Richard Tafoya Email & Phone Number

Beverly Hills, California, US

- Manage the web domain portfolios for Live Nation's global entities, including corporate acquisitions, internal project launches, site sunsets and coordinating DNS changes.- Assist in the development of the web compliance framework for Live Nation's global entities and lead the assessment process for those entities. - Provide regular reporting to.

Content and technology solutions for clients ranging from startups to national content and entertainment brands.Current web development and hosting projects: - Herbie Hancock's business team. - Select Ticketmaster projects. - Select Knitting Factory projects, including Talkhouse.com.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Development work for Leaf Group's corporate CMS systems.

Santa Monica, CA, US

- Optimized or created the initial build of virtually every part of the saatchiart.com site. - Focused on key Core Web Vitals metrics, improving SEO.- Extensive work with internal APIs and external Algolia and Stripe API systems.- Resolved significant tech debt by migrating old jQuery-driven sections of the site to React-powered components.

Santa Monica, CA, US

- Took over development and maintenance of an ExpressionEngine-powered CMS that the art fair was using when Leaf Group acquired them. - Built a fair application and judging system in Elixir/Phoenix, which resolved problems that art fair had with an earlier system that a former dev shop created. - The new system presented a much more professional UI for.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Worked for several properties at Leaf Group, doing a combination of upgrading legacy code and building new functionality. Built the new corporate site for Leaf Group in advance of their public name change from Demand Media. This was a WordPress theme project that I authored from the ground up.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Led a complete rebuild of Demand Media's newly-acquired Cuteness.com property. The project involved taking over Drupal development of the site, piloting a commerce section of the site to sell products and migrating the editorial portion of the site from Drupal to Wordpress.

Boise, Idaho, US

- Responsible for ensuring security, stability and disaster recovery across Knitting Factory's network of 17 sites, eliminating $10k/wk in lost online ticket sales and restaurant revenue due to website malfunctions. - Plotted and executed online audience growth and revenue maximization strategy, focused on SEO and layout changes highlighting commerce or.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Front-end engineer for the rebuild and launch of AXS.com. Extensive template and routing work using Symfony 2 and Twig.

Beverly Hills, California, US

- Launched the LiveDaily Sessions video series, recording acoustic performances with over 100 indie artists as a content programming counterpart to Ticketmaster's club ticketing business. A counterpart podcast utilizing our own recordings along with featured indie label releases grew to over 100,000 monthly downloads. - Negotiated promotional relationships.

Beverly Hills, California, US

- Repatriated the LiveDaily site from Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch back to core Ticketmaster and re-hired the editorial team for the site. LiveDaily grew a loyal audience and honed a content focus that delivered $8 million in gross ticket sale referrals to Ticketmaster annually.

-- Coordinated the developent and launch of My Citysearch, the company's consumer personalization, ranking and review systems-- Coordinated the developent and launch of Citysearch's user reviews platform.

- Created the LiveDaily content site, an editorial counterpart to Ticketmaster. The site launched as a one-man operation and when integrated with the CitySearch network, revealed a larger audience than some fully-staffed Citysearch sites. - Hired initial editorial staff to evolve the site's content strengths and increase volume of output.

Beverly Hills, California, US

- Joined the core pre-launch staff of Ticketmaster.com and began working with the content team on publishing logistics. - Established a basic understanding of HTML, CSS and browser functionality.

Beverly Hills, California, US

- Managed a team of eight field representatives servicing retail ticket centers.- Strategized major onsale rollouts in terms of consumer lineup logistics, ticket center staffing, store hours, security and promoter concerns.- Regularly met with store and corporate management to discuss operational issues and consumer feedback and to review effectiveness of.

- Worked with Hollywood Records act The Poorboys to build regional and college bookings and to coordinate and tour manage those outings. - As tour support materialized, joined the band on the road and in recording sessions for two years as guitar tech and general logistics support.

- Onsale and event ticket office staffing, including will-call logistics, settlement report preparation and cash drops.- Participated in event discounting and remote ticket pre-print operations.- Managed seating issues with house staff on event nights.

Beverly Hills, California, US

- Provided both remote and on-site support to Ticketmaster ticket centers. - Coordinated logistics for major on-sales, ensuring that supplies and staffing were in place to work with lines and, if needed, random wristbands. - Developed training programs and ethics standards with Ticketmaster's ticket center partners.