Resume

							                                                RESUME

                                               Steve Manes
                                                Brooklyn, NY

                                      stevemanes@stevemanes.com
                                            www.magpie.com


GENERAL

I’m a web developer, programmer, tech department manager and functional interface designer. I have
extensive experience on Unix systems (Solaris, SunOS, Linux, FreeBSD) as both a developer and
administrator. I am very fluent in C, perl, PHP, mod_perl, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HTML and
Javascript as well as the maintenance and administration of Unix systems. I’m comfortable writing both
high-level web applications and low-level operating system drivers.

I have worked as a freelancer, as a fulltime on-site employee and as a telecommuter since 1987 for small
companies, large corporations and non-profits.

My areas of general development expertise include dynamic web sites, online services, community systems,
ASP model and technical group management.


FULLTIME EXPERIENCE

        COMMUNITY CONNECT, NYC, 2/02-08/03

                Managing Developer/Technology Lead – Diversity Recruiting. Developer/architect for
                Diversity Job Market, a jobs board in partnership with the NY Times. Clients included
                Pepsi, Target, Colgate and the FBI. Maintained Oracle 8 database. Managed new product
                design, vendor selection and management. Handled promotions and email marketing for
                500,000 Jobs members.

                The three community sites host 800 million page views/month and a member base of over
                10 million registered users. AA, BP and MG are all in the top five, highest-traffic PHP sites
                on the internet.

                        BlackPlanet              www.BlackPlanetJobs.com
                        AsianAvenue              www.AsianAvenueJobs.com
                        MiGente                  www.MiGenteJobs.com
                        Diversity Job Market     www.DiversityJobMarket.com

                PHP4, Oracle 8, PL/SQL, Perl, MySQL, Javascript, CVS, Sendmail, Linux administration


        PURECARBON/INTRALECT SYSTEMS, Scott’s Valley, CA 8/00-6/15/01

                Fulltime telecommuter for Silicon Valley pre-IPO startup where I was a senior Perl/mod_perl
                developer in the construction of the human resources web site, JobPlanet. I also
                researched, tested and benchmarked new technologies.

                Perl, mod_perl, Javascript, PL/SQL, Oracle, Sendmail, Linux administration, CVS
     answerThink/THINK NEW IDEAS, NYC, 10/99-7/00

           Unix development manager, tech lead, developer and technical point person for Proctor and
           Gamble sites (Tampax, Millstone, Always, Tlounge, Troom, Bodymatters, Envive, Alldays,
           Femcare). Worked on NFL Players and Major League Baseball Players sites. Rebuilt Unix
           component of Avon web and shopping site and relocated it to Avon’s data center in
           Harrison, NY. Constructed in-house project and resource management tools and introduced
           source revision control to organization. Interim Unix network administrator (Solaris, Linux).
           Interviewed tech department applicants. Reported to Director of Technology.

           Sites built (or rebuilt) include:

                    Millstone Coffee           www.millstone.com
                    Envive Miniforms           www.enviveminiforms.com
                    Alldays                    alldays.magpie.com
                    Avon                       www.avon.com.

           Perl, C, Javascript, Linux, MySQL, DBI, Solaris, CGI, CVS, Apache


     GREYDIRECT E.MARKETING / GREY ADVERTISING, NYC, 10/98-5/99

           Managed Unix web development department. Administered development and staging
           servers. Tech lead for Lucent, Microsoft and Lifewise clients. Set department programming
           standards, managed client projects, assigned programmers, interviewed candidates,
           constructed in-house programming libraries, investigated new web technologies, oversaw
           department purchasing and vendor relations, directed QA. Acting CTO. Reported to senior
           management.

           Perl, C, HTML, Javascript, Java, Linux, Solaris

     PBS ONLINE 1992-1995

           Designer, developer, programmer and senior support engineer for Public
           Broadcasting Service's Learning Link, a conferencing and content-delivery system of 40
           Unix servers. I developed email and Usenet news front-ends, built mailing list servers,
           Usenet-to-mail bridges, maintenance and security programs, automatic content propagation,
           and bridges to PBS's Macintosh-based client-server software.

           SCO Unix/Xenix/ODT, Sun Solaris, AIX, C, Perl, Bourne shell.



FREELANCE / CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

     LUMA INC, NYC 8/06-present

           Director of Engineering. Luma is a grassroots start-up in the debit card, key fob and near-
           field cellular retail industry founded by the founder of Trafficmac/Operative.

           URL: http://www.lumainc.com/


     THE CHILDRENS HEALTH FUND, NYC 9/05-present
      Technical Architect for EHRIS, an open source, networked electronic patient health
      records system.

      Technical Architect and Lead Developer for TRMS, an open source, patient referral and
      transportation management system.

      Technical Developer and SysAdm for www.ChildrensHealthFund.org, the public-facing
      site based on Drupal CMS.

      Technical Architect and Lead Developer for RHAAP, software to support a reproductive
      health study partnership with the NYC Board of Health.

      PHP5, Perl, Javascript, Ajax, PostgreSQL 8, DHTML, Google MAPS API, GTK+, SQL Lite


OPERATIVE (was TRAFFICMAC), NYC 8/03–present

      Lead developer for TrafficMac v2 Queue Management System, internet ad trafficking
      software for in-house and ASP users for clients like FoxNews.com, Wall Street Journal,
      SmartMoney and Cars.com

      URL: www.operative.com

             Built back-end processes for importing daily ad server placement data from
              DoubleClick’s DART, Real Media’s Open Ad Server (OAS), ValueClick and ACE.
             Installed, built and maintained PostgreSQL procs packages for QMS.
             Built DHTML drag/drop ad server placement association tool.
             Built BIF-based MS Excel export tools for interactive site reports.
             Built SQL table package class to permit clients to maintain searchable custom
              tables within the turnkey environment and code base.
             Built client invoicing tools.
             Built ad server integrity testing tools.
             Handle client interface and support issues.

      PHP4, Perl, PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, Javascript


AMERICAN EXPRESS, NYC 11/15/04–present

      Rebuilt American Express Small Business Network’s OPEN Dialogue™ customer forum
      software. Ported existing database to new open source software, handled creative and UI
      redesign, built fail-over replication.

      URL: americanexpress.abuzz.com/

      Perl, PHP4, PHPBB, MySQL4, Linux, HTML, CSS, Javascript, CVS, Apache


VANGUARD MEDIA, NYC 6/99-9-99

      Freelance web development.

      Perl, mod_perl, Linux, SQL, CGI, HTML

IDG PUBLICATIONS, 1998
                                                  nd
      Technical editor for Linux for Dummies, 2        Edition

DIGITAL IMAGE DESIGN / PAINE-WEBBER 1998

      Built Perl CGI and Javascript interactive report generator for PaineWebber’s web-based
      intranet entitlement system.

      Perl, CGI, Javascript, Sun


ARCUS / EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER 1997

      Built CGI scripts for EDC's Portals project, an interactive educational site allowing student
      groups and expert mentors to communicate and revise multimedia projects online.

      Perl, Javascript, Java, Linux, Apache server


ACME CONSULTING / US POSTAL SERVICE 1996-1997

      Prototyping and technical issues consultant for design of the US Postal Service's customer
      service kiosk. Evaluated and integrated kiosk hardware, wrote NT device drivers for the
      various hardware components, supported consumer test system.

      Visual Basic, Visual C++, NT 4.0


NYNEX 1996

      Built IVR prototype for New York Telephone's MAC-IVR (telephone repair) service. Also
      built prototype for NYNEX's Call Management System.

      Natural Microsystems, C


NEWHOUSE NEWMEDIA 1995-1996

      CGI developer for New Jersey Online. Incorporated external wire service and other feeds
      into dynamic web site. Built search engines for classified ads and middleware HTML client-
      server applications. Rebuilt dynamic weather page, integrated live feeds from AccuWeather.

      Perl, HTML, CGI, SGI+Irix


EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER 1995

      Developed Unix component for Atomic Energy Commission-sponsored study of internet
      usage. Wrote IPC/TCP support for watchdog daemon that dynamically reported shell activity
      back to the AEC server.

      Sun Solaris, C, Perl.


WNET-TV 1995
      Installed Sun Sparc 20 and assembled/integrated software for implementation of the NY
      State education supernet, New York Link. This system tied together six NY state public
      television stations and their online subscribers. Also developed accounting and usage
      software for NYSERNET's local-access 800 bridge, installed web server and wrote several
      CGI support apps.

      Sun Solaris, C, Perl, HTML.


AMERICAN EXPRESS 1996

      Built IVR prototype for Amex Card member services.
      Natural Microsystems, C, DOS


AT&T 1995

      Built prototype for AT&T's local IVR interactive phone service.

      Natural Microsystems, C, DOS


BANK CUSTOMER INTERACTION, CITIBANK, NA 1991-1995

      Programmer and technical designer for Citibank's telephone home banking system,
      CitiPhone. Worked extensively with focus group testing and QA.

      Syntellect, Natural Microsystems VBX, TCXL, C, Periphonics.


NYC BOARD OF EDUCATION 1987-1995

      Designed, wrote and supported the multiuser NYCENET conferencing system. This Unix-
      based software was the Board of Ed's primary electronic communications between faculty,
      administration and NYC public school students. The software was subsequently purchased
      by the Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Los Angeles school systems.

      SCO Unix, AIX, Sun Solaris, C, Bourne shell.


NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, CITIBANK, NA 1991

      Designed and wrote CITIGATE, a DOS/Novell gateway mail bridge to Citibank's enterprise
      mail system, CitiMail, to desktop CC-Mail.

      DOS, C++, Async.


CITIBANK, NA 1989-1990

      Programmer and technical issues consultant for coding and implementation of the prototype
      and trainer for Citicorp Mortgage's point-of-sale brokerage program, MortgagePower Plus.

      C, DOS, TCXL.
EDUCATION

     BA, Music, Arranging/Composition 1977
     Berklee College of Music
     Boston, MA


ORGANIZATIONS

     Worldwide Web Artists Consortium (WWWAC), Board of Directors (2004-present)
     Bay Ridge Food Coop, IT Committee


AUTHOR CREDITS

     PC World, February 1984: "Making A Date". Assembly language tutorial.
     dNews, December, 1983: "dBase Machine Language Programmer's Kit"
     Contributing editor, Ashton-Tate's "Advanced Programmer's Guide"
     Unix Review, June 1993: "C++ Development"
     Unix Review, August 1994: "SunPro Workshop for C++"
     Thunder Press, contributing editor, 1997-1998
     Backroads, contributing editor, 1996-1998


INTERVIEWS/REVIEWS

     Home Office Magazine, Fall 1986: "Getting More From Your Computer"
     Link-Up, July 1988: "Building a Corporate BBS"
     New York Magazine, August 1984: "New York Online"
     WBAI Radio, four on-air interviews on telecommunications issues.
     John Dvorak's PC Guide to Telecommunications Magpie review.
     Computer Mediated Communications by Matthew Rappaport. Magpie review.
     Canadian Musician, The Bottom Line by Peter Murray. Mailing list review.
     The Wall Street Journal, 10/31/00, “Telecommuting Loses Favor”, interview.


ADDITIONAL

     I have written several Shareware and open source programs, the largest of which was a tree-
     structured BBS called Magpie for Unix. I'm also sole or collaborating author of several other
     freeware programs and a contributor to Drupal's Module collection.

     I'm a fairly accomplished woodworker and cabinetmaker, currently renovating an old house in
     Brooklyn, NY.
     I built and was president of a commercial multitrack recording studio, Roxy Recorders, located in
     lower Manhattan from 1979-1989. Clients included The Sugarhill Gang, The Ramones, Branford
     Marsalis, David Sanborn, Diane Keaton, Patty Smyth, Leslie Gore, Kenny Burrell, Flo & Eddie, as
     well as Ice Capades, Walt Disney's "Tron", Capitol Records, Warner-Reprise, Def Jam and several
     jingle production companies.
     In 1993, two partners and I opened a French restaurant in Brooklyn Heights, La Bouillabaisse. In
     1994, it was awarded #1 Top Rated Newcomer in the NYC Zagat Survey -- a first for a non-
     Manhattan restaurant.
REFERENCES

     Jeb Weisman
     CIO, Childrens Health Fund
     jweisman@chfund.org

     Jesse Erlbaum
     President, The Erlbaum Group
     jesse@erlbaum.net

     Anthony Thielman
     Founder, Operative.com, Trafficmac.com, Luma, Inc.
     tony@lumainc.com

     Minerva Tantoco-Hobbs
     VP, Merrill-Lynch
     MinervaT@aol.com

     Donna Porter
     VP, 21st Century Manufacturing
     (203)778-2121
     d-porter@erols.com