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Palo Alto, CA, US

Palo Alto, CA

• Wrote computer programs and provided IT services for highly trafficked legal website (over one million visitors per year).
• Wrote computer programs to acquire and process US Federal and state laws, cases and other government legal content for the website.
• Designed user interface (UI) and navigation for legal materials.
• Optimized content and meta tagging to make content more findable on search engines using best practices of technical and editorial SEO (search engine optimization).

Palo Alto, CA

• Develop IT strategies and SEO backed web design.
• IT projects include network setup, maintenance, backups, and security.
• Web development projects include server setup, design, technical search engine optimization (SEO), editorial SEO, link building and social media setup and distribution.
• Clients are small to medium sized businesses and law firms.

Mountain View, CA

• Managed team through acquisition by Thomson (Thomson Reuters).
• Hired and managed editorial and technical teams for FindLaw, the highest trafficked legal website in the United States.
• Significantly increased web traffic and registered user base. Sections of the website developed during this time available upon request.

Palo Alto, CA

• Hired and managed FindLaw's initial engineering and IT team from pre-funding through Angel Series A and Series B VC funding.
• Setup initial dedicated web servers for the FindLaw legal portal, and established network, security and backup protocols.
• Lead IT engineers on maintenance and administration of servers.
• Lead engineering team on portal projects, including case law aggregation from over a seventy five government websites, as well as other government database projects.

Mountain View, CA

• Managed the IT group for Aviron, a biopharmaceutical company acquired by Medimmune.
• Responsible for setup, maintenance and upgrade of Unix servers, web servers, email servers, firewalls, fax servers, and internal network.
• Worked with scientists on research projects, recommending and installing computer and network related equipment, and evaluating relevant software.

Campbell, CA

• Technical liaison between sales and service teams for CEMAX-ICON (CEMAX-ICON was acquired by Kodak, as part of their Kodak Health division, and then sold to Onex and renamed Carestream Health).
• Collaborated with sales team and service team to help set expectations for sales and customers, and relay customer feedback to sales and engineering teams.
• Worked with hospitals around the country, installing teleradiology systems, and training the staff and doctors on how to transmit and manipulate images from CAT Scans, MRI, Ultrasound, and X-rays to the remote.