Experienced and hands on Web Channel, Portal & Search Technology Development Leader at AOL LLC
Greater New York City Area
Experienced and hands on Web Channel, Portal & Search Technology Development Leader at AOL LLC
Greater New York City Area
Experienced Web Technology Development Leader with over 10 years in the Web Space, last 8 with AOL . Have led large globallly distributed technical development teams in the areas of Web Publishing, Video,Search and Content Management.
Led Software Development Groups at AOL responsible for Publishing, Video , Search and Content Management
Wide technical responsibility and influence in AOL industry leading Web products such as Music, News, Moviefone, Television, Community Platform, AOL Search, City Guide (Digital Cities),Local Search, Yellow Pages, AOL Video, Video Search & Audio Search (Singingfish.com)
Currently, lead the AOL Publishing Platform , CMS, Publishing Tools and Content Acquisition Development Groups at AOL building out the next generation Publishing Platform for AOL primarily centered around using Open Source technologies including but not limited to SOLR/Lucene, Mule, Mysql. Responsibility includes leading teams building next generation Web Sites such as Music, Movies, Television, News and Black Voices.
Responsible for organizing China Development Center. The China Development Center will be staffed with Technical resources that will be dedicated to building out Channel experiences including International Portals using the news AOL Publishing platform.
Previously in 2004, played similar leadership role in organizing the Bangalore Development Center.
During 2006 was Overall Program Technology Development Lead for AOL Video Program. AOL Video is AOL 's initiative to capture the lead in Video on Demand via the Web. Video Program successfully launched on time August 22,2006.
Hands on experience using the following software development and platform technologies
Development: Java, PHP, C, SQL, Visual Basic ,Ruby on Rails
Content Management Systems: Drupal, Word Press
Database: Mysql, Sybase, Oracle
Operating System: Unix, Linux, Mac OSX
Other: Tomcat, Apache, Lucene, AOL Server
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
April 2008 — Present (7 months)
Lead end to end Technology development organization at AOL responsible for building the next generation Web Channel Experiences for the Entertainment/Games and Latino Businesses at AOL llc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
September 2006 — December 2006 (4 months)
Lead Development of Citypedia Project which will be a new social networking oriented product in the Local space. Will merge the standard Local oriented services such as Maps, Business Directory , Local Search and editorially driven content with user generated content and community ranking/voting. Intended to give voice to the community in a locale of what is good and happening where they live.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; twx; Online Media industry)
September 1999 — December 2006 (7 years 4 months)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TWX; Internet industry)
February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)
Overall Program Technology Deveopment Lead for AOL Video Program. AOL Video is AOL 's initiative to capture the lead in Video on Demand via the Web. Video Program successfully launched on time August 22,2006.
Managed Distributed Technical teams responsible for Video Portal (video.aol.com), Video Search (search.aol.com/aolcom/videohome), Video Player. Teams located In Dulles, VA; Seattle, Washington, Dublin, Ireland, Bangalore, India.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1999 (4 years)
Division of Lockheed Martin specializing in technical solutions for State and Local governments.
Led Technology development group providing technical solutions in the Red Light photo enforcement, automated toll collection , parking ticket enforcement and collection.
Designed and engineered client server and web based systems interacting with enterprise Mainframe backend systems.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)
April 1988 — August 1993 (5 years 5 months)
Design , Architect and build Proposal management sofware for IBM Federal Systems Division.
Computer Science and Math 1987 — 1988
1976 — 1980
Soccer, Scuba Diving, Guitar Playing, Golf, Travelling
Emergency Medical Technician Volunteer for Astoria, New York Ambulance
1986 - Pass all Parts of Certified Public Accounting examination.
1988 - Certified as Emergency Medical Technician