Manager Management

Andrew Grumet

Ph.D.

********@****.***.****** Francisco

SUMMARY

VP Architecture at Mevio

Software product builder

MIT graduate and teacher

MIT Press author

Pioneering podcasting developer

Hands-on manager, experienced team builder, evolving leader.

Recent engineering projects:

Project Name Project Description Date

Amazon AWS Migration Organized website cutover to Amazon cloud with no downtime: 5

engineers, 80 EC2 instances, 350 pageviews per second. 2012

Mevio Network Led a team of 7 engineers to build out and scale up an online video

platform that delivers hundreds of millions of media and preroll views through dozens of

daily-programmed channels and multiple video ad management systems. 2010-2011

Crux Developed and maintained a video and advertising data warehouse that grows by ~5

billion rows per month, delivering near real-time analytics (30 minutes delayed)

internally and to partners. 2009-10

DGAP Built a dynamic ad insertion system for MP3, that rotates ads into downloadable

files without the need for hardware-intensive re-encoding, that has processed over a

billion hits in its lifetime and handles ~500k per day. 2006

Juice Leading a four person open source team, built the most popular podcasting

application prior to iTunes 4.9, downloaded over 5 million times and localized to over 20

languages. 2004-2005

Juice Store With Martijn Venrooy, created an e-commerce Web application for creating

specialized Windows and Mac application installers for Juice, carrying custom branding and

pre-subscribed to selected podcast feeds. 2005

GigaDial With Martijn Venrooy, created a Podcast remixer that lets users create

customized podcast feeds and push recommendations directly to one anothers' media players.

6+ years of continuous operation, ~5k registered users. 2004

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VP ArchitectureOctober, 2005 - PresentMevio, Inc.

San Francisco, CA

Hands-on manager leading the software development and technical operations teams building

a broadband advertising and entertainment platform. Responsibilities range from hiring to

team management to software development.

Regular daily experience with: javascript, php, mysql, infobright, memcache, subversion,

git, puppet, gearman, bash.

Owner and ConsultantFebruary, 2002 - October, 2005Andrew Grumet, LLC

Somerville, MA

Sole proprietor consulting business, providing software services to large and small

clients, including:

The Development Gateway Foundation, enhanced and maintained a web-based multi-language

economic development portal.

MIT Sloan School of Management, developed and maintained an educational intranet used

daily by more than 1,000 members of the MIT community. Shepherded the system through three

major system upgrades, performing numerous code merges between the system and its

underlying open source platform.

Warner Bros., provided technical infrastructure for podcast promotion of the House of Wax

movie. Hosted the House of Wax RSS feed and provided a custom-skinned podcast receiver

(desktop software) built on Juice.

Elsa Dorfman, portrait photographer.

Technical project lead

November, 1999 - February, 2002ArsDigita Corporation

Cambridge, MA

Led web projects backed by the ArsDigita Community System (ACS). Leadership

responsibilities included: pitching new clients, business requirements definition, SQL

data modeling, system design, and technical supervision of a 3-4 person team through

initial implementation, iteration and testing, public launch, and ongoing maintenance and

upgrades.

Major projects:

The Development Gateway a multilingual web-based knowledge sharing system that we built

for the World Bank Group. Implemented in Oracle SQL and AOLserver Tcl (ACS v4.1), the

Development Gateway supports community building within topic areas by providing: content

management tools that designated guides use to moderate, highlight and organize content;

collaborative tools such as content submission, commenting, bulletin boards, and email

alerts that enable users to work together.

HP Image Services, a web-based system that we built for Hewlett-Packard to support

collaborative document production (non-public site). Implemented in Oracle SQL and

AOLserver Tcl (ACS v3.0), HP Image Services provides outsourced file storage, document

production workflow, and order generation and tracking for organizations that produce

printed documents.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Member

Fall and Spring, 2004

OpenACS Board

EDUCATION

PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

SM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.

SKILLS

Technical

Knowledge domains

Amazon AWS

System architecture and scaling

Web application development

Web video and ad management systems

MP3 and ID3 internals

Data modeling

Cross-platform desktop application development

User experience design

Multi-lingual application development

Release management

Data warehousing and ETL

Languages

PHP

SQL

HTML

CSS/Less

Javascript

Bash

Python

Tcl

Perl

C#

Java

C

PL/SQL

Databases

MySQL

Infobright

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Version Control

GIT

SVN

CVS

Other

JavascriptMVC

Puppet

Apache

Memcache

Gearman

wxPython

ASP.NET

Linux administration

Generic Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX)

AOLserver

OpenACS

Managerial

Team leadership, working with clients, teaching.

Other

Analog circuit design, data acquisition systems, electrophysiology, working knowledge of

French.

TEACHING

Co-taught three-day source on Relational Database Management System and Internet

application programming (January, 2011 and 2012;

http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/)

Co-taught MIT 6.171: Software Engineering of Innovative Web Services with Philip

Greenspun and Hal Abelson. Responsibilities included: giving lectures, writing problem

sets, supervising student projects, and class administration. (Spring, 2000, Fall, 2000,

Spring, 2002 and Fall, 2003).

Dozens of hours leading Web programming training sessions at our free "bootcamps" while

at ArsDigita.

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