Head of Engineering, Instagram @ Senior engineering management at Instagram / Facebook. From August 2015 to Present (3 months) Vice President of Engineering, Homepage and Verticals @ Responsibilities include the engineering management of the Yahoo.com flagship homepage and vertical destination sites: Yahoo Sports, Fantasy Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Magazines, Publisher Tools, Publisher Anaytics,Yahoo original content publishing tools, Yahoo Screen, and Yahoo Live broadcast video services - in all an engineering organization of over 800. From September 2014 to August 2015 (1 year) Sunnyvale, CACEO / Founder @ Responsibilities include day to day management and leadership of Luminate, Inc. Accomplishments include: pioneering image monetization "in-image" ads, building a high caliber engineering organization, scaling the Luminate network to over 200 million uniques monthly with over 10,000 publishers, raised 3 successful rounds of funding from top tier venture capital firms, filed over 30 patents with over 10 awarded to date. From December 2012 to September 2014 (1 year 10 months) Mountain View, CACTO / Founder @ Responsibilities include: definition and execution of the Luminate technology road map, investigating new technologies that help scale the Luminate network, providing engineering and product direction, inventing new products and customer solutions, manage and drive Luminate's IP protection strategy, meet with potential customers and solution providers. From March 2008 to December 2012 (4 years 10 months) CTO / Co-Founder @ My responsibilities included: ownership of the LiveOps technology roadmap, Investigating VoIP technologies and help architect, define, and design future products, meet with large enterprise customers for sales and solutions, hiring. Accomplishments: Built award winning LiveOps complete end-to-end call center solution, help land the top enterprise customers, drive implementation of self-serve hosted call center solution, helped build revenue to over $100m/year, awarded two 2 key patents, built the largest distributed call center in existence with over 20,000 work at home agents. From March 2003 to March 2008 (5 years 1 month) Vice President of Engineering / Co-Founder @ As the co-founding technical lead at Callcast (later to become LiveOps), my responsibilities included: defining the initial architecture of the LiveOps VoIP telephony platform alongside our founding engineering team, helped design and drive implementation of crowdsourcing community management tools, built the engineering team to over 70, implemented engineering best practices and processes, managed LiveOps IP strategy, helped build revenues to over $40m/year. From February 2001 to February 2003 (2 years 1 month) Palo Alto, CASenior Director of Engineering @ Managed core infrastructure groups responsible for data warehousing, reporting, web services, content feeds, and voice applications. Helped build engineering group to over 200 engineers, define engineering management processes, engineering best practices, develop front line managers, Awarded 2 patents. From January 1999 to January 2001 (2 years 1 month) Director of Engineering / Browser @ Led the engineering group responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. During my tenure at Netscape, I was involved in Netscape browser versions 1 through 6 with responsibilities ranging from implementation to management. Other accomplishments: Provided management and leadership to engineering team through AOL acquisition while maintaining a 0% attrition rate through a difficult cultural transition, designed and implemented the Netscape email composition client, shipped the first post-merger Netscape browser 6.0, help architect components which still endure today in popular web browser such as Firefox. Awarded 1 patent. From June 1995 to December 1999 (4 years 7 months) Senior Engineer, Borland C++ @ As a member of the Borland languages team, my responsibilities included: design and implementation of the code editor portion for the C++ integrated development environment, development and design of the Borland C++ languages compiler and supportive tools. From June 1992 to May 1995 (3 years) Senior Engineer @ Designed and implemented Network HQ - a network asset management tool. Network HQ won best new product at Spring Comdex as well as Infoworld Lan utility of the year. Also responsible for the implementation of Automenu, Magee's flagship DOS menu program. From September 1989 to June 1991 (1 year 10 months) Founder @ Designed and implemented "Screen Manager Professional" (SMP) one of the first overlapping event-driven window UI programming environments written completely in x86 assembly language. SMP integrated with over 12 programming languages and was the toolkit used to build popular products such a pfs:write, pfs:file, QModem, and many well known commercial products of the time. Sold Logical Alternatives, Inc. to Magee Enterprises, 1989 From April 1987 to June 1990 (3 years 3 months) Software Engineer @ Worked on LIAS (Library Information Access System). Implemented IBM PC interface to download and manage library card catalog data from Penn State mainframe computers. From July 1984 to July 1986 (2 years 1 month)
Computer Science @ Penn State University From 1983 to 1987 James Everingham is skilled in: Scalability, Cloud Computing, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Entrepreneurship, Management, Project Management, Scrum, Product Design, Recruiting, Team Leadership, C++, Sales, Operations Management, Web Applications, Crowdsourcing, Telecommunications, Six Sigma, Language Development, Mentoring, Open Source, Browsers, Components, Data Warehousing, Data Center, Strategic Planning, Software Patents
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