Tilde is the bootstrapped company behind Skylight, the smart Rails profiler with a growing fan base. We also help steward the growth of the Ember.js community around the world, and provide related consulting services for Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and Ember.js users. Lastly, we help various open source projects build communities, run events, develop open source brands, and create and sell project swag.

Intermittent consulting and open source community projects, mostly in the marketing and operations areas, alongside full time employment.

The Golden Gate Ruby Conference (GoGaRuCo) was an annual technical conference held in San Francisco focused on the Ruby programming language. It sold out each year at ~450 attendees, with two days of content delivered by industry experts, and filmed for posterity. I was responsible for all event operations, as well as managing the business and finances, and opted to retire the show post moving out of state.

Foundation Board Member and Director of Events.

Strobe built a cutting edge (at the time) HTML5 App Deployment Platform, as well as custom publishing solutions for media conglomerates. The company coalesced around the growth and development of an open source project called SproutCore (later the basis for the new Ember project).I was responsible for product management and design, including managing a team of designers, coordinating with developers to then implement those designs, and prioritizing which features made it into the product to begin with. I also managed the design and implementation of our brand, company website and product marketing materials.I managed a small marketing staff, which focused heavily on growing the SproutCore developer community. We worked on content generation, documentation, events and building a healthy community of global supporters.Lastly, I was responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring and on-boarding company administrative staff.Strobe sold to Facebook in 2011.

My responsibilities have run the gamut; from PR/AR, planning product launches and managing company spokespeople, to more hands-on initiatives, like building a trade show portfolio, writing and editing copy, and launching new web properties from inception to go-live. My primary responsibility has been managing our relationship with an active and vocal developer community; this focuses heavily on social media strategy, crafting the appropriate company voice and adding concrete value, rather than merely moderating and commenting.In my time at Engine Yard my efforts have increased traffic to our web properties by 70x, grown our Twitter audience by 15x and boosted RSS traffic by 10x. User engagement across all mediums is unusually high, and our audience is incredibly well qualified, which translates into a quicker and simpler sales funnel.

I joined Engine Yard as an early-stage startup; like most startups, the key was wearing a different hat every day and doing whatever needed doing. I started, ran and then transitioned to new management the following departments: human resources, facilities and operations, executive administration and web development. I played a key role in formulating company strategy, architecting our growth from 20 to 80 employees and building our customer base from twenty customers, to 400, and then to 1000.

At the J2 Global Communications Santa Barbara field office I coordinated company-wide projects for the Web Marketing department, spearheaded key documentation projects and worked on new resource management and reporting projects for the VP of Engineering. I was also responsible for managing Human Resources and Facilities Management functions on behalf of the remote corporate HR and Facilities departments; my responsibilities included managing candidate interviews, new hire on-boarding and employee termination proceedings.(Employment while temporarily relocated in Santa Barbara, CA)

At Ohel my team and I organized, bid and scheduled maintenance, construction, renovation and repair of more than 30 agency facilities, with project costs ranging from $10k to more than $2MM. We worked with government agencies (the OMRDD, the OMH and ACS) to secure funding grants for these facility rehabilitation projects, as well as to resolve problems with existing facilities. I played a vital role in the development of technological solutions and departmental protocol—including online databases, email and web—in an environment dominated by technophobes.

I ran the day-to-day operations of Brooklyn College’s largest publication. My responsibilities included recruiting, training and supervising a writing, layout and business staff of 30+, a rigorous budgeting process with university administration, and presenting annual reports to our corporate oversight committee. To supplement our university-provided budget, I developed and maintained advertising relationships with national and local advertisers and agencies.

One of my three avoid-accumulating-student-debt-during-college jobs. I worked 9-5 supporting the sales staff at a small wholesaler and lead basic marketing efforts. Responsibilities included accounting functions using Quickbooks, inventory management (Quickbooks + warehouse), executive support, marketing, and sales support.