Expert at bridging product, engineering, and executive leadership to execute on business needs and acquire customers. At 17 recruited and managed a team of over 30 people to create what eventually became the 3rd most popular American gaming website (based on average session time), which received over 40 million hits/month (over 1 billion total), and was showcased in Family Circle magazine (top 10 US circulation). Traffic and media attention was a direct result of SEO and social media efforts. Successfully optimized numerous highly trafficked websites for stability, speed, and top search engine rankings.

CTO & Co-Founder @ A sophisticated auction platform that enables highly efficient, market informed, vehicle transactions at the consumer and dealer levels. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaCEO & Founder @ - Recruited and managed a team of over 30 people including software engineers, sysadmins, graphic designers, game writers, project managers, and administrative staff. - Implemented SEO and Internet marketing efforts that in 2007 resulted in over 40 million hits a month and players from over 150 different countries. - Created social media campaign in 2009 that resulted in HogwartsLive.com being showcased in Family Circle magazine (top 10 in US circulation). - Accolades: "2007, The Year of the Online Game?" listed as the 3rd most popular US gaming website in terms of average session time according to Hitwise.com (WebProNews article). - Designed site to be ADA compliant (blind accessible), which resulted in it being featured on websites targeting the visually impaired. - Mentioned in several books including "The World's Best Websites", "The Ultimate Guide to the Harry Potter Fandom", "Film sequels: theory and practice from Hollywood to Bollywood" and "Critical perspectives on Harry Potter". From January 2004 to Present (11 years 10 months) Advisor @ http://www.joyus.com/ "Americans spent more than 200 billion dollars online last year and by 2016 that number is expected to climb to 300 billion. It's easy to do, but not really as much fun as shopping in a store. But a new website called Joyus is putting more joy in it." http://katiecouric.com/videos/what-is-joyus/ From 2013 to 2014 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaCTO & Co-Founder @ - Co-founded a venture-backed startup (investors and advisors included the COO of YouTube, CEO of Machinima, co-creator of Farmville, ex-Chairman of William Morris, SVP of Marketing for Guthy-Renker, the Pritzker Group, and Greycroft Partners) - Recruited and managed a team of software engineers, UX and visual designers - Created a high performance, execution-oriented environment, bridging product, engineering, and executive leadership to set product and company vision - Instituted an agile software development life-cycle to deliver all major features on time for every sprint - Grew talent by promoting development of both technical and soft skills through goal-oriented, continuous improvement plans centered around objectives and key results (OKRs) - Filed patent for technology facilitating a seamless and uninterrupted video commerce experience - Led development of beauty and style video network, Marlay Drive (www.marlaydrive.com), which came complete with a full range of social, e-commerce, and administrative features - Led development of the Kingmaker Commerce e-commerce and online video platform (OVP), which is the technology powering an embeddable online video commerce player as well as the EpicMealTime (#1 cooking show in the world) and Weylie pre-order campaigns (smart.epicmealtime.com and www.weylie.com respectively) From July 2012 to June 2013 (1 year) Greater Los Angeles AreaSoftware Engineer @ - Championed SEO, analytics, and security efforts including website audit procedure, penetration testing, and access control architecture for sensitive customer data. - Designed and implemented initial database schema and rating system (game mechanics & quality score algorithm) for Vendor Onboarding, Ticketing, and Rating System (VOTRS). - Designed and implemented core features including the employee management, catering, group messaging, and invitation systems. - Designed and implemented 3rd-party integrations with Salesforce, ExactTarget (email service provider), Twilio (automated telephony), HubSpot (lead tracking), Mixpanel and GoodData (analytics). From May 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 3 months) Silicon BeachLead Developer @ - Led information architecture, on-site SEO, and social media strategy. - Authored financial reports supporting continued grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). - Designed and implemented event-based analytics system to track and display stats for several NSF-funded websites. - Maintained and extended multiple NSF-funded projects including ExhibitFiles. - Designed and implemented a lightweight MVC framework. - Responsible for Linux web server administration and developer operations (DevOps). From September 2010 to May 2011 (9 months) Lead Developer @ - Led and completed development of the open source project Open Exhibits, a multi-touch software distribution platform, in under three months. - Designed and implemented initial version, which came complete with user-specific blogs, member directory, plus LinkedIn and Twitter integrated profiles. - Designed and implemented software distribution system similar to SourceForge, Google Code, or GitHub with project-specific issue trackers, forums, categories, versioning, comment system, and Wiki-like documentation inspired by the Netflix play queue. From September 2010 to May 2011 (9 months) CEO & Founder @ - Recruited and managed an offshore team of highly talented software engineers and web designers. - Consulted on SEO, social media marketing, and web and mobile app development for several SMBs. - Designed and implemented a blog platform plus social networking features for the Hogwarts Live RPG. - Designed and implemented a mobile job search app for the iPhone. From June 2009 to February 2011 (1 year 9 months) Developer @ - Designed and implemented the CMS, information architecture, and SEO for the Law Library Resource Xchange and JurisPro, Inc. that resulted in the exposure of over 200,000 undiscovered pages to Google's index. - Implemented a custom CMS for a highly trafficked web property, resolving daily stability issues. - Located and fixed vulnerabilities in web-based applications and secured sensitive payment information. - Directed information architecture and data processing/aggregation for millions of pages legal content. From August 2005 to June 2009 (3 years 11 months) Silicon ValleyGlobal Administrator @ - Worked as a volunteer administrator for the American server of MariTel's game Archspace.com. - MariTel's MageWar family of MMORPGs won game of the month 3 times on MPOGD.com and had over 2 million members playing in 13 different languages. From June 2003 to August 2004 (1 year 3 months)

Bachelor of Science, Interactive Media and Web Design @ Art Institute of California - San Francisco From 2005 to 2009 Danilo Stern-Sapad is skilled in: SEO, Information Architecture, User Experience, Social Media Marketing, Web Design, Agile Methodologies, Mobile Devices, User Interface Design, Customer Acquisition, E-commerce, Adobe Creative Suite, Usability, Database Design, Product Management, Web Applications, Software Development, Analytics, Accessibility, Web Development, Interaction Design, Start-ups, Social Media