Josh Rai

Current

• Web developer at Taproot Foundation

Past

• Software Developer at Oodle
• Software Developer (contractor) at Johnson & Johnson
• Technical Manager and Software Developer at BabyCenter.com

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Education

• Brown University

Connections

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Industry

Internet

Josh Rai’s Experience

• Web developer

  Taproot Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2005 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  The Taproot Foundation offers service grants, rather than financial grants, to nonprofits, by putting together teams of volunteers from the marketing, IT and HR professions to complete 6-month projects such as developing a website, defining a brand strategy, or implementing an HR performance management system. My job is to develop the Internet-based tools used by staff, volunteers and nonprofits to support these operations.

• Software Developer

  Oodle

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

  January 2005 — September 2005 (9 months)

  Oodle acts as a search engine for a vast variety of local and national online classified-ad websites. I wrote Perl scripts to crawl specific websites, parse their listings, and feed the data into Oodle's database. I also worked with product and marketing managers to define a web-based database of charity organizations that accept donations of various types of goods, and implemented the application in PHP.

• Software Developer (contractor)

  Johnson & Johnson

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

  September 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 3 months)

  Through BabyCenter.com, which was acquired by J&J and took on a consulting capacity in web development for other J&J business units, I was the lead developer reimplementing the Johnson's Baby consumer products website (johnsonsbaby.com), working with their staff to craft a content management tool that they could use, and implementing it in Java and JHTML in the ATG Dynamo application framework. Also through BabyCenter, I was one of a small team of developers to implement Walmart.com's Baby Products area.

• Technical Manager and Software Developer

  BabyCenter.com

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  April 1997 — June 2002 (5 years 3 months)

  Worked with technical director to develop the prototype for, and launch, http://www.BabyCenter.com/, which quickly became the web's leading resource for new and expecting parents. Continued to develop internal tools for the company's editorial staff as well as public-facing features of the site. Was a lead team member in the development of the system driving BabyCenter's targeted, stage-based email newsletters and campaigns, which became a cornerstone of the business and an early model of email marketing, supporting millions of outbound emails per day to subscribers. Was technical lead for the development of the back-end systems supporting BabyCenter's online store, handling about 1000 orders per day. Did server-side development of websites and email systems for other Johnson & Johnson companies after J&J acquired BabyCenter.

Josh Rai’s Education

• Brown University

  BA, Computer Science; Religious Studies, 1990 — 1995