Yelser is a marketplace for the lumber and building materials industry. We are bringing the entrepreneurial agility of a Seattle software start-up to a lumber and building materials industry steeped in tradition and full of large material movements and manual processes.As CTO, I am responsible for designing and building the marketplace. In addition to coding the marketplace, I am building a team that will redefine how building materials are bought and sold.

Taking a break from full-time work to spend more time with my family and less at the office. Still spending time designing and writing software for Zillow's web and data systems, as well as helping with recruiting and hiring.

Continued management of data integration systems while adding responsibility for design, development, and support for the core home shopping experience on the Zillow website. Built the team to over thirty engineers, testers, and program managers.

Managed the engineering team responsible for importing and modeling real estate data. This includes public recorder and assessor data for over 3000 counties, as well as millions of for-sale and rental listings provided by hundreds of partners. Personally rearchitected and rewrote the listing import system to dramatically improve speed and stability.

One of the first software engineers at Zillow. Designed and built the core Java web server infrastructure, registration and authentication systems, and much of the build/configuration/deployment platform. As Zillow grew, eventually moved to leading a team of engineers working on the web services. Also led the team that released the first version of Zillow's mortgage marketplace.

Built and managed technology staff of Expedia's Classic Custom Vacations luxury travel subsidiary. Served on executive staff developing strategy.

Managed the 25 member engineering staff of Expedia's Hotels & Destinations unit. During this time, we built Expedia's wholesale hotel inventory platform and created the packaged vacations product.

Worked on interactive television, games, and Internet travel software (Expedia).

Wrote Microsoft Windows based software for document image management