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President @ Vaped Enterprises, Inc From 2015 to 2018 (3 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaVP of Engineering @ ZipRecruiter Greater Los Angeles AreaDirector of Engineering @ Citysearch I was responsible for rebuilding CitySearch.com relaunching the website using open source technologies (Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySql), while growing the team from 5 engineers to 30 developers, QA analysts and...

President @ Vaped Enterprises, Inc From 2015 to 2018 (3 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaVP of Engineering @ ZipRecruiter Greater Los Angeles AreaDirector of Engineering @ Citysearch I was responsible for rebuilding CitySearch.com relaunching the website using open source technologies (Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySql), while growing the team from 5 engineers to 30 developers, QA analysts and IT support staff. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaSenior Software Engineer @ Toys"R"Us [Formerly e-Toys] I was responsible for developing software applications and improvements to web page and their functionality. From 1998 to 1999 (1 year) Greater Los Angeles AreaSoftware Engineer + Lead QA Engineer @ Citysearch.com I led a team of 3-5 QA Engineers responsible for developing and maintaining web application software. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaVP of Engineering @ TuneWiki, Inc TuneWiki was a music-centered startup that provided scrolling lyrics through its social music players for mobile devices. With over 6 million lyrics and the world's largest scrolling integrated lyrics library, TuneWiki had agreements with the major music publishers including Sony, Universal, and EMI to legally use synchronized lyrics in its music applications. www.tunewiki.com While reporting directly to the CEO, I was responsible for consolidating software development teams and grew the technical organization by 50%, as well as establishing the QA, DevOps and mobile & web infrastructure teams.● Led the first capital investment in 18 months and scaled the infrastructure to support 7.5MM installed users, doubling unique monthly users and quadrupling growth in daily song plays on mobile devices & web platforms.● Reorganized the product development process, and went from working with 7 global development centers to 4.● Efficiently solved challenges such as Water leak in the data room, and budgetary issues for hardware purchases. From 2010 to 2011 (1 year) Greater Los Angeles AreaVP of Engineering @ Ticketmaster I was responsible for leading the Development, Operations and Program Management teams in LA and San Francisco while growing the technology team from 16 Software and QA Engineers to a team of 93 US, offshore and contractors who released nearly 700 projects in 2009, with department budget of $11M.● Successfully improved the existing poor customer experience ratings on the website, by splitting projects and separating the content portion, relaunching content section in 6 months, and the Check-Out Page in 7 months.● Designed an infrastructure and application suite that supported 1.2B pageviews per month, 5000 requests per second, and 1.5Gb per second of html outbound traffic. Increased Internet sales from 38% in 2001 to 85% in 2009.● Managed the Open Source community by participating in software development of Template-Toolkit, the Tux Linux Kernel web server, O’Reilly Open Source Convention presentation and sponsorship of mod_perl 2.0 development. From 2001 to 2010 (9 years) Greater Los Angeles AreaSVP of Engineering - eCommerce @ Live Nation In 2010, Ticketmaster and Live Nation merged to create Live Nation Entertainment; an $8B a year global entertainment firm with 5k+ personnel. Ticketmaster is a ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California. www.ticketmaster.comWhile reporting directly to the CTO, I was responsible for process development and system integration, while managing the engineering team and growing the organization from 5 teams & 80 people to 14 agile teams & 125 people. ● Overhauled team structure and development processes, while expanding the mobile software team by 60%.● Streamlined processes, reorganized procedures, restructured engineering teams & transitioned to new technology.● Helped the mobile software team release critical product features 25% faster and with 10% fewer defects.● Launched the Ticketmaster Resale Program (secondary ticket platform) simultaneously on both mobile and web involving technical teams of 30 developers on a year-long schedule. This resulted in a 50% increase in revenue.● Increased release process velocity by moving from a homegrown deployment solution to an automated Maven system. Resulted in reduction from 120 hours to release twice a month, to 90 minutes and weekly releases. From 2011 to 2014 (3 years) Greater Los Angeles Area