Dan O'Connor Email & Phone Number

Estero, FL, US

Estero, FL, US

New York, NY, US

Leading a highly productive and growing, multidisciplinary team of data analysts, data scientists, machine learning engineers and software engineers.Responsible for the building and enhancing the data platform that underpins all Altana products. Started with a highly-manual, fragile set of disconnected processes and evolved that into an automated.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Senior technical lead supporting the Data Infrastructure Security team that provides data access security to Meta’s entire data warehouse.Proposed, evangelized, and successfully aligned multiple groups within the Data Infrastructure organization for the need of a single, comprehensive interface combining multiple, disjointed privacy and security access.

Boston, MA, US

Technical lead for the company’s migration from a hybrid cloud to an all-cloud infrastructure. At the project’s inception, identified schedule risks and drove efforts to increase the priority of migration efforts across the company.Provided technical guidance to groups across the engineering organization outlining best practices to successfully migrate.

Boston, MA, US

Led efforts to provide self-service, secure and scalable data as a service environment spanning both public and private cloud infrastructures, including authentication, authorization and auditing of distributed data platforms within a complex hybrid environment. Led Wayfair’s transition from a legacy, self-managed infrastructure to cloud native services.

Boston, MA, US

Hired into Wayfair to build a new team to provide technical and architectural leadership during the transition from a monolithic application stack to a distributed, service oriented architecture based on the Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.Lead to effort to provide consistent and self-documenting APIsDeveloped and evangelized the implementation and.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, US

Newscycle Solutions is now Naviga. Newscycle Solutions, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, purchased Acquire Media at the end of 2017. As VP, Enterprise Software, I was responsible for the migration of the NewsEdge.com infrastructure to the cloud as well as moving the underlying technology forward employing ElasticSearch and Kubernetes..

• Acquire Media is a leading supplier of real time news aggregation and syndication services. Acquired by Newscycle Solutions in December, 2017.
• Architect of scalable, redundant text and video news collection, classification, indexing and distribution server system based on Apache, Tomcat, Lucene, and MySQL.
• Led the migration of the company from ad hoc development process to Agile utilizing JIRA software. Implemented custom workflows to match release structure.
• Specify sprints, track story progress, and plan, document and conduct QA and production releases.
• Primary technical point of contact with all significant revenue customers for both pre- and post-sales integration work.
• Utilizing virtualization on existing hardware, implemented a three-stage development and testing environment.

Woburn, MA, US

Pre-IPO startup delivering interactive broadband and mobile video. Acquired by Digitalsmiths. Now part of TiVo.* Transitioned the development organization from an exclusive cable VOD focus to a flexible group capable of delivering solutions across broadband and mobile in response to shifting market dynamics.* Within 6 months, hired and trained the.

* Coordinated the development schedules of 17 diverse projects to increase project efficiencies.* Gathered and analyzed business requirements of various projects into a cohesive high-level batch processing schedule.* Within a 3 month timeframe designed, developed, tested and deployed the Control-M batch scheduling system to meet the business and.

New York, NY, US

$600M consumer electronics company providing interactive TV and program guides. Acquired by Rovi. Now part of TiVo.* Reorganized the development team to enable faster feature development and greater customer focus. * Integrated customer support, advertising operations, and broadcast operations with the development team to provide a centralized organization.

New York, NY, US

* Managed the transition from an embedded systems company to an embedded software company in response to the evolution from low-capability analog televisions and VCRs to HDTVs and digital recorders.* Negotiated license agreements to grow the customer base from 4 to over 20 in 2 years, by conducting on-site, pre-contract presentations and conversations with.

• Reported directly to the CEO and COO, identified, investigated, and summarized emerging technologies that may be competitive or complimentary to Gemstar's strategic technical directions. Recommended both strategic and.
• Responsible for performing technical due diligence on acquisition targets.

* Managed a group of 6 hardware engineers chartered with providing low-cost, high-functionality embedded system designs enabling maximum market penetration for GUIDE Plus+. * Provided technical leadership, budgeting, and scheduling to set early direction for the company’s entry into digital television environment. * Architect for proprietary ASIC: a.

Responsible for all Macintosh code implementing the NetRights @ttribute™ system. Developed an application and a Netscape plugin to render FlashPix™ digital images using a vendor-supplied library and to display user-defined meta-data stored in a Microsoft OLE structured storage file; all code is in C++ using Metrowerks Codewarrior v11 and Powerplant.

Developed Macintosh device driver for a PCI-based IEEE1394-1996 (Firewire) link layer card and two CFM-based shared libraries to implement upper layer protocols of the 1394 standard as well as a specified client interface. Wrote a specification for a hardware- and OS-independent link layer interface for IEEE1394. Firewire is a high speed desktop.

Maintained and extended an in-house MS-DOS multimedia authoring system written in MSVC++ and incorporating several third-party products. Oversaw final delivery of IML's first commercial program to large publishing house; responsible for project scheduling, program releases, and most customer contacts. Primarily responsible for ARPA/NSF grant of $1.5.

Cupertino, California, US

Using Verilog and Synopsys, designed and implemented the 2nd & 3rd Firewire link layer ICs as well as the Quadra 700 card for those ICs. Was a document editor and Working Group Secretary for the IEEE1212-1992 Control and Status Registers (CSR) Architecture for Microcomputer Buses standard that defines transactions and registers needed for multi-vendor.

A.B.D., Computer Engineering

B. A., Engineering Sciences