Data scientist, software architect, agile leader and developer. Hands-on technical leadership of smart, driven teams creating socially and environmentally responsible products. State-of-the-art skills in data modeling, storage and analysis, design and construction of web applications, and systems automation. Keen interest in functional programming, machine learning, and data visualization.

Director of Informatics @ Point Blue (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) is a non-profit dedicated to the conservation of birds and other wildlife and their ecosystems through field research, climate and population modeling, educational programs and land-use recommendations. The Informatics team manages and analyzes multi-terabyte datasets from population studies and climate models, and builds visualization and scenario planning tools for ecologists and land managers. Technologies: R, PostGIS From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Technical Consultant @ Reporting, analytics, and machine learning for home services startup. Technologies: R, Golang, Angular.js From February 2015 to Present (11 months) VP Technology @ OpenAura is a digital media startup focused on fan engagement and online identity. We're tackling music tech challenges in UX, social media, API development, scalability, machine learning, data processing and analytics. Accomplishments: Hired and led an engineering team to create a visual media platform capable of serving millions of pieces of content for hundreds of thousands of artists. Instrumental in designing and developing the horizontally-scalable API, content ingestion system, and consumer-facing website. Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Scala/Scalatra, MongoDB, Hadoop/Cascading/Scalding, Elasticsearch, AWS/EMR From April 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 11 months) CTO, Co-Founder @ Eddgy is an EdTech company providing an incentive-based learning platform with personalized learning materials to secondary school students. Accomplishments: Built an educational video database with 100k videos from various sources including YouTube and iTunes U. Built cloud-based video search, recommendation engine and API. Technologies: Scala, MongoDB, Lucene, AWS, Git From July 2012 to March 2013 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector of Software Development @ See description of IODA below. IODA merged with The Orchard in 2012. Accomplishments: Managed 9 engineers in the web, systems and qa teams responsible for company-wide engineering efforts. Introduced Kanban, Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration to software development workflow. Technologies: Scrum, Kanban, Continuous Integration, TDD, JIRA, Bamboo From April 2011 to May 2012 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSystems Architect @ IODA was the leading digital music distributor for independent record labels, with over 2.5 million tracks from thousands of clients such as Allegro, Koch, and Arts & Crafts. We provided distribution to iTunes, Spotify and over 200 other music services worldwide. We were acquired by Sony Music in 2009. Accomplishments: Built delivery system to feed music and metadata to music services. Developed web application and backend services for reporting royalty data and analytics from online music services to music rights-holders. Developed OLAP database for exploration of multidimensional royalty data. Technologies: Scala, Perl, PHP, MySQL, XML, Solr, OLAP. From 2004 to 2011 (7 years) Java Developer @ Listen.com began as a music review service. After I joined we built the Rhapsody music player, the first “celestial jukebox” where every song could be streamed online. Listen.com was then acquired by Real Networks, and Rhapsody dominated the streaming market before being overtaken by services like Spotify and Pandora. Accomplishments: Lead the design and development of the web-based music metadata management system used for the Rhapsody music player. Wrote stored procedures for batch data processing. Designed and developed web-based workflow system for managing incoming audio content. Technologies: Java/JSP, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL. From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) DevOps Engineer @ Excite was an early search engine and a top competitor to Yahoo. At this time, we were pushing the limit of web traffic with 1,000 machines, and more transactions per second than VISA. Accomplishments: Developed suite of tools for managing operational metadata. Maintained and extended website monitoring spider and alert software. Conducted operational integration with MapQuest and Intuit. Provided 24x7 second-level oncall support for web services. Technologies: Perl, Oracle SQL, Apache, Unix. From 1998 to 2001 (3 years)

BA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @ Princeton University From 1989 to 1996 Fayvor Love is skilled in: MySQL, Agile Methodologies, XML, Web Services, Java, MongoDB, Scrum, Scalability, Databases, Scala, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Modeling, Apache, REST, Test Driven Development