Summary of Qualifications
- Managed cross-functional engineering teams in implementing several initiatives with international telecommunications clients. Projects completed on-time and within resource boundaries.
- Participated in effort to expand customer base through doing research on market trends, while finding ways the potential client can enhance their product offering to meet those market demands.
- Directed day-to-day operations and career development of a 6 person Presentation Layer team within Yahoo! Membership.
- Lead the delivery of creative architecture solutions in a fast paced and deadline-driven environment.
- Exhibited excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
Employment History
- Title:
- Engineering Manager
- Company:
- Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale, CA
- Dates:
- 2002-present
Worked with the Membership team, focusing on the delivery of core Yahoo! services such as Login, Registration and Account Maintenance. Lead several projects within Broadband Membership team, interacting with key partners such as Telecom New Zealand and British Telecom (BT).
- Managed operations and schedule of cross-functional engineering teams on several initiatives such as BT Max launch, Partner Login redesign and Supernova platform patch release.
- Facilitated communication between Engineering, User Experience and Design, Product and Quality Assurance teams.
- Built and mentored a team of six Front End Engineers, managing their performance and growth.
- Mentored junior team members by assessing strengths and weaknesses and tailoring learning programs specific to their needs.
- Completed in-depth analysis of bugs assigned to front end development team, noting trends, causes and potential solutions to reduce count.
- Interacted closely with Product Organization to review requirements documentation and outline potential shortfalls.
- Contributed to architecture decisions and development of Supernova platform.
- Evangelized Accessibility, raising awareness within the company about the topic.
- Wrote detailed induction guides for new coming team members, minimizing learning curve time and increasing daily productivity.
- Created first template framework for presentation layer development for Broadband FEE team in order to optimize development efforts and speed-up deliverables.
- Assisted in the development of property redesign proposal and presentation to Marketing team (Yahooligans).
- Title:
- Interface Engineer
- Company:
- Grand Central Networks - San Francisco, CA
- Dates:
- 2001-2001
Developed and maintained Grand Central's online Billing, Admin Tools, Reporting, and Forums products and services.
- Completed all engineering deliverables on time, while coming up to speed within new organization and learning new JSP scripting language.
- Created detailed documentation of site flow during conversion to Tomcat environment, indicating specific components, forms, and passed information.
- Motivated colleagues to participate in community involvement by organizing donation drives.
- Title:
- Front End Technology Engineer
- Company:
- Scient - San Francisco, CA
- Dates:
- 2000-2001
Collaborated with 2-15 person cross-functional teams through the delivery of various Scient products.
- Participated in effort to expand client base by doing research on particular market trends, while finding ways the potential client can enhance product offering to meet those market demands.
- Designed and developed tools to help automate site migration initiatives. My URL translation tool reduced engineering involvement by as much as 75%.
- Worked on migration project for Wells Fargo, migrating 1500+ web pages, converting them to new standards, usability-friendly and consistent interface design.
- Developed and organized content for a Scient promotional portfolio to be used for contest submissions and sales presentations. (Portfolio.scient.com) site.
- Title:
- Web Developer
- Company:
- iWDC - La Jolla, CA
- Dates:
- 1999-2000
Developed end-to-end solutions from product design to implementation for several University of California San Diego departments such as the Department of Reproductive Medicine, Japanese Studies, LearnOnLine and International Center.
- Lead small team effort in completing educational tool application for Japanese Studies department.
- Assisted in training faculty and department heads in the development of WWW based instructional materials.
- Title:
- TV Station Manager
- Company:
- WCTV - La Jolla, CA
- Dates:
- 1998-1999
Managed day-to-day operations at WCTV: co-produced and directed several television programs, researched content, approved scripts, developed daily programming schedule, and lead differing size teams in production of television shows.
Relevant Skills
- Proficient with tools such as Excel, MS Project, Adobe PhotoShop
- Strong analytical abilities and problem solving skills
- Speak fluent Bulgarian, beginner in French and Russian
- Demonstrated knowledge in programming languages such as PHP, Java, JavaScript, XML, JSP, ASP, DHTML, CSS, ActionScript, and Layered Semantic Markup
Education
- Degree:
- Professional Training
- Institution:
- Various
- Dates:
- 2000-2006
Attended courses in Statistics, Management training, and workshops including "Negotiation Techniques", "Effective Facilitation", "Working Styles", "Technical Business Writing", "Presentation Training", and "Confrontation Resolution"
- Degree:
- Undergraduate Studies
- Institution:
- University of California, San Diego
- Dates:
- 1996-2000
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Programs of Concentration in Political Science/International Relations and Visual Arts
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