Colin Dean Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

· Builds and maintains software to accelerate data scientists' analysis of Fortune 50 retailer's vast amounts of data as a data engineer, architect, developer experience and DevOps practitioner, and documentarian. · Designed, implemented, and maintained AI and data validation systems· Designs and implements documentation systems used by dozens of.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

* Lead data pipeline team in Pittsburgh* Recruited at career fairs and software community events* Lead efforts to diversify engineering staff and improve the hiring process for all* Collaboratively designs, formalizes, measures, and reviews engineering practices and methodologies* Budgets time-saving measures with a focus on investor- and customer-driven.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Imagine Careers was the result of a merger of YourTalentAgents.com and Student Intuition, two companies looking to make the job search not suck by providing a talent agent to search and advocate for you, by hosting educational sessions, and by guiding you to career satisfaction.IC produced a searchable map of tech companies in its covered cities. This map.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

I was the tech lead of the Watson On-Premises Team, including Watson Explorer and Watson Data Crawler squads, and a tech lead of the Watson Discovery Service, on the News, Crawling, and End-to-End squads. WEX, formerly known as InfoSphere Data Explorer, née Vivísimo Velocity, is a search engine and application-building platform. In addition to maintaining.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

IBM acquired Vivísimo, Inc. in May 2012. I built enterprise-class search applications using the Velocity search platform (now renamed Watson Explorer, formerly Infosphere Data Explorer) and develop custom tools to facilitate deployment of the software.In the past, I specialized in federal professional services with experience in both Americas and EMEA.

· Builds computers, provides tech. support on-call, designs web sites with a large focus on standards compliance, writes and/or updates programs for clients· Administers Linux-based web server for personal and professional use· Client portfolio includes Pittsburgh LAN Coalition, Lawrence County Board of Realtors, Westminster College, Colonial Penn Real.

· Copyedited for a public relations company and a leading search engine company· Provided assistance to local high school journalism program· Writes for multiple web sites

I helped organize this Pittsburgh-based DevOps conference, working with several other veteran event organizers who are notable engineers and thought leaders in their communities. More than 500 technologists in total attended devopsdays Pittsburgh events in 2014 and 2015.

Coordinating sponsorship and media relations for a major LAN party video gaming event in the Philadelphia, PA area as a part of a staff of more than a dozen gaming event organization veterans. My team of two secured more than $12,000 in prizing for the organization's 2013 event.

I wrote articles and reviews and recorded videos about consumer electronics and computer hardware and software. My beat was mostly consumer-level networking, storage, and power devices, as well as neat gadgets, knickknacks, and peripherals. I covered every component, at some point, though. I covered CES yearly 2008 through 2014.

Pittsburgh, US

Meta Mesh is network service provider building PittMesh, a community-owned wireless mesh network, in Pittsburgh. It's a long term effort to establish a sustainable, self-healing network perfect for intracity communications. See www.metamesh.org and www.pittmesh.net for more information.

I helped organize this Pittsburgh-based Ruby developer conference, with a focus on providing a welcoming environment for everyone, especially first time conference-goers.I was part of the core organizing committee for this Ruby conference held yearly 2012-2014 in Pittsburgh. I directed its sponsorship team. More info at: http://steelcityruby.org/

YourTalentAgents.com was a startup group of talent agents for IT professionals. Finding a job sucks. Why look for a job yourself when you can have someone look for you, discreetly and confidentially. The talent agents get to know professionals as people, providing career guidance and networking opportunities in addition to helping find new employment.

I provided professional services to clients who purchased or demo'ed Vivisimo's Velocity enterprise search platform. Vivisimo Velocity is a software which helps users leverage content created by other users through a web-based interface to an enterprise's data storage systems, including email, network storage, databases, web sites, and everything else to.

US

Founded in January 2009 with Jonathan Daniel.Our main project/product was Profyle.At, a personal profile directory service that helped folks find other people on the vast number of social networks through a searchable, authenticated, and verified index of profiles. We retired it amid resource constraints and a surge of highly-funded competitors, such as.

I wrote articles and reviews and worked some on the backend, as well as ran the server.BIOS LEVEL originally started as an open source and video gaming community advocate, but was re-imagined as as a review site.

Monroeville, PA, US

I worked on the e-commerce engine which CK uses to host several web sites. In addition to performing maintenance (devops before it was cool) and fixing bugs, I have designed several add-ons to CK's custom engine. Standout examples including a review system, survey system, and a shopping list system.

I taught IT300 Web Server Administration for two quarters.

Served as Director of Technology for the non-profit youth leadership organization that hosted a yearly seminar for ~120 high school sophomores. Also served as Alumni Administrator of its offshoot alumni organization after attending the program myself in 2001, managing dozens of alumni at the seminar and at reunion events. YLAoWPA was formerly the western.

New Wilmington, PA, US

Ran weekly newspaper with 2,000+ circulation from 2005 to 2007. Managed a staff of 35+ and a $50,000+ budget. Wrote columns and news pieces, photographed events, and even drew a comic once.

New Wilmington, PA, US

Help Desk technician doing technical support for 1,600 students, faculty, and staff. Maintained and improved student connection software. Ran distributed computing cluster.

Bs, Computer Science

Ms, Business Education

Diploma, General Studies