Internet Television Producer
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Computer Systems Analyst at Carbon Five
- Head Writer & Series Regular at GALACTICAST
- Founder, Executive Producer at 8bit Brownies Inc.
- Director of Technology (Montreal) at WebMD
- Past
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- Executive Producer at KITKAST
- Lead Developer at Conceptis
- Implementation Manager at Silanis
- Senior Developer at Silanis
- Developer at Conceptis Technologies
- Intern, IT at Berlex Canada
- Education
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- McGill University
- Vanier College
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Rudy Jahchan’s Summary
Online media producer who writes, directs, and appears in three popular internet shows; GALACTICAST, A COMICBOOK ORANGE, and KITKAST.
His works that been seen on the BBC, G4TechTV, and Current TV, the front pages of YouTube, Yahoo and MySpace, documented in The Hollywood Reporter, BBC News, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Guardian and New TeeVee, as well as winning 5 Vloggies and nominated for 3 Parsec awards.
Managed development of websites backing these properties and those from large portals.
Rudy Jahchan’s Specialties:
A walking multimedia production powerhouse able to bring any skill to a project, creative development of an online property, technical management from camera to code, in-depth knowledge of the industry, and excellent quality from zero to no cost.
Rudy Jahchan’s Experience
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Computer Systems Analyst
Carbon Five
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (3 months)
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Head Writer & Series Regular
GALACTICAST
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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Founder, Executive Producer
8bit Brownies Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
May 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Creators of popular online comedy show GALACTICAST, parodying sci-fi and horror classics, demonstrating our production and web talents. Winners of 5 Vloggies (Video blogging awards) including People's Choice for Best Fictional Entertainment, Best Special Effects, and Best Website. Episodes are viewed 100,000 in a month.
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Director of Technology (Montreal)
WebMD
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WBMD; Internet industry)
November 2005 — Present (3 years)
Managing the Montreal team, as well as resources in New York, Conneticut, and India in delivering local and remote projects for all of WebMD properties.
-Drove use of new frameworks such as Hibernate, Maven, Spring, and Google's Web Toolkit in an internal application, and still delivered on time.
-Implemented Search Engine Optimization on theHeart.org including robot friendly page generation and first-click free functionality; number of indexed pages grew several times over.
-Designed user experience to opt-in by theHeart.org's member to the WebMD's privacy policy's following company's buyout, attaining 99% conversion rate.
-Coordinate maintenance and hand-over of Conceptis properties. -
Executive Producer
KITKAST
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
October 2005 — March 2006 (6 months)
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Lead Developer
Conceptis
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Architect and leader of a small team of senior developers in the production of Java-based web portals and applications to inform and educate medical professionals.
-Designed new Struts based architecture and custom tag library to clean code and allow for dynamic modification of site; 250 lines of Java code in JSP became 0!
-Managed projects using Extreme Programming to deliver French Edition and customer customized version of site in under a month time frame.
-Developed server to generate images from PowerPoint slides in a variety of scales reducing 2 man-days of work to a 20 second automated process.
-Created Published Content Layer API using Hibernate and SQL to search and pull a variety of media to display on site; brought down menu generation time from 30 minutes to 10 seconds. -
Implementation Manager
Silanis
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — December 2004 (6 months)
Produced customized deployments of company's digital signature products into customers' business processes.
-Planned and tracked project timelines and resources through MS Project and Wiki
-Rapidly prototyped interfaces for integration into a variety of platforms such as ASP, JSP, and proprietary.
-Trained customer's developer in the integration of the product suites.
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Senior Developer
Silanis
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 10 months)
Leveraged technical experience as either a member or leader of teams bringing the company's digital signature solutions to an online platform.
-Led design sessions of to re-architect ApproveIt Web Server through UML, advising and guiding teammates as technical challenges arose. Awarded Special Recognition from colleagues.
-Directed a small team to create ApproveIt XHTML Server to secure form submitted data, implemented as a multi-tiered, multi-technology (JAVA Servlets, ActiveX plugin, JavaScript interaction, XML/XSL data exchange). Awarded Most Valuable Team.
-Part of a two-man team tasked to rapidly develop ApproveIt Transferable Record Manager in under a month, including porting a C/C++ library into JAVA. Awarded Most Valuable Team.
-Actively documented and educated technology to colleagues and customers alike in office and in the field. -
Developer
Conceptis Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 9 months)
Development of Java-based tools to store and manipulate document content in XML.
-Produced a servlet-based XML search engine.
-Created an XSL transform servlet presenting XML documents from a database.
-Coded Swing-based editor that validates and stores XSL and XML into file or database systems. -
Intern, IT
Berlex Canada
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Rudy Jahchan’s Education
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McGill University
B.Sc., Computer Science, 1997 — 2000
-Graduated with distinction, cumulative GPA 3.34 / 4.0
-Awarded J.W. McConnell Entrance Scholarship; a 4 year scholarship worth $8000 for academic and social performance -
Vanier College
DEC, Pure and Applied Science, 1995 — 1997
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Rudy Jahchan’s Honors:
Winner of five 2006 Vloggie awards including Best Website, Best Entertainment - Fiction, and Best Special Effects.
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