Building and delivering innovative products with some of the most creative and talented people in the world.

Led technical and product development for several of the Posse's most important clients like Jet.com, Duane "The Rock" Johnson, and QuikorderProcured clients in Chicago who generated significant revenue for the business

Managed team of front end UI/UX designers. Recruited and hired top tier talent. Optimized site performance through backend and front end code enhancements. Moved the site architecture from Rails server templates to client side rendered templates that utilize the Bloomfire web services API. Transitioned the front end code to use the Backbone javascript framework. Built javascript modules and performed dependency management using RequireJS. Standardized the user interface components around a Bootstrap theme using SASS/SCSS.Collaborated on product features ranging from detailed UX enhancements to long term product roadmap ideas. Promoted the collection of product usage metrics and utilizing those usage statistics into future product decisions.

Managed team of designers and developers to create a body visualization product for both the web and iPad.Managed intranet development projects for a client in the energy sector. Created HTML5 based social networking iPhone application for a telecommunications client using PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile.Part of initial design and development team of the Temptd iPhone application. Lead hiring and recruiting efforts for New York technology staff.Provided development and software architecture consultation to top companies in the Energy, Entertainment, Information Technology, Consulting, Mobile Technology and Telecommunications sectors.

Co-Authored JRuby Cookbook

Managed content repository systems that serve text, audio and video to MTV.com, Nick.com, VH1.com, ComedyCentral.com and all major brands across Viacom.Lead 5+ member development team using a Scrum process to create a ruby on rails like web framework for Jokes.com, ColbertNation.com, and TheDailyShow.com using PHP and memcached.Deployed Apache Solr search engine for the ComedyCentral.com websites and other major Viacom brands. Created a multi-threaded ETL application for inputting content into the search server using Java Spring, JSP and web services on a JBoss J2EE platform. Part of team that designed and developed Nicktropolis, a massive multi-player flash game for Nick.com, using Java application server and messaging technologies.Architected and developed of a user account system used across all major Viacom's digital properties that hosted a massive online audience of millions of registered users.Created software framework used to syndicate video, image and URL to content partners. Began effort to use RSS and integrate Feedburner into the Viacom sites.Worked with production and marketing teams to develop rich media and streaming Flash applications such as MTV Video Player and MTV Photo Gallery.Lead development of software that transitioned MTV.com from a static html website to a database driven website using the ATG Dynamo Application server and Sybase. Worked with production and marketing teams to develop numerous web applications for MTV.com and VH1.com.

Launched first product pspdrive.com in 2005. One of the first video podcasting companies to target a mobile device, Sony PSP. Developed a web based application that enabled frictionless syncing of video, music, photos and applications to the Sony PSP.

Helped build and design an Enterprise Java Bean based content management system for HGTV's, DIY Networks.

Researched emerging Internet technologies for web and network security. Evaluated application servers. Developed a Java Swing application for fixed income researchers that allows for "one-click" publishing to multiple research repositories: Bloomberg, Firstcall and the BankAmerica Intranet.Designed and developed a Java Applet used by fixed income trading and sales to manage and track their positions online. Integrated C based pricing library using Java JNI and Java RMI.

Managed Intranet web server by upgrading and configuring Apache Web Server on IBM AIX machine and Microsoft IIS web server software in Windows NT environment.Created web accessible inventory and personnel directory service with Perl CGI scripts and a mSQL database.