Spooner Designs provides medium sized businesses a complete online marketing solution from market research to execution of web applications and e-commerence web sites.

I manage all engineering and product pursuits, including DevOps, QA, IT, and security. I recruit and mentor teams, establishing a positive culture through clearly defined goals and values. Also, I Implement DevSecOps to secure out Software as a Service platform. I upgrade our customer support with a three-tier process to resolve issues four times faster with a reduced staff. I improved our development environment with spec tests and code coverage tools, resulting in a more efficient software development life cycle.Key Achievements:• I transformed a publishing business into a Software as a Service business in nine months by hiring a combination of in-house and off-shore developers.• I eliminated outages, achieving 100 percent uptime with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.• I reduced our Amazon Web Services monthly costs by $9,000.

I built and led engineering teams for mobile, web, and innovation initiatives, hiring more than 15 people. I have attracted top talent by hosting public meetups. I managed publishing platforms for iOS and Android apps and launched supporting pipeline to enable customization for 1,000+ publishers. I deployed Machine Learning to execute click optimization. I strategized closed-loop ad attribution.  Also, I created multiple big data solutions and data warehouses and carried out technical due diligence for acquisitions.Key Achievements:• I generated a supply-side platform (SSP) from conception to launch, netting $70 million in five years.• I built an ad server specifically for geo-targeting.• I automated an audience management platform, searching more than 10 terabytes. Developed new iOS and Android applications with offshore development teams. Built a supporting build pipeline that enabled realtime app customization.  This app was white-labeled by 1000+ customers. • Created a new SAAS platform product and signed Yahoo, Hibu, ReachLocal, and others resulting in $75m in revenue over 5 years. During this time, my team built the first in-house ad server for geo-targeting. Developed patented dynamic geofence targeting. We also build out self serve creative management as well as reporting. • Matched CTR of DoubleClick by implementing click optimization with ML. • Developed and executed strategies for closed-loop advertising attribution with wifi and beacons. • Performed technical due diligence for acquiring Fosbury Mobile Coupons and Roximity Beacon Network.• Automated manual audience building with a new Audience Management platform that queries more than 10TB of data in real-time.

I guided the redesign of active.com and results.active.com. I mentored Java engineers in Ruby on Rails and advocated Ruby best practices and TDD. I instilled a positive technical culture, bringing out the best in people.Key Achievement:• I directed a team of 15+ developers and Quality Assurance engineers.

I boosted team productivity by teaching design patterns. I introduced new video advertising techniques through integrations with DoubleClick and FreeWheel and pioneered long-form content and online ads.Key Achievements:• I designed and launched a video and advertising delivery software and services, generating $100+ million for video startup.• I invented the pause ad slot that produced a high click-through rate.

• Ektron Certified Developer. Over 10 Ektron sites built. Extensive experience integrating flash applications with Ektron. • Flash Application Development. • Search Engine Optimization • Streaming media with Flash Media Server.

• Ektron Certified Developer. Over 10 Ektron sites built. Extensive experience integrating flash applications with Ektron.• Flash Application Development.• Search Engine Optimization• Streaming media with Flash Media Server.

Part-time professor teaching best practices of web development.

As professor at The Art Institute of California-San Diego I taught advanced ActionScript 3.0 and professional practice.

Primarily designed web sites, catalogs and large format prints. Also developed web site alpha test for Prime Media.