Oct 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Worked with Design and Engineering to help launch new products for both the Ads and Publishing teams. Work included...
• Yahoo Ad Manager Plus
• Help design the ad platform from the ground up working closely with product managers, user experience experts, and engineering.
• Designed data visualization and UI controls to help our users run complex ad campaigns across more than a dozen ad networks.
• Developed UI components using Ember.js, D3, and a homegrown version of Bootstrap CSS.
• Contributed extensively to the Ads and data style guide and UI component library which was eventually adopted by dozens of Ads & Data projects.
• Tumblr Contributor Program
• Worked with a small team to quickly prototype and launch a new editorial program with the goal of bringing fresh, compelling content from writers around the world to various Yahoo publishing sites.
• Developed the program around the Tumblr blog network.
• Designed and developed custom functionality on the Tumblr blog network.
• Help integrate the Tumblr blog network with Yahoo to bring in functionality like realtime stock data, advertisements, and take advantage of Yahoo’s automated build and testing tools.
• Worked extensively with the Tumblr blog network and React.js.
• Helped attract over a hundred editors around the world who continue to publish content to major Yahoo properties such as Finance and Sports.
• Yahoo Daily Fantasy
• Designed the invite hooks, workflow, and interfaces for desktop web and the native iOS and Android apps.
• Worked closely with the Product and Engineering teams to quickly iterate and come up with new features to increase engagement and usage of the product post launch.
• Used data from our app to quickly optimize the contest creation workflow.
• Helped design features like league challenges and an opponent recommendations system to increase engagement and usage.
• Developed for desktop web in React.js.
• Prototyped for native apps using Sketch and Framer.js.

Dec 2010 – May 2011 · 5 mos

• Designed and built custom social sites on the Ning platform for clients like Tony Hawk, Jason Derulo, Amy Poeler, Chelsea Handler, and Linkin Park.
• Produced original artwork and illustrations for web and print.
• Worked closely with the product team to productize custom apps and features.
• Helped with the development of features like the theming system and layout engine.
• Designed and built themes for the theme library.

Mar 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Prototyped features and develop apps using PHP, JS, and the Ning API.
• Developed a REST API to support an integration with Mobile Roadie, a mobile site creator for bands and musicians.
• Maintained the Ning API documentation and developer community.
• Supported third party developers looking to build projects on the platform.
• Built a highly integrated community support system that was powered by Salesforce and RightNow Web.

Mar 2010 – Oct 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco

• Founded Bread with two friends around a concept to improve online advertising.
• Lead our product and development team. Help bring our ideas to life through research, design, planning, and development.
• Personally specialize in product design and frontend development. Work extensively with UI, UX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Groovy on Grails.
• Invented technology to distribute and track full-page commercials in front of web content.
• Designed and built a marketplace to let advertisers and publishers interface with one another in an easy natural way.
• Built a drag and drop page creator that is used to make full-page commercials for fortune 1000 brands like Pepsi, Hasbro, and Sony Pictures.
• Developed an ad server to let clients quickly define, schedule, and track ad campaigns.
• Currently working on a project to engage a new segment of online publishers who want to be creative and share fun online content with their peers.
• Gained valuable experience starting and running a company from the ground up.
• Tested my ability to lead a team and execute on a big vision.

Dec 2005 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• In charge of identifying and leveraging technology to improve customer support at EA.
• Helped design and build websites for major EA game franchises and teams. (Pogo.com, The Sims, and EA.com)
• Worked with game teams to integrate proprietary customer support tools into games and websites.
• Developed web modules using PHP, SQL, and JavaScript for use on EA websites.
• Helped maintain and optimize databases and tools through improved queries and architecture.
• Document and manage software development projects with internal and external teams.
• Showed the ability to execute on a variety of highly visible projects with a variety of teams.