Senior Director of Technology at Way Internet
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Senior Director of Technology at Way Internet
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- Director, Technical Operations at Reachlocal Inc
- Application Architect/DBA at MagicYellow Inc.
- DBA at Martin Worldwide, Inc
- CTO/Applications & Systems Manager at Ebabylon Inc
- Director of Technology at Dathaeus International
- Director, E-Business at Micro Vision Software Inc.
- Pre-Sales Manager at Manchester Equipment Corporation
- Internet Marketing Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation - PC Business Unit
- ISV Relations Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation - Alpha Business Unit
- Education
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- Rochester Institute of Technology
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Vijay Nath’s Summary
Currently: Hands on position involved in ensuring the daily operational health of our platform. Interacting with publishers to ensure data delivery and high level of interaction with our own development team for bug fixes, new feature deployment and database management.
Previous: See Employment History
Vijay Nath’s Specialties:
Currently: Asterisk PBX installation, MySQL replication, PHP and MySQL programming, cron management, shell scripting, wiki documentation of technical operations processes and more.
Previously: Complex dynamic website development, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and readiness, Six Sigma training and education, setting up ISO 9000 certification. Really love business process re-engineering.
Vijay Nath’s Experience
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Senior Director of Technology
Way Internet
(Internet industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Manage outsourced development team and ensure timely completion of internet related projects. Streamline development process by implementing agile processes and managing the life cycle (SDLC) of all projects. Rapid development of utilities and scripts to improve business processes and implement a more modern infrastructure architecture to prevent delays hampering our rapid growth. Nightly scrums over VOIP/online chat with development team leads to manage daily work within outsourcing vendors and report back in biweekly status meetings to management to summarize progress and identify issues or bottlenecks in the development and launch of current and new projects. Implemented repository for code control (IP protection) and building an environment of documentation using wikis, Visio and document repositories. Working towards implementing single code bases across internal and licensed products and revising legacy development practices.
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Director, Technical Operations
Reachlocal Inc
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 3 months)
We are the fastest growing Search Engine & Internet Yellow Pages Marketing company. Our patented platform allows media outlets to maximize their use of Google, Overture/Yahoo and SuperPages.com advertising portals. Responsible for designing and maintaining a high availability environment of databases and ad servers. Work closely with Business Operations and Software Development teams to manage complex releases on our entire platform - from load balanced server farms to MySQL replicated databases. Designed and wrote complex Linux shell, PERL and PHP scripts to automate CVS releases to QA and production, XML and CSV feeds, offsite database backup and archiving and comprehensive system monitoring and ad-hoc reporting functions for the entire company. Handled sole responsibility for all production code releases and database modifications. Acted as the primary interface between IT and Sales Agents/Customer Service.
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Application Architect/DBA
MagicYellow Inc.
(Information Services industry)
May 2005 — October 2005 (6 months)
Contract position where I consulted on technology and database migration for the online advertising infrastructure for www.magicyellow.com. Worked with Cold Fusion and Microsoft SQL and PHP/ASP and MySQL.
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DBA
Martin Worldwide, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2005 — May 2005 (2 months)
Contract position brought on to help streamline data aggregation and improving internal operations. We were using an Oracle DB that needed a better reporting and download mechanism since at that time, their DBAs had to pull reports and statistics manually via batch jobs or direct interaction and this was cumbersome.
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CTO/Applications & Systems Manager
Ebabylon Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)
March 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 2 months)
Design, implement and manage daily maintenance and improvements for 16 load balanced e-commerce sites including 123inkjets.com. Developed entire e-commerce infrastructure from taking orders with multiple payment options to order printing, scanning, inventory management, customer service and product management. My platform handles content management, tracking for marketing campaigns. internal communications via a ticketing system, red flagging and dashboarding of critical trends in the laser and inkjet cartridge and printer industry, The application reports any anomalies automatically via email and also monitors database replication and automates price/product feeds inbound as well as outbound. Worked closely with Commission Junction and ValueClick.com as we managed a large affiliate base. Report directly to CEO/Owner.
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Director of Technology
Dathaeus International
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — March 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Work-at-home position involving sales and consulting of Internet-based software applications targeted at mid to large sized corporations in NYC. Developed and launched 3 primary web applications for Help Desk Management, HR Management and Knowledge Sharing. Clients include Thomson Financial Services, Empire Office Furniture, TechWorld2000.com and Answerway.com. Hands on involvement in PHP/MySQL based technologies, pre-sales/sales for these technologies covering the Northeastern U.S.
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Director, E-Business
Micro Vision Software Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for internet-enabling MVS software applications targeted at the Tax Preparation market (Intuit being the largest competitor). Developed and launched Extranet site for Accounting clients that involved on-line membership, web-site creation wizards and web-based e-mail applications. Developed site creation and maintenance guidelines, introducing MVS internal departments to MS Project, Visual InterDev and Visual SourceSafe. Utilized Microsoft's ASP and COM technologies to create dynamic Internet and Extranet sites with back-end MS SQL datasources.
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Pre-Sales Manager
Manchester Equipment Corporation
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
February 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 9 months)
Responsibilities included handling pre-sales consulting, network design and deployment of medium to large-scale projects in the Metro NY region. Customers included CBS, BMG, American Express, Ann Taylor, NY Yankees, NY Rangers, and many other high-profile clients. Also created and administered Intranet sites for different groups within MEC and developed trade-show and training content and displays for in-house sales training and customer training.
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Internet Marketing Manager
Digital Equipment Corporation - PC Business Unit
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
February 1995 — January 1997 (2 years)
Created branding, deployment and maintenance guidelines for Internet sites for all groups within Digital. Co-founded the "Web Council" - where budget, content , outsourced vendor requirements and other business critical processes were formulated - ensuring the highest quality, maximum economy and minimum risk in allowing the different business units within Digital post information directly to the Internet . Involved in vendor qualification and media buying through DDB Needham and Young & Rubicam. Also implemented an HTML-free template based content updating system so that non-programmers could add data to the web sites. Conducted study on on-line commerce viability, created cross-business unit client authentication systems and secure web areas.
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ISV Relations Manager
Digital Equipment Corporation - Alpha Business Unit
(Computer Hardware industry)
May 1991 — January 1995 (3 years 9 months)
Managed the U.S. Independent Software Vendors Relation Group. Responsibilities included managing a staff of telemarketers to manage outbound sales and inbound tech-support 800-lines, interfacing with Digital internal technical support groups for cross-platform migration support, planning and managing ISV participation at major industry tradeshows, planning and deploying successful joint marketing programs within severe budget restrictions and managing seed units (loaners) to developers within the United States and Canada. Reported directly to Word-Wide ISV manager based out of Chicago and worked with management teams based out of California, Buenos Aires , Germany, Finland and Japan.Personally recruited more than 600 companies that ported software over to Alpha Windows NT including Microsoft, Allaire, Oracle, CA, Sybase and many more.
Vijay Nath’s Education
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Rochester Institute of Technology
BS , Packaging Science , 1989 — 1991
Minor in Management
- Activities and Societies:
- NTID - Notetaker and student worker at various positions for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
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Vijay Nath’s Interests:
Skilled at American Sign Language, conversational French and Hindi. Love helping people via philanthropic Answerway.com. Fifteen years of intense Internet experience. Hands-on IIS, Netscape,MS SQL, MySQL, PHP, Cold Fusion, ASP, JavaScript, ActiveX and ODBC design/deployment/maintenance expertise.In-depth product and technical knowledge of hardware from Cisco, HP, 3Com, Bay, Compaq, Intel and other major manufacturers. System administration experience includes TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, DOMAINS and WORKGROUPS, MS OFFICE, MS BackOffice, MS EXCHANGE and other office technologies on complete line of Windows platforms. Novell, Linux, VMS and MAC integration and deployment experience.
Vijay Nath’s Honors:
December 2002- Answerway.com joined Google, CNet and Mail.com on the list of the World's Best Sites in the Internet Technology section of The World Journal.
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