Real Geeks builds powerful, simple and easy-to-use software to help real estate professionals generate more business. 

- Designed and built a high performance drip workflow system that our real estate agents use to nurture their leads by sending millions of emails, sms, video emails, video text, ringless voicemails, and postcards automatically. 
- Integrated the system with our existing suite of services including CRM and IDX websites.

Senior Software Engineer

Solis (http://solis.jp) was my first company and the second ICANN accredited domain registrar in Japan.

-	Designed and developed domain registration system. 
-	Managed all technical aspects.
-	Hired, managed, and grew the technical staff (2 teams, 6 people, 10 servers).
-	Defined technology discipline, best practices and associated processes. Streamlined support processes and escalation procedures.
-	Created the infrastructure and back-end for a domain name reseller system with over 350 resellers 
-	Company purchased by Global Media Online KK on 09/21/2005.

CTO/Co-Founder

Pacific Whale Foundation (https://www.pacificwhale.org) is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 to save whales from extinction.
-   Development and maintenance of six web sites in the areas of online reservations, online store, conservation, and research.
-   Developed whale log website importing GPS data and mapping to google maps. Naturalists record all sightings live using 3G netbooks. 
Exports to ArcGIS for further analysis.

Senior Engineer

GMO Internet (http://gmo.jp) is a publically traded Internet Services company with 86 subsidiaries that purchased my previous company Solis KK.

-	Responsible for the improvement, integration, and upkeep of all systems.
-	Hired, managed, and grew a multi-national technical staff (4 teams, 25 people, 800+ servers, 5 datacenters).
-	Re-defined engineering and operations procedures 
-	Merged previous Operations division into Engineering to increase efficiency, raise morale, and cut-down on turnover.
-	Managed a Datacenter migration of more than 150 servers. Upgraded more than 300 servers.
-	Managed staff and technical integration of previous company Solis KK.

Engineering Div. Manager

Developed and stress-tested a  Ruby on Rails backend to support a iOS/Android mobile app for a top female music artist. 1 million downloads in the first 48 hours of launch.

Cheqbook (http://cheqbook.com) is a full-featured accounting SaaS and alternative to Quickbooks Online. Cheqbook downloads all your transactions and categorizes them saving business owners two weeks a year.
- Designed, developed, and managed dev team on online accounting SaaS (Rails/Javascript).
- Managed all technical aspects of business.
- Received patent for categorization and transaction processing engine

Tidyrank was a SEO SaaS startup whose goal was help business to improve website keyword ranking positions on Google. Specifically, rankings can be improved from fine-tuning the keywords used throughout the text on a website using competitive analysis. Additional analysis tools were added to report on other factors used in ranking. Pivoted to offering consulting to implement changes reported by the software. Stack: Rails

Findery (https://findery.com) is a user-generated-content platform for users to share what fascinates them about places in the world. It is an Editor's Choice in the App Store, and has been critically acclaimed in both the tech and consumer press.

- Frontend & Backend Development of our sites and API and using Rails, Backbone, and React.
- Managing the iOS, Android, Windows, Frontend, Backend, and DevOps teams.
- Developed and managed Windows 10 Launch for Phone and Desktop.

Vice President of Engineering

Maneo (http://maneo.jp) is first social lending company in Japan. Individuals can obtain a loan via an auction where investors bid. After the auction reaches 100%, the interest rate will start to go down with additional bids. As of 09/2015, over $280mil USD in loans have cleared with a very low default rate and an average interest rate between 5% and 8%. 

-	Designed and developed all features including auction and social networking systems
-	Installed and maintained web, mail, DB, and file clusters (14 servers)
-	Defined engineering and operations procedures
-	Managed 3 member development team
-	Company purchased by M’Grant Food Service on 08/03/2010.

CTO/Co-founder

Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.

- Rewrote ticketing system for Sundance Film Festival

Developer & Rntrepreneur

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