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Engineering Manager @ A key aspect of Squarespace's success is a motivated, passionate team where design and engineering professionals are close collaborators. I'm proud to support that mission. Over the past two years I've grown a cohesive team of 15 people around our mobile platform, repositioned the company's mobile strategy to consider Android a key platform, introduced four highly ranked apps to the Apple and Google Play Stores, completely revamped the mobile app portfolio improving their ratings dramatically, and a QA process built around manual and automated testing to ensure quality releases to the stores. As well • Consolidated corporate accounting systems, introducing a Python based cash accrual system that is a 1/4 the code size and much more easily maintained. • Implemented endpoints for the Squarespace Metrics app to provide traffic measures including projections. • Added a notification center feature to the platform for customers. • Coded EXIF metadata processing on image uploads From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) Vice President @ * Led development on front office deferred compensation management platform. * Lead management company development to implement SSAE16 compliance. From April 2010 to April 2012 (2 years 1 month) Senior Software Architect @ * Lead technical & business architect in re-engineering a financial services platform for the hedge fund industry. * Financial engineer in risk & valuation group. From April 2004 to April 2010 (6 years 1 month) Senior Software Developer @ * Led development of large scale applications used by U.S. state government agencies. From March 2002 to March 2004 (2 years 1 month) Senior Software Engineer @ * Jumped at an opportunity to work in Germany for a year. Developed an XML language and XSL application for UBS to publish documents & newsletters. * Did extensive solo bicycle touring around Europe. From February 2001 to February 2002 (1 year 1 month) Co-Founder & CTO @ * Built a platform for enabling voice access to internet content, using speech recognition and DTMF. From February 2000 to February 2001 (1 year 1 month) Greater New York City AreaSenior Software Engineer @ * Led design and development of public news & marketing websites. From 1996 to 2000 (4 years) Producer @ Led product design and development for a variety of clients. From 1995 to 1997 (2 years) Preparator, Department of Entomology @ Cataloged and expanded aspects of their collection of Diptera; photographed for publication their collection of fossil invertebrates in amber. From 1990 to 1994 (4 years) n/a @ Researched and assembled a bibliography of photographic history and criticism. From 1988 to 1993 (5 years)

SCPS, Finance @ New York University From 2006 to 2008 Columbia University in the City of New York From 1996 to 1998 BA, Philosophy, English Literature, Painting @ Stony Brook University From 1983 to 1987 Edward Bridges is skilled in: Software Development, Enterprise Software, Derivatives Valuation, Fund Accounting, Corporate Finance, Software Design, Derivatives, Java, Unix, Android, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Mobile Applications, Sybase, Trading Systems