Videate makes software videos easy. We believe that video is a key driver to Customer Success: Learning, Training, Support and Enablement. Digital Transformation is a top priority for modern organizations, and the Videate platform is THE solution for keeping pace with Enterprise software video production workflows.Given the rapid pace of software delivery with agile development, digital products are produced faster than media production teams can handle. This creates “video debt” where the video has drifted away from the true product.We use AI and automation to READ our customer’s tech docs, LEARN about their digital products, and JOIN them together into a language that is understood by our video rendering engine. When a customer’s doc(s) or product(s) change, we re-render their entire video library with automation. This makes our solution orders of magnitude better and faster and 10x to 100x less expensive at scale.

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Scaled the engineering org from 0 to 65 Engineers, Software Developers, and Data Scientists. "Pound for Pound", built one of the most formidable engineering orgs in the video advertising industry, focused on individualized continuous improvement, massive impact with small teams, outsized growth, and loosely coupled cross-functional teams in a fail-fast environment. Responsible for oversight of high-volume / low-low latency systems delivering video advertising at "internet scale".

AKA: Command Line Interactive, FKA: KickstormingCLI was an agility-first development group composed of seasoned engineers, designers, and user-experience practitioners helping funded startups and established tech companies in the Silicon Valley. We focused on performance improvement, continuous integration & delivery, product development, for clients such as Lyft, Brightroll, The Minerva Project, University Now, and more....

Responsible for architecture and development of web applications, data pipelines, browser plugins and automation, and tools spanning the full technology stack. Assisted in system operations and deployment of puppet driven servers running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Focused on browser automation and measurement of data-leakage that occurs from embedding 3rd party tags in websites then processing and displaying the resulting big-data in customer-facing data consoles.

Founder of specialty B2C online snowboard shop offering many niche products for snowboarding. Company employed custom LAMP software do deliver features like:☆ a mannequin shopping assistant facilitating shop-by-size experience☆ specialized CRM platform utilizing the "720° Total Customer View" and:☆ unified messaging for voicemail, text, fax, email☆ CRM-integrated web-based live chat service☆ one-click shipping fulfillment, warehouse location management☆ abandoned shopping cart marketing☆ stuck customer detection☆ data pipelines and reports for integrated SEO measurement☆ and real user monitoring.

Systems engineer and developer of web-based applications and graphical user interfaces for the IFE (In-flight Entertainment) industry utilizing jquery, javascript, html, php and mysql.Responsible for optimizing performance ✈ of existing "flying applications" with a range of techniques spanning the range of the company's proprietary avionics technology stack. Phased in "single-webpage app" designs that delivered the customer experience in a snappy and performant manner.

Developer of specialty kiosk-based ❉ ski rental management software ❉ to optimize the resort's rental shop workflow and management procedures.

Responsible for all aspects of the company's web presence and online commerce. Including big data management of wheel-specific fitment schema for all the known vehicles in production in the modern era. Custom content management system for managing ✠ millions of configurations of wheels & tires ✠ , wheel and vehicle configurators, organic search strategies / analytics / reporting, and MAS 500 integration (Linux ⇒ SQL Server)

Responsible for the company's ecommerce, enterprise accounting, sales reporting, and product management systems. Participated as the lead engineer for the company's secure online checkout which processes tens of thousands of transactions per month. Many projects involved bridging / sharding data between instances of Texis/Vortex and PHP/MySQL with XML and other strategies. Provided mentorship to developers for SQL authorship and optimization, was chief XSD authoring nerd, and served as spiritual leader for best-practices OO design in PHP. Integrated the GoogleMaps 1.0 and 2.0 APIs to enhance geographically-based searches. Served as lead architect of the company's core PHP API supporting internal accounting & provisioning, and the company's Careers and Automotive classified ads divisions.

Contributed to the analysis, design, documentation, and implementation of multi-tier software systems employing ASP, COM+, tSQL, XML, XSD, XPATH, SOAP, Javascript and HTML. Engineered user interfaces for the CRM and provisioning systems that support thousands of customers for the company. Authored complex stored procedures to support the user interface layer of critical systems such as accounting, package & product management and provisioning. Developed a SOAP interface for third-party developers to interact with portions of the company's internal systems.

Core responsibilities included application design, web server administration, client correspondence and technical sales support. Provided leadership to a team of designers and software developers and produced complex projects while performing within the constraints of logistical, budget and time-based challenges. Architected and produced solutions for clients on multiple platforms including Linux, Unix and Windows NT/2000. Provided administration of web servers co-located on multiple networks. Designed a message-board application and caching system that achieved in excess of one million hits per day with Linux, Apache and PHP.

Webmaster for two magazine web sites: videomaker.com and smarttvmag.com. Accomplishments included designing an automated web publication system for monthly magazine articles that employed Cold Fusion and MS Word. Designed, developed and implemented a medium-scale advertisement management system in Cold Fusion and SQL Server. Interacted with the sales/advertising departments and management to provide reports for billing, tracking and affiliate management.

Developed database and script-driven web pages written in Perl and ASP. Work was done while finishing a degree in Instructional Technology. Responsibilities included administration of approximately 20 co-located Windows and *NIX systems, system installation, TCP/IP routing and remote web server administration. Software projects included calendar-based scheduling applications, ad placement and rotation tools, groupware message boards and database persistant form data.

Web developer for the college of communication's departmental website. Managed graphical and textual content from a variety of sources including the dean, staff and students.