* Site hosting, design and maintenance
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Web Developer
Meca Communications
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 6 months)
* Overhauled mecamessenger.com front end
* Built UI and content assets for desktop IM client.
* Contributed front-end UI to several skunkworks development projects
* Wrote product documents and presentations for sales / business development. -
FITC Web Developer
UC Santa Cruz
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
May 2004 — December 2004 (8 months)
FITC (Faculty Instructional Tech Center) is a support group within Instructional Computing, a unit of ITS.
* Migrated various static sites into in-house CMS.
* Provided one-on-one support and web consultation for faculty members.
* Overhauled legacy content into modern HTML/CSS -
Student Affairs Web Developer
UC Santa Cruz
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 8 months)
* Provided design support to various units under student affairs
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Developer
Moon Valley Software
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
* Contributed to business proposal for a teen-focused social network
* HTML / Javascript Development
* Graphic Design and production -
Web Specialist
Knight Ridder Digital
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; KRI; Online Media industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
* Extracted daily articles from print publishing system, posted to web.
* Maintained web content for http://sanluisobispo.com
* Built Ad layouts for (print) classified section -
IT Service Manager
Innovative Concepts (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Computer Software industry)
January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year)
* Manged the PC service and sales department.
* Troubleshoot and repair windows desktops and servers.
* Spec, build and configure custom desktop systems.
* Customer service, inventory management and on-site installations.
Jose Hernandez’s Education
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University of California, Santa Cruz
2003 — 2004
- Activities and Societies:
- Production Manager of Eyecandy, The Journal of Film and Digital Media.
Service Award, Dept. of Film and Digital Media.
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Cuesta College
General Ed, Art and Design 1998 — 2002
2002 Student Art Award in Digital Art
- Activities and Societies:
- The Film Collective
Additional Information
Jose Hernandez’s Websites:
Jose Hernandez’s Groups:
48 Hour Film Project, Vlogosphere, VideoEgg App Camp
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