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Jacob Golder
Walnut Creek, CA
currently: Job hunting
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Work history
CTO
tags:
technology
How would you describe your time at SymbioWare?
SymbioWare provides application quality automation tools and services. Guiding this fiercely competitive startup during launching new product strategy.
- Define overall technology direction, identifying appropriate architecture.
- Characterized analysis and design activities, set standards for product specification and system models, set schedules and manage expectations for product launches.
- Re-positioned the product to take advantage of emerging on-demand service delivery model. Identified path for altering the existing technology from traditional installed test automation tool to on-demand application monitoring.. This shift, which created unique customer value proposition, opened up new business opportunities and already resulted in rapidly increasing market interest.
- Provide technical oversight to the off-shore development and QA teams.
- Establish collaborations with key technology partners, identify and coordinate initiatives that further franchise objectives.
- Provide liaison to vendors and represent company in front of prospective customers at conferences and trade shows.... 
Head of Informatics
tags:
informatics
• bioinformatics
How would you describe your time at Joint Genome Institute?
The JGI represents a merger of the DOE Genome Centers at the three National Laboratories funded by DOE to provide high throughput, large-scale genomic sequencing and genomic research.
Hired to bring startup innovation to this large government research organization. Leading Informatics department, which consists of cross-functional team of 60+ engineers and scientists responsible for development of software and infrastructure. Systems developed by the Informatics department automate all aspects of JGI: from project tools to genomic pipelines and web portals used for data analysis by scientists worldwide (web development, LIMS, computational tools, data management, and systems administration).
- Defined a vision for extending availability of scientific knowledge to the public by merging several web sites into one portal, resulting in dramatic increase in center???s popularity.
- Replaced antiquated, siloed information systems with web-based enterprise systems using Web 2.0 technologies
- Shortened development lifecycle from years to weeks using Agile methodology.
- Lead build out of the High Performance Computing center with 1.4PB storage and 3160 CPU SGE cluster....
VP of Technology
tags:
web 2.0
• engineering
• social networks
How would you describe your time at CNET Networks?
The Community Division of CNET Networks is responsible for the Webshots.com, AllYouCanUpload.com, Chow.com, and Consumating.com web properties. Responsible for managing the Community engineering organization delivering well-respected www.webshots.com photo/video sharing site. Served as a key member of the executive team. CNET sold Webshots to American Greetings of Cleveland, Ohio.
- Lead effort to stabilize and scale the Webshots infrastructure and applications.
- Re-architected Webshots from legacy Perl FastCGI code to Java/JSP and MySQL, which allowed growth from 23MM page views per day to over 60MM page views per day in just over four months.
- Responsible for over 26MM unique monthly visitors, 1.5MM (peak) daily photo uploads and over 500MM online photos....
eBay
January 2003 to April 2004
Sr. Manager, Engineering
How would you describe your time at eBay?
Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, managed two teams of highly skilled engineers responsible for critical areas of eBay???s complex infrastructure: Application Persistence (DAL) and Messaging. These technologies continue to drive the organization as one of the top Internet companies.
??? Managed a DAL team of 12 engineers, which was responsible for implementation and support of the data access layer (DAL) as part of web application framework. The DAL team provided engineering and production support for all persistence-related issues virtually 24x7 and trained over 100 application developers within 60 projects.
??? Took over two major projects that were severely understaffed and in red, and re-ignited a stalled development effort within weeks.
??? Hired aggressively to ensure appropriate workload balance and ability to execute to plan. The team integrated well within engineering organization and delivered high-quality code....
Director, Engineering
How would you describe your time at NextCard?
NextCard was the first issuer of credit card online, using real-time personalized underwriting and pricing. Reporting to a CIO, managed several full cycle enterprise software development projects. Was a major contributor in establishing a successful Technology organization as a lead strategist and a key member of the Technology management team. Oversaw engineering shutdown during the company liquidation.
??? Charged with defining the strategic direction and implementing a new CRM technology initiative focused on back-to-front and cross-channel integration to provide customers and customer-facing employees (Loyalty Marketing, Customer Risk Management) with the same panoramic view of the customer.
??? In a short time realized a complete CRM solution composed of out-bound (Mercury) and in-bound (NextStep) systems featuring state-of-the-art technologies such as real-time credit risk analytics, workflow automation, CTI and distributed computing to provide powerful tools for automating processes and implementing knowledge management.
??? The system reduced campaign turnaround time from months to hours and generated $40MM of added revenue in FY2001 and reduced processing time from weeks to days, resulting in a 25% decrease in booking cost per account. The CRM system was instrumental in winning and keeping profitable customers by aligning customer facing processes, technologies and people with corporate strategy.
??? Launched a successful reuse effort, based on a multi-tier application architecture that structured the objects into a hierarchy of technology layers.
??? Led reuse initiative and delivered its benefits of faster and more efficient development of flexible, high-quality applications.
??? Continuously enhanced the value of reusable assets by collecting and storing developer expertise and by pinpointing those assets that require modification to improve their reusability.
??? Bolstered developer confidence in quality and usability of reusable components by ensuring that organizational standards for documentation and testing are met before assets are published....
Enterprise Architect (Contractor)
tags:
ooad
How would you describe your time at Kaiser Permanente?
Introduced OO techniques. Perform analysis and build use case and enterprise object model. Worked with many cross-functional teams to understand requirements, lead analysis sessions.
Enterprise Architect (Contractor)
How would you describe your time at Alltel Healthcare Informati...?
Responsible for leading the long-term program to re-engineer software processes.
??? Led the analysis teams in developing enterprise-level use case and object models providing the conceptual framework for evolving legacy products into modern client/server technology.
??? Chaired technology advisory group that defined service requirements and guide technology implementation across the organization. Provided motivation and experience to the ANSII standards development organization Health Level 7 (HL7) in adopting OO methodology. Designed training curriculum, created presentations, and facilitated modeling sessions for the technical committees.
??? Characterized analysis and design activities, set standards for product specification and system models, trained staff in analysis techniques....
How would you describe your time at Barclays Global Investors?
Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors (WFNIA, now Barclays Global Investors) offers institutional investment services via index fund management using quantitative techniques. Managed a team that developed an investment management system featuring sophisticating analytics for optimizing equity crossing between index funds. The new system substantially reduced processing time and increased trade matching rates from 10% to over 70% with zero transaction cost, resulting in dramatic increase in profitability....
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