Bradley Greenwood
Over twelve years of experience in the corporate environment and start-ups. Currently working as Director, Web Development at AcrossCut Media.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://acrosscutmedia.com |
| Industries: | Internet |
| Skills: | AJAX, C/C++, Django, Facebook platform, Flash, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | San Francisco |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Investing in projects, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Schools: | University of San Francisco, University of Wisconsin System - Whitewater |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | AcrossCut Media, Redwood City, California |
| Position: | Director, Web Development |
| Time period: | May 2008 - Present |
| Description: | AcrossCut Media, Inc. has developed “ACM Connect” the first advertising engine to dynamically deliver, measure and report on location-based digital media for the DOOH market. Our technology can deliver digital media seamlessly to any device that has an Internet connection. The ACM advertising platform connects advertisers with the right buyers at the right place at the right time. “ACM Connect” produces a targeted delivery and results in more transactions for the advertiser. Our reporting provides advertisers with a deeper set of analytics that produce greater relevancy and a higher ROI. ACM is currently targeting the hospitality industry – including both business and leisure travelers with delivery through hotel kiosks and mobile devices. We are moving into other markets and will be announcing partnerships in new verticals including tourist attractions and universities shortly.
Current projects include development of an advanced ad-targeting platform and mobile applications (iPhone and Android). |
| Employer: | Outspark, San Francisco, California |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer / Web Developer |
| Time period: | April 2007 - May 2008 |
| Description: | Architected and implemented Outspark’s original web-platform/portal on Drupal. This scalable, multi-sited architecture consisted of numerous online casual games and a commerce platform. Architected and developed Outspark’s online stores. Developed the store platform in PHP/MySQL using JQuery. Creator of Outspark’s registration system in PHP5/MySQL. |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, California |
| Position: | Lead Software Engineer / Open-Source Software Evangelist |
| Time period: | January 2004 - April 2007 |
| Description: | Lead architect on implementing an open-source PHP/MySQL platform (called Drupal) for Yahoo’s Help Platform Engineering division, as well as numerous groups around Yahoo. Front-end designer and back-end architect for over 30 YDrupal installations across Yahoo. Delivered over 45 technical presentations for various groups around Yahoo, speaking about Drupal’s application framework. Developer of the following applications based on the Drupal application framework:
• Content management and publishing system to deliver Yahoo’s world-wide help content. Over one hundred of Yahoo’s products and 23 countries are hosted on help.yahoo.com. • Content management and publishing system to deliver Yahoo’s corporate information such as privacy policies, terms of service, and security information. The company information site can be viewed at info.yahoo.com. • Knowledge Base application that encompasses three systems to index various types of content for searching by an agent. This application is used by Yahoo’s global outsourcing partners. • E-Learning system used by Yahoo’s technical support division to create and host training material for agents, world-wide. • Internal Drupal information site that hosts customized versions of Drupal and Drupal modules, specific to Yahoo (called YDrupal). Packages are hosted on this site for any Yahoo engineer to easily install the YDrupal platform in their environment. |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, California |
| Position: | Software Engineer / Technical Project Manager |
| Time period: | March 2002 - January 2004 |
| Description: | A multi-faceted role encompassing three primary functions: software development, operations, and project management. Software developer for internal web-based applications in a LAMP/WAMP environment (Linux/Windows, Apache/IIS, PHP/Perl/JavaScript, MySQL). Engineering project manager playing a key role in managing technical projects for developing software libraries to build APIs that interface with internal Yahoo applications. Worked with the company’s global software security team to develop & maintain Yahoo’s single-sign-on authentication system. Responsibilities included creation of technical specifications, design & development of GUI, and maintenance of current system. Network security engineering contact for over 60 Yahoo product engineers, both locally and worldwide. Project manager and application administrator for all internal Yahoo applications (130+), supporting over 5500 agents. Worked closely with product engineering teams in the design and implementation of code changes, company-wide. Played a key role as a telecom engineer in architecting and maintaining reporting schemes for various offices around the company, including: Product engineering, Information Technology, Business Development, and global Tech Support. Reporting platform constructed using Perl DBI. Interviewed full-time & contracted personnel. Architect and maintainer of the following applications:
• “Request for Service” ticketing and tracking tool. • Content repository with document revision control. • Application used for internal/external outsourcing partner escalations and requests. • Joint developer and maintainer of an application used to schedule customer callbacks between Yahoo & British Telecom. |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, California |
| Position: | Technical Support Manager / Assistant Product Manager |
| Time period: | February 2001 - March 2002 |
| Description: | International technical support leader and global trainer for one of Yahoo’s market-leading community services, Yahoo Messenger. Developed Yahoo’s global technical training platform for outsourcing partners. Trained over 60 support agents on 17 unique Yahoo products, both locally and worldwide. Developed and maintained Yahoo customer help sites, utilizing HTML & JavaScript, defining the style and standards of help pages for 23 countries. Managed outsourcing partner relationships for the product management team. Managed multiple projects from Messenger product development: The development of monetary strategies for the product, HTML/Flash mock-ups for product homepages, and the benchmarking of competitor features to ensure product superiority (extensive competitive analysis). |
| Employer: | Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, California |
| Position: | Technical Support Lead |
| Time period: | January 2000 - February 2001 |
| Description: | Primary lead of U.S. team for Yahoo Messenger, leading by example and motivating others to work to full capacity. Interviewed potential technical support reps, trained new hire technicians, and designed work rosters for the team. Resolved technical issues identified by customers including a wide range of people/personalities with different backgrounds and levels of experience. Cross-trained on over 17 unique Yahoo products. |
| Employer: | GP Network Solutions, Wisconsin & Santa Clara, California |
| Position: | Co-Founder |
| Time period: | May 1997 - January 2000 |
| Description: | Provided networking services to small businesses including network design/setup/consulting/training, web services (web page design, maintenance, graphic design), and security.
• Previously http://www.gpns.net • Can be viewed at http://www.bradleymgreenwood.com/gpns/home.htm |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of San Francisco |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2006 |
| Degree: | Information Systems, BSc |
| University: | University of Wisconsin System - Whitewater |
| Time period: | 1995 - 1998 |
| Degree: | Computer Science |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | • Captain of the Yahoo ice hockey team and men’s flag football team. |
| Memberships: | • Lead organizer of the 2007 Yahoo OSCMS (Open Source Content Management System) Summit.
• Presented at Yahoo’s Tech Talk conference to speak to engineers across the company about open-source software. • Chosen as a leader in technical support for Yahoo’s Communication business unit. Selected to travel to Delhi, India to implement Yahoo’s global technical support training platform for their first outsourcing partner. |
| Awards: | • Nominated for Yahoo's prestigious company award, “The Superstar Award”.
• Received the Yahoo Technical Support Department Award twice in 6 months for consistently demonstrating invaluable leadership skills. |
Bradley's Startups (1)
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Telegent Systems
Telegent Systems is a leading fabless CMOS semiconductor company providing high-performance, single-chip solutions enabling worldwide live, free-to-air and subscription TV in mobile handsets, laptops and netbooks, and portable devices
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Zynga
Zynga is a social network and gaming company. The company's array of games do not require a download and can be played on social networks so that users can interact and compete.
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Dropbox
Changing the way people think about storing and sharing their files. Y Combinator funding in summer 2007.
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AdMob
AdMob is a mobile advertising marketplace that connects advertisers with mobile publishers. They allow advertisers to create ads, choose landing pages and target their ads with plenty of detail. Ads c...
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Outspark
Outspark is a leading north american, publisher and service operator of multiplayer online games, that are micro-transaction based. We operate a 3P business model: Publishing, Portal and Platform Our publishing platform is now open to 3rd party
Bradley's Contacts (3)
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James Rasmussen
From real estate to start ups, I'm in the business of making deals happen.
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Irene Gabashvili
Accomplished professional with over 15 yearsâ experience in biomedical industry and academia. Founder of Aurametrix.
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