Director, Product Management at oDesk
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Director, Product Management at oDesk
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- Vice President, User Experience & Co-Founder at GetListed, Inc.
- Director, User Interface Engineering at Netflix
- Web Engineering Manager at AllBusiness.com
- Web Engineering Manager at Bigvine.com
- Web Engineer at AltaVista
- Web Developer at CSU, Chico
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Sean Kane’s Summary
I have been successful in combining my passion for user interfaces with my love of pushing limits. I have consistently delivered amazing products for every company I have been part of throughout my career. Now as Co-Founder of GetListed, I am working to change an industry by combining a solid and innovative technology approach with intuitive interfaces that become a natural part of a job-seeker's, employer's and recruiter's daily workflow.
Sean Kane’s Specialties:
User Experiences, Engineering Management, Product Management, Web Usability, Web Technologies: Java, JSP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax, XML, etc.
Sean Kane’s Experience
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Director, Product Management
oDesk
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2009 — Present (2 months)
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Vice President, User Experience & Co-Founder
GetListed, Inc.
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Led the Technology, Product Development and User Experience efforts. Built a truly unique platform designed to be an efficient employment marketplace to revolutionize the way that people find and fill jobs. Built a small but extremely capable team that continually delivered for GetListed and our hundreds of recruiting partners.
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Director, User Interface Engineering
Netflix
(Public Company; NFLX; Internet industry)
August 2002 — September 2007 (5 years 2 months)
Built and led a team of world-class user-interface engineers to create the award winning website that Netflix is known for. Drove the team to continuously innovate and experiment with the capabilities of the UI. This included prototyping and presenting to the Product and Engineering organization to help reset thinking about highly interactive behaviors on the web. During my tenure, ForeSee Results rated Netflix as the #1 website in the world for customer satisfaction for three consecutive years.
Some Accomplishments:
- Maintained great relationships with the various stake-owners in each matrix organization.
- Successful in driving cross-functional projects by working with individual stake holders to manage resource time.
- Developed strategy for bandwidth testing for the Instant Watching product
- Gave conference presentations to educate the community about development best-practices, to improve Netflix's "employer brand" and to recruit top-talent. -
Web Engineering Manager
AllBusiness.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 4 months)
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Web Engineering Manager
Bigvine.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
November 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 1 month)
UI Engineering development lead and manger. Bigvine's UI was recognized in Forbes 2000 "Best of the Web", Inc. Magazine, and Newsweek's "103 Best Websites". Bigvine Merged with AllBusiness.com in November, 2000.
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Web Engineer
AltaVista
(Privately Held; CMGI; Internet industry)
May 1998 — November 1998 (7 months)
-Responsible for the UI Engineering of the core AltaVista search product and the initial development of the My AltaVista site.
- Integrated search, highlight-search, translation and My AltaVista into a fully-customized version of Internet Explorer 5 which was showcased by Bill Gates at Microsoft's IE5 launch event. -
Web Developer
CSU, Chico
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)
August 1997 — May 1998 (10 months)
Helped bring online CSUC's first online classroom system. Also worked in the Instructional Media Center on various projects.
Additional Information
Sean Kane’s Websites:
Sean Kane’s Groups:
Advisory Board - Ludic Labs,
BayCHI
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Netflix - Past and Present
Sean Kane’s Honors:
Speaker at:
Web App Summit, Coronado Island (03/08)
The Rich Web Experience in San Jose (08/07)
The Ajax Experience in San Francisco (07/07)
Silicon Valley Web Guild (4/07)
Intel User Development Forum (3/07)
ebig Web Development Sig (2/07)
UIE Web App Summit (1/07)
BayCHI (12/06)
The Ajax Experience in Boston (10/06)
Netflix Website Accolades:
Time Magazine, 25 Sites We Can't Live Without (2007)
ForeSee Results, #1 Customer Satisfaction (06/07, 12/06, 06/06, 06/05)
