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Menlo Park, California, US

Revolutionizing Mobile Communications

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led the Advertiser and Publisher Applications Group, an organization of 300+ software engineers building frontend web applications, backend infrastructure systems, and internal tools and reports all to provide the best experience for advertisers and publishers online. Championed the use of a rapid iteration framework for fast development and release to.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Acted as Chief Architect for Project Panama, an ambitious project to rewrite the entire Yahoo Search Marketing system. Led design reviews and implementation discussions across 35 functional and organizational areas across the project. Shifted responsibility to Chief Program Manager for the remainder of the project. Led a virtual team spanning over 500.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led engineering, quality assurance, and operations for a portfolio of websites including Yahoo Shopping, Travel, Maps, Local, Real Estate, Auctions, Classifieds, Yellow Pages, Tickets, and Pets. Launched new product releases of Yahoo Maps including interactive features, Yahoo Travel including trip planning and research features, Yahoo Shopping including.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led engineering, quality assurance, and operations for Yahoo Shopping and Travel. Conducted due diligence, acquisition, and integration of Farechase, a travel fare comparison engine. Developed and recruited talent in India for Yahoo Shopping.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led engineering, quality assurance, and operations for Yahoo Shopping. Drove schedule and timing of the Shopping 4.0 launch which included user interface improvements and a substantial business model migration. Hired and mentored both engineers and engineering managers.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Led the Books, Music, and Video components of Yahoo Shopping. Tasks included operation and engineering for both frontend and backend components. Heavy data processing of input datasets as well as substantial design and implementation of frontend features and functionality.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Responsible for 24x7 operation of Yahoo websites and backend systems. Tasks included managing triage, diagnosis, and relief of troubled systems. Identified and resolved points of failure in overall systems architecture. Conducted long term planning of several systems colocations across North America. Managed domain name operations and system operations for.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Prototyped and built several iterations of the Yahoo Advertising system. The present day advertising system has survived for over 10 years at Yahoo and is a critical part of Yahoo infrastructure and intellectual property. Also built and architected Yahoo's first data processing platform for website traffic evaluation and metrics. The data processing system.

Cupertino, California, US

Ported components of the PowerTalk and PowerShare software from the Motorola 68k architecture to the IBM PowerPC architecture. Coded functionality directly for the Powertalk 1.5 release including mailbox API functionality. Developed initial prototypes of internet interoperability with the PowerTalk and PowerShare.

San Jose, CA, US

Developed test plans, test suites, and test automation for Adobe Acrobat 2.0 release. Primary coverage areas included Macintosh and AppleScript functionality.

Cupertino, California, US

Wrote software stress and accuracy tests for prototype and eventual production hardware of first generation Power Macintoshes. Test software was utilized during the manufacturing process to identify troubled hardware. Hardware coverage areas included graphics and video cards, serial and i/o controllers, memory, and sound controllers.

Provide system recovery and technical support for Macintosh System 6 and System 7 users. Troubleshoot and repair 10Base2 ethernet network.

Bs, Computer Science

Economics, Computer Science

Non Degree Seeking, Engineering