Michael Economy Resume

362 Pierce St
San Francisco CA 94116
http://www.MichaelEconomy.com/
Michael at MichaelEconomy dot com
ATTENTION: Do not contact me about jobs unless you are prepared to offer at least a $150,000 signing bonus.

Education

Appalachian State University, Boone NC
BS Computer Science GPA 3.68 Magna Cum Laude


Work Experience

2008 - current
Goodreads Inc
First full time employee.
Social network for readers, ruby on rails framework.
Responsibilities:

• Development
• Site releases
• Improving UI
• Optimization / scalability
• Maintenance / bug fixes
• AB testing, tracking
• Training new employees
• responding to customer feedback
• Systems Operations
• Usability testing
• product roadmapping
• quality assurance
• systems administration
• oversaw datacenter migration (set up a new colo from scratch)
• hardware acquisitions
• network architecture

2005 - 2008
Monster Inc (Tickle), San Francisco CA
Lead engineer on various products including:
Ringo.com - Photo/Video Sharing Social Networking
LoveHappens.com - Matchmaking
uk.tickle.com - Entertainment
GoodTree.com - Search (no long owned by monster)
All the web apps here are written in java, but there are a few services written in ruby that I also support.
Responsibilities:

• Developing new features
• Site releases
• Improving UI
• Optimization / scalability
• Maintenance / bug fixes
• Developing ad products
• AB testing, tracking
• Training new employees

Major accomplishments:

• Added new sharing features to Tickle that greatly increased site traffic and resulted in millions of new users
• Ringo video integration
• Ringo member to member messaging
• Ringo explore pages

2004 - 2005
Appalachian State University, Boone NC
Computer science research assistant
All java projects.
Responsibilities/Accomplishments:

• Wrote a simple java virtual machine for use in a programming languages course
• Wrote a robot lawn mowing simulation for use by the intro to CS course
• Initiated work on a grid computing cryptography project that spanned 72 machines at 9 universities.

2002 - 2003
Appalachian Technologies, Boone NC
Small town ISP/hosting/computer repair/computer parts retailer
Responsibilities:

• Computer repair
• Web development
• Tech support

1998 - 2001
Events Associates, Raleigh NC
Event Planning Company.
Responsibilities:

• Web development
• Networking
• Technical advising and support

Other notable projects
User generated content site for sharing top ten lists (ruby on rails)
Fully featured social network (ruby on rails)
2d graphical multi user environment (java)

Summary of Qualifications

Significant experience developing huge scalable web applications supporting millions of users
Developing and maintaining websites since 1996!
Extremly fluent in Java (including a certification!)
Languages: Java, Ruby, C, C++, Ant, SQL, shell scripts, PHP, Perl, Lisp, assembly, Pascal, XML, CSS, Javascript, HTML, and Prolog
Software: Oracle, MySql, Apache, resin, rails, memcached, Spring Framework, linux, windows, office, eclipse

Formal education in the following areas:
Realtime system design and analysis
Networking, Database programming, Distributed computing,
Neural Nets, and other types of AI, Graphics,
Image processing, GUI Design, Systems Programming
Some Spanish, and some Japanese