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Summary
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Experienced Internet software architect and technology team manager with a software engineering background, a startup attitude, and a record of delivering production quality systems at prototyping speed.
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Led web technology development at three early stage ventures, each with a liquidity event during my tenure based on technology built under my leadership: Citysearch (IPO after merging with Ticketmaster.com), Stamps.com (IPO), and Rent.com (acquired by eBay for $435 million).
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| CampusExplorer.com
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June 2007 - Present |
VP Technology
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Santa Monica, CA |
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| ThisNext.com
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December 2005 - May 2007 |
Co-founder / VP Technology
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Santa Monica, CA |
Co-founder of buzzword compliant web startup.
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| · | Technologies used include: Perl, Linux, Apache, mod_perl, Mason, MySQL, SQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript.
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| Rent.com (acquired by eBay)
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July 2001 - November 2005 |
Director of Technology
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Santa Monica, CA |
| · | Led engineering team in the development of the Rent.com web sites including the public sites, internal support systems, integration with accounting/financials and external service providers, and the launching of several new verticals/businesses.
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| · | Performed a complete rearchitecture and reimplementation of the legacy renter web site in 3 months, replacing IIS/ASP/NT with Apache, mod_perl, and Mason on Linux using Oracle on Solaris.
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| · | Grew engineering team from 3 to 12 and matured the development process accordingly to support the growing needs of the business as it moved from startup to IPO/acquisition candidate.
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| Stamps.com
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April 1999 - June 2001 |
Senior Web Architect
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Santa Monica, CA |
| · | Led a team of six engineers in the development of a dynamic web site designed for high performance and scalability.
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| · | Architected web systems using Apache, Perl, mod_perl, Mason, thttpd, and Oracle on Linux and Solaris.
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| · | Developed source tracking, cobranding, ROI reporting, to optimize marketing spend.
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| Citysearch.com
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July 1996 - March 1999 |
Senior Software Architect/Engineer
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Pasadena, CA |
| · | Led a team of ten engineers in the development of a database-driven online guide to local events, businesses, and community information. This software was used by top media companies to produce award-winning web sites in cities around the world.
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| · | Implemented critical portions of the software system in Perl (along with some C++ and Java) with connections to back end databases including Oracle, Informix, and Illustra and the Verity search engine.
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| · | Led the gradual migration from startup chaos to reasonable software development practices, reducing risks and improving quality while retaining rapid development response times.
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| Structural Dynamics Research Corporation
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June 1994 - July 1996 |
Senior Systems Engineer/Webmaster
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Cincinnati, OH |
| · | Developed the corporate web site and intranet starting in the Spring of 1993, when fewer than 100 web sites existed on the Internet.
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| Structural Dynamics Research Corporation
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June 1991 - May 1994 |
Technical Development Engineer
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Cincinnati, OH |
| · | Developed C modules for a new version of a world-class mechanical design automation software system including topology traversal, data management, archive file, and error handling.
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| Process and Computational Design Services, Inc.
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June 1985 - May 1991 |
Vice President
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Cincinnati, OH |
Contract consulting and software development. Clients included Xetron Corporation, Procter & Gamble, University of Cincinnati Computing Center. Fun projects included:
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| · | Alphanumeric satellite communications base station using C and Objective C on the NeXT/Mach platform.
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| · | Complete preprocessor and parser for the C programming language.
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| · | Transparent OS-level disk mirroring with fail-over for the QNX operating system.
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| · | Object oriented windowing system in C++ for a proprietary embedded system.
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| Education
| University of Cincinnati
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1991 |
Bachelor of Science
Computer Science
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Cincinnati, OH |
Awards: Full Tuition Albert B. Voorheis Honor Scholarship; Mary Rowe Moore Admission with Distinction.
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Skills
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| · | High volume, scalable, secure, and complex web site technical architecture and design
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| · | Perl, C, C++, Java, ... (but mainly Perl lately)
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| · | Linux, Solaris, IRIX, Mach, HPUX, ... (but mainly Linux lately)
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| · | Apache 2, Apache 1, mod_perl, Mason, thttpd, CGI, ...
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| · | MySQL, Oracle, SQL, database schema design, ...
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| · | HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, JavaScript, HTTP, SMTP, DNS
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| · | Subversion, CVS, ClearCase, ...
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| · | postfix, qmail, sendmail, bind9/named, ...
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| · | make, imake, lex, yacc, sh, bash, ...
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| · | Technology team building, engineering management, process and growth management
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