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Work Experience
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Senior Web Developer / Designer
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April 2010 - Present
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HiiDef Inc., New York, NY - Telecommute
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- Responsible for mid to front-end design and development, scalability and maintenance of flavors.me in Python (Django), Javascript (jQuery, jQuery Mobile), HTML, CSS, MySQL
- Lead development in social shopping site goodsie.com, a complete re-write of the codebase from php to python/django
- Involved in all aspects of scoping and technical design incubation for new product ideas
- Responsible for development of a mobile web app for Flavors.me and Goodsie.com using jQuery mobile
- Responsible for front end implementation of large scale streaming news feed feature for Flavors.me
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Senior Web Developer / Designer
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January 2007 - April 2010
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Mahalo.com Inc., Santa Monica, CA - Telecommute
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- One of the founding employees and senior software developer of this fast-paced human-curated search engine and knowledge exchange backed by Sequoia, Elon Musk (Paypal), Newscorp, CBS, Burda Media, Mark Cuban and headed by serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis
- Involved in all aspects of front-end design and implementation, MySql database, middleware and site optimizations for Mahalo.com, Mahalo Answers and Mahalo Social. Working extensively with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, LAMP, Squid, Memcached, Mediawiki (PHP), and Python (Django)
- With the team, achieved and implemented a scalable design ready for high traffic growth, building up the site to 15 million unique visitors per month
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Lead UI Designer/Developer
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June 1996 - January 2007
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Genesys Conferencing Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
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- Conceptualized, developed and maintained a large-scale web conferencing application and conference scheduling/management site for a web and teleconferencing leader. Working extensively with XHTML, CSS, ASP, JavaScript, J2EE/Java/Struts.
- Managed and developed an 18 month project to convert a Java based conferencing moderation applet into Ajax solution for clients
- Also headed the professional services team involved in the implementation of customer feature requests and branding customizations for large clients
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Software Developer
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December 1994 - June 1996
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Gold Disk Inc. / Astound Inc., Mississauga, Ontario
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- Part of the team that brought the world Video Director, a video editing software suite that won two Top 10 software of the year awards from PC Magazine in 1995 and 1996.
- I was also a developer of Astound Presentation, a multimedia presentation package and competitor to Microsoft Powerpoint. Worked extensively in Visual C++/MFC with some work in Visual Basic.
- Played a large part in transitioning the company to internet technologies, creating the commercial website, corporate intranet and one of the first push technology products called Astound Enterprise.
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Co-Founder / Lead Designer and Developer
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March 2006 - April 2007
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Popcurrent.com
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- Co-founded this social media website for rating popular online music, books and videos which became popular amongst musicians in the Los Angeles area
- Conceptualized, developed and maintained the Ruby on Rails web application, including all site design, XHTML, CSS, graphics design, JavaScript and mySQL database integration
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Software Developer
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March 2005 - January 2006
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Thunderstone Media LLC
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- Contracted to create iPodderX for Windows, the first popular shareware podcatcher application for Podcasts, using a common framework written in Python and C# for the windows application and user interface
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