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Chief Architect (Personal Media)/Director of Software (AOL): AOL/Xdrive Inc.; Santa Monica, CA; July 2005 - November 2008 |
I was responsible for all technical development and operations of the Xdrive division.
I reported to the VP of Digital services, where I was responsible for Xdrive, AOL Pictures and BlueString.
In the first 5 months, I completed the following:
I reported to the VP of Digital services, where I was responsible for Xdrive, AOL Pictures and BlueString.
In the first 5 months, I completed the following:
- Migrated service form our data center to an AOL center.
- Led a technology refresh that ported the service to new hardware, OS and software versions.
- Upgraded from 8i on Solaris to a 10g RAC on Linux.
- Integrated with the AOL billing and account provisioning system.
As my group transitioned into AOL corporate, I:
- Led the development and launch of the new media product BlueString.
- Created APIs and a developer community product, OpenXdrive.
- Built a platform technologies team that developed core technologies common to the Personal Media storage and media products.
- Worked with AOL finance to create SDLC processes that feed into capitalization practices that aided in financing development efforts (More than 50% of budget for some projects).
- Managed overseas and 3rd party development groups.
- Worked on patents: 7,337,207, 7,171,472 and several on going applications.
- Evangelized AOL technology at EclipseCon, MashupCamp, Techcrunch 40 and Twiistup.
Chief Technology Officer/Co-Founder: Xdrive Inc.; Santa Monica, CA; July 2003 - July 2005 |
I was responsible for all technology development, technical operations, quality assurance, project management, product development, vendor management and intellectual property.
I created/managed a service that supported 310,000 active accounts that drove 3,500 simultaneous requests, 180Mbs of traffic and 1 million database transactions per hour.
I reported directly to the CEO to help create Xdrive's corporate strategy and product vision.
As the CTO I:
- Was one of three executives that handled the sale of Xdrive to AOL.
- Handled all of Xdrive's technical due diligence.
- Represented Xdrive to various brokers and companies.
- Controlled Xdrive's technical and product strategy.
As head of technical operations, I:
- Worked directly with the CFO to manage a multi-million dollar budget for hardware, services, staff and facilities.
- Worked with vendors to define requirements and negotiate contracts and services.
- Managed requirements, projects and deliverables for internal development staff, outsourced teams and marketing.
- Handled hiring and managing technical staff. Grew staff from 5 engineers with 15 years of experience to 18 with 160+ years of experience. Created separate development, operational, project management and QA staffs.
- Implemented processes and automated tracking for project specifications, project status, defects, system changes and developer metrics.
- Started a system for tracking system health by monitoring "vital" system metrics and code profiling each release.
As the technical lead I:
- Upgraded from Weblogic5.1 to JBoss 4.0.2
- Unified Xdrive's various code bases into a singular, modular code base.
- Refactored legacy code and tuned servers for faster, more stable operation. (Reduced "Application Down" errors served to users daily 1727%. Reduced login time from 22sec to 2sec.)
- Migrated users from legacy systems to a newer system and database schema.
As the product development lead I:
- Worked directly with marketing and analysts to create specifications for new products and improvements.
- Translated Business/Functional Requirements into Technical Requirements and insured "buy in."
- Launched over 20 new services including: music streaming, faxing, photo galleries and upload accelerator, which led to 823% increase in utilization (Average account size went from 70MB to 576MB, new files added daily increased from 80,000 to 4.2M+.)
- Created new user channels: pre-paid users (sold as kits on CompUSA), free space users and various promotion and referral channels.
- Managed the successful roll out of five package suites. Defined the business rules and migrated existing accounts.
- Launched the Xdrive support forums.
As the inventor of Xdrive's Intellectual Property, I:
- Spearheaded the successful settlement of a patent suite.
- Created an additional 5 patent filings.
Senior Software Architect, NovaWorld Project Lead: Novalogic; Calabasas, CA; January 2001 - February 2003 |
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