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Mclean, Va, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Beverly Hills, California, Us

Beverly Hills, California, Us

Beverly Hills, California, Us

• Lead architecture and implementation of brand new authentication service for relaunch of Live Nation iOS app.• Contributor to multiple back-end and API projects to support web and mobile clients, including core data API, proxy, and recommendation engine.• Technologies used: Python (Django), Celery, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Heroku, CircleCI, OAuth 2, and more.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Primary duties at this startup include core software development and ownership of identity and authentication vision and direction.• Acquired by Live Nation Entertainment and absorbed into LN Labs Division in 2014.• Created a system that crawls, normalizes and indexes content from over 10 social networks and provides a search engine for end users. Average of about 250k pieces of content for each user. • Developed a REST API that gives developers access to this data with OAuth1 and OAuth2 authorization points (see http://dev.yourtrove.com).• Created saveyourstuff.co during a Dropbox hack night, allowing users to backup photos from 8 services to your Dropbox. This app won the hack night.• Speaker at Mashery’s Business of APIs conference (NY, 2011).• Developed open-source Python client libraries for picplz and tumblr APIs.

Technology and digital communications lead for traditional advertising agency, transforming services offering from basic Flash-based ads and websites to include dynamic, content-managed websites, social media integrations, source control (github), and rich media advertising.• Technology and social media lead on all new business pitches, including successful wins with National Grid, Thomson Reuters, Scholastic, Alleghany Corporation, Assured Guaranty and others.• Overhauled agency’s static, Flash-based website to a Django-based site, providing HTML5 video (including transcoding), single sign-on, content management, and broader device compatibility.• Transformed agency’s television ad archiving process from a physical media, mixed resolution and compression system to a standardized, digitally stored, 1080p multi-format archive.

• Architect and lead developer for National Grid’s powerofaction.org website, challenging users to use 3% less energy each year for the next 10 years. Site utilized IP location and a step-by-step, branched survey to provide personalized, cost-saving recommendations and rebate offers to customers.• Architect and lead developer for Scholastic’s children’s website, The Dog, featuring personalized avatars, Flash games, an internal economy, and physical product integration with un-lockable content (via ECC-generated codes).

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Managed all technology aspects of full service interactive agency, including strategy, purchasing, staffing, management of onsite and offshore development, technical documentation and proposals, new business pitches, and direct software implementation.• Converted agency’s technology platform and business processes from high-overhead, proprietary packages to web-enabled, open-source technologies including document and source code version control, project management and issue tracking. Standardized development process.• Technical lead for web application to upgrade and improve audiobook company’s consumer website. Architected complete RESTful API to integrate and unify company’s disparate technology initiatives.• Technical lead for enterprise, web-based CMS and CRM (customer relationship management) solution for large New York City nursing home to establish long-term customer relationships with healthcare providers and family members.

New York, New York, Us

Served as web technology consultant to the Brand Marketing and Intranet groups, transitioning investment bank’s primary intranet and web technology platforms from 1990s-based web technologies to state of the art, enterprise class web applications.• Architected and developed java-based, enterprise web application framework that serves several hundred intranet “sitelets” and millions of hits per day.• Developed enterprise CMS featuring versioning, workflow, web services, permissions, and tagging.• Architected and developed restaurant guide web application, featuring automated weekly data feeds from data vendor, high-performance keyword search, and personalization.• Developed customized intranet library for Legal and Compliance Division’s documentation.

Co-founded technology consulting firm to provide internet and information technology services to institutional clients. Developed Onager's business plan, managed finances, served as partner for tax-purposes, and negotiated sub-contractor relationships. Managed resolution of human resources issues, vendor relationships, and purchasing.• Architected global navigation theory for a corporate intranet used by 20,000 employees.• Coordinated content and developed flat HTML build of public website for major investment bank.• Secured initial contacts with Unisphere Networks (now Juniper Networks). Managed client relationship, performed management and development duties on corporate intranet, human resources intranet and public website projects.

Promoted from Production Specialist to Manager, Site Building, over a period of three years. Managed up to 12 front-end developers. Responsible for hiring, training, reviews, termination, resource allocation, budget management, and client service. Partnered with sales force to scope new business, write proposals, and deliver pitches. • Initiated and developed a departmental intranet, centralizing information dissemination and improving industry awareness within the team.• Introduced standardized development methodologies, compensation scales, and authored company-wide training program to improve knowledge sharing and project efficiency.• Turned around a struggling multi-vendor, multi-million dollar project to build a whole loan trading application, from prototyping to final code delivery.• Completed Tavern on the Green website and reservation system four weeks after assuming leadership of project that was six months overdue and $50,000 over budget. Client received in excess of ten times their ROI in first year.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts

High School Diploma, Drama