JOSHUA  FRATTAROLA
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LinkedIn: Joshua Frattarola
SENIOR  MANAGER  ENGINEERING
Focused on the creation of cool and imaginative tools which fuel user-growth in the study and discovery of new ideas and information.   Proven team-leadership skills combined with a solid track record of success in designing, building and rolling out multi-million dollar strategic IT solutions in multi-vendor environments.   Swiftly comprehends the "big picture"; highly adaptable.   Known for imagination and objectivity when seeking solutions to real-world problems and identifying uncharted opportunities in new products, markets and channels.   Diverse field of experience.   I have worked with a Fortune 500 firm, as well as small entrepreneurial businesses and startup companies.
  •  All software engineering life cycle phases
  •  Team Building
  •  Product Development
  •  Personalization & User Behavior Modeling
  •  Data Mining
  •  Social Media
  •  Search Engines

PROFESSIONAL  SUMMARY

CBS INTERACTIVE:  TV.com, Clicker.com,  San Francisco, CA 		2009 - present
Clicker is the complete programming guide for Internet television. Mashable listed it as one of the top four companies reinventing TV online. Clicker has received overwhelming approval from such prominent authorities as Walt Mossberg, TechCrunch, the New York Times and GQ Magazine.
Clicker was acquired by CBS Interactive in March of 2011.
Senior Manager Engineering
Lead Engineer, managing a team of back-end engineers, designing, building and launching core search engine, auto-complete server, social-media systems and database servers from ground-up. Implementing cutting-edge clustering, personalization and topic-identification algorithms.
  • Engineered and co-designed "Clicker Predict", our world-class personalization & recommendation technology. Mashable called the recommendations made by the algorithm "uncanny" and "spectacular" (Read more at Mashable)
  • Built support for Clicker's "check-in" and "awards" product, which allows users to check-in to videos they are watching and win awards based on accumulated actions/statistics.
  • Engineered and co-designed back-end services for Clicker's Social project, which includes user-following, comments, reviews and recommendation actions, playlist building and full user-profile history.
  • Provide search/database support for iPhone and Android mobile applications.
  • Developed back-end support for Clicker's Boxee application which received wide-acclaim from such notable sources as Lifehacker, CNet and TechCrunch.
  • Built core search engine and auto-complete engine, indexing over 400,000 full-length episodes, from over 7,000 shows across 1,200 content sources around the web, including a comprehensive index of Netflix and Amazon's video-on-demand content.

ASK.COM (IAC SEARCH & MEDIA),  Edison, New Jersey 		2004 - 2009
Ask.com is a leading internet company with more than 35 fast-growing, highly-related brands.
Software Engineer III
Designed, modified, developed, wrote and implemented software programming applications.  Participated in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software.  Led and directed the work of other developers.
  • Built vertical-search domain product in record time which was quickly promoted to top priority, with an approximated user-search gain of 2-4 million per day.
  • Redesigned main database production system that reduced turnaround from a few weeks to a day's time.
  • Designed a service-oriented interface package for editorial data analysis that reduced the turnaround time from days to hours.  Created a unified format which drastically reduced overall time spent by editors, as well as human-error.
  • Automated hourly log-processing system, virtually removing this task from the daily routines of two separate departments.
  • Implemented and deveoloped online-documentation environment for use of vital, proprietary libraries.  This environment is crucial to the efficiency and reliability of core, internal applications.
  • Successfully delivered instructional classes to teams of developers and engineers in the use of proprietary libraries.  Feedback was overwhelmingly positive.





MUSIC MASTERS, LLC.,  Vienna, Virgina 		2000 - 2004
A music education company specializing in the development of orchestra-level musicians, both professional and scholastic.
Managing Web Developer & Educator
Managed the development, release and maintanence of Web systems and services that supported the company's e-commerce busines strategy.  Oversaw online sales and marketing programs.
Supervised staff of 20+ employees and instructed approximately 200 students during my tenure.
  • Launched online retail store and bill payment service.  Drastically reduced late payments and increased product sales by 30% within the first three months.
  • Oversaw the transition from third-party instrument rental service to privately-owned and operated service that delivered 100% of profits back into Music Masters, LLC.
  • Developed web portal for student-teacher interaction that motivated accelerated learning and significantly increased client retention.

PRIVATE CONSULTANCY,  Washington, D.C. 		1999 - present
Professional web design, web development, site optimization, email management and SEO services for non-profit organizations and individuals.
Systems Administrator / Developer
Installs new software releases, system upgrades, evaluates and installs patches and resolves software-related problems.  Performs system backups and recovery.  Maintains data files and monitors system configuration to ensure data integrity.  Consults with clients to design, build and manage web sites.
  • Applying synchronous and asynchronous distance learning technologies for online educational use, including streaming media, message board forums, recorded course studies, interactive blog software and Content Management Systems (Joomla).
  • Manage weekly educational podcasts and web-feeds.  Provide weekly reports for podcasts.
  • Designed, built and installed on-site low-power FM transmitting system for delivering broadcast lectures ot multiple sections of educational facility.

FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY,  Martinsburg, West Virgina 		1999 - 2001
PreK - 12th Grade Private School.
Junior High & High School Teacher

STARBUCKS COFFEE CO.:,  Los Angeles, California 		1997 - 1999
Store Manager
Contributes to the financial success of the retail location, develops and manages staff, and maintains quality store operations. Maintains daily, weekly and period financial (P&L) reports.
  • Youngest store manager in Southern California at the time
  • Launched opening of new location in Glendora, and successfully led the team there during its first year.


EDUCATION / TRAINING  &  DEVELOPMENT

STANFORD ENGINEERING EVERYWHERE (SEE), Stanford, California
Ongoing coursework in Computer Science
CITRUS COLLEGE, Glendora, California
Associate of Arts, Music Education,  1995

TECHNICAL  EXPERTISE
OS/Environments:  Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, Linux: CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Cloud-Computing (Amazon EC2)
Programming Languages/Methodologies:  C/C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSL, JSON, Perl, AJAX, CSS, BASH scripting, Content Management Systems, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Distributed Systems
Other Tools:  Versioning Systems CVS, Subversion; Build Environments: GNU Make, Maven, Ant; Web Servers: Apache HTTP, Apache Tomcat; Redis, ActiveMQ, Capistrano, libevent, libCuRL