Derek Perez

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

March 2009 – January 2011 (1 year 11 months) San Mateo, CA

Caring.com was created to help you care for your aging parents and other loved ones. Our mission is to give you the information and other resources you need to make better decisions, save time, and feel more supported. As a product engineer, I work closely with product management, design, and business stakeholders to design and implement great product experiences for our users.

Key Accomplishments:
- Implemented robust performance reporting tools to help improve site speed
- Authored libraries, which were open sourced, on behalf of Caring.com (http://www.github.com/perezd)
- Integrated Facebook Connect and Twitter sharing into popular aspects of Caring.com
- Worked closely with company stakeholders to conceptualize and develop Caring CandlesTM
- Implemented User testing tools to provide user click visualization to our team
- Worked closely with product stakeholders to redesign key areas of site
- Provided support on internal, ruby-based, admin tools and technologies
- Implemented a large number of user-facing, front-end projects for product stakeholders
- Implemented multiple product emails for marketing initiatives

November 2008 – February 2009 (4 months)

MyZhone.com is a web service company that provides an innovative web service for networking professionals. I
worked closely with the CEO and product team to help streamline and refactor the entire product to support the growing needs of their customers. During my time with MyZhone, I answered directly to the CEO and was responsible for development efforts on both the front and back-end systems that run MyZhone.com.
Key Accomplishments:
- Developed and implemented new strategy for "contact referral process".
- Played an important role in determining the vision and marketing for the success of MyZhone.com through Internet marketing.
- Established deployment environment and standards for the production application.
- Implemented a new interactive training section for MyZhone.com users.
- Re-Engineered contact management experience to be more robust and easier to work with.
- Refactored core codebase to be more efficient, resulting in much faster page loads.

November 2007 – November 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Panoctagon was a small web startup dedicated to developing exciting new Ruby-based web applications.

We founded the company to research and develop a series of new application concepts. To provide funding and bootstrap our internal projects we established a successful web development consultancy grossing $100,000 in less than six months. During that time we produced a number of completed projects for clients, from raw concept through to graphic design, application development, implementation and hosting.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

January 2008 – July 2008 (7 months)

Lead the development and implementation of an extensive application layer framework for an internet television web app. Our team conceptualized the complete technology infrastructure for this project while consulting for eCom enterprises, and were later contracted back to Roundpeg to make additions and complete the project. Our responsibilities included completion of an infrastructure-using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript with MySQL to connect logic and data to a modular client facing web application featuring dynamic Flash and HTML components.

2008 – 2008 (less than a year)

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry

February 2007 – December 2007 (11 months)

I worked as a software engineer developing web-based software solutions for a wide variety of companies including Logitech, Digidesign, Kodak, Hewlett-Packard and Ackerman McQueen.

Key Accomplishments:

- Introduced a movement among the developers towards more object-oriented processes.

- Streamlined backend methodologies by moving object models and services to a more standardized Coldspring format.

- Lead a team of developers in creating a detailed concept and spec design for a complex internet television application requiring a robust inter-application communication protocol to bridge data transfer between modular HTML and Flash/Flex components.

March 2007 – June 2007 (4 months)

I worked as a consultant on a small team developing the first edition of scazu.com, a social network for health and wellness professionals. My primary responsibilities involved development on the front and back end utilizing a ColdFusion and relying on object-relational frameworks, ColdSpring, and MySQL.

August 2006 – February 2007 (7 months)

Member of a team that built web sites for the homebuilder industry. We specialized in ColdFusion-based solutions that ranged from general content management to complex data analysis tools. Some of our clients included SummerHill Homes, Lakewood Homes, Ennis Homes, and Orleans Homes.

Key Accomplishments:

- Migrated the entire team of developers to using Subversion for source control management.

- Developed a data and analytics mining system called SmartMetrics, written in ColdFusion, and utilizing ColdSpring/Transfer.

2005 – 2006 (1 year)

I worked with iCE9 producing various websites and other web-based projects as they came up. I was mostly a freelance developer for them.

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry

2004 – 2006 (2 years)

I was a member of a team that produced a robust, personalized, content management system for De La Salle High School.