I am very happy with my current position at Yahoo!. I am always interested in hearing about opportunities, but please understand that it will take an exceptional opportunity with a very good cultural match for me to consider leaving Yahoo! at the present time.
Summary
Total front end engineering ninja specializing in unobtrusive javascript, ajax, dom scripting, progressive enhancement, accessibility, semantic markup, css, php and xslt.
Proven track record of building and launching new products as well as cleaning up and scaling existing products. Experienced in public sector as well as private sector organizations as well as enterprises both large and small.
Responsibility for the overall hardware, software planning and design for LogicalIS customers in the western region
As a member of the Professional Services group, I was presented with a diverse range of customers spanning many industries and my broad-based technology background allows me to design forward thinking, standards-based applications to meet my customers business needs
I handled the user interface design, planning, and development for multiple SunONE portal implementations
SDDPC
San Diego CA
Portal Architect, Office of the Chief Technology Officer
My primary responsibility as Portal Architect was to design and oversee the deployment of the internet portals for all 8 City Council members as well as the Mayor, City Attorney and City Auditor
As the Subject Matter Expert for Portal, XML, XHTML, XSLT, CSS, I was a member of the SDDPC Architecture Committee, which has full oversight over the technical direction of the City
In addition I had design authority over the following enterprise technologies: SunONE Portal 6.0, BEA Portal 7.0, XML/XSLT, W3C Standards Compliance, CSS, 508B, WAI and Enterprise Content Management
Viador Inc.
Mountain View, CA
Manager, Western Region Consulting
Feb 2000 2000-02-01 -
April 2001 2001-04-01
As the Manager of the Western Region Consulting Practice, I was responsible for a distributed team of professional service engineers
I had full P&L responsibility for all profession services revenue in the western states
I also acted as a project manager for complex portal technology implementations, a technical mentor to my team, and a resources manager for a seasoned team of technical field consultants.
In addition to being responsible for the allocation of resources onto projects in my region to best meet customer expectations, I maintained an 40 percent billable tim ratio for my region.
Software Dynamics Inc.
Woodland Hills, CA
Senior CRM Systems Engineer
April 1999 1999-04-28 -
Feb 2000 2000-02-24
As the Senior CRM Engineer for Software Dynamic Incorporated, I was responsible for designing, building and deploying a suite of CRM applications for the banking industry
These systems fully leveraged the SDI framework to provide customer data down to the individual delivery channels.
In addition, I managed the implementation of CIMS within the Zeus Teller, Platform and Call Center application servers
Worked with SDIs development team to customize their core applications, enabling them to utilize the latest in data warehousing technologies.
Helped develop a patented software product allowing banks to personalize the ATM user experience "PrecisionDelivery"
Provided consulting and implementation support for Fujitsu ICL clients
Supported the implementation of PrecisionDelivery at a major West Coast financial institution
Designed and deployed an enterprise wide software distribution system connecting over 150 ATMs for automated reporting and software maintenance
Developed a relational database application to automate the receipt, distribution and implementation of Engineering Changes
Implemented tracking controls for the reimbursement of applied Engineering Changes for ICLs parent company Fujitsu Limited
Involved in major engineering projects for the release of ICLs Landmark automated teller machine product line
Skills
Highly proficient
Semantic HTML/XHTML
CSS
Javascript
JSON
AJAX
XML
XSLT
Object-oriented Javascript
Cross Browser Development/Browser Quirks
Perceived/Actual Page Load Time Optimization
YUI Library
Accessibility
Extensive proficiency
PHP 4 / PHP 5
yApache
HTTP Web Services
Macintosh OS X
CVS
Service Oriented Architecture
Adobe CS3
Adobe Fireworks
Agile Scrum
Moderate proficiency
mySQL
Windows 95-XP
IIS
ASP
Adobe Flash
Actionscript (AS2 and AS3)
Flex/AS3
Localization/Internationalization
Perl
Software
Desktop Software
MS Office
Adobe Creative Suite CS3
Dreamweaver CS3
Flash CS3
Fireworks CS3
Freehand MX 2004
Microsoft Project
XMLSpy
TextMate
Style Master
SunONE Studio
WebSideStory HBX
WebSideStory Report Builder
Server Software
WebLogic / WebSphere
PHP
yApache
mySQL
SunONE Portal
BEA Portal
Viador Portal
Moveable Type
WordPress
Business Objects
SunONE Identity
WebSideStory HBX
The Fine Print
Technologies utilized on here include: the oh so sexy Yahoo! User Interface library and are used according to the terms of the Yahoo! BSD license. All other markup and styles for this page coded by me in TextMate. Though I work for Yahoo!, the opinions and ideas expressed here are mine and mine alone, and should NOT be construed as any sort of corporate position from Yahoo!