Jason Rubenstein's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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VP Engineering @ Live Nation I ran the engineering group of Live Nation Labs, managing three teams: mobile, web, and platform/server. Live Nation Labs was dissolved in December of 2014, after which I assisted with the transition of the group to Ticketmaster Engineering. From October 2014 to April 2015 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-Founder @ Scoob & Gecko, LLC Web and Social Network applications development. Sold to Slide, Inc. From February 2007 to March 2008 (1 year 2 months) Freelance Consultant @ 10x Management Freelancer / contractor represented by 10x Management. Some engagements: Sr. Director of Engineering at Shyp - Platform - Accomplished execution of a key strategic feature, on-time, to support a critical strategic growth KPI. Python (Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, etc.) software development & programming - Accomplished a reduction of development, and opportunity, costs as measured by time-to-delivery by as much as 50% AWS "DevOps", across a wide range of AWS services - Accomplished a reduction of systems operations costs by 18% Strategic technical consulting and planning ("Consulting CTO") Director of Platform API services From June 2015 to January 2018 (2 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr Director of Engineering - Platform @ Shyp Accomplishments include - Recruited new developers to expand the team by over 130%, - Delivered two strategically important features on time and within estimates, - Identified areas of strategic technical risk and provided solutions to reduce customer churn and to reduce physical operations costs. - Identified and resolved critical technical debt, reducing cost of physical operations and feature development opportunity costShyp was shut down at the end of August 2017, else I'd still be there building a great product! From April 2017 to August 2017 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Google Moved to Google as a part of their acquisition of Slide. I worked on Photovine, about which the following was written in the media:"...it goes without saying Photovine was Google’s best designed piece of software. Period."" Design-wise it’s beautiful....The community is growing at an exponential rate..." I developed code in Python and objective-C (for iOS). From August 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 2 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Slide (Acquired by Google) Software engineer/engineering lead for both application development and system architecture teams. * Senior Engineer, Top Friends * Engineering Lead, Rock Riot * Senior Engineer, Server * Senior Engineer, SocialStarResponsible for establishing and maintaining application software development standards, application architecture, code review, and quickly delivering high-quality code for frequent iterations of Slide social-network products.As an engineering lead, I coordinated our high-iteration development team with our business partner's remote engineering team, designed the interfaces between the two technology stacks, and pushed a music game to launch that integrated digital music content, high-concurrency servers, and an animated Flash client. From March 2008 to August 2010 (2 years 6 months) Composer & Founder @ Gearhead Music Composer, audio engineer, producer, sound effects designer, and founder of a music licensing and publishing company. Top milestones include licenses of music for promotion and advertising to NBC and various cable TV networks; the "Howl" sound effect for the ABC show "LOST"; features on NPR radio and in music industry magazines. From June 1995 to February 2007 (11 years 9 months) Consultant @ Softlanding Systems Consulted customers regarding concepts and practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM), specifically in Change Management using TurnOver; Version Control using Subversion, and consulting with customers with regard to their SDLC process & workflow, and their projects management. I also assist with the IT portion of SOX compliance. From August 2005 to January 2007 (1 year 6 months) Independent Consultant & Programmer @ (self) I ran my own consulting and contract programming company, concentrating on the IBM iSeries system. Service specialties include: relational database design & implementation, CL and ILE-RPG applications programming, network architecture involving various IBM and non-IBM systems, managing small teams of programmers, advising and managing systems administration groups. Clients included Anderson Consulting, EDS, Disney, Allstate, GE among others. From November 1992 to August 2005 (12 years 10 months) Programmer @ Infoware RPG programmer for a contracting & consulting company specializing in IBM Midrange systems (s/36, s/38, iSeries). I also taught professional classes in programming, relational database, and systems operations. From March 1988 to November 1992 (4 years 9 months) Greater Chicago AreaCTO @ TABLE.co TABLE is how companies communicate with their customers, anywhere, anytimeAllow your customers to instantly connect or book appointments with your teams no matter where they are in the journey, from marketing campaigns to customer support and remote services, through the use of messaging, voice, video, screen-sharing, and bots.Assessed and minimized risk to the business when choosing technology.Implemented a software development process that included steps for cost-benefit/opportunity-cost and worked closely with the Director of Product.Improved response-time of the application by over 4x.Improved the management of technical operations.Implemented a quality-assurance process during software development.Decreased cloud-services costs (per-customer basis).Programming in a stack that includes Python, Flask, Postgresql.Managed a distributed team of developers over many time-zones. Berkeley, CaliforniaVP Engineering @ PonoMusic I managed several local and off-shore engineering and design teams, worked on integrating technology and services with business partners, wrote software in python and javascript, and oversaw all of the software development of our prototype HD-audio hardware device & our python/javascript-based e-commerce servers and website. I wore many hats, and reported to the CEO and the board. From September 2011 to January 2014 (2 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay Area