Work Experience
top01/2008-Present
Self Employed Contractor
Primary Project: www.kabillion.comtop06/2006-01/2008
Director of Technology - Kabillion, LLC
Kabillion is the first multi-platform kids network built around today's hottest TV audience viewing trends - broadband and Video on Demand. Systems worked on include: video upload and processing system capable of taking 100s of video formats and converting them into Flash Video; user galleries allowing users to create galleries of photos; secured scoring system for games; ad server/API and admin interface for the management of traditional advertising mediums as well as video-based ads; many other admin UIs for the management of content on the website.top11/2003-04/2005
Software Engineer - Neopets, Inc.
Developed and maintained many complex systems for a global youth-oriented media and entertainment company. The website has over 60 million members that is ranked #1 on the Internet for time spent per user, page views per user and is #5 for total page views, behind only Yahoo, eBay, MSN and Google. Some of the larger Fortune 500 licensees and advertisers include Hasbro, Mattel, McDonald's, Warner Bros., Disney, General Mills, Nestle, Wizards of the Coast and many others.
Systems worked on include: the main sponsored content system; survey system; complex reporting system for content and surveys; sponsored content logging & stats summarizing system; client reporting tool; MySQL servers with over 5000 databases (approx 750GB;) co-registrations on the website, including creating a complex application to send data files in a variety of ways, at any time interval, to the clients; a mass mailing system with over 30 million subscribers; friendly administrative UIs for the sponsored content admin, with complex search engines for sponsored content and surveys; streamlined data-output APIs for quick creation of powerful administrative interfaces. Worked with and am familiar with various ad-media formats including: Eyeblaster; Klipmart; Tribal Fusion; 24/7; PointRoll; custom in-house ads, etcetera.
top5/1999-10/2002
Director of Programming - Creative Edge
Creative Edge is web design/hosting firm located in Canoga Park, CA. While there I designed and maintained customized Internet applications using Perl, PHP, MySQL, Qmail and other Internet technologies. Directed team of programmers and designers on various new and existing interactive web developments. Maintained 8 Linux servers as necessary.
Systems worked on include: Customized e-commerce solutions; client administration "control panel" for easy integration of new Content Management System applications including news, polls, calendars, and email capture; full featured mass-mailing system built on Qmail tied into CMS newsletter application; database backup and restore utilities.
