Michael Olivier

Michael Olivier

Director of Engineering at LinkedIn

Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Industry
Internet

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Michael Olivier's Overview

Current
  • Director of Engineering at LinkedIn
Past
  • Director of Engineering at Yahoo!
  • Sr. Engineering Manager at Yahoo!
  • Sr. Engineering Manager at Yahoo!
  • Director of Engineering & Operations at IronPort Systems
  • Founder/Principal at Local2Me.com, Inc.
  • Consultant at Olivier Consulting Group
  • Sr. Director of Engineering at Excite@Home
  • Sr. Consulting Software Mgr at Uppercase, a Xerox New Enterprise Company
  • Manager, Advanced Development at Kodak - Cineon
  • Software Architect at SGI
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Connections

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Michael Olivier's Summary

Software development director for consumer internet services. Domain expertise in local and hyperlocal services. Experienced innovation leader.

Specialties

The Local and hyper-local web, driving teams to innovate, and technical leadership. Innovations include fundamental patent in social networking, hyper-local social technology, day-zero anti-virus detection, and driving innovation vectors from scratch through productization.

Michael Olivier's Experience

Director of Engineering

LinkedIn

July 2010Present (1 year 8 months)

Director of Engineering

Yahoo!

March 2010July 2010 (5 months)

Sr. Engineering Manager

Yahoo!

April 2007March 2010 (3 years)

Sr. Engineering Manager

Yahoo!

March 2005April 2007 (2 years 2 months)

Director of Engineering & Operations

IronPort Systems

June 2003March 2005 (1 year 10 months)

Founder/Principal

Local2Me.com, Inc.

August 1998February 2005 (6 years 7 months)

Consultant

Olivier Consulting Group

March 2002June 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Sr. Director of Engineering

Excite@Home

February 2000February 2002 (2 years 1 month)

Sr. Consulting Software Mgr

Uppercase, a Xerox New Enterprise Company

February 1999February 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Manager, Advanced Development

Kodak - Cineon

July 1997June 1998 (1 year)

Software Architect

SGI

November 1994July 1997 (2 years 9 months)

Michael Olivier's Patents

  • Dynamically Matching Users for Group Communication Based on a Threshold Degree of Matching of Sender and Recipient Predetermined Acceptance Criteria

    • United States Patent 6,480,885
    • Issued November 12, 2002
    Inventors: Michael Olivier

    Fundamental social networking patent (cited by over 130 other patents). One of highest-priced patents sold at October 2008 Ocean Tomo live auction. Filed before the social networking boom or advent of location-aware mobile devices, it enables new group communication applications derived from large online and mobile user bases.

  • Method and apparatus for managing computer virus outbreaks

    • United States Patent 7,748,038
    • Issued June 29, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Olivier

    Early detection of computer viruses is provided by collecting information about suspicious messages and generating virus outbreak information. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving the virus outbreak information that has been determined by receiving message information for messages that...

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