Engineer Quality Assurance

JASCHA FRANKLIN-HODGE

617-***-**** - ********@********.***

- http://www.joeshmoe.com/

Objective:

To use my management skills and

technical know-how to direct a team of engineers and systems administrators

in the development of products that change the way people live, work, and

play.

Work Experience:

3/04 - present

Co-founder/CTO, Blue

State Digital, Boston, MA

9/03 - 3/04

National Systems

Administrator, Dean for America

(Howard Dean's Presidential campaign), Burlington, VT

Sole administrator for a 30+ machine, datacenter-hosted

network of web, blog, application, media streaming, and contribution servers.

These Linux machines ran software such as Apache, MySQL, Moveable Type, PHP and

Mason (for custom applications).

Architected server complex to ensure security, stability,

and reliability under highly volatile usage.

Responsible for setting up hardware and bandwidth contracts

to facilitate rapid scaling.

On call 24x7 to deal with any server problems (hardware

failure, hack attempts, etc.).

Wrote the software tool (using PHP) that allowed the

campaign to automate online fundraising "bats" (thermometers) and

have clearer visibility into fundraising progress over time.

Wrote tool in PHP to track open and click through rate of

emails sent to supporters and press. This enabled the campaign to tailor email

messages for maximum effectiveness.

Set up and managed the technology behind WDFA (Dean's online

talk radio station). Handled webcasting and audio engineering for this nightly

call-in show.

Supported the developers of products such as Deanlink,

Commons, and the Dean state websites. Built a testbed / deployment system for

them which enabled over 25 developers to safely and securely work on portions

of the Dean web site.

11/98 - 9/03 (acquired by AOL in 06/99) / AOL Music, San Francisco, CA

3/01 –

9/03 Director of Software Development

7/00 –

3/01 Chief Engineer

8/99 – 7/00 Manager of Server Engineering

4/99 –

8/99 Sr. Server Engineer

11/98 –

4/99 Server Engineer

Designated AOL Top

Talent (top 10%) in 2000 and 2001 review periods.

Management

responsibilities and accomplishments:

Second-tier manager for four teams: Web Application

Engineering (Java), Client Engineering (C++/DHTML), Streaming Server

Engineering (C/C and Quality Assurance.

Oversaw the creation of Radio@AOL,

which launch in the AOL 7.0 toolbar in 2001.

Managed development of the Winamp music player application.

Managed AOL s implementation of the MusicNet subscription service.

Designed and developed a music subscription service in under

six weeks for a scheduled Christmas 2000 launch. Product did not launch

due to content rights issues.

Responsible for the development of the back-end streaming

infrastructure to support all AOL music initiatives. Back-end has scaled

to support 2 gigabits/second of simultaneous traffic making it possibly the

largest streaming service in the world.

Responsible for the front-end and back-end development of

the Spinner Plus radio player. Oversaw the design, engineering, and

release of Spinner Plus 4.0, which

shipped in July of 2001.

Responsible for all SHOUTcast

server development. Oversaw the creation of a hardware streaming server

solution in partnership with Extreme Networks.

Ensured that all shipped products met high standards of

quality and reliability.

Primary job responsibilities include: building out

development teams and team member skill sets, developing relationships with

other teams (both technical and non-technical) across the company, creating

technical implementation plans from high-level business requirements, and

ensuring architectural consistency across all software development efforts.

Development responsibilities and

accomplishments:

Designed an implemented a cross-platform (Linux, Windows,

Mac OS X, and Sony Playstation/2) internet radio client library in C. Now

deployed in several AOL products. Ported the library functionality to the .NET

platform with all code rewritten in C#.

Worked extensively in Java, C, and Pro*C to maintain,

improve, and expand the Internet's largest radio service.

Designed and single-handedly engineered an Internet radio

service for Yahoo!. Yahoo! Radio

consists of more than 10,000 lines of C, Pro*C, and Perl code. It incorporates

a custom socket communications protocol, numerous UNIX daemon processes (with a

process control application) and extensive monitoring tools. The fault tolerant

architecture has enabled continuous stream uptime in excess of one month.

Worked extensively extending and enhancing the

sophisticated, database-driven song selection application which drives

Spinner's service.

Rewrote more than half of the Java code used with Spinner's

middleware package (ATG Dynamo) to improve efficiency, reliability, and

manageability.

Maintained and enhanced a system for scheduling audio

advertisements on Spinner's service.

Worked to extend and improve the communications protocol

used to communicate between Spinner's site and the downloadable player

application.

7/96 - 9/98

Art

Technology Group, Boston, MA

Wrote and maintained module that allows Dynamo Application Server to be used with Apache.

Designed and built a comprehensive, database-driven,

web-based bug tracking/QA support system using SQL, Java and HTML

Updated and maintained NT and UNIX installers for ATG Dynamo

Application Server, Retail Station, and Profile Station.

11/93 - 7/96

Software

Tool and Die (The World), Brookline, MA

Consulting

Projects (details available on request):

2/96 - 3/96

The Computer

Museum, Boston, MA.

11/94 - 8/95

Andiron

Press, Brookline, MA

10/94 - 1/95

School of The

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

9/94 - 10/94

The Nieman

Foundation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Management Skills:

Skilled at building a team culture

capable of shipping products on schedule and to specification. Excellent

communicator. Skillful at managing numerous simultaneous on-going projects and

issues. Extensive experience hiring candidates for technical positions. Strong

leadership and resource coordination skills. Able to communicate well with

non-technical business teams. Good understanding of marketing/business issues.

Very skilled at translating business problems into technical solutions.

Experienced in providing technical language and technology due diligence for

business deals and contracts.

Technical Skills:

Extensive experience programming in

Java, C, C#, Perl, and PHP on Windows (Win32 and .NET), Unix (Linux, Mac OS X,

and Solaris), and the Sony Playstation/2. Strong skills in integrating database

back-ends to web front-ends using SQL, JDBC, ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, Java, Pro*C,

Perl, and PHP. Expert in building web applications on the ATG Dynamo platform.

Experienced in designing and engineering complex TCP/IP socket communication

protocols for media streaming. Worked extensively with various secure and

non-secure digital music technologies including MP3, AAC, RealAudio, Quicktime,

and Windows Media. Thorough knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Expert in the design and maintenance of large-scale, high-uptime UNIX and

Windows networks.

General Skills:

Thrive in a fast-paced,

high-pressure work environment. Enthusiastic documenter. Always eager to take

on new challenges and learn new skills. Extensive knowledge of the technology

industry from both a technical and a business perspective.

Independent Projects:

10/94 – 06/98

LaughWEB and Laugh Of The Day

Created and

maintained one of the Internet's largest humor web-sites (LaughWEB). Created

and managed the Laugh Of The Day mailing list. When first started, LaughWEB

contained about 50 items. By its closure in 1998, it has over 1,000 pieces of

humor gathered from all over the Internet. Laugh Of The Day, which had more

than 35,000 subscribers, was a daily mailing of humor selected at random from

LaughWEB. In April 1996, Newsweek readers selected Laugh Of The Day as one of

their five favorite Internet mailing lists. LaughWEB and Laugh Of The Day have

been written up in such publications as New York Newsday, The Pittsburgh

Post-Gazette, The Daily Yomiuri (Japan), The Seattle Times, The Guardian (UK),

South China Morning Post, The Observer (UK), and The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Education:

Completed one year of undergraduate

study at the in

1998.

Graduated from,

Brookline MA in 1997.

Awards:

2006 Fast 50 (Fast Company Magazine)

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