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Bsc from Purdue University (1999), Application Developer at StubHub (2001-2007), Founder / President at Guitars And More (2000-2009), Co-Founder / CTO at Tripping International since 2009.
Headline:
Entrepreneur
Skills:
Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management, Web design
Interested in:
Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools:
Purdue University System - Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Tripping International (www.tripping.com) San Francisco, CA
Position:
Co-Founder / CTO
Time period:
June 2009 - Present
Description:
Co-Founded Tripping International, a social network for travellers and architected and led the development of Tripping's website and database applications. Tripping is built on the Zend Framework using PHP, MySQL and is deployed on the LAMP stack.
Employer:
Guitars And More, LLC San Francisco, CA
Position:
Founder / President
Time period:
May 2000 - Present
Description:
Founded and launched online musical instrument ecommerce business that generates in excess of $100K of sales per year. Worked directly with leading guitar brands including Kona, Daisy Rock and Morgan Monroe. Experienced steady growth of 50%-60% annually.
Employer:
StubHub (eBay) San Francisco, CA
Position:
Application Developer / Sr. Production Support Engineer
Time period:
May 2001 - May 2007
Description:
Played a huge role in transforming StubHub.com from a fledgling startup to the highly competitive leader in the secondary ticketing market that it is today. Highly involved in designing and engineering nearly all the major systems that run StubHub.com. Collaborated on systems design, planned and strategized for future projects, and implemented new features, upgrades and redesigns. Supported the needs of customer service as the team and transaction volume increased.
As Sr. Production Support Engineer, my responsibility was to provide stable and efficient operation of the web-based applications on which StubHub depended and to support the product development team’s desire to execute quickly on business related matters that fell outside of general development. I acted as a bridge between operations (including the DBA team), product development, software development and the live production StubHub application. The job also included the support of QA and other business teams to efficiently resolve and deploy business needs rapidly.
Employer:
emerging Media, San Francisco, CA
Position:
Web / Application Developer
Time period:
May 2000 - April 2001
Description:
Wrote specifications for new projects and features, following them through design, scoping, development and into production. Wrote web applications deployed for (long defunct) startup dot coms including Sightopia.com, Rewards2K.com, BigRedChair.com and CornerHardware.com.
Employer:
Bitwise Solutions, Indianapolis, Indiana
Position:
Web Developer/Consultant
Time period:
August 1999 - April 2000
Description:
Created and led solutions for many Midwestern companies by streamlining business systems through dynamic website design. Consulted directly with clients to leverage efficiency through the web.
EDUCATION
University:
Purdue University System - Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
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