
San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area
Web services, branding, design, documentation, leadership, team management, programming in Perl and Java, web site creation and management, product launches, protocols and API specifications, consensus building and more.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
As the Product Manager of Movable Type I am responsible for coordinating the development and promotion of the company's flagship blogging product.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
As the creator and founder of Test Run, I am responsible for the vision, strategy and execution of the Test Run product.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — Present (7 years 2 months)
Introduction to Perl Programming: Design and teach a course to instruct students about information technology and how to manage and how to maintain it using Perl. Introduction to Web services: Design and teach a course to educate students on emerging Web services standards and how to implement them.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — October 2007 (4 years 4 months)
Lead Developer for the SOAP::Lite SOAP toolkit written in Perl.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 3 months)
As the Manager of Platform Technology I act as a Product Manager for all developer-oriented products across all of Six Apart products. I drive enhancements to shared infrastructure, products and service. I maintain and manage the Six Apart developer web site, and act as a developer evangelist and advocate.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)
I am responsible for the strategic and tactical product direction and development of Six Apart's hosted blogging service TypePad.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — July 2004 (3 years 11 months)
Helped to redefine and articulate the company's vision and primary market value proposition. Spear headed major re-launch and redesign of company's flagship product. In extraordinary short time period, built team from scratch to deliver collateral to engineering necessary for the implementation of product. Developed product roadmap, worked with project management on managing development and release process, member of patent advisory committee, and advised CEO on acquisition targets and key alliances.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2000 — September 2000 (7 months)
Worked as design and technical lead in conceptualizing, designing, documenting and implementing all product initiatives for the main consumer website at http://www.shareyourworld.com, a website running on Linux, utilizing MySql, PHP, JSP, and Java Servlets (Resin and Jserv engines).
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NBCI; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Was one of the lead software engineers on the Search and Directory team managing the front end to the search application serving millions of users a day. Designed and developed backend technologies to enhance performance and functionality on a system using proprietary search technologies, Verity, Solaris, and Sybase while working almost exclusively in C.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)
November 1997 — September 1998 (11 months)
Design, program and maintain intranet/extranet running on Windows NT using IIS, NTMail, and MS-SQL Server. Administrate Interactive Groups web and mail servers. Act as intermediary between technical staff and clients. Advise Project Managers on technological solutions. Evaluate and recommend 3rd party software and hardware for purchase and use.
BA, Anthropology and Computer Science, August 1993 — May 1997