Julio Hernandez-Miyares

Product focused , hands on Internet Technology Executive with track record of product/technology alignment delivering large scale, reliable, fast product experiences while establishing Globally dispersed development centers

Apply my technology background in focused , lean operating environment with concentration on building Great Products.

Co-Founder and Lead technologist directly responsible for Product Direction and requirements, technical architecture, development and infrastructure at a recently formed and funded Startup in New York City.

I'mOK is a Family Centric Social Network geared towards families , rewarding kids for taking responsibility for staying connected with their parents and extended family. We call it "Knowing without the Nagging"

I'mOK is centered around the proliferation of Smartphones even for very young children.

Architecture is centered around the use of OpenSource software and varied Cloud services such as Amazon Web Services for hosting, Urban Airship for mobile alerting delivery, Flurry for Mobile Usage Reporting, Twilio for telephony, SimpleGeo and Google Places for Local Data Services.

The first version of a Mobile application targeting iOS devices launched in the iTunes stored August 2011. Link to Application on iTunes. http://bit.ly/rCo806

Currently developing first Android Version of product for delivery by the end of 2011.
Recent Press on Mashable http://on.mash.to/sIeGFq and Techcrunch http://tcrn.ch/iGPwQN

Headed Global development organization composed of Architects, Software & QA Engineers, Technical Program & Project Managers for the AOL Entertainment, Games and Latino business units. Responsibility for Technical Architecture & technology development and testing including international versions of such high profile AOL Properties as MovieFone, AOL Music, Winamp, AOL Television, AOL Video Portal, Games, Black Voices, Slashcontrol.com, Asylum Network.

• Delivered Re-Branding & enhanced Content Driven Product Experiences for AOL's spinoff in December 2009.
  

• Organized Worldwide Engineering workforce including establishing Development groups in China and India while applying Lean principles and tight Product focus to the development methodology.
  

• Migrated all Product Technical infrastructure to standards based open source technologies
  

• Partnered with the General Managers of AOL Entertainment and Games.com assisting in product strategy and direction, distribution mediums including SEO and wireless and e-commerce opportunities such as iTunes and Amazon for Music MP3s ,TryMedia for Downloadable Games,OnLine Movie Show ticketing via Moviefone.com and event ticketing via TourTracker.com .
  

• Established Frontend Engineering development Group (FED) within Entertainment with a charter of optimizing Website page performance and resulted in all AOL Entertainment Sites being in top 3 as measured by page performance in their respective web categories.
  

• Record of accomplishment in reliability,scalability & performance with all sites delivering page in 6 seconds or less 99.5% of the time
  

• successful migration , integration and deployment of Brightcove Media offerings to power Video Content Management, Video Playback and content syndication services for all of AOL Media's Web Properties.
  

Led Search Technology Development team responsible for search centric experiences at AOL including channel search using internal technologies and main Search Product experience leveraging Google's Search and Advertising APIs

During 2006 was the Overall Technical Lead reporting to Company CTO for AOL's Video Program culminating in successful launch of AOL's Video Portal at video.aol.com and Video Search within the AOL Search experience as well as new Video Asset Content Management system responsible for ingestion, publishing and syndication of Partner and In House created Video content

• Led development team that designed,engineered and Operationalized Search Query system based on Search query logs. This system provided the Content Programming Group with analytics of search activity around what users were searching for and when. Used by Content Programming to drive types of content to produce and promote to hit both the head and the tail of user Search intent. Subsequently became one of the technical pillars of vast and pervasive Content Publishing Strategy post AOL Spinoff.
  

• Responsible for Development of Query Classification and Federated Search Engine powering AOL Search Fullview product.
  

• Led technology integration of Singingfish Audio/Video acquisition used to power music discovery in AOL Music and AOL Search Product offerings.
  

• Established Search & Video Technologies Center of Excellence in Bangalore, India which assumed the majority of technical responsibilities for Audio/Video Search via Singingfish as well as the Video Portal Website development.

• Led Central Feed Factory team responsible for all 3rd party content acquisition and syndication services for all AOL Properties.
  

• integrated content systems for AOL Local space including Digital Cities,Mapquest,Yellow Pages & MovieFone
  

• while responsible for Moviefone backend systems Automated content processing for showtime/theater/movie/celebrity data replacing an expensive ,error prone and high latency 50 person manual operation.
  

Led Technology development group architecting and implementing technical solutions in the Red Light photo enforcement, automated toll collection (E-Z Pass), parking ticket enforcement and collection including the vast EZ-Pass Toll Collection enforcement for New York's Tri-Borough Bridge & Tunnel Authority.

• Designed and engineered client server and web based systems interacting with enterprise Mainframe backend systems exposing customer service systems to customers via Web Browser interface.
  

• Lead Technical Liaison managing product requirements and technical features for Washington DC and Boston clients.
  

• Technology representative of Company Proposal team providing technical due diligence for Project proposals
  

Headed Development and operations team responsible for supporting while migrating existing VAX batch oriented Business Reporting systems, ticketing sale tracking and reporting systems to Windows based Client Server applications running on Windows NT 3.1 and SQL/Server.

• Reduced software licensing costs from Migration from $300,000 per month to $15,000 per month.
  

• Developed new Visual Basic GUI Windows for Workgroups Applications with real-time access to business data replacing command-line based terminal windows..
  

• Improved operational efficiencies by proving real-time detail and aggregated reporting on ticketing and travel agency sales.

Responsible for development of integrated Proposal Management system
for IBM Federal Systems Division, enabling the integration of various historical Work Breakdown Structures and costs for similar projects.

• Reduced the time & effort to collate ,assemble and produce output of Response to Proposal by 50%

Member of a Team of Money Managers, Business Development & Investment Bankers defining and Structuring Financing Programs for Housing , Higher Education & Medical Facilities for the State of New York.

Led definition of Product requirements and implementation of New company-wide MSA Accounting/Financial reporting System for portfolio of Housing, Medical Facilities financing programs replacing batch oriented Financial System.

• Empowered users to retrieve and manage financial information directly and in real-time as opposed to via requests for batch runs and lengthly latency in obtaining information.
  

• Resulted in reconciliations within a week of month-end as opposed to multi-month delays.
  

Passed all 4 Parts of Certified Public Accountant Exam

Java, PHP, Python, Perl,C, SQL, Javascript, CSS, Objective-C, Amazon Flexible Payments, PayPal e-commerce APIs
Content Management Systems: Drupal, Word Press
Database: Mysql, MongoDB,Hadoop,Sybase, Oracle, SQL/Server, SQL/DS, DB2
Operating System: Unix, Linux, Mac OSX
Other including Open Source: Tomcat, Apache, Lucene/SOLR, GitHub
Cloud based: Amazon Web Services, Rightscale