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New York, New York, US

New York, NY, US

• Built strong teams, organization, tech culture, and an on-call “lifeguard” program.
• Helped 33M people receive social care from over 1.4M services via screenings, automatic resource sharing, after-visit summaries, closed loop referrals, smart matching, and customer-branded resource directories.
• Spearheaded engineering for the company’s largest strategic initiative, the successful feature integrations and customer migrations of an acquired competitor, involving 100+ dev & product contributors across many.
• Led SaaS application development and tech-ops for these domains: Search & Smart Matching, Resource Directory, Platform Infrastructure, customer APIs, Internal Tools, DevOps, SecOps, and IT.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Engineered and delivered an enterprise-scale premium virtual events SaaS platform using serverless single-tenant architecture with React, Python, GraphQL, and AWS. Integrations with Zoom SDK and ticketing services.
• Implemented live analytics and live dynamic content management system (CMS) for multi-track, multi-day event content and HLS streaming with auto-captioning.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Co-founded and led SaaS platform server and mobile development focused on peer marketing using rewards and cleverly branded user videos serving global brands.
• Built the teams, organization, standards, and wore every hat.
• The product had an incredible visual effects engine including ML/Dlib face calibration, a mobile app generator, and an attribution reward system.
• Designed cloud-based architecture to ensure data privacy compliance (GDPR, COPPA, CCPA) brand safety. Awarded several patents.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led teams responsible for video technology, web delivery stacks, and analytics for the new CBS content management system.
• Responsible for two teams supporting CBS online video technology; CBS front-end player delivery and complex back-end processing services. 24/7 DevOps support for video on demand and live events (E3, CES, Super Bowl.
• Managed development/QA teams of the completed CBS/CNET's Centralized CMS. Directed development of a real-time Data Visualization dashboard showing engagement metrics, velocity, and filtered views of SEO, social.
• Co-managed the CBS Bridgewater office and building for four years. Worked with distributed teams (direct reports, managers, and internal customers) in San Francisco, Boston, Fort Lauderdale, New York, and Los.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led platform services teams providing the technical plumbing for all online video processing systems, web servers, application servers, search services, and several novel patented services powering 15 CBS brands.
• Created a Visitor Tracking and Real-Time Recommendation Service used across CBS websites supporting 100+ million users.
• Directed Video Player and back-end teams supporting 8 business units video large scaling demands. Teams were granted two video patents.
• Led an R&D team of a self-programming website which later received a patent. The Bricks system tagged content from all CBS sites, provided recommendation units, related articles, video search, image finder, and.
• Chaired NoSQL standardization and migrations across the company.
• Drove 24% speed improvements across CBS w/business scorecards, investigation teams, and self-serve performance lab.framework for broader engineer use. Negotiated vendor contracts for more capacity and 37% savings.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Following the acquisition of CNET by CBS focused on integrations and broader consumption of services.
• Co-led eight technology merger teams. Analyzed all activity, conducted customer interviews, evaluated functionality, and detailed costs of all systems. We decided how staff resources were deployed.
• Designed and directed the creation of the Graffiti system which consumed, tagged, and indexed all content across the decentralized CBS/CNET company websites. Provided public APIs, documentation, dashboards, tools, and.
• Streamlined and expanded support for web delivery services. Removed the need for Apache httpd module programming with the development of RUM. Re-implemented several modules (e.g., SEO) in LUA with efficient caching.
• Chaired the CBS Open-Source Leadership Council and directed the CBS Open Team of software architects, ushering and cultivating the contribution of open-source software and API standards.Used and/or supported Linux.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Created and open-sourced Solr enterprise search. Created the Atomics NoSQL database. Supplied all web site infrastructure software and services to all CNET business units.
• Directed the creation, development, and open-sourcing of Solr enterprise search with four engineers. Lobbied for and gained approval from the CEO, executive staff, and legal for open-sourcing. Strategized community.
• Led the development of Atomics with three engineers. Atomics was a powerful early NoSQL-style enterprise search server based on open technologies. Atomics won the MySQL User's Conference “Application of the Year” award.
• Supported over a dozen customer web delivery platforms.
• Oversaw the performance testing and capacity planning for all major platform upgrades.
• Owned contracts and re-negotiated Altavista, Weblogic, Caucho, and Akamai contracts each for 20-35% savings.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Hired, managed, and directed all staff for a new department responsible for increasing speed and efficiency of existing services, resolving complex problems, providing system metric reporting, capacity budgeting, and.
• Team operated at any and all levels; hardware/OS, process-layer, network, and the application/service layer from internal and external viewpoints. Performance dashboard reported, correlated, and annotated system and.
• Architected and led the development of an automated performance lab. System identified problems and ensured the success of all software systems. Made the lab self-serve with UIs. Used continuously for weeks..
• Chaired CNET's Speed Council, a company-wide initiative. Evaluated, negotiated, selected, and integrated CDN providers. Developed engineering guidelines, content best practices, user studies, measurement systems, and.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Specialized in the development of Download.com and Shareware.com and DevOps leadership.
• Led the design, development, and project management to create Download.com using the most advanced CMS tools. Directed all proactive and reactive DevOps work for Download.com, Shareware.com and Shopper.com. Led DevOps.
• Created CNET's Download Manager. This PC client application powered hundreds of millions of customer downloads from the company's site and was itself downloaded onto over two million computers.
• Drafted the first Internet standard for advertising terminology with the Webmonsters group It was adopted by AdMonsters, and the working draft for the newly-formed Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
• Established the 1999 IT budget. Investigated and fixed dozens of performance problems with Snap! (later acquired by NBC). Remediated all code and libraries for Y2K. Served as CNET’s engineering due-diligence analyst.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Joined CNET as the third tech hire reporting to the CTO. In typical start-up fashion, wore every developer and operations hat.
• Responsible for the company web server platform, configurations, monitoring, and reliability in a time of massive growth. Designed the first prototype for the company's advertisement tracking system. Wrote discovery.
• Solo-developed and operated the company's second website, Shareware.com which autonomously located free software, scanned it, established a metadata protocol, and provided search and download. Experienced huge growth.
• Responsible for system access permissions, security audits, info-sec guidelines, operations fire drills. Interviewed over 100 people in person and was involved in the hiring of 95% of the local and remote technology.

Bs, Computer Science

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