See https://scenery.video

Joined Twitter as part of SnappyTV acquisition.

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/snappytv-is-joining-the-flock

I led a team building a backend serving system based on Cassandra (http://cassandra.apache.org/).

As part of the Brickhouse product innovation group, I participated in ongoing new product ideation that was to lead to prototype work in January (Yahoo! closed the group in December). As well, I worked on Fire Eagle, writing an ActionScript client library, a testing application, a geo-visualizer application, and doing some backend engineering work in Ruby+Rails.

In this position I served as a principal architect for the group, innovation leader, and technical evangelist. Some of my responsibilities included fostering innovation through awards and brainstorms, researching markets for viability, prototyping / hacking, architectural reviews, active coding and architectural participation on client and advertising platforms, organizing and leading tech talks, promoting agile and best development practices, and serving on the media patent application committee. As part of this job I was the primary author of the IAB Digital Video Player-Ad Interface Definition, VPAID - http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/508676/digitalvideo/vpaid work for which I received a 2009 Service Excellence Award http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press_release_archive/press_release/pr-022110-sales

I managed engineering for video.yahoo.com (VYC), jumpcut.com and new players and tools. During this time I built out four teams: video.yahoo.com, Yahoo! Extensible Player (YEP), Yahoo! Video Advertising plugin, and QA. We delivered several versions of the ad plugin, a re-code of VYC front end (Feb ‘08), and a new AS3-based dynamically extensible video player platform, YEP, (Feb '08). Following these releases, these teams were spun out to some broader teams within Yahoo!, notably the media properties group and new video syndication platform group. During the transition I chose to take a break from management and focus on architecture and innovation for the video syndication platform group.

I started this company in 2005, built a great team and site, and sold to Yahoo! in 2006. Jumpcut was a video sharing community that allowed you to upload video, photos and audio, edit them in a Flash-based online video editor, and remix and share with other users. As co-founder and CTO, I managed all aspects of technology for the company and served as chief architect.

During this time I led the NetZero HiSpeed client team for versions 1 and 2. NetZero HiSpeed (http://www.netzero.net/compare/) uses a client and server proxy with persistent tcp connection to accelerate standard dialup connections. The team was distributed over several geographic locations (San Francisco, Westlake Village, New York, Hyderabad).

I designed and implemented ActionScript 2.0 -- the scripting language of the Flash player (AS3 is out with FP 9 and above). I was also one of the initial team members on Flex and Flex Builder. I had built a prototype and pitched a client+server IDE product, leading me into the work on ActionScript and Flex. As well, as a contributing member of the Flash Remoting team I designed and implemented the NetConnection Debugger.

After performing the AimTV integration, I led the SurfSafari engineering team. SurfSafari was an integrated browser helper that performed real-time related site recommendations based off linguistic analysis of web pages. I was also a key member in the research and development of their thin client architecture.

I started this company in 98, raised funding, hired a team of 20 people, and built software technology to schedule and deliver television commercials over narrowband Internet connections. Subsequently we were acquired by NetZero to power their video advertising network. NetZero has used AimTV technology to this day.

At Pfizer I cyled through a couple of engineering teams on the Clinical Management System product. Teams included reporting, application, and database.