Julio Hernandez-Miyares

Last updated August 3rd 2010
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JULIO HERNANDEZ-MIYARES

New York, NY 10019

http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliomiyares

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SUMMARY 

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

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OBJECTIVE 

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

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

2010 - Present

New York, NY

Co-Founder Head of Technology, Jittr

Founded a startup with ex-AOL Colleague concentrating in the "Mobile, Local, Social" space with concentration on smartphone centric Social Gambling , Local UrbanArt and Social Shopping applications for Android and iPhone Platforms. Responsible for architecture and development of underlying Web services, integrating Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare REST apis to form the backbone of the Social and Local features and overall Application development and Testing. Leveraging various elements of the Cloud for Testing via deviceanywhere.com for mobile devices ,Amazon Web Services for hosting, e-commerce, storage both file based and relational data as well as reporting via Hadoop Clusters.
Targeting launch of Android Social Gambling application mid September 2010 and end of September 2010 for iPhone based Local UrbanArt application

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2007 - 2010

New York,NY

CTO AOL Entertainment/Games/Latino, AOL Inc.

Headed Global development organization composed of Architects, Software & QA Engineers, Technical Program & Project Managers for three of AOL Media's 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.

All of the Products in the top 3 in their respective categories in Audience measured by Unique visitors.

  • 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.

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2006 - 2007

Dulles, VA

Senior Technical Director, AOL Inc

Overall Technical Lead reporting to CTO for AOL's Video Program

  • Successful launch of AOL's Video Portal at video.aol.com and Video Search within the AOL Search experience
  • new Video Asset Content Management system responsible for ingestion, publishing and syndication of Partner and In House created Video content

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2004 - 2006

Dulles, VA

Technical Director Search Development, AOL Inc

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
  • 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 Technologies Center of Excellence in Bangalore, India which assumed the majority of technical responsibilities for Audio/Video Search via Singingfish

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1999 - 2004

White Plains, NY

Technical Director Content Services, AOL Local

  • integrated content systems for various properties in the AOL Local space including Digital Cities Local Guides and Local Experts/ /Yellow Pages/MovieFone
  • responsible for Moviefone backend systems powering both the Web presense and the original Interactive Voice Response (IVR) service.
  • Automated content processing for showtime/theater/movie/celebrity data replacing an expensive , and error prone 50 person manual operation.

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1995 - 1999

Tarrytown, NY

Director - Client Solutions, Lockheed Martin IMS

Division of Lockheed Martin specializing in technical solutions for State and Local governments.

Led Technology development group providing 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 and technical features for Washington DC and Boston clients.
  • Part of Proposal team providing technical due diligence for Project proposals

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1994 - 1995

New York, NY

Development Manager, Air France

Headed Development and operations team responsible for maintaining 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 near real-time detail and aggregated reporting on ticketing and travel agency sales.

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1988 - 1994

Houston,TX -San Francisco, CA

Development Lead, Sherbert Blach Inc.

Responsible for development of integrated Proposal Management system for IBM Federal Systems Division to manage and coordinate the response to Request for Proposals from Department of Defense, FAA, Nasa and other government agencies . Consisted of host based systems using REXX and SQL/DS as well as porting to Windows Client based applications .

  • New System enabled the integration of various subsystems containing historical Work Breakdown Structures and costs for similar projects
  • introduced automated work flow queues for routing to individuals responsible for estimating specific sub-components
  • Integrated documentation templates & tagging for compiling and printing and storing Responses in Government required formats.
  • Reduced the time & effort to collate ,assemble and produce output of Response to Proposal by 50%

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1981 - 1987

New York, NY

Accounting Manager, Housing Finance Agency

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.

Lead in defining Product requirements for 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

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SKILLS 

Java, PHP, Perl,C, SQL, ,Ruby on Rails, JSP, Javascript, CSS, Objective-C, Rexx, Amazon Flexible Payments, PayPal e-commerce APIs, Visual Basic
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, AOL Server, GitHub
Cloud based computing via Amazon Web Services

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EDUCATION 

Queens College, City University of New York, New York City

BA in Accounting/Economics

 

Hunter College, City University of New York, New York City, 1986 - 1988

Computer Science, Mathematics

 

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