Russell Beattie

Menlo Park, CA • +1 415 606 5345
russ@russellbeattie.comwww.russellbeattie.com

Summary

Developer, Analyst, Strategist and Entrepreneur with focus on Web and Mobility

Technical Knowledge and Skills

PHP5, Java (J2EE, J2ME), Python, SQL (MySQL, Oracle), Web (HTML/XHTML/XML/CSS/JavaScript), Unix; Marketing, Strategic Planning, Business Development

Experience

Mowser - Menlo Park, California
April 2007 - May 2008
Founder of Mowser, a startup focused on content adaption for mobile phones. Back end implemented in PHP 5 using various libraries such as libxml, curl, MySql, PDO, memcached, etc. Using modern MVC frameworks and shared-nothing architecture made site scalable with minimal hardware resources. Assets sold to dotMobi.

Yahoo! Inc. - Sunnyvale, California
November 2004 - September 2006
Yahoo! Mobile (Connected Life Group) - Worked as mobile evangelist and strategist, creating new ideas for mobile products and services, prototyping, helping with global mobile strategy and research, and first contact for external companies meeting with mobile group.

WaveMarket Inc. - Emeryville, California
September 2003 - September 2004
Worked as a server-side Java developer focusing on next generation mobile internet applications utilizing location based services. Tomcat, MySQL, MVC, WAP2/XHTML-MP, SMS.

Orcom Inc. - Bend, Oregon / Madrid, Spain
December 2002 - May 2003
Worked as a Senior Java Developer and technical liaison for Orcom in their development of a next generation billing system with Soluziona in Madrid, Spain. Technologies include J2EE, Oracle, Eclipse, Ant, PowerBuilder.

Adecco, Iberia - Madrid, Spain
October 2002 - December 2002
Worked for the IT department of this international temp staffing company developing a testing/training system using Weblogic, TopLink, Oracle, Eclipse on HP-UX.

Telefonica I+D - Madrid, Spain
June 2002 - October 2002
Subcontracted for the research and development arm of a major Spanish telecommunications company doing design and development on an e-commerce system using J2EE, Solaris and Oracle.

TerraLycos - Madrid, Spain
September 2001 - November 2001
Worked for this Spanish Internet portal developing new e-commerce features for the Terra.es website using Java, JSP/Servlets, iPlanet and Oracle.

Intabia Inc. - Madrid, Spain
April 2000 - May 2001
Worked for this San Francisco based startup in Madrid, Spain doing business development, proposal writing, e-business consulting, application development, training, and mobile web research/consulting. Clients included Airtel (Vodafone), America Online (AOL) and Wanadoo.es.

Kinecta Corporation - San Francisco, California
November 1999 - April 2000
Working with a four person development team, helped develop and release the Kinecta Interact Server and Subscriber 3.0, a Java-based internet syndication application. Responsible for designing and implementing new user interface by integrating the Apache Group's Tomcat server into the applications and developing customizable Java Server Pages (JSP) front ends with validation and business rules.

BabyCenter.com - San Francisco, California
July 1999 - November 1999
Helped test, modify and launch system for sending customized email newsletters to tens of millions of BabyCenter customers using Java on Solaris. Also worked on a custom document markup system using XML/XSL technologies.

StreetFusion.com - San Francisco, California
March 1999 - July 1999
Worked as a consultant to help debug and prep different implementations of site for publication. Worked with in-house team to develop one of the first XML based B2B communications to other web companies, created objects containing business rules, and created a dynamic web application for the "Investor Relations Expert" web pages.

LookSmart.com- San Francisco, California
October 1998 - February 1999
Subcontracted for this popular web portal site developing a intranet application to keep track of site advertising including clients, campaigns, banners and graphics. Also wrote scripts to import/export data from Windows to the Unix hosting environment for publishing to Web.

Organic Online - San Francisco, California
September 1998 - October 1998
Hired to work on last-minute preparations and debugging to launch the new Starbucks electronic commerce site. Wrote and repaired scripts to manage log files, notify users via email of confirmed purchases and gift reminders.

Proxicom, Inc. - San Francisco, California
December 1997 - June 1998
Subcontracted for this consulting company at a startup subsidiary of Pacific Gas & Electric designing and implementing their internal web site and internal web based applications using Microsoft technologies (IIS and Exchange) and Action Technologies Workflow 4.0.

Augment, LLC - San Francisco, California
October 1997 - December 1997
Worked as a SQL Server 6.5 developer writing Transact-SQL stored procedures to import and clean up very large text data files provided by various furniture manufacturers to be used on the their web site.

Softbank Interactive Marketing - El Segundo, California
July 1997 - October 1997
Subcontracted for this Internet-based marketing organization as a Lotus Notes developer: Created a sales tracking application to keep track of calls, estimates, orders and accounting for worldwide sales force.

BHP, Inc - San Francisco, California
December 1996 - July 1997
Subcontracted at this large international mining company as an Intranet Web developer: Developed internal web sites for several divisions and a Visual Basic 5.0 ActiveX control and support application for tracking, viewing and downloading financial presentations over the web.

Lotus Development (IBM) - San Francisco, California
September 1996 - December 1996
Worked as a Lotus Notes consultant focusing on Domino-Internet development. Helped train staff in Internet technologies. Developed LotusScript intensive Notes-ID tracking application for aerospace firm to assist in company-wide rollout of Notes.

XeroxConnect Inc. Application Services Group - Atlanta, Georgia
July 1994 - September 1996
Worked as a consultant using Lotus, Microsoft and Internet tools for the following large and small companies: IBM, Coca-Cola, Sprint, BellSouth, Blue-Cross, Sonat, Scientific Atlanta, Beazer Homes, and others. Applications included sales force-automation, outage tracking, telephony, web sites, project management automation as well as presentations and project management.

IBM Media Relations - Boca Raton, Florida
January 1994 - May 1994
Worked to help gather "OS/2 success stories" for IBM Media Relations department. Assisted customizing Lotus Notes databases for data entry and reporting.

Education

Keene State College - Keene, New Hampshire
Information Design (individualized major) Spring 1990 through Fall 1993