Quality Assurance Software

Director of Technology, Rich Media

Accomplished technologist with 20+ years of experience building, deploying

and maintaining challenging web based information technology initiatives.

Current hands on experience leading teams, writing code, designing

solutions, and driving quality assurance. Experienced in building and

managing highly effective, multi-skilled development teams. Strong

communicator and problem solver, well versed in building productive

relationships across organizations. Determined, Capable, Effective.

Major Accomplishments

. Technology owner of one of the world's largest online video

websites(comscore).

. Key leader in major re-architecture of online application serving 160M

unique guests per month.

. Technical lead for one of the world's largest online content ingestion

and encoding properties.

. Built and led teams of 30+ and managed multi-million dollar budgets.

. Architect and lead developer of a B2B online auction site handling

over $150M annually in transactions.

. Architect and lead developer of a real time, online, social video

viewing application.

Director of Technology, Rich Media Group

MySpace, Beverley Hills, CA

(Oct 2007 - Present)

MySpace is the second largest social portal in the world. It empowers its

global community to experience the Internet through a social lens by

integrating personal profiles, photo sharing, professional and viral

videos, blogs, mobile, instant messaging, and the world's largest music

community. It is a division of News Corporation ((NYSE:NWS).

Responsibilities

Direct the efforts of the Rich Media Group within MySpace, consisting of

multiple engineering teams, a quality assurance team, an operations team

and a project management team. Accountable for the ingestion, management,

protection and distribution of all MySpace music and video. Establish

group's quarterly and annual roadmap by engaging internal and external

stakeholder, prioritizing initiatives, performing cost benefit analysis,

estimating resource allocations, and evaluating projects against company-

wide initiatives. Set group standards for quality, best practices, and

work conduct. Build and energize highly talented and effective engineering

teams. Manage multi-million dollar budgets. Sit on executive and

architectural steering committees, providing input and direction to current

and future initiatives.

In a previous role as Development Manager for MySpace Video: Direct the

efforts of two teams of engineers who develop and maintain the MySpace

Video website and applications, consisting of multiple web pages, flash

applications, and over 100 servers spanning two virtual networks.

Technology owner of the second largest premium video and UGV online

property in the world, generating over 400,000,000 monthly page views

(comscore). Primary video contact for all organizational groups including

content upload and ingest, data development, caching, content storage,

advertising, QA, infrastructure, analytics, and network operations. Write

and review code. Architect solutions. Define requirements. Develop group

standards, policies and procedures. Recruit and retain highly talented

engineers.

Professional Highlights

. Drove initiatives to increase the distribution of music, video, and live

content to iPad, iPhone and Android devices

. Key leader in a major re-architecture project of an online video web

site, involving over 120 people and spanning eleven months.

. Designed new presentation layer framework to support rapid page

development, configurable page components, and complete business and data

layer abstraction that cut development time in half and decreased code

bugs by thirty percent.

. Doubled the size of multiple development teams of C#, Javascript, and

Action Script within a five month period.

. Delivered on aggressive launch schedules, managing six major product

launches in less than two years.

. Successfully implemented a SCRUM methodology and process, including

developing user stories, defining sprints, scrum mastering and sprint

reporting using Rally software.

Core Technologies: .NET 3.5, Flex, AJAX, C#, Action Script, Javascript,

FFMPEG, HandBrake, SOA, XML, Visual Studio (2008), ASP.NET, HTTP Live

Streaming, SQL Server 2010, TFS

Director of Engineering

Digital Music Group, Sacramento, CA

(Jun 2007 - Sep 2007)

Digital Music Group (NASD:DMGI) was a publicly-held content rights owner

and distributor of digital music and video. It acquired rights to media

catalogs and digitally encoded them into multiple formats for distribution

over Internet, wireless, cable and mobile networks. It was purchased in

September 2007 by Orchard Entertainment (NASD: ORCD).

Responsibilities

Led team of video encoders and content producers that developed DMGI's

video vault. Developed packaging software to bundle and distribute content

and metadata.

Professional Highlights

. Developed video content packaging software to build content and metadata

packages for delivery to clients including YouTube, iTunes, Amazon,

NetFlix, Joost, Helio, and MobiTV, that increased the efficiency of the

process and reduced the bundling time by twenty percent.

. Successfully directed efforts to develop new video content formats,

including video ringtones for mobile devices, resulting in additional

revenue streams for the organization.

Core Technologies: Java, Eclipse, MySQL, .NET 2.0, On2, C#, IIS6

Vice President of Technology

SC Networks, Los Gatos, CA

(Apr 2006 - Jun 2007)

SC Networks was a startup that developed software that enabled users to

experience real time, synchronized, online videos together and share their

experiences. Users could build play lists, invite their friends to share

video sessions, chat and rate videos, all in a real-time interactive

environment.

Responsibilities

Led a team of thirteen individuals to design, build and support

organizations software applications. Interviewed and hired engineers. Act

as the primary technical liaison interacting with other groups, including

executive management and marketing.

Professional Highlights

. Designed server architecture that implemented the business layer, data

abstraction layer, third-party integration, application security, and

session management of the primary software product line.

. Developed a myspace API that contained an http request/response simulator

which scraped pages and pulled client profiles and friends' lists,

automatically posted bulletins, and updated users' profiles.

. Architected a single login technology that combined information gathered

from users' cookies, a web server, and a database to maintain state

across all of the company's applications and web sites.

. Implemented a suite of web services that provided image uploads, content

uploads, myspace profile integration, YouTube video searches, and Plaxo

address book importing.

Core Technologies: .NET2.0, C#, IIS, ASP.NET, FMS, Flash Remoting, Java,

Eclipse, Tomcat, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript

Director of Consulting Services

Thuridion, Scotts Valley, CA

(Mar 2004 - Mar 2006)

Thuridion was a privately held software development firm specializing in

web application development, custom website development, and technology

consulting.

Responsibilities

Championed major projects from inception to completion. Drove the entire

software development process by building client relationships, defining

requirements, managing resources, and delivering software. Worked with the

CEO and CFO on forecasting committee to estimate revenues, track billing,

perform cash flow analysis, allocate consulting resources, and review

project portfolio totaling over $3,000,000 annually.

Professional Highlights

. Developed an employee incentive plan to increase billings, improve moral,

and raise margins, resulting in a 10% increase in revenue.

. Re-architected online web store for audio software publisher, which

included integrating an anti-piracy software solution and redesigning the

application into a 3-tier architecture.

. Re-engineered a legacy banking application, converting it to a scalable,

n-tiered, browser-based solution.

Core Technologies: .NET2.0, C#, IIS, ASP.NET, FMS, Flash Remoting, Java,

Eclipse, Tomcat, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, Java

Chief Technology Officer

Digital Exchange Systems Inc., Tampa, FL

(Nov 2000- Feb 2004)

Digital Exchange Systems was a privately held company that developed a B2B

online auction site for the wholesale grocery industry where large grocery

chains and distributors could anonymously buy and sell truck loads of

products. The company provided the marketplace, logistics and financing.

Together with its partner companies, it generated over $500,000,000 in

annual revenues.

Responsibilities

Led design and development efforts to create a B2B online auction site and

built the technology group for the organization. Oversaw all aspects of

each phase of the development process to ensure the successful launch of

the product. Integrated the new application into the legacy mainframe

systems and incorporated EDI capabilities into a web-based inventory and

purchasing management systems.

Professional Highlights

. Developed and managed relationship with $18B client, resulting in more

than $100,000,000 in annual revenue.

. Recruited and trained team of 25 individuals.

. Built the Information Technology department and infrastructure,

consisting of a nationwide network of systems and resources.

. Managed a multi-million dollar budget.

. Established technological direction and strategies, department policies

and procedures.

. Designed the architecture for the B2B online auction application,

including anonymous buying and selling, automated bidding, lot bidding, a

truck load configuration module for determining the size and weight of

orders real-time, buyer and seller ratings, and anonymous negotiation.

Core Technologies: ASP.NET, VB6, IIS, XML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQL

Server.

(Additional professional experience provided upon request)

MBA, Santa Clara University

BS in Computer Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis

Obispo

BS in Business Administration, California Polytechnic State University, San

Luis Obispo

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