Engineering leader and creative communicator with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of software development, internet technologies, digital media, and intellectual property. I'm passionate about using digital media to connect art with its audience, and the use of games and emerging technology as a creative medium. Specialties: Software architecture and engineering, scalable web technology, digital strategy, social media, and intellectual property.

Senior Manager, API @ Helping connect the world's best creator community with developers. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Principal @ Develop strategy and tools to help artists manage their own websites and online presence. Provide digital distribution for out-of-print releases and unsigned artists. Hosted 2008 SXSW showcase. From October 2006 to Present (9 years 3 months) Instructor @ Helping awesome ladies on their path to becoming awesome devs. My focus has been on curriculum development and teaching computer science fundamentals and JavaScript. From August 2014 to April 2015 (9 months) Greater Seattle AreaLead API Engineer & Director of Developer Communications @ OpenAura is a visual content management platform that allows artists to control and make money from their digital identity. We want to "make music beautiful," by providing developers with the tools they need to reconnect an artist's visual identity to their music and create the next generation of listening experiences. On the API side, I provided our customers with access to high quality visual content through scalable HTTP services, client libraries, and developer evangelism. As both an individual contributor and team leader, I worked to produce an exceptional product through engineering discipline, product vision, and customer feedback. Scala, Javascript, MongoDB. From May 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 10 months) Senior Developer @ Made games for the open web. My focus was on HTML5 game engine development for massively multiplayer board games. Canvas API, Node.js, Javascript, Coffeescript, MongoDB, Redis. From February 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 4 months) Greater Seattle AreaDirector of Technology and Development / A & R Staff @ Researched and evaluated new technologies and digital marketing opportunities for upper management. Developed and executed new technology initiatives for artists and for the label. Acted as a senior developer and provided leadership to contractors and small development and marketing teams. As a member of the A&R staff, I scouted artists, helped negotiate artist deals, and project managed releases. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS, HTML, Perl, MySQL, JavaScript, XML, Apache, Nginx, and Linux. From June 2003 to January 2012 (8 years 8 months) Software Engineer III @ Owned essential Perl data ingestion software which parsed and loaded millions of individual auto parts records into a central Oracle database every day. Perl, Java, Oracle, and Solaris. From January 2002 to March 2003 (1 year 3 months) Contract Developer @ Built a systems and application monitoring suite in Perl. Maintained a web-based contact management system for the sales department. Perl, FastCGI, Apache, DB2, and AIX. From June 2001 to December 2001 (7 months) System Architect @ Designed and developed prototype online reservation system. Developed ORM for Perl and MySQL. Perl, CGI, MySQL, BerkeleyDB, and Debian. From August 2000 to May 2001 (10 months) Software Engineer II @ Built and supported backbone monitoring tools for the NOC. Developed Perl coding standards. Perl, Sybase, SNMP, and Solaris. From May 1999 to June 2000 (1 year 2 months) Unix Systems Engineer @ Rolled up services (email, hosting, dialup) provided by regional ISPs into centralized systems. Unix system administration and automation in large, heterogeneous environment. Perl, MySQL, BerkeleyDB, shell scripting, Solaris, FreeBSD, Debian, BSDi, SMTP, DNS and bind. From June 1998 to May 1999 (1 year) Unix Systems Administrator @ Worked in a system administrations group responsible for web hosting, DNS, customer automation tools, and network administration and configuration for a regional network, incuding dial up POPs. Solaris, Perl, Cisco IOS, NIS+, DNS and bind, Livingston routers, Frame Relay, and ISDN. From September 1997 to April 1998 (8 months)

MCDM, Master of Communication in Digital Media @ University of Washington From 2009 to 2011 Java Programming Certificate @ University of Washington From 2008 to 2009 BS, Mathematics @ Western Washington University - Fairhaven College From 1992 to 1997 Dean Hudson is skilled in: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, JavaScript, Databases, Java, CSS, Unix Administration, Project Management, Internet Marketing, Linux, Perl, Social Media, Unix, Scala