Started as a sabbatical, turned into fixing up our home, turned into selling our home, moving cross-country, buying a new home, and fixing it.

Reported directly to the CTO, Robert Nall• Product owner and architect for a media delivery system using industry-leading partners (AWS, Fastly, Verimatrix, BigQuery) to pass security vetting by Netflix and others by solving individual-user visible and forensic watermarking, file authorization, DRM, and single-active-session locking. Vetted potential partners for capabilities, pricing, and technical fit. Moved project from discovery to a production system in less than ten weeks.  • Worked with users individually to solve problems during events and consolidated user feedback to change features. • Used SQL(BigQuery) and Google Analytics to answer questions about user behavior and improve UX. • Managed five engineers coding for the system and worked as the SME to debug problems as they arose, and requirements shifted. Product owner for the implementation of Red5, the low-latency video partner.  • Coordinated engineering needs with the Emmy’s live production company. • Product owner for security and vetting of Eventuall and Addison Interactive by Facebook, Netflix, Lionsgate, and TPN including physical, social, network, and application security. • Managed an offshore DevOps team consisting of a project manager and two engineers, tasks included gathering requirements and keeping project costs within the contracted budget. • Directed candidate search and vetting for the DevOps and developer positions. Managed AWS resources including IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Route53, Code (Star/Build/Pipeline), S3, MediaLive, MediaPackage. • Wrote artillery.io script to load test the authentication system.

Reported to the co-owner, Ben Hantoot• Developed a front end for an internal tool (Jquery/LESS)• Consulted with backend engineers on best practices

Reported to the CEO, Thomas YuImproved workflow and tracking using Copper CRM, Zapier, BigQuery, Slack, and PayPal. Provided technical expertise in video engineering, audio engineering, IT. As the only state-side technical resource at the company was responsible for the network, user machines, application problems, and 3rd party software. Interfaced with employees at all levels of skill and authority including the leadership in Finance, Production, Talent Management, or Marketing.ACHIEVEMENT: Set up and ran a live video production and streaming studio including all hardware and software.

Reported to the CTO, Robert NallDeveloped and maintained entertainment websites and web apps for several global brands including Universal Studios, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures using PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, Tumblr (jaegeracademy.com, crimsonpeakawaits.com, tonybennett.com).Attended whole-company creative brainstorming sessions, interfaced with external IT vendors, discussed strategy for the technical implementation of a design with the Design and Motion departments. Interface with users regarding software or hardware issues, fellow programmers, or wrote programming and styling code for web applications.• Created several Facebook and Twitter bots that returned text, videos and animated gifs in response to chat interaction from users (Clio-award-winning @OuijaKnowsAll among them)• Created deployment process tools with gulp• Administered on-site Mac, Windows, and Terrablock servers and workstations, as well as AWS resources. Largely responsible for MPAA security compliance

Slickproofs.com is an online photo proofing system used mostly by headshot photographers.• Developed a user membership layer• Created a robust server-side 'favorites' system allowing for viewing by popular photos, by viewer, and more• Modified the retouching ordering system to allow for commission tracking and payments• Added social sharing for favorites and individual images that obfuscates the details of the rest of the photo session• Created a system to order prints with many options for cropping, borders, and text• Used PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, JSON, Adobe Creative Suite

• Developed www.houseofcardsagainsthumanity.com• Developed the PHP and database to save and allow retrieval of results from www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/lab• Used PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, Adobe Creative Suite

Mogullife.com is an upscale furniture website• Developed a custom CMS that populates their product catalog using their former static site design. The CMS also integrates with their install of SlideShowPro.• Used PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Created banners, HPTO's, and websites for global brands• Created Canvas banners using the EaselJS toolkit• Used Flash/Actionscript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Adobe Creative Suite

• Created Flash-based advertisements for major brands• Created dynamically configurable Flash-based charts and graphs used for marketing• Created an offline Hulu-like experience for use in focus testing new Hulu player functionality in Flash* Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Responsible for technical feasibility for ad units provided by a wide variety of vendors, including every major LA-based creative shop and for a huge gamut of worldwide advertisers. Implemented tracking and custom video controls and troubleshot technical issues from Flash to Javascript to video to file format and size to DNS and networking issues• Proposed a new industry-standard interface for Flash-based rich media notification and control, potentially saving companies millions of dollars yearly• Created the first ad unit to utilize live streaming video, run on the Myspace homepage and utilizing the UStream API.• Worked with 3rd party vendors to test and develop vendor components for use in Unicast ads• Created ads from client provided assets and direction.• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Oversaw programmers creating a Beauty and the Beast game for Disney. Consulted on game design, code design, and programming practices. Conducted periodic code reviews.• Consulted on the data transmission scheme for a very high profile casual game.• Used Flash/Actionscript

• Added and updated functionality to gershproduction.com in Flash AS3.• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Developed a season recap site for Nurse Jackie in a very short timeframe in AS3. Upgraded and integrated games originally written in AS 1, 2, and 3. Site was configurable through XML and utilized Facebook Connect.• Worked on other high profile IP’s using Facebook API and Eyeblaster to create minisites and banners with highly restrictive filesizes• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• This project involved Flash AS3 swf’s layerd over MPEG-2 video and jpg’s, and configured through XML for a multi-screen indoor video wall (currently implemented in the Santa Monica store). I also worked with the Youtube and UStream APIs.• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Developed a Flash AS3 GUI for browsing President Reagan’s White House diary from provided art assets and developed data schema for server communication. Data was retrieved via XML.• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Developed and taught a 4-part class introducing game programming students to Flash AS3 on the Upland campus.

• Created Flash minisites and banner campaigns for Jonas BrothersAlso, Happy Go Lucky, Max Payne, Brideshead Revisited, and many other high profile IP’s. Brought designs from Photoshop and Illustrator and kept file sizes to highly restrictive specifications.• Coded DHTML and CSS for the 2008 Disney Corporate Responsibilities report

• Developed a modular credit card application in Flash AS3

• Coded the majority of MyRealNetWorth, a Flash 8 front end for analyzing and managing stock portfolios online. The application received and sent data to a FoxPro middle end via XML.• Supported many different versions with the same codebase (for taxable vs. tax deferred portfolios, a paper trading system vs. a reporting system, etc.) for a massive application (100+ UI screens).• Ported the application several times to new Flash versions, from 4-8.• Delivered repeatedly under extreme time constraints working with a codebase I was initially unfamiliar with.• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite, XML

• Developed sites for – KatorClothing.comCorpseRunMovie.comFrogIslandComedy.comTheBillionaires.orgSorceryDesign.comand many others• Utilized Flash, PHP, ASP, HTML, and Access

• Created a Flash 7 RIA for the Verizon intranet to train sales reps on a new phone product.• Product was populated and configured with XML.• Took the project over late in the cycle from a developer who failed to make his deadlines, and delivered the project on time.• Used Flash/Actionscript, Adobe Creative Suite

• Created Flash sound and animation engines and made all art functional for version 3 of Disney’s Blast game portal.• Implemented content gating logic and different experiences for users with different billing plans, bandwidths, content providers, and technological capabilities.• Content was completely configurable through XML.• Solely responsible for flash content hitting a QA date one month after starting the job working with a codebase I was initially unfamiliar with.• Utilized Flash 7, AS 2, XML, Javascript

• Constantly added new functionality, printable forms, and custom reporting pages to the admin tool for North American Acceptance Corporation (www.opencheck.com) along with 3 other programmers. The site included over 120 pages of input forms, reports, and printable forms. NAAC received over 50,000 applications through this system in the previous year.• Made major graphical and organizational overhauls to www.promises.com, www.exar.com, and www.opencheck.com• Helped create www.blingstar.com with full administration tool using code from another Thinklogic website. • Worked on Search Engine Optimization for Promises Rehabilitation Centers, including creating dozens of feeder sites.• Created a website and gallery management tool for www.richardrogg.com• Serviced sites for several other clients doing everything from changing entertainment client flash websites to updating Yahoo shopping carts to adding functionality to financial management systems.• Utilized Flash 7, ASP, DHTML, Photoshop CS, and SQLServer 2000