Scott San Filippo

Current

Senior Director, Information Architecture at Gracenote

Past

Director, Database Engineering at Gracenote
Director, Database Engineering at Liquid Audio
Consultant, Database & Web Applications at Excite

Consultant, Applications Development at Stanford University
Applications Development Manager at Electronic Arts
Senior Application Developer at Oracle Corporation

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Education

Stanford University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Scott San Filippo’s Summary

Scott San Filippo’s Specialties:

Content Management, Building and Managing Offshore Operations, Managing/Directing Large Teams, Content Licensing & Acquisition, Digital Music, Taxonomies, Data Entry Operations, Business Process Engineering

Technical: Information Architecture, Content Management Systems, Database Design & Architecture, Application Development, Oracle, Data Warehousing

Scott San Filippo’s Experience

Senior Director, Information Architecture

Gracenote

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

• Started and grew Gracenote’s content operations to over 90 people worldwide, including offices in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and India
• Created and directed Gracenote’s worldwide editor program
• Directed the product management and creation and acquisition of content for Gracenote Lyrics, the world’s first legal online Lyrics product
• Started and directed Gracenote’s content partner program to gather data and audio fingerprints directly from record labels and artists
• Started and directed groundbreaking initiative to standardize Classical data
• Started and led the building of Gracenote’s first non-music database
• Led effort to build relationships with movie studios and other sources to acquire content for video database
• Evaluated multiple companies, directed evaluation pilot, built 2-year budget, and started Gracenote’s offshore content and software operation
• Designed and evangelized innovative database architecture and content management platform
Director, Database Engineering

Gracenote

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 7 months)

• Managed and motivated team of database engineers
• Worked with product management to build data processes, architecture, and data delivery mechanisms for all Gracenote products
• Designed and directed the development of Gracenote’s first third-party Content Management System
Director, Database Engineering

Liquid Audio

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LQID; Computer Software industry)

April 1999 — April 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Recruited, hired and led 10-person engineering team. Helped bring two products to market. Designed information architecture for music delivery and reporting, leading the company from failing MySQL architecture to Oracle. Worked with product management to design infrastructure for digital asset management system and digital audio delivery system.
Consultant, Database & Web Applications

Excite

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

January 1999 — April 1999 (4 months)

Renovated click and ad impressions reporting back-end. Led conversion of legacy web content scheduling system to new scheduling system.
Consultant, Applications Development

Stanford University

(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)

March 1998 — January 1999 (11 months)

Designed and developed database procedures for use with Oracle General Ledger. Designed and built database and procedures for stand-alone financial statement generator using dynamic SQL.
Applications Development Manager

Electronic Arts

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

July 1995 — August 1997 (2 years 2 months)

Managed the development of three custom GUI applications that interface with Oracle Applications: A function-rich Royalty Accounting system, a Co-op Ad Tracking Module, and a Contract Management and Imaging System.

Managed ten developers and worked with four user groups.
Senior Application Developer

Oracle Corporation

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

June 1988 — July 1995 (7 years 2 months)

Scott San Filippo’s Education

Stanford University

BA , 1985 — 1988

Activities and Societies:

Disc jockey at KZSU. Writer at Stanford Daily. Editor of student government newsletter.