Skild is a highly robust, online competition management platform. Companies such as Autodesk, AT&T, Hilton, GE, RBC, Samsung, and Tufts University utilize Skild to successfully manage their online competitions. With the Skild platform, organizations are running awards, awareness campaigns, business plan competitions, photo/video competitions, and innovation competitions.• Strategic advisor for Skild's technology platform and organization

The Internet Brands portfolio of companies under the Legal vertical include Martindale, Avvo, NOLO, Captorra, Ngage Live Chat, Premier Disability Services, and 3StepDivorce. These brands connect consumers with the best solution for their legal needs. The solutions range from a self-service legal guide, to speaking with an attorney, and everything in between.• Participated in multiple M&As, with responsibilities for all aspects of technology, from due diligence to post-acquisition integration. Managed the harmonization of tech stacks, team cultures, and SDLC methodologies as part of ongoing integration of business units into the IB Legal vertical. • Established a PMO to improve the use or project/program management resources across business units. • Effectuated technology team reorganizations to optimize team performance. Established shared specialization around key domains including pub/sub messaging, search engine, and web application performance. • Worked closely with business and product stakeholders across multiple business initiatives and business models.

MediaPlatform provides a complete solution for enterprise video management, including storage, streaming (live and VOD), access control, security, webcast presentations, and distribution. The company's software platform is utilized by many large enterprises to meet their video challenges. Clients include Facebook, AT&T, Motorola, and many other Fortune 500 companies. • Responsible for the product vision and strategy.• Managed engineering team using Agile development methodology, utilizing JIRA and Greenhopper.• Established a fully scalable and redundant architecture in AWS (EC2, EBS, LB, RDS, Auto-Scale, SES, S3, Cloudfront, etc.)• Oversaw DevOps to maintain best practices for configuration management, change control, and continuous integration (SVN, Maven, Hudson, QA tools) throughout a dev/qa/staging/production environment.• Managed client engagement projects, including on-premise installations, server configuration, Single Sign On (SAML, LDAP) integration, server architecture, and network optimization.• Provided strategic direction for MediaPlatform's core video technology (VP6, h.264, FMS, Wowza, HTML5 video), for compatibility across various devices and platforms.

Placely is a Web 2.0 online community for travelers. With Placely, travelers share travel advice, experiences, and discuss travel related topics. Placely’s set of networking and travel tools allow its members to share travel schedules and coordinate meetings while traveling.• Founded and raised an angel round of financing for the company. Investors include the founders of StubHub and a director at Capricorn Management. • Filed multiple patent applications protecting the company’s business model. • Designed specifications for the company’s beta product. • Secured partnership with an offshore development firm in Bangalore, India.• Managed offshore engineering team in developing Placely's online travel network. • The product is build using AJAX, J2EE, and Oracle technologies, along with an agile development methodology.

Consulted X PRIZE Foundation on their online initiative for bringing the prize model to a broader audience. Assisted in formulating the strategic and technical vision for the initiative. Performed fundraising presentations to lock in seed capital. Pitched the concept to prospective clients for the beta phase.

Market Wire is a leading newswire service that offers real-time distribution of corporate press releases. The company’s market share was grown from 2% in May 2003 to 15% in May 2006, with annual sales of $18mm. The company was venture funded by Hummer Winblad, Sequoia Capital, Blue Chip Ventures, Osprey Partners, and STV. The company was acquired by CCNMatthews, the dominant Canadian newswire company, in April 2006. • Formed a tech team responsible for developing, deploying, and maintaining numerous products. Development technologies include J2EE, PL/SQL, Perl, VB, and .NET. • Provided the vision and guidance for several of Market Wire’s innovative products which reshaped the newswire industry, enabling Market Wire to gain significant market share from competitors. • Restructured the engineering infrastructure and methodology to improve internal processes and software quality, allowing for more frequent releases with fewer defects.

Individual Network produced technology and a patent portfolio revolving around the concept of personalized delivery of video content and video advertisements. The company developed a suite of products to allow content owners build customized schedules and deliver video content to end-users, and allow advertisers to perform targeted advertising campaigns based on demographics. The company was acquired by Heico in April 2006. • Raised US$3.5mm in funding. • Designed and developed a rich media distribution engine with robust personalization logic. • Recruited and managed the company’s technology team. • Drafted and filed for several patent applications protecting the company’s business model.

• Evaluated and optimized Citysearch’s application architecture, which was based on Netscape Application Server. • Led the project for Citysearch’s personalization engine, labeled as “My Citysearch.”

• Consulted a development team in building a pilot eCommerce application. • Aided in designing, architecturing, and developing the eCommerce application using Netscape Application Server (KIVA), Netscape Extensions Toolkit, and an Informix database. UML was used as the standard for all Object Oriented Design and Analysis.