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If you could meet one person in the entertainment industry, who would it be?

The "In a world..." movie trailer announcer guy. He probably wouldn't have anything interesting to say, but at least it would sound pretty darn cool.

Posted @ 10:05PM, February 08, 2008 by Brian Fioca | Permalink
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Work history

RescueTime October 2007 to the present
Founder, CIO

How would you describe your time at RescueTime?

As a founder and the Chief Information Officer at RescueTime ( http://www.rescuetime.com ) my responsibilities are pretty broad. I've done everything from customer service to development, business planning and budgeting and pitching to venture capitalists and investors. Currently my main responsibilities are as the primary developer of the Ruby on Rails web application and web service. I also helped pitch the product to Y Combinator, who selected us for funding for their Winter 2008 session.... read more
Jobster June 2006 to December 2007
Lead Software Development Engineer

How would you describe your time at Jobster?

You can see a lot of what I did just looking at my profile. :) For example, networking was my innovation project, tags came from Jobby (my company which was acquired by Jobster), similar people - which is powered by tags, and much of edit profile and the customized home page. Most recently I was the lead software developer of the PoweredBy Platform team, managing 4 direct reports and reporting to the CTO.... read more
Jobby October 2005 to April 2006
Founder, CIO

How would you describe your time at Jobby?

As the co-founder, I not only wrote all of the code and built out and tuned the production environment, but I also worked on business development, financing and budgeting, marketing strategy and pricing analysis, data-center build out planning, startup hiring strategies, venture capital pitching, and engineering department planning.... read more
PangoMedia January 2005 to June 2006
Chief Scientist, Sr. Technical Consultant

How would you describe your time at PangoMedia?

Chief Technical Architect, Tech Lead, and Team Leader of several concurrent projects.

Invented WASP - http://wasp.sourceforge.net Open Source object oriented web application framework for PHP5. The framework is a 3-tier architecture for implementing quick-to-market apps in PHP.

Systems
Analyst, Architect, Lead Developer and Team Lead of Alaska Housing Finance Corporation eMortgage software. The application is written in Java J2EE using Hibernate and JSPs running on Websphere 6 with user session and rights management stored in PostgreSQL and transaction data processing through RMI to AS/400 iSeries DB2 server.

Systems Analyst, Tech Lead, Senior Developer of Boys and Girls Club of Alaska Profile Management Tool for managing all areas of the organization.

Instructor for various classes, including Java 2 Programming language and Object Oriented Programming and Design. Achieved highest ratings in course and instructor feedback.
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UPS June 2004 to January 2005
Sr. Programmer Analyst

How would you describe your time at UPS?

Sr. Engineer on the XML Online Tools team. Implemented subsystem performance monitor with SLO based alarm generation and statistics tracking. The subsystem monitor runs as a passive listener process generating usage and performance statistics on customer transaction data of up to 3 million hits per day.

Implement Web Services XML Tools for UPS tracking, shipping, etc. Responsible for development of QA Workbench test harness system which runs distributed, multi-threaded tests using SOAP and XML Beans.
... read more
Employease January 2000 to June 2004
Software Engineer II

How would you describe your time at Employease?

Lead Engineer of a group of 8, entrusted to oversee entire release cycle of an Internet based human resource management system (HRMS) used by 1000 companies with over 300,000 users. Responsible for Functional Requirements Analysis, Architecture Impact and UML Design using Rational Rose, Project Planning with MS Project, Hands on Implementation using emacs, JBuilder and JUnit, Defect Assignment, and Deployment.... read more
IBM May 1998 to July 2000
Systems Administrator

How would you describe your time at IBM?

Planned, developed, and implemented multiple client/server Java applications for AIX class image distribution using a UNIX shell script driven, cron scheduled, client-side pull system written in C++ and Java.

RS/6000 co-systems administrator in Class Lab Engineering department, responsible for
centralized administration tasks including backup/restore, hardware maintenance, network support, and performance tuning on over 120 machines across the United States and Canada.

Assistant administrator in charge of SAP training database installed on multiple AIX/Oracle servers. Perform weekly administrative tasks involving database optimization, user management, and software installation. Performed weekly install of 4 SP frames and their control workstations for AIX PSSP classes.
... read more
PAD Systems May 1997 to May 1998
Software Developer

How would you describe your time at PAD Systems?

Architect and developer of a Java based server to handle data distribution for up to 8000 simultaneous field work-order clients using JDBC connections to SQL Server and Oracle.

System Test Plan developer responsible for development of system test cycles and test cases. Performed first
company-wide QA cycle of customer software.... read more

Education

Southern Polytechnic State University January 2003 to December 2007
BS Computer Science
Georgia Tech October 1996 to December 2000
Computer Science

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