Vince Gabrielsen
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Skills: | Engineering, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development |
| Location: | Mountain View, CA |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Schools: | California State University System - San Jose State University, New School University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | PeerDreams, Inc. |
| Position: | LeadWeb Engineer/Developer |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2007 |
| Description: | • As the primary Engineer leading this start-up from inception to launch, built fund-raising site based on online micro donations for use by individuals and non-profits.
• Co-created and designed the Flash/ActionScript application -- the heart of the site -- which visually represented individual contributions and campaign goals. Created JavaScript version for initial mockup. • Built highly scalable site using PHP with the Smarty template engine. • Designed and created the MySQL tables used throughout the site. • Coordinated site development with other Engineers in Sri Lanka and Designers in Romania. • Used Subversion /SVN for version control for beta release and the live site. |
| Employer: | FriendFinder, Inc. |
| Position: | Production Editor |
| Time period: | January 2004 - December 2006 |
| Description: | • Managed server and database processes for sending, tracking, and recording HTML newsletter activity.
• Wrote Perl programs to improve the sending of newsletters, including partitioning of large quantities of data. • Sent over twenty million e-mail newsletters to members of more than a dozen FriendFinder (FriendFinder.com, FrenchFriendFinder.com, AsiaFriendFinder.com, etc) websites each month. • Formated HTML newsletters; wrote newsletters and oversaw translation into eight languages. • Built a JSP program to automate creation of newsletters sent to FriendFinder business affiliates. |
| Employer: | Intuit, Inc. |
| Position: | Web Engineer, TurboTax.com |
| Time period: | January 2001 - December 2002 |
| Description: | • Consulted with Intuit's TurboTax group in San Diego to update the website for the 2002 tax season.
• Built tax-oriented online calculators. • Worked as part of a small team redesigning the website within tight deadlines. |
| Employer: | Intuit, Inc. |
| Position: | Web Production Engineer, Quicken.com |
| Time period: | January 1998 - December 2001 |
| Description: | • Focused on page-by-page as well as global template web engineering for a financial website which changes rapidly
in both content and technology. • Wrote page generation templates for hundreds of pages in a proprietary scripting language, DCG, drawing content from two different database systems. • Led a project developing almost two dozen financial calculators built with JavaScript. • Took responsibility for the global templating of the site's header, footer, branding variables, cookie processing, and stylesheets for Quicken.com and partner sites with Excite, AOL, Webcrawler, Prodigy, CNNfn, and Schwab. • Worked on transitioning the site from a UNIX system using CVS version control to a Windows NT system using Perforce version control. • Helped convert global templating and data retrieval from a proprietary language to C++. • Modified the user interface and programming of the My Finances page, a top-visibility personalization feature. • Acted as one of the administrators of CMS (Content Management System), interacting with and helping members of the Editorial, Marketing, and Ad/Sales groups on a daily basis. • Worked on tools that allowed Quicken for Windows to access data from Quicken.com and partner sites. • Developed a reputation for having a broad knowledge base and willingness to help people in many departments. |
| Employer: | Frost & Sullivan |
| Position: | Web Developer, www.frost.com |
| Time period: | January 1996 - December 1998 |
| Description: | • Developed, maintained, and upgraded major portions of market research company's website.
• Created report order forms, conference brochures, and various marketing materials. • Managed distribution of leads submitted by potential clients. • Programmed in Word Basic (MS Word macros) and C to generate HTML source code. • Interacted with several departments to ensure timely submission and posting of essential materials. |
| Employer: | Frost & Sullivan |
| Position: | Technical Editor/FRP - Final Review and Preparation |
| Time period: | January 1994 - December 1996 |
| Description: | • Identified and corrected research and formatting problems in market research reports on diverse subject areas.
• Resolved logical inconsistencies and numerical errors, a significant role in the process of publishing specialized market research reports that sell for several thousand dollars each. |
EDUCATION
| University: | New School University |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1993 |
| Degree: | Sociology, MA |
| University: | California State University System - San Jose State University |
| Time period: | 1990 - 1991 |
| Degree: | Economics, BA |
| University: | California State University System - San Jose State University |
| Time period: | 1984 - 1990 |
| Degree: | Sociology, BA |
Vince is Following (3)
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MonVia
MonVia is a business and technology accelerator built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Our goal is to help people with smart ideas get their products to market and reach profitability as quickly as possible.
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peerdreams.com
PeerDreams is a fun and interactive way for folks who want to help sponsor someone else's idea or cause a medium to promote and express their support above and beyond just donating money.
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SimpleBucket
Simplebucket is photo hosting made easy for everyone! Once you upload your photo, your images gets it own Simplebucket page with a bunch of nice features. Add notes, comments, ratings. Release2 is now live!
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Sam Purtill
Product manager by day, software engineer by night. Living in San Francisco and working on YouNoodle around the clock.
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Ashish Hunnargikar
MSCE graduate from Santa Clara University. Worked extensively as a Software Engineer/Systems Architect on the MonVia startups - MobiBucks, Peerdreams, New Moon & Drumtable.