Vice President of Operations at Real Gift Services / Advisor / Speaker
Greater New York City Area
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- Vice President of Operations at Real Gift Services Inc.
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- Director of Business Operations and Technical Strategy at Fotolog
- Director of Database Infrastructure at Fotolog
- Co-founder / Director of Product Development & Creative Services at Designerz, LLC
- Co-founder / COO at Hosting And Beyond
- Web Development Expert / Assistant to Multiple Professors at ICAPP: Intellectual Capital Partnership Program
- Web Designer / Architect at Georgia Appalachian Development Center
- Web Designer at North Georgia College and State University
- Education
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- North Georgia College and State University
- North Georgia College and State University
- Keynesian Institute of Management Sciences
- Aitchison College
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Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Summary
Advisor, renowned speaker, strategist and enterprise product and scalability architect with a strong focus on advertising, monetizing, viral strategies, marketing (direct, email & search). Very well versed in monetization solutions, hunting and solving business and technical bottlenecks and designing, creating and maintaining massive infrastructures. Experienced in designing automated, scalable and highly available Web 2.0 systems. Passionate about advertising (contextual, behavorial & socially targeted), operations, search, Open Source, auditing, SEO/SEM and related problem solving.
I can be reached at fmashraqi at yahoo.
Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Specialties:
Speaker / Author / Advisor / Technical and Business Strategist / Product, Scalability and High Availability Architect / Email and Search Marketing Consultant / Agile Software Engineer / Application Developer / Systems Administrator / Accountant / SEO / SEM / Auditing / Data Warehousing / DBA / OLAP / OLTP / Blogger / MySQL / Open Source / Hadoop / Cloud Computing / Viral Strategies
Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Experience
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Vice President of Operations
Real Gift Services Inc.
(Financial Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (3 months)
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Director of Business Operations and Technical Strategy
Fotolog
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2008 — July 2008 (4 months)
Fotolog is the 13th most trafficked website in the world and 3rd most actively used social network.
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Director of Database Infrastructure
Fotolog
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2006 — May 2008 (2 years)
Fotolog is the world's 14th most trafficked site (Alexa) and 3rd most active social network (ComScore) serving billions of page views per month. At Fotolog, I am primarily responsible for all aspects of database administration and data architecture including disaster recovery, performance tuning, database scalability, data mining and schema optimizations.
When I joined Fotolog, it's database architecture needed careful attention to help it take advantage of explosive traffic growth. At that time we had around five million members. Today, 10.5 million members later, we still have the same number of database servers as existed when I joined. We will however, be adding new servers very soon to prepare for even more growth.
Fotolog has given me tremendous professional opportunities and challenges that have helped me scale Fotolog's database architecture. -
Co-founder / Director of Product Development & Creative Services
Designerz, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2000 — June 2006 (5 years 9 months)
Designerz started out as a team of professionals-web designers and architects, graphic artists, content editors, search engine optimizers, and quality control managers-who worked together to provide cohesive web-based products for clients. In addition Designerz had an online publishing arm Segment Targeted Portals, and a managed web hosting service, Hosting And Beyond.
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Co-founder / COO
Hosting And Beyond
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 11 months)
Hosting And Beyond, a division of Designerz LLC, specialized in providing full service managed e-commerce hosting services to SMBs for custom, Interchange and OSCommerce based solutions.
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Web Development Expert / Assistant to Multiple Professors
ICAPP: Intellectual Capital Partnership Program
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
ICAPP, in coordination with NGCSU and the government of GA, developed an intensive six month program to prepare top of the line students accept very challenging careers related to product and web development. My job was to assist professors and students with course related challenges. In addition, I provided mentoring to students in areas of my expertise.
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Web Designer / Architect
Georgia Appalachian Development Center
(Educational Institution; E-Learning industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Georgia Appalachian Development Center, an initiative of North Georgia College & State University, offered classes, workshops and seminars that were designed to help businesses and community-based agencies develop websites and e-commerce capabilities to better serve their stakeholders in several ways including by increasing market share and sales, and by improving efficiency.
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Web Designer
North Georgia College and State University
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
NGCSU is known as the Military college of Georgia and serves more than 3500 students. I was given the challenging task of coming up with a usability focused design for the home page of the university that would highlight the university's historic culture, focus on the importance of leadership and its core military values while satisfying the information needs of all stakeholders.
My first draft received so many positive reviews that it was approved overwhelmingly and went on to be the face of NGCSU on the web for several years.
Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Education
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North Georgia College and State University
BS, Computer Information Systems, 1999 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- VP International Students Association
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North Georgia College and State University
BBA, Accounting, 1999 — 2005
- Activities and Societies:
- Activities Chairman, International Students Association
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Keynesian Institute of Management Sciences
A-level, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, 1996 — 1998
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Aitchison College
A-level, Economics, Accounting, Business Studies, Urdu, 1990 — 1996
Additional Information
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Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Interests:
strategy, contextual advertising, search advertising, behavioral targeting, social targeting, monetization, Web 2.0, database, scalability, high availability, mysql, performance tuning, enterprise data architect, consulting, innodb, data mining, data warehousing, OLTP, OLAP, distributed computing, partitioning, disaster recovery, SEO, search marketing, accounting, internal auditing, distributed systems, php, ruby on rails, ruby, perl, Solaris, linux, java
Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Groups:
MySQL Certification Strategic Advisory Board 2007
MySQL New York City Meetup, Friends, MySQL Camp, PlanetMySQL, MySQL Conference
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CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing -
Drizzle -
Startup Scalability
Farhan "Frank" Mashraqi’s Honors:
- Keynote Panelist "Scaling Up or Out" at MySQL Conference 2008 (Co-panelists were Jeff Rothschild (Facebook), Paul Tuckfield (YouTube), John Allspaw (Flickr), Domas Mituzas (Wikipedia): More details at http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/schedule/detail/3960)
- Speaker MySQL Conference and Expo 2008 (3 sessions)
- Speaker MySQL Camp ||
- Speaker MySQL Camp I
- Speaker MySQL Conference 2007
- Speaker MySQL Users Conference 2006
- Yahoo! Search Marketing Ambassador 2006
- Roy Bottoms Scholarship for Excellence in Academic Achievement
- National Association of Photoshop Professionals Scholarship for Photoshop World 2001
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