Project Manager Engineer

Avery Rosen

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Brooklyn, NY 11238 Tel: (917)822-

3415

Chief Technology O cer

End-

to-

end technology architect with 16 years total experience in internet technology and soSware.

Emphasizes rapid, iteraUve, analyUcs driven development. Strong familiarity with product design; insists

on providing delight to end users. Sees through iniUal requirements to the core of a problem that

stakeholders were never aware of.

OperaUonal experUse: Hardware, Gestalt understanding of business

Networking, and Process process, design, and technology

Genuine and easy-

going team leader Strong understanding of UX and

Agile methodology and modern design principles

programming paradigms Social Media experUse

Lateral thinking Engaging, paUent, dynamic, genial

Professional Experience

CTO

Shopwiki, New York, NY 2009 -

2011

Promoted to lead all of technology at ShopWiki. Responsible for leadership of development team, QA

teams, choices of parUcular technologies, operaUons infrastructure, and applicaUon architecture.

ParUcipated in product formulaUon, strategic decision-

making, and held nal authority over site

behavior.

Member of three person Steering Commieee making all strategic decisions.

Founded an applicaUon QA team and hired QA sta to build an automated tesUng suite using

Hudson for conUnuous integraUon, and Selenium for front-

end tesUng.

Designed a ground-

up migraUon of the ShopWiki UI onto a new plaiorm of Apache, Django, and

MongoDB.

Architected global image thumb-

nailing and caching for ShopWiki's 250MM product images.

Evolved the applicaUon development cycle into 2 week sprints, with automated tesUng

(funcUonal, unit, and pre-

deploy performance tesUng), and automated rollouts with easy rollback.

Oversaw the development of a data feed consuming system for mulUple a liate networks.

Represented ShopWiki IT in diligence meeUngs with potenUal acquiring companies, craSing and

presenUng a comprehensive presentaUon of all of ShopWiki's technology

Post-

acquisiUon, ran integraUon e orts of ShopWiki with Oversee, in operaUons and development

Director of Engineering

Shopwiki, New York, NY 2007 -

2009

Responsible for front-

end soSware development, QA, recruiUng, operaUons, and vendor relaUonships.

Planned new site features and strategy with execuUve team, oversaw soSware release

schedule as project manager.

Developed engineering exam, phone screen, interview process and hired new soSware engineers.

Managed a 6 person crawler data QA team analyzing accuracy of crawled data.

InsUtuted A/B tesUng for ShopWiki website changes and reporUng system.

Managed operaUons, hired and managed sysops personnel.

Expanded operaUons to include two data centers and built them out to 100 machines with

provider redundancy.

Owned relaUonship with CDN, DNS, bandwidth, colocaUon, and hardware vendors.

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SoCware Engineer

Shopwiki, New York, NY 2006 -

2007

Implemented web-

crawler funcUonality.

Developed a liate merchant portal from end-

to-

end (DB design, Java server app,

DHTML front-

end).

Oversaw o site engineering.

Developed home-

grown fully automated NOC applicaUon.

Managed datacenter resources.

SoCware Engineer

DoubleClick, New York, NY 2004 -

2006

Developed applicaUons in C++

Selected by Director of DART plaiorm to be the interface between Adserver Engineering

and the rest of DART technology.

Acted as liaison to Networking, Systems, and Product Management teams; coordinated

team's acUvity in high pro le integraUon projects with Ebay and AOL.

Fielded and resolved P1 issues regarding global adservice along with Systems and Network

engineering sta .

Created and presented training materials to educate DART plaUnum support personnel in

the nuts and bolts of the adserver's funcUonality

Head of IT / Web Developer

Abstract Edge, New York, NY 2002 -

2004

Responsible for o ce and client infrastructure; developed web applicaUons using Oracle DB and

PHP

Corporate Services

Panix, New York, NY 1995 -

1999

Developed internal tools in Perl CGI; provided phone support for corporate web hosUng clients.

Familiar Technologies and Skills

Systems: Linux, MacOS, Windows

Languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C++

Design paeerns

Unit and funcUonal tesUng

Threaded programming

Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle

TCP/IP in depth, networking and rouUng

Apache, IIS

Project management

UI/UX Design

Site AnalyUcs

EducaRon

Brown University, Providence, RI

BA, Computer Science

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