Eric Mueller Email & Phone Number

Eric was the technical product manager for all online components of the long-running TV show America's Funniest Home Videos. His responsibilities included their web site (with well over a million visits monthly) and enormous Facebook presence (with over 12 million "likes"). In concert with several technology partners, Eric created the fully responsive AFV.com web site.Eric worked closely with the AFV management team to create new features on the web site as well as enhanced and upgraded existing features. Projects included:• Internationalization of the video uploader for the Brazil and general Latin America markets.• Coordinating closely with technology partners at Radius60 to implement a new video uploader, and in turn, launch that uploader on Facebook.• Upgrading numerous existing AFV.com features to support new technologies, including Facebook Instant Articles, animated GIFs, Twitter cards, and video player technlogy from Amazon, Blip.tv and Rumble.• Working regularly with an assortment of web technologies including HTML 5, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, LESS, SASS, MySQL, Wordpress and the Facebook API.For all projects, Eric was responsible for determining the best technical implementation methods and setting the schedule for planning, production and launch.

Themepark.com is a full-service boutique web agency specializing in bespoke sites. The partners have over 40 years of combined experience in consumer sites and creating online experiences. Past clients include Tesla Motors, CBS/Big Brother, America's Funniest Home Videos, America Online, Scholastic, Klutz.com, Century 21, ERA, Coldwell Banker, the Democratic National Committee, SIRIUS Satellite Radio and Pets.com.As the technical co-founder, Eric wore many hats including project manager and software engineer. He worked closely with his business partner, Johnston Boyden, to deliver the best user experience with optimal technology choices to create excellent results while remaining on budget and on schedule.Eric lead clients from inception to completion on innovative and imaginative brand-focused digital projects, including e-commerce, content and community sites. As part of creating sites, Eric focused on understanding customer needs and gathering product requirements (frequently helping clients to articulate their business objectives and translate those objectives into specific product requirements and features).From there, Eric worked closely with the design and UI/UX team, helping flowcharts and clickable "live" wireframes, providing a broad blueprint and detailed roadmap for the new site and insuring all stakeholders are in agreement. Finally, the design was created and final UI specifications were detailed, then Eric's responsibility shifted to creating and launching the project. This includeed coding, server setup, and testing (QA). For various projects, the scope of work has ranged from Eric performing all those roles himself to managing a team of up to 10 others.

Eric has hosted various interview segments and other pieces for Milepoint TV, the broadcast arm of frequent-flyer community Milepoint. He has been invited to present and interview at various industry events including The 2013 Freddie Awards at USA Today HQ, The Randy Petersen Travel Executive Summit, Frequent Traveler University LAX, Frequent Traveler University DC and Star Alliance MegaDO 4.

Los Angeles, Us

The Advocate news magazine called on Eric to simplify and create context around complex technical issues for its readers. From 2000-2001 he penned dozens of columns about technology of interest to the gay community, and wrote many other articles sporadically throughout the years.

Eric co-founded this popular book recommendation startup. Since its inception, Flashlight Worthy Books (FLW) has earned over $100k in (notoriously difficult) affiliate revenue, >1MM PV and >500k UV.FLW is notable for being one of the early pioneers of social media. By embracing Twitter as a marketing platform in Twitter's first year, the @FLWBooks account rapidly gained over 240,000 followers. Subsequently, FLW was a winner in the first annual Shorty Awards (the "Oscars" of Twitter), being recognized in February 2009 with the "Best Use of Twitter in Entertainment" award. From this, Eric was invited to be a featured speaker at the O'Reilly Twitter Boot Camp in June 2009, and gave a presentation on his use of Twitter to an audience of over 200.As the technical co-founder of FLW, Eric writes all of the front-end and back-end code on the site (using HTML 5, CSS, jQuery, and PHP, with a strong focus on search engine optimization), and he is also responsible for all ongoing product enhancements and upgrades.

New York, Ny, Us

Member of core startup team to conceive, build, launch and run AOL's Entertainment Asylum (EA) brand (which later grew to become the AOL Entertainment channel). EA was responsible for providing all entertainment content within AOL for both AOL's 10+ million users and other groups within the company such as AOL International.Initially, Eric helped conceive, build, and launch the EA site on the proprietary AOL platform. His responsibilities included working with all stakeholders to understand the needs and wants of the new entertainment area, then to synthesize those data points into an action plan for the new site. He then coded, tested and launched the new site.From there, Eric's position shifted to product manager. Responsibilities including daily content publication (including managing a team of three engineers as well as interfacing with the design, marketing and web engineering groups), identifying market opportunities for the site and helping define the site's vision and strategy within AOL and the greater online landscape.AOL in the late '90s was an extremely dynamic, fast-growing company with many initiatives. Some of the projects Eric worked on included:- Creating a standardized publishing mechanism. Working closely with the content group, Eric identified the most frequently used content elements (such as a photo gallery, feature article or video interview) and created a form and process to make the creating of new content streamlined, cutting the process down to hours instead of days and dramatically reducing miscommunications and errors.- Identifying the need for and producing a flexible voting/polling engine. Eric worked closely with the web engineering group to create a hybrid web/AOL voting engine that could be used not only to conduct polls and gather data within the AOL EA site but also publish the data back to the site. Before this, there was no polling engine on AOL and certainly nothing that could be quickly and easily be reused.

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Helped launch PlanetOut; employee #7. The company later became PlanetOut/Gay.com, went public, acquired The Advocate and Out magazines, and for well over a decade was the largest player in the gay media market. Responsible for the build and launch of the site on the AOL platform.

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Education record

Education record

The Forum, The Advanced Course, Self-Expression And Leadership Program (Selp)