Tomas Becklin

Current

Vice President of Development at Slingshot Labs

Past

Cheif Technology Officer at NovaTunes Inc
Sr. Software Engineer at Userplane/AOL
Manager, Interactive Media at MySpace.com

Manager, Internet Services at Diamond Audio Technology
Senior Coldfusion Developer at Walt Disney Company
Senior Web Developer at Gateway Arts

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Education

California State University-Northridge

Recommended

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Industry

Internet

Tomas Becklin’s Summary

Internet related technologies has been my life since I came to Los Angeles 12 years ago from Sweden. I began my career as a webmaster during my college years and have since then worked for companies like Disney, MySpace and AOL.

Tomas Becklin’s Specialties:

Engineering Management, RIA Architecture and Development, Scalability, Product Development

Tomas Becklin’s Experience

Vice President of Development

Slingshot Labs

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

May 2008 — Present (5 months)

Building a talented team of engineers at Slingshot Labs. Slingshot Labs funded by News Corporation, is an incubator dedicated to building and developing new Web ventures.
Cheif Technology Officer

NovaTunes Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

July 2007 — May 2008 (11 months)
Sr. Software Engineer

Userplane/AOL

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — July 2007 (7 months)

At Userplane Tomas was building next generation interactive media applications using such technologies as Flex 2, ActionScript 3, Apollo, and Ajax.
Manager, Interactive Media

MySpace.com

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

February 2005 — January 2007 (2 years)

At MySpace.com Tomas successfully built and then managed a team of 5 interactive media developers. His team developed features at MySpace with a focus on rich internet applications. The environment at MySpace required scalable and efficient applications that can handle over 5 billion page views and more than 100 million streams per day.
Manager, Internet Services

Diamond Audio Technology

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

December 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 3 months)

Tomas managed and developed Diamond's internet and intranet websites. He also built several integrated business applications using technologies such as Flash, ColdFusion, and SQL Server.
Senior Coldfusion Developer

Walt Disney Company

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Internet industry)

May 2002 — December 2002 (8 months)

Developed and maintained MAMM (Multi-Media Asset Management) system for internal digital asset tracking used by several of Disney's companies, such as Buena Vista Pictures Miramax Films, etc.
Senior Web Developer

Gateway Arts

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

January 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 5 months)

At Gateway Arts Tomas lead the development on web applications for clients like Amgen, WellPoint/BlueCross, ESP Guitars, and Variflex.