C h r i s t o p h e r T a y l o r

1715 NE 146th Street, Shoreline, Washington 98155

(206) 417-2244

christopher@EZLN23.com

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Project Management/Software Development

Highly innovative and motivated engineer with an unwavering focus on meeting business needs. Confident, honest and creative problem solver open to new ideas. Able to maintain a balance between today’s needs and tomorrow’s vision. Strong track record managing processes and teams and implementing complex development projects. Analytical and conceptual thinker with an extensive breadth of experience. Energetic professional with strong math, written and verbal communication skills. Fluent Spanish speaker.

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Key Skills

Project Management	Software Development
Leadership and Entrepreneurship	Written & Verbal Communication
Functional & Design Specifications Development	Object-Oriented & Relational Database Integration
Cost-Benefit & Needs Analysis	Client Education
Technical Partnership Establishment & Maintaintainance	Re-usable/Modular Framework Development
Software Cycles, Systems, Network Architecture Plan Establishment	Black/White Box, Bug Tracking, & Regression Testing

Technical Skill Areas

Operating Systems:	Windows (XP, 2000, NT, 98, 95, 3.11), Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
Databases:	MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL
Programming Languages:	Java, Perl, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, C/C++
Development Tools:	Resin, ANT, Apache, CVS, Forte, JBuilder
Technologies:	JSP, Servlets, Struts, Swing, JDBC, XML, SOAP, NET, EJB, XML-RPC, HTML, mod-perl, Windows Media

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Project History

Toshiba/EMI Video Player

Windows Media Technologies, JavaScript, JSP, Struts, Java

A web-based streaming video interface built as a promotional tool for the Toshiba/EMI website in Japan. Streams a 24/7 customized music video station featuring artists under the Toshiba/EMI label in Japan. Included full I18n support.

Jams Media Manager

JSP, Struts, Java, Web Services, EJB, SQL

A web-based UI for managing various types of media. This interface provided a means for Loudeye affiliates to manage media that was being delivered through the Loudeye network. Allowed users to upload, copy, move and delete media and its corresponding metadata. Used primarily to manage streaming video and audio clips.

Jams Services

Java, EJB, Web Services, SQL, Windows Media and RealMedia Technologies

A project aimed at providing all the services needed to drive the Loudeye radio and video products.

• Full-featured media management solution. Including automated file storage, replication, publishing, processing and encoding
• Flexible media attribution system. Providing means to for user to define new data fields to be associated with media items, hierarchical media organization
• Extensible media scheduling. Rule based scheduling system to provide radio style audio and video streaming, including branding and targeted ad insertion

Object Oriented JavaScript UI Framework

JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Windows Media and RealMedia Technologies

A toolkit of JavaScript based UI elements optimized for building streaming media video and audio players. Built on top of an event model, much like Swing or similar UI frameworks. UI objects could be extended and interconnected in an object-oriented fashion. Also provided an abstraction layer on top of the Windows Media and RealMedia browser plugins

Netmap

Perl, RRDB

A distributed system for monitoring the Akamai network. Comprised of a distributed agent and a centralized collector component. The agents could be installed in distributed points around the Internet to collect performance information on the Akamai network. The agents would contact the collector, which would maintain performance histories for all the agent locations. The administrator could check the collector through a web interface to see how the network was performance currently or at points in the past.

Euclid

Perl, Apache, mod-perl, SQL, MySQL

The predecessor of Jams. Provided media management, automated encoding, scheduling control and more for the theDial.com radio product.

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Career History

Contract Application Developer 2002 – 2003

Loudeye Technologies

· Added support for video into the Loudeye’s media management system

· Built customer facing web interface to Jams system. This allows clients to manage their own content through a secure web interface

· Developed and Launched video player for Toshiba/EMI

Application Developer and Analyst 2001 – 2002

Loudeye Technologies

· Integrated theDial technologies into the Loudeye infrastructure allowing for a seamless transition from theDial’s radio product to the Loudeye Radio product

· Produced specification and design for a new media management, attribution and scheduling system (Jams) resulting in a tightly integrated and flexible tool for managing the Radio product

· Managed project and implemented Jams on schedule providing web services at all key points of integration

Director of Development/Co-Founder 1997 – 2001

theDial.com

• Co-founded company in 1997 to provide custom-label audio service to large web properties. Clients included: Salon.com, Women.com, Homestead.com, and InfoSpace.com
• Prepared theDial’s original business plan, developed financial estimates, including growth, cost, revenue, depreciation, and pitched the business plan to Venture Capitalists
• Managed from inception, all technical aspect of the company including systems, network, development, new products, infrastructure, web and stream hosting as well as leading, hiring and supervising the entire technical team

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Network Engineer 1995 – 1998

Daw Technologies

• Deployed and maintained Oracle database services for a premier manufacturer of clean room facilities in the semiconductor industry
• Managed all IT development projects including web and database application
• Restructured network infrastructure (Internet, switches, and services) resulting in easier and faster maintenance, better access to network resources and higher visibility of important internal systems