As Secret Weapon at Weebly, I create new lines of business for the company: first was Commerce, and now Platform. Currently working on the architecture and platformization on the internal side, and creating a developer relations program and team on the external side.
Extensive knowledge of using JavaScript for front-end development from both the application side (@Weebly, @AppCenter) for both multi and single page sites, and the debugger side (Firebug, Illuminations for Chrome DevTools). Big on back-end development, mostly built using PHP, including architecting an ORM that creates APIs to connect the client-side to the server-side, encompassing the full-stack and ensuring consistent code quality for a large code base. Almost every project I have worked on has scaled to millions or hundreds of millions of users.
Love all things "Startup", have been an entrepreneur myself, work at a startup currently, and actively advise and mentor them. I am also an angel investor and often help qualify companies for various programs (FundersClub Panel, Mentor at Boost.VC, reviewer for Hackers&Founders Coop, SF Angel).
Secret Weapon @ Design and build new projects at Weebly, fusing together the needs of a startup to get things done asap, and growing lines of business with large customer bases and managing a development team that is always adding new hires.
Technical: Director of Engineering, Developer Relations, Platform Architect, full-stack engineer, with an emphasis on total system design, back-end systems, distributed systems, web services, and front-end web on desktop and mobile. Designed a custom ORM in PHP that reflects into JavaScript through a MVVM (MVC variant) system utilizing BackboneJS, Backbone-Relational, and Marionette. Patents pending.
Projects:
* Weebly Commerce - Designed and implemented a commerce system back-end and front-end, including shopping cart, inventory control, payments, and reports. Sometimes simultaneous roles: Architect, Engineer, Project Manager & Product Manager.
* Weebly Platform - Heading up Weebly's platform strategy. Including the technical architecture, rollout, and marketing. From May 2011 to Present (4 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMentor @ Mentor at Boost.vc. Boost VC is an incubator helping entrepreneurs turn great ideas into amazing companies. They provide support and guidance for startups to transform their dreams into reality. Boost works with startups that are passionate, perseverant, open-minded and ready to work harder than ever before, then pushes them to their limits, making them into entrepreneurs that build thriving companies. From 2013 to Present (2 years) San MateoCEO @ Forum hosting service with millions of monthly users. Designed forum features, implementation, advertising performance systems and subscription payments. Runs itself these days. From November 1998 to Present (17 years) West HollywoodCofounder & CEO @ Full featured website builder, which was build on itself so others could offer website building as easily as a webpage. Full muti-user control, forums, blogs, spam system, web pages, and paid content areas. Built via an API for full diversity of options and utilized ExtJS for the front-end. From May 2008 to August 2011 (3 years 4 months) Los Angeles
EE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science @ University of California, Irvine From 1988 to 1994 Steven R. is skilled in: Web Development, HTML 5, User Experience, E-commerce, JavaScript, Start-ups, CSS, PHP, Software Development, Entrepreneurship, MySQL, jQuery, Analytics, Scalability, HTML, SEO, HTML5, Debuggers, CSS3, Ext JS, Sencha, Backbone.js, Software Engineering, Engineering, Software Project..., Git, Front-end, Product Management, System Architecture