Lead Architect/Developer at Mahalo.com
Toronto, Canada Area
- Current
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- Lead Architect at Mahalo.com
- System Administrator at PodioBooks.com
- Past
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- Co-Creator & Lead Engineer at PopCurrent.com
- Developer - Internal Tools at Genesys Conferencing
- CTO at Thunderstone Media
- Software Support at Symantec
- Gold Disk/Astound Inc at Software Support / QA
- Education
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- Sheridan College
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Ray Slakinski’s Summary
I've helped bring podcasting to the world, then helped people to discover new online media! As you can see I like to take on big challenges and exciting new projects.
Ray Slakinski’s Specialties:
Syndication and web technologies, media, and podcasting
Ray Slakinski’s Experience
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Lead Architect
Mahalo.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
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System Administrator
PodioBooks.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
- Evaluate new technologies
- Maintain network and user accounts
- Minor programming duties -
Co-Creator & Lead Engineer
PopCurrent.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 10 months)
- Assist with design decisions
- Co-develop site
- Evaluate new technologies
- Marketing -
Developer - Internal Tools
Genesys Conferencing
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GNSY; Computer Software industry)
December 2000 — January 2007 (6 years 2 months)
- Develop tools for building, configuring and deploying applications
- Documentation
- Maintaining source repositories using StarTeam
- Building internal corporate communication tools -
CTO
Thunderstone Media
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years)
Thunderstone Media is best known for developing the first true podcasting application: iPodderX now known as Transistr which I co-wrote with Thunderstone Media CEO August Trometer.
Duties:
* Design and Develop new features and applications related to RSS and Podcasting
* Evangelize RSS, and OPML related technologies
* Community relations
* Server administration (BSD, Linux)
* Investigate new technologies -
Software Support
Symantec
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; symc; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — December 2000 (5 years)
-Was technical lead for software support of: Winfax, The URLabs product line, and Procomm
-Developed online tutorials using Macromedia Director
- Became technical advisor for this group -
Gold Disk/Astound Inc
Software Support / QA
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1993 — 1996 (3 years)
- Software support for a large number of Windows & Macintosh software
- Performed Quality Assurance duties
- Developed a number of in-house tools to automate various tasks
Ray Slakinski’s Education
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Sheridan College
September 1997 — March 1998
Additional Information
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Ray Slakinski’s Interests:
podcasting, syndication technologies (rss/atom), wikis, & other great new technology
Ray Slakinski’s Groups:
TorCamp
Ray Slakinski’s Honors:
The software iPodderX/Transistr - that I co-wrote - has received a number of glowing reviews.
Ray Slakinski’s Contact Settings
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- new ventures
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