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Mountain View, California, Us

Building teams of kick ass designers and creating Kafka products to help developers use real-time data to power all the modern apps and services we love

Mountain View, California, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Worked with Design and Engineering to help launch new products for both the Ads and Publishing teams. Work included...Yahoo Ad Manager Plus• Help design the ad platform from the ground up working closely with product managers, user experience experts, and engineering. • Designed data visualization and UI controls to help our users run complex ad campaigns across more than a dozen ad networks.• Developed UI components using Ember.js, D3, and a homegrown version of Bootstrap CSS.• Contributed extensively to the Ads and data style guide and UI component library which was eventually adopted by dozens of Ads & Data projects.Tumblr Contributor Program• Worked with a small team to quickly prototype and launch a new editorial program with the goal of bringing fresh, compelling content from writers around the world to various Yahoo publishing sites.• Developed the program around the Tumblr blog network.• Designed and developed custom functionality on the Tumblr blog network. • Help integrate the Tumblr blog network with Yahoo to bring in functionality like realtime stock data, advertisements, and take advantage of Yahoo’s automated build and testing tools. • Worked extensively with the Tumblr blog network and React.js.• Helped attract over a hundred editors around the world who continue to publish content to major Yahoo properties such as Finance and Sports.Yahoo Daily Fantasy• Designed the invite hooks, workflow, and interfaces for desktop web and the native iOS and Android apps.• Worked closely with the Product and Engineering teams to quickly iterate and come up with new features to increase engagement and usage of the product post launch.• Used data from our app to quickly optimize the contest creation workflow. • Helped design features like league challenges and an opponent recommendations system to increase engagement and usage.• Developed for desktop web in React.js.• Prototyped for native apps using Sketch and Framer.js.

• Founded Bread with two friends around a concept to improve online advertising.• Lead our product and development team. Help bring our ideas to life through research, design, planning, and development.• Personally specialize in product design and frontend development. Work extensively with UI, UX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Groovy on Grails.• Invented technology to distribute and track full-page commercials in front of web content.• Designed and built a marketplace to let advertisers and publishers interface with one another in an easy natural way.• Built a drag and drop page creator that is used to make full-page commercials for fortune 1000 brands like Pepsi, Hasbro, and Sony Pictures.• Developed an ad server to let clients quickly define, schedule, and track ad campaigns.• Currently working on a project to engage a new segment of online publishers who want to be creative and share fun online content with their peers.• Gained valuable experience starting and running a company from the ground up.• Tested my ability to lead a team and execute on a big vision.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

• Designed and built custom social sites on the Ning platform for clients like Tony Hawk, Jason Derulo, Amy Poeler, Chelsea Handler, and Linkin Park.• Produced original artwork and illustrations for web and print.• Worked closely with the product team to productize custom apps and features.• Helped with the development of features like the theming system and layout engine.• Designed and built themes for the theme library.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

• Prototyped features and develop apps using PHP, JS, and the Ning API.• Developed a REST API to support an integration with Mobile Roadie, a mobile site creator for bands and musicians. • Maintained the Ning API documentation and developer community. • Supported third party developers looking to build projects on the platform.• Built a highly integrated community support system that was powered by Salesforce and RightNow Web.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• In charge of identifying and leveraging technology to improve customer support at EA.• Helped design and build websites for major EA game franchises and teams. (Pogo.com, The Sims, and EA.com)• Worked with game teams to integrate proprietary customer support tools into games and websites.• Developed web modules using PHP, SQL, and JavaScript for use on EA websites.• Helped maintain and optimize databases and tools through improved queries and architecture.• Document and manage software development projects with internal and external teams.• Showed the ability to execute on a variety of highly visible projects with a variety of teams.