Dan Larsen Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

I represent Cabrinha Kitesurfing in Southern California by providing demo event support, demo equipment, answering customer questions, competing in kiteboarding contests, and spreading stoke and Aloha! http://www.cabrinhakites.com/2019 Competition Results:1st Place - Masters Freestyle, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA3rd Place - Men's Big Air, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA3rd Place - Team Race, Delta Kite Challenge, Pittsburgh CA4th Place - Men's Freestyle, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA8th Place - Men's Open Race, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI10th Place - 6hr Kite Derby, Kiteboard 4 Cancer, Hood River OR15th Place - TwinTip Division, RedBull Lighthouse to Leighton, Perth Western Australia2018 Competition Results:1st Place - Team Race, Delta Board Meeting, Pittsburg CA3rd Place - Men's Freestyle, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI3rd Place - Men's Big Air, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA3rd Place - Men's Freestyle, Lord of the Lollipop, Belmont CA5th Place - Men's Freestyle, Delta Board Meeting, Pittsburg CA5th Place - Men's Big Air, Delta Board Meeting, Pittsburg CA6th Place - Men's Big Air, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI8th Place - Men's Open Race, Maui Kite Fest, Maui HI

San Diego, California, Us

SOLOSHOT is a robotic technology enabling people to automatically film themselves from up to 2,000 feet away and without anyone getting stuck holding the camera. A robot cameraman.I opened and operated the San Diego office which eventually became company headquarters.I recruited, hired, and built out the Android, Mobile, Web, and Cloud software development teams. Designed, architected, and managed the implementation of the backend services and systems that comprised the SOLOSHOT platform including its API, live and on-demand video streaming and delivery, firmware distribution, and its analytics and reporting dashboards.SOLOSHOT’s platform was built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using many services including: API Gateway, Athena, CloudFront, Cognito, EC2, Elastic Transcoder, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, Lambda, Redshift, RDS, Route 53, SNS, and S3. The Live platform utilizes Wowza Streaming Engine, and GoCoder SDK and is streamed at scale utilizing HLS for delivery to the Web and Mobile Applications.I established and managed vendor relationships with on-shore and off-shore software development companies utilized in the development of the Web, and Mobile apps, and the desktop video editing application.I worked with the Android team on development of the core product in the areas of: API integration, OTA software/firmware downloads, live streaming, video pipeline optimization and color correction, network and Wi-Fi configuration, tuning, testing, and creation and management of AWS hosted build servers for Android, camera, and embedded code.I was responsible for all infrastructure and application services including: San Diego office networking infrastructure (built with Ubiquiti Networks equipment), email, DNS, SSL certs, GoDaddy, Box, Slack, BitBucket, Confluence, JIRA, ChartIO, Apple App Store, Google analytics and Play store.

Early stage startup advisory role"Manage Your Child's Smartphone - With Yours! Anytime, Anywhere."

San Diego, Ca, Us

Overview:Principal Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect:Responsible for creating scalable, and high performing solutions that complied with complex enterprise restrictions on access to content. Scope included web and mobile application integration with enterprise identity services, API gateways, security compliance, and application performance and scalability, use of content delivery networks, performance diagnostics, and scalable web application hosting internally and in the cloud.Product and Service ManagerEnterprise collaboration technologies used by over 30,000 users globally including Qualcomm’s social collaboration intranet, multiple video platforms (UGC, on demand and live streaming), engineering wikis, large file sharing, web content search, keyword-based short URLs, skills and expertise endorsements, real-time web/mobile chat, and event calendars.Highlighted Projects:Enterprise VideoLed the implementation of Kaltura’s MediaSpace platform as an enterprise video platform to unify delivery of employee generated videos with corporate produced live and on-demand video content. A significant project milestone delivered an HLS (http live streaming) solution with a secure single sign-on enabled live stream to desktop browsers and mobile devices including a responsive player offering multiple bit rates to conserve bandwidth and battery consumption. The on-premise origin server was accelerated via Akamai CDN to scale delivery globally.Enterprise Social IntranetService owner of the internal social business platform running on Jive software. I managed a cross-functional team through two major version upgrades, evangelized the platform, drove adoption campaigns, and increased daily usage and unique user counts to more than 2.5 times previous levels. Platform was successfully accepted as an alternative to custom web site development, and the primary corporate calendar of events, activity streams, skills and expertise endorsements.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Product and Platform Management:• Acquia – Enabled off-premise secure hosting of Drupal sites with identity and SSO integration.• QTube – Drupal based video upload and sharing platform.• Yammer – Enterprise micro-blogging and collaboration.• Me2u – Large File Sharing platform.• Search – Internal Enterprise Web content search platform.• FLO.tv Superbowl Commercial – Utilized Akamai to scale to 19,000 pageviews/second.• WebSphere Portal – Java-based intranet platform.• GO – Innovative URL redirection service using easy to remember keywords.• QBlog – WordPress based blogging platform.• QWiki – MediaWiki based engineering collaboration platform.• Qualcomm’s BREW AppStore – Pre smartphone-era AppStore utilized by multiple cellular carriers around the world. Responsible for Java middleware architecture, operations, and scalability.

Managed the production and delivery of web applications and syndicated content services for AOL Sports Channel Scoreboards and News Feeds, AOL Fantasy Sports, NHL.com, NBA SyncTV, and personalized content feeds for MyAOL and MyNetscape.SyncTV was a finalist in the UCSD Connect Most Innovative New Product Awards for 2000.

Founder and CEO of a web design and development company. Clients included: AirTouch Cellular, RedCreek Communications, Southwestern Bell Internet Services, Williams Entertainment, YMCA, San Diego Natural History Museum, and UCSD.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Bachelors, Math, Computer Science, Minor In Economics

Emphasis On Marine Science And Oceanography