Kevin Dangoor

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation

Past

• Product Manager at SitePen, Inc.
• Software Engineer at Arbor Networks
• Owner at Blazing Things

• Production Programmer at JSTOR
• Software Development Manager at CareerSite
• Assistant Director of Development at Web Elite
• President at Kendermedia
• Staff Project Coordinator at UUNET
• Sales Engineering Manager at ANS
• Senior Sales Engineer at ANS
• NMS Developer at ANS
• Network Specialist at ANS

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Education

• University of Michigan

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Industry

Computer Software

Kevin Dangoor’s Summary

My past experience includes products, management, software development, sales and owning my own businesses. I founded the TurboGears open source project, co-authored a book, and given numerous conference presentations, most recently giving the opening keynote at PyWorks/phpworks 2008. I enjoy helping software products come to market.

Kevin Dangoor’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  Mozilla Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  An early member of the Mozilla Labs web development tools group.

• Product Manager

  SitePen, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — October 2008 (1 year )

  My position at SitePen was a combination of product management, project management and software development. I was responsible for the launch of the SitePen Support product, and the Dojo Toolbox and Paver open source projects. I managed the development of these projects, and often contributed directly to the development as well.

• Software Engineer

  Arbor Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  July 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  Software development for Peakflow X, an enterprise network behavioral analysis and security alerting product. My work has covered various parts of the system, largely focused on the web and web services tier. I have also worked on parts of the command line interface of our customized operating system.

• Owner

  Blazing Things

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 9 months)

  Launched TurboGears, an open source web development toolkit. Created multiple revenue streams (self-published DVD, web hosting revenue, book published by Prentice Hall, consulting). Also developed a unique RSS news reader.

• Production Programmer

  JSTOR

  (Online Media industry)

  March 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 10 months)

  The largest part of my work at JSTOR was in leading the architecture and development of a Java Swing application for managing the process by which new content enters JSTOR's repository of scholarly journals (more than 15 million pages when I was there). I worked extensively with Hibernate, ant, JUnit and many other Java-based tools, and I developed my own data binding framework for Swing. I was also involved in maintenance and ongoing development of the legacy Perl interface.

• Software Development Manager

  CareerSite

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 3 months)

  I managed a team of software developers working on a sophisticated job search website with a large amount of traffic. The Java- and Perl-based system handled a continuous flow of data from job seekers, employers posting jobs and newspaper classified ad systems that would feed into CareerSite's database. CareerSite powered the jobs sites of many newspapers across the US.

• Assistant Director of Development

  Web Elite

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 2 months)

• President

  Kendermedia

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 1999 — November 2000 (1 year 9 months)

• Staff Project Coordinator

  UUNET

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 1998 — March 1999 (11 months)

• Sales Engineering Manager

  ANS

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  September 1997 — May 1998 (9 months)

• Senior Sales Engineer

  ANS

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  July 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 3 months)

• NMS Developer

  ANS

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 1995 — July 1996 (1 year 1 month)

• Network Specialist

  ANS

  (Computer Networking industry)

  December 1994 — July 1995 (8 months)

Additional Information

Kevin Dangoor’s Honors:

co-author, Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears (Prentice-Hall, November 2006)
EDS Computer Science Scholarship
University of Michigan Alumni Scholarship

Kevin Dangoor’s Contact Settings

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