SUMMARY
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A software leader with deep technical skills focused on building collaborative teams that
create great consumer internet products using agile development methodologies. An experienced
executive with an in-the-trenches, team-first attitude and excellent relationship and communication skills.
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EXPERIENCE
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Co-Founder & CTO
Yapp
New York City (June 2011 - Present)
Created, beta'd and launched a platform for consumers to create mobile apps.
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General Manager
Weplay.com
New York City (October 2010 - June 2011)
Leading product, technology and business operations.
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VP, Engineering
Weplay.com
New York City (December 2007 - October 2010)
First technical hire at this social site for youth sports.
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Hired an ace Rails team and built a culture of engineering excellence and collaboration.
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Built, shipped, and iterated on a great social utility app serving youth sports parents, coaches and kids.
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Member of senior management team.
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Director of Software Development
Oxygen Media, LLC
New York City (April 2006 - December 2007)
Led the hiring, growth and success of an Extreme Programming/Scrum team.
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Introduce and foster new agile software development methodologies
such as "ping pong pairing."
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Focus on regular coaching and feedback to support team members'
professional growth and contribution.
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Introduce Ruby on Rails to the team's technology toolkit.
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Functioning as a peer senior developer in balance with a functional and
strategic management role.
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Software Development Manager
Oxygen Media, LLC
New York City (January 2005 - March 2006)
Managed a small team of .NET developers within a busy IT group
at a cable television network. Worked as a contributing senior
developer, too.
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Introduce and foster agile software development methodologies
such as pair programming, test-driven development, and continuous
integration.
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Support growth of team members in design and construction skills
through mentorship, training and strategic assignments.
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Improving interdepartmental working relationships by
increasing communication, cooperation and building better deployment processes.
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Senior Developer
Oxygen Media, LLC
New York City (January 2000 - December 2004)
Learned the disciplines of software development while building the tools
that make cable television work at
the first on-line and on-air network for women.
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Created a Windows application for scheduling secondary events
on a television broadcast automation system. Includes visual
drag-and-drop scheduling, robust web services, and a fail-safe
playlist generation system with drop-in extensibility.
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Wrote a database-backed multi-user Windows application in C#
for Legal Department to track Rights & Clearances, and a
similarly architected application to track Talent & Submissions.
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Built television marketing site with complete back-end content management system
from scratch on a .NET platform with C# and Sql Server.
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Chief Architect and Lead Developer on content management and publishing system,
built on Interwoven TeamSite.
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Technical Lead on multiple web applications running on java application server ATG Dynamo.
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Extensive experience with object-oriented Perl development.
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Internet Consultant
Independent Consulting
Bangalore, India (May 1999 - December 1999)
While living abroad and exploring southern India, maintained several client accounts in the U.S. and Canada.
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Built complex PHP & Perl-driven electronic newsletter site that included a client-maintained content management system
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Worked with business owners to identify and understand internet business strategies appropriate to their business
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Developed clear understanding of technology industry in South Asia
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Webmaster
Network Marketing Publications, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA (Nov. 1997 - May 1999)
NMPI is a publicly-traded editorial and publishing house producing and
marketing multimedia sales training materials, seminars, a trade journal,
and a newsstand magazine for the network marketing industry
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Took Upline.com, a sales training site for network marketers,
from scratch to an acclaimed industry site generating e-commerce
sales exceeding $1 million per year
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Built and hosted multiple sites on in-house Unix, PC & Macintosh web servers
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Created and directed a free monthly electronic newsletter
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Developed online secure shopping cart catalog for extensive offering of books, tapes & software
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Founder & CEO
Kaizensoft, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA (1995 - 1999)
Conceived and co-founded software company to develop specialized contact management software for network marketers and capitalize on that niche market.
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Raised $150K in capital, managed staff of 5
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Created and implemented national marketing campaign
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Developed web design division by subcontracting and directing site development
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Managing Editor
MLM Publishing, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA (1994 - 1996)
Small publishing & seminar company
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Oversaw editing, layout and design for trade journal with an international subscription base of 17,000
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Recommended and managed major redesign of flagship publication
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Coordinated remote writers and managed scheduling & printing
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Wrote a popular monthly column on technology topics
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EDUCATION
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University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
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Echols Scholar Program (Top 1% of entering students)
North Shore High School
Glen Head, NY
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Valedictorian
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Tandy Technology Scholar
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SKILLS
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Languages:
Javascript, Ruby, Coffeescript, Java, C#, Perl, PHP, HTML & CSS, SQL
Open Source:
Contributions to many projects including Ember.js, Rails, Tracks, and others
Tools,
Servers & Libraries:
Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, .NET ecosystem
Other:
Strong writing and editing skills, excellent presentation and public speaking skills, basic
graphic design skills
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INTERESTS
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Beach volleyball, international travel, natural health & fitness, personal development, open source software, writing, inline skating
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CONTACT & AVAILABILITY
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The best way to contact me is by e-mail at luke@lukemelia.com.
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