Kevin Railsback

Current

Operations at Chegg Inc.
Webmaster at Bay Area Educational Theater Company
Owner at Railsback Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Web Operations Engineering Lead, Brickhouse & Advanced Products at Yahoo!
Director of Technology at IDG Online Publishing Group
Director, Information Technology at InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

Contributing Editor at Linux Magazine
Director, InfoWorld Test Center at InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
Technical Director, InfoWorld Test Center at InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer at Sunrunner Records
Senior Technical Editor at Internet Computing / Internet Business Magazine (Ziff-Davis Media)
Systems Analyst at Texas A&M University

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Education

Texas A&M University
Clifton High School

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Kevin Railsback’s Experience

Operations

Chegg Inc.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)
Webmaster

Bay Area Educational Theater Company

(Performing Arts industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years)
Owner
Railsback Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1993 — Present (16 years 7 months)
Web Operations Engineering Lead, Brickhouse & Advanced Products

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

April 2008 — February 2009 (11 months)

I was the Web Operations Engineering Lead for the Yahoo! Brickhouse, Hack, and Advanced Products groups. Responsible for overall scalability, infrastructure design, and ensuring best in class performance and uptime for several Yahoo! properties.
Director of Technology

IDG Online Publishing Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

October 2007 — April 2008 (7 months)

Lead west coast technology initiatives for IDG's Online Publishing Group. We handle development and operations for InfoWorld, Computerworld, CIO, CSO, and The Industry Standard
Director, Information Technology

InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

June 2001 — September 2007 (6 years 4 months)

Lead the technology operations team for InfoWorld, managing both the back office IT and web production infrastructure. Worked directly with development group to build and enhance web applications and overall scalability. Both hands-on tech as well as management/mentoring of technical staff and business direction with the CTO. Budgeting, vendor relationship management, contract negotiations, and resource planning.
Contributing Editor

Linux Magazine

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

January 2000 — December 2002 (3 years)

Freelance writing and editing of various reviews and in-depth analysis of business-related Linux technologies and products
Director, InfoWorld Test Center

InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

August 2000 — June 2001 (11 months)
Technical Director, InfoWorld Test Center

InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

October 1998 — August 2000 (1 year 11 months)
Chief Technology Officer

Sunrunner Records

(Music industry)

March 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Senior Technical Editor

Internet Computing / Internet Business Magazine (Ziff-Davis Media)

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

July 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 4 months)
Systems Analyst

Texas A&M University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

June 1995 — July 1997 (2 years 2 months)