SuperiorPixels - Brian Rountree

Experience

• Yahoo! Inc. — Finance

  Sunnyvale CA

  Global Front End Engineering Tech Lead

  April 2008 2008-04-01 - Present

  finance.yahoo,com

  • Technical lead for new international front end team at Yahoo!
  • Provided technical leadership to a global team of 10 Front End Engineers
  • Responsible for the overall architecture decisions for client side code for Yahoo! Finance
  • Launched 2 new real-time quote projects in rapid succession. Real Time Quote Summary and Real Time Order Book Information
  • Integrated a front end build process to allow easy development as well as a deployment that follows all 14 of Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Guidelines.

• Yahoo! Inc. — Shine

  Sunnyvale CA

  Front End Engineering Tech Lead

  September 2007 2007-09-01 - April 2008 2008-04-01

  shine.yahoo,com

  • Major new media site initiative at Yahoo!
  • Acted as the liaison between Engineering and UED to ensure site design would be highly performant as well as appealing
  • Provided technical leadership to 5 Front End Engineers, and was responsible for the initial requirements assessment and task scheduling
  • Integrated a front end build process to allow easy development as well as a deployment that follows all 14 of Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Guidelines.
  • Worked with the YUI team to extend the Rich Text Editor control to allow for image uploads as well as real-time video embedding and preiew
  • Project launch: March 31, 2008

• Yahoo! Inc. — Yahoo! Tech

  Sunnyvale CA

  Front End Engineering Tech Lead

  January 2006 2006-01-03 - January 2008 2008-01-29

  tech.yahoo.com

  • Provided technical leadership to 4 Front End Engineers
  • Built a full ajax search integration using data from Yahoo! Shopping
  • Integrated multiple news feeds from Yahoo! News
  • Built out interactions and UE flourishes on the Quick Guides
  • Helped build an http web service-based reusable, modular, presentation framework to support several Yahoo! Media web sites.
  • Recruited by engineering managers across media properties to assist on projects due to excellent performance on Tech team.

• Yahoo! Inc. — Yahoo! Health

  Sunnyvale CA

  Front End Engineering Tech Lead

  January 2007 2007-01-01 - April 2007 2007-04-29

  health.yahoo.com

  • Served as a front end architect for the redesign and relaunch of Yahoo! Health
  • Built DHTML widgets and modules such as menus, carousels and tab sets in a reusable, highly performant manner based on the YUI
  • Advised the front end engineering team on issues of CSS, Javascript, and HTML
  • Provided mentorship and guidance for other web developers

• SAIC

  La Jolla CA

  Portal User Experience Engineer

  December 2004 2004-12-01 - December 2005 2005-12-29

  saic.com Note: Most of the work I was responsible for here is either classified, or for internal employee usage only

  • Managed front end engineering tasks associated with maintaining an existing company intranet (accessed by 50.000 employees every day)
  • Provide technical leadership for new feature development.
  • Designed, built and deployed a semantically correct, standards-based set of html templates for the company intranet
  • Created all the CSS to control the presentation of the new templates
  • Mentored existing web team staff in areas such as Javascript development, AJAX, web standards, CSS, etc.
  • User interface and front end engineering lead on 3 patented web applications for the Air Force

• WebSideStory (acquired by Omniture in 2007)

  La Jolla CA

  Customer Relationship Manager

  September 2004 2004-09-01 - December 2004 2004-12-29

  websidestory.com Note: Sometime in 2007, WebSideStory was acquired by Omniture.

  • Primary focus was on managing the implementation of our real-time web analytics code-base within my customer's web assets
  • I handled the user interface training, both on-site and virtual
  • Technical support facilitation, account setup and renewals on an ongoing basis for customers
  • I was responsible for 4+ million dollars of annual revenue for WebSideStory's subscription based application services.

• LogicalIS

  La Jolla CA

  Senior Systems Architect & User Interface Designer

  April 2004 2004-04-01 - September 2004 2004-09-29

  logicalis.com

  • Responsibility for the overall hardware, software planning and design for LogicalIS customers in the western region
  • As a member of the Professional Services group, I was presented with a diverse range of customers spanning many industries and my broad-based technology background allows me to design forward thinking, standards-based applications to meet my customers business needs
  • I handled the user interface design, planning, and development for multiple SunONE portal implementations

• SDDPC

  San Diego CA

  Portal Architect, Office of the Chief Technology Officer

  April 2001 2001-04-01 - July 2003 2003-07-29

  sddpc.org,

  • My primary responsibility as Portal Architect was to design and oversee the deployment of the internet portals for all 8 City Council members as well as the Mayor, City Attorney and City Auditor
  • As the Subject Matter Expert for Portal, XML, XHTML, XSLT, CSS, I was a member of the SDDPC Architecture Committee, which has full oversight over the technical direction of the City
  • In addition I had design authority over the following enterprise technologies: SunONE Portal 6.0, BEA Portal 7.0, XML/XSLT, W3C Standards Compliance, CSS, 508B, WAI and Enterprise Content Management

• Viador Inc.

  Mountain View, CA

  Manager, Western Region Consulting

  Feb 2000 2000-02-01 - April 2001 2001-04-01

  • As the Manager of the Western Region Consulting Practice, I was responsible for a distributed team of professional service engineers
  • I had full P&L responsibility for all profession services revenue in the western states
  • I also acted as a project manager for complex portal technology implementations, a technical mentor to my team, and a resources manager for a seasoned team of technical field consultants.
  • In addition to being responsible for the allocation of resources onto projects in my region to best meet customer expectations, I maintained an 40 percent billable tim ratio for my region.

• Software Dynamics Inc.

  Woodland Hills, CA

  Senior CRM Systems Engineer

  April 1999 1999-04-28 - Feb 2000 2000-02-24

  • As the Senior CRM Engineer for Software Dynamic Incorporated, I was responsible for designing, building and deploying a suite of CRM applications for the banking industry
  • These systems fully leveraged the SDI framework to provide customer data down to the individual delivery channels.
  • In addition, I managed the implementation of CIMS within the Zeus Teller, Platform and Call Center application servers
  • Worked with SDIs development team to customize their core applications, enabling them to utilize the latest in data warehousing technologies.

• Fujitsu-ICL Systems

  La Jolla CA

  Senior Systems Engineer

  February 1996 1996-02-01 - April 1999 1999-04-28

  fujitsu.com

  • Helped develop a patented software product allowing banks to personalize the ATM user experience "PrecisionDelivery"
  • Provided consulting and implementation support for Fujitsu ICL clients
  • Supported the implementation of PrecisionDelivery at a major West Coast financial institution
  • Designed and deployed an enterprise wide software distribution system connecting over 150 ATMs for automated reporting and software maintenance
  • Developed a relational database application to automate the receipt, distribution and implementation of Engineering Changes
  • Implemented tracking controls for the reimbursement of applied Engineering Changes for ICLs parent company Fujitsu Limited
  • Involved in major engineering projects for the release of ICLs Landmark automated teller machine product line