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Dale John Cook |
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CONTACT DETAILS
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(415)
475 1977 |
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OVERVIEW |
Energetic,
entrepreneurial individual with extensive experience in developing and
delivering diverse technological solutions.
Possesses an in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies and
their commercial applications. Ongoing successes in creating and leading
people and teams, in challenging and often stressful environments. Over fifteen
years professional experience in IT fields working in diverse environments
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LEADERSHIP |
Over 8 years of leading and building great engineering teams, both from scratch and expanding existing teams.
My approach is very communication driven with an emphasis on providing a framework for excellence rather than
traditional hands on management. I have seen that great teams naturally self-organize into their most effective
organism given the right support structures. Active engineering participation with my teams helps me be a more effective leader.
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TECHNIAL
EXPERIENCE |
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EXPERIENCE
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8/2010 - Present |
Man of Many Hats |
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Kabam.com
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San Francisco |
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Kabam is a prominent developer of social games with several large Facebook delivered hits, including IGN Readers Choice Game of the Year 'Kingdoms of Camelot'. Originally hired to manage and mentor game teams I saw more need to build out support platforms to make game development more efficient. I headed up several efforts to build highly scalable systems providing administration, translation and virality services to games across the company. I was also fortunate to spend a brief time helping the Dragons of Atlantis team execute on their amazing vision.
Technology Used: Ruby On Rails, Sinatra, MySql, Redis, memcached, JQuery |
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12/2008 - 7/2010 |
VP Engineering |
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Senior Educators Inc.
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San Francisco |
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A very hands on position in a small start up. Senior Educators is a leading provider of Medicare services and the applications developed were designed for an audience unfamiliar with the internet. Our growth and recent acquisition by Hewitt Associates is a testament to the success of our hard work. I was responsible for our public website and supporting applications. In this position I performed development and architecting duties, hiring of developers, team building, database design and maintenance, server configuration, server management and customer technical point of contact. Technology Used: Ruby On Rails, PostgreSQL, Prototype, script.aculo.us, RJB, Nginx, CentOS |
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1/2007 - 12/2008 |
Founder |
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Big Yellow Pad Inc.
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San Francisco |
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Architected and built five web based applications using Ruby On Rails, MySQL, Prototype and script.aculo.us.
Technology Used: Ruby On Rails, MySQL, Prototype,
script.aculo.us, jQuery, Ubuntu, Apache. Nginx, mongrel_cluster |
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12/2005 – 12/2006 |
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VP Engineering |
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allDocuments Inc. |
Redwood City |
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Responsible for all VP and senior architecting duties, including
management and team building, department reports and reviews, business
analysis, architecture development, design and code review, code and database
development, project management and on-going customer technical point of
contact. Built and managed Engineering department and ran day-to-day
affairs. Managed off shore development and programming teams in India for
cost saving projects. Set company standards for development, including company
technical direction and documentation standards. Put in place “bug” tracking
and error reporting systems. Developed disaster recovery procedures. Actively managed in-house hardware and eventually transition
from in-house to “managed” hosting services. Technology Used: MS .NET Architecture, C#, AJAX, SOAP,
XML, XSLT, SQL Server, DHTML, JavaScript |
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9/2004 – 12/2005 |
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CTO/President |
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Infinite Carbon Consulting |
San
Francisco |
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Formed and ran company taking on all aspects of management and
development. Participated in sales and client relations at all levels and
negotiated all contracts. Oversaw, architected, and often participated in, development
projects. Set, promoted and enforced company standards and procedures. Hired employees and managed relationships with contractors and
third party providers. Oversaw financials and was responsible for all purchasing
decisions. Technology Used: MS .NET Architecture, C#, Ruby on
Rails, AJAX, SOAP, XML, XSLT, SQL Server, DHTML, JavaScript |
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11/2001 – 9/2004 |
CTO/Senior
System Architect (Partner) |
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Marker 7 Consulting |
San
Francisco |
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Responsible for technical overview of all back-end related
company projects. Senior architect on all major company projects. Senior
architect duties include client consultation, business analysis, architecture
development, design review, code and database development, project
management, code review and on-going customer technical point of contact. Managed off shore development and programming teams in India for
cost saving projects. Set company standards for development, including company
technical direction and documentation standards. Implemented standards for
architecture, coding and testing. Developed management and transition
techniques for projects handled off shore. Constant hands-in development approach ensures my understanding
of current programming technologies and techniques are continually updated. Technology Used: MS .NET Architecture, ASP.NET, AJAX,
SOAP, XML, XSLT, VB.NET, C#, VB, SQL Server, PHP, MySQL, DHTML, JavaScript |
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4/2002 – 6/2003 |
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Interim CTO |
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Ventanis |
San
Francisco |
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Providing technical
direction and solutions to Ventanis.com. The primary Ventanis product is a
venture capital market place web application. Responsible for taking this
extremely complex financial application from idea to delivery. Tasked with
implementing and managing technical design and implementation in the CTO
capacity. Providing technical
expertise on everything from high-level direction and future development
planning to server network set up and deployment. |
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12/2000 – 3/2001 |
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Architect/Developer |
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Webster Financial |
San
Francisco |
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Designing and building web services architecture for new range
of financial services by leveraging new Microsoft .NET platform to deliver
implementation neutral APIs across the web to partners in financial sector. Providing expertise and direction in Microsoft products and
development strategies to management and decision makers. Technology Used: MS .NET Architecture, ASP+, SOAP, SDL,
VB Script, SQL Server, DHTML, JavaScript |
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7/2000 – 12/2000 |
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Interface Engineering
Manager |
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BigStep.com |
San
Francisco |
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Established and built Interface Engineering department. Hired
top quality people and established techniques for rapid “on-boarding” in
technically complex environment. Established department mission and objectives, both short and
long term, and evangelized them company wide. Established short and long-term goals with department members
and set up processes to ensure their success. Managed scheduling of
department members in dynamic development team environment. Participated in cross-functional management teams charged with
streamlining internal processes. Established procedures for company wide RID
(Rapid Iterative Development) processes. Established and formalized
interdepartmental deliverables for documentation flowing into, and out of,
the Interface Engineering department. Provided technical expertise to early stage proposals. Member of
creative team assigned to evaluate and formulate proposals for new products. Reported directly to senior management. Technology Used: JSP, Servlets, Oracle, Sun Solaris,
DHTML, JavaScript |
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6/1999 – 7/2000 |
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Senior Architect |
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BayWeb |
San
Francisco |
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BayWeb
is a consulting firm specializing in B2B and B2B2C strategies and development
for emerging dot coms and existing brick and mortar companies trying to
establish a web presence. Formed architecture team with one other architect
and established processes and design standards to streamline development
efforts. Provided business and technical advice to our clients and developed
technical strategies and systems to meet these business needs. Technology Used: Visual Basic, ASP, COM, Oracle, SQL
Server, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Java, JSP, XML, Delphi, Cold Fusion |
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3/1999 - 6/1999 |
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Architect/Programmer |
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Northpoint Communications |
San
Francisco |
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Analyzed,
designed and developed DSL pre-qualification web application and supporting
systems. Researched user requirements and, in co-operation with other
departments, developed new features and products to automate NorthPoints
business procedures. Instrumental in defining new features of NorthPoint
customer service. Technology Used: Visual Basic, ASP, COM, SQL Server,
XML, Perl |
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3/1998 - 2/1999 |
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Analyst/Project Manager |
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PMI Inc. |
San Francisco |
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2/1996 - 2/1998 |
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Technical
Lead/Analyst |
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FPI Inc. |
San
Francisco |
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7/1994 - 8/1995 |
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Senior Programmer/RAD
Specialist |
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Commonwealth Banking Corporation |
Sydney Australia |
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1/1990 - 12/1994 |
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Programmer |
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Australian Broadcasting Commission |
Sydney
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EDUCATION
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12/1990 |
Flinders
University |
Australia-South
Australia-Adelaide |
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Bachelors
Degree |
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B.Sc.
in Computer Science |