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New York, New York, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Created and managed a wide variety of internal user tools and automation tools:- built a tool to automate the process of localizing, converting, posting, and QA testing SEO content, eliminating thousands of manual entry hours and enabling the company to rapidly move into 50+ future markets- built and automated the process of scraping, parsing, and formatting event information from thousands of venues in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Created software which checks catalog of events against incoming data to eliminate erroneous/outdated event information and bring catalog to parity.- created a tool for our internal Imagery team, enabling them to quickly analyze all recently created content and gauge the quality of images attached to said content- created a tool in order to dramatically speed up the required time to integrate the entire content database of an acquired company: this tool analyzed incoming content and matched it to corresponding content in our database, and then left the remainder in a tool with a variety of options so manual editors would be able to quickly match or add whatever content our database was missing- created a bot to peruse Twitter content for relevant company information, such that potential new events could be immediately made available for manual editors to confirm and enter into the database

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and wrotetools for adding to, manipulating, and analyzing database using MySQL, Java, JavaScript, and Regular Expressions. Developed tool for automating the execution of scraping scripts, and for parsing the returned data. Catalog work has seen use on multiple apps including the iOS local event discovery app "StubHub Music."

San Francisco, Ca

Manually entered events and other content into company, and edited currently-existing content to fix any errors. Eventually wrote scripts and developed a program to automate this entire process, which led to promotion nine months into position.

Designed, generated, and deployed sponsored listings for high-profile advertisers including AEG and Another Planet Entertainment, dealing with contracts often in excess of $5,000. Took initiative to design and develop methods to automate various tasks and improve team efficiency, including automating several contract tasks. Monitored and improved ad performance while working with company's ad validation team.

Generated content for nationwide events search engine. Researched, designed, wrote, and edited a minimum of 300 entries or pages per week. Designed event content featured on MSN, YellowPages, and a popular iPhone application. Fact-checked and evaluated work of other team members. Was promoted to Senior Analyst, with duties including training new team members and as well as performing quality assurance on content database using JIRA.