| EXPERIENCE |
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| Consultant |
San Francisco, CA |
Consultant / Entrepreneur
02/2007 - Present
- Product Manager for Helio Mobile Search: defined and led implementation of mobile search for Ocean and Fin devices
- Business Development and Product Strategy Director for mobile software company: generating leads; conducting sales calls, pitches, and presentations; advising on product strategy.
- Product Manager / Advisor for mobile startup launching client application in emerging markets.
- Business Development for startup in-video advertising company
- Founded mobile photo community service: defined and launched prototype application
- Founded, launched ugcDb.com, the "IMDB" of user-generated content: led product, business, and technical development; led fund raising and partnership initiatives.
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| YAHOO! |
Sunnyvale, CA |
Product Manager - Yahoo! Mobile
07/2005 to 02/2007
- Product owner of Mobile Front Page, Membership, Community, and Media initiatives; interim Platform PM.
- Led first global launch on Yahoo-proprietary mobile platform in 19 countries and 7 languages, extending Mobile Advertising to all regions.
- Led mobile registration, the top initiative to expand user base in Europe and Southeast Asia.
- Gathered requirements, performed competitive analysis, and wrote Product Requirement Documents (PRDs).
- Coordinated cross disciplinary team of engineers, user interface designers, and QA team members in designing, planning, and launching WAP products.
- Evangelized mobile to other internal teams. Interacted with carrier counterparts.
- Started and led Mobile Brainstorming Group.
- Drove adoption of new product development processes.
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| 3MG INC |
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston |
Principle, Product Manager, Technical Architect
07/2000 to 07/2005
- Product/Project Manager and technical architect of clients' wireless and internet projects.
- Gathered and wrote functional requirements documents, project plans, and proposals.
- Led clients' development teams and interacted directly with senior management.
- Designed wireless applications for a major national fitness chain, a start-up location-based services company, a major photo-imaging company, and construction companies.
- Internet projects include e-commerce, content management, and workflow applications.
- Technologies include j2me, WAP, .Net, C#, JSP/Servlets, PHP, and SQL in linux and windows environments.
- Clients include Equinox Fitness, Polaroid, BT Conferencing, MetraTech, ReferralNetworks, Vindigo, and many others. View Project Descriptions
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| VETTRO |
San Francisco, CA |
Sales Engineer, Project Manager (West Coast)
01/2004 to 09/2004
- West coast Sales Engineer and Project Manager for wireless software company focused on field service and field sales employees.
- Conducted in-person and web-based sales demos and sales calls.
- Gathered user requirements and wrote sales proposals.
- Researched competitor's products.
- Assisted in customer deployments, training, and customer service.
- Developed relationships with carriers' data sales people.
- Technologies include j2me enabled applications for Motorola iDen phones and Blackberries.
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| MYESSAY.COM |
New York, NY |
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder.
01/1998 to 01/2001
- Operations: Managed network of 50 freelance readers and staff of online essay review service. Oversaw customer service and day-to-day operations.
- Business Development: Actively involved in business development, VC fund raising, marketing, and partner relationship development. Led merger and partnership discussions with Princeton Review, Kaplan, Sylvan, Peterson's Education, Embark, and TestU. Negotiated partnerships with PureAdvice, Realnames, Education Unlimited, and the University of Virginia.
- Technology Development: Oversaw technical architecture and development of website. Architected web based, role and skill based workflow system for managing reading projects, payroll, and reader network. Development in JSP, Servlets, using Tomcat in Linux environment.
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| VIANT |
New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston |
Senior Technologist, Lead Technologist
09/1998 to 07/2000
- Architected and developed Internet and Intranets for Fortune 500 and Dot-com clients as well as internal project teams.
- Lead technical teams. Mentored junior developers. Trained clients.
- Researched and reviewed Internet technologies. Research includes ATG Dynamo, Tomcat, JRun, Akamai,
Sandpiper, and StarTeam source control.
- Development includes UML modeling with TogetherJ, JSP/Servlets, Java COM, and ASP. Environments include Linux, Solaris, NT,
with Tomcat, JRun, Weblogic, MTS.
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| COOPERS & LYBRAND CONSULTING |
New York, NY |
Consultant, Founding Member of National Internet Practice.
09/1997 to 08/1998
- Founding member of Coopers & Lybrand National Internet Practice.
- Designed and developed intranet and extranet applications for a major financial services firm, pharmaceutical company, telecommunications company, and energy brokerage.
- Researched and developed prototypes for delivering real-time electricity pricing information over the internet.
- Actively involved in business development.
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| INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR |
New York, NY |
Technical Architect, Project Manager, Senior Developer
08/1997 to 09/1998
- Architected and developed web based project management tools, web-based email, online publishing, tools, content management tools, and electronic postcard applications.
- Clients include a major publishing firm, a major virtual community for women, interactive advertising agencies, internet start-ups, and a private debt financer.
- Founded/co-founded: Popularitics.com, aPoll.com, MeToo.net, myHub.com. (all no longer exist)
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| RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING |
New York, NY |
Internet Developer, MIS Department. Liaison to corporate New Media Development group.
11/1996 to 08/1997
- Liaison to corporate New Media Development group.
- Worked closely with major imprints to develop and implement online strategies.
- Developed applications for dynamic content generation, catalog browsing, statistics gathering, user information gathering, and web tools.
- Involved in e-commerce application selection, server/workstation selection, and web-user marketing database gathering processes.
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| AIG INTERNATIONAL |
Greenwich, CT |
Junior Forwards Trader, Electricity Clerk.
06/1996 to 10/1996
- Priced short-dated forwards. Input and reconciled trades. Tracked positions.
- Created forward point calculator in Excel Visual Basic for Interest Rate Derivatives desk.
- Analyzed electricity prices for east and west coast power. Mapped power pools for Electricity desk. Created data analysis tools in Excel Visual Basic for electricity prices.
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| ADVANCED ELEVATOR TECHNOLOGIES |
Medford, MA |
Information Technology
05/1993 to 05/1996
- Advised on IT issues. Developed, programmed integrated database for tracking work performed, job information, payroll data.
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| EDUCATION |
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| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
Cambridge, MA |
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B.S. Finance, Sloan School of Management, February 1996
- MBA Courses include: Information Technology, Finance Theory, Business Analysis & Valuation, Investment Banking, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Applied Statistics, Marketing, Marketing Distribution Channels, Linear Programming.
- Other Courses include: Game Theory, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, System Dynamics, Probability and Statistics, Differential Equations.
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| TECHNICAL SKILLS |
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- Certifications: Sun Certified Java programmer (1998)
- Languages: Java, PHP, C#, WML, XML, Javascript, UML, Perl, SQL, xHTML
- Technologies: PHP/LAMP, WAP, JSP/Servlets, J2ME, .Net, ASP, Java/COM, CGI, Applets
- Environments: Linux, Apache, mySql, Tomcat, Weblogic, Windows/ASP, SQLServer, Wordpress, Jrun, Enhydra, SiteServer, MTS, OpenMarket, Verisign, Cybercash
- Projects: Wireless, E-commerce, Content Management, Workflow, Internet / intranet
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| TRAINING |
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- Dale Carnegie Course
- TogetherSoft TogetherJ Workshop
- IBM Websphere Training
- Microsoft SiteServer/Commerce Server Training
- OpenMarket Transact 4 Admin Training
- Sun Microsystems Advanced Java Developers Workshop
- Sun Microsystems C/C++ Course
- NASD Series 3 Commodity Futures License
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| PATENT ACTIVITY |
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- US Patent 6,341,779 for "Mathematical Card and Dice Game". (Zêtre).
- Wrote the patent myself
- Sourced game components internationally. Built marketing relationships with distribution channels.
- Exhibited game at American International Toy Fair in New York in 2001.
- Wrote and filed patent for "System and Method of Storing and Displaying Scannable Electronic Barcodes"
- Patent-pending for "Three-tier anti-abuse system and method"
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| OTHER |
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- MIT Wireless Forum: Chairman, Founder (2001-2003)
- Organized a monthly speaker series focusing on wireless topics.
- Grew membership to over 450 people in Boston chapter. Expanded MITWF to include a New York Chapter.
- Expanded management team from one to ten as well as added a PR agent.
- Companies from as far away as Ireland contact the MITWF to participate.
- MIT Club of Boston: Entrepreneur Committee (2001-2003)
- MIT Club of New York: VP Communications (1997-1999)
- MIT Club of Northern California, Volunteer (2006-2007)
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