Huned’s Resume
Summary — Huned is a broadly experienced engineer, innovator, and planner with a bent toward using data and information visualization to understand and solve problems, inform business decisions, and close efficiency gaps.
Experience
10/2008 – Present — Independent Consultant — San Francisco, CA
Successfully completing large consulting engagements for stealth-mode Bay Area start-ups, including supplying turn-key product development team to companies that don’t have a technical staff.
Advising start-ups on challenges such as hiring well, streamlining product development process, strategic planning, and generating revenue.
Incubating data-oriented products:
- Pricing history visualization and location awareness makes finding an affordable place to live in San Francisco easier. See http://urbanyurt.com.
- Quantitative finance tools to explore equity market volatility.
9/2006 – 10/2008 — Swivel — San Francisco, CA — Senior Software Engineer
Joined as full-time employee #5. Defined the company’s long term strategy beyond public data, with attention toward establishing and owning a Collaborative BI space rather than in competing in an already crowded, fragmented, and commoditized dashboard market.
With two other engineers, built the majority of Swivel, a large scale collaborative data warehouse, and Swivel’s ROLAP Business Intelligence product, Swivel Business Edition, which includes a real-time dashboard component. Led development of Swivel’s REST API which eases integration with existing data sources, Swivel’s iPhone dashboard interface, and the Swivel Query Language (SwQL).
Selected press
- Coverage of Swivel’s launch on TechCrunch. Several similar products subsequently emerged: Data360, GoodData, IBM’s Many Eyes, Google’s GapMinder, Birst.
- Swivel partners with the OECD, WHO, and other intergovernmental data providers to foster a culture of data awareness.
- Swivel’s then-CEO, Brian, speaks at the World Forum.
- Swivel is profiled by Gartner (report) and Fast Company (article); blurbs in Wired (article) and Nature (article).
- The blog post I wrote announcing Swivel’s API to the public.
1/2006 – 9/2006 — KickApps — New York, NY — Project Manager
As KickApps’ first employee, defined and built significant parts of KickApps’ v1 backend prior to Series A funding. My schema design supported KickApps’ growth to hosting 10s of thousands of social networks.
Managed the project Gantt, task estimation, and work breakdown for a 20 person development team. Helped sign customers through high-touch sales engagements. Presented monthly updates to the Board of Directors.
Selected press
1/2004 – 3/2006 — Koos Technical Services — Maitland, FL — Consulting Engineer
Successfully completed several consulting engagements and built relationships with start-ups and high profile clients, including Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Invivo Research, and L3 Microdyne.
As principal developer for start-up Real Digital Media: designed, built, and released Neocast-XF networked, fanless media player. RDM’s deployment has grown to 1000s of media players in the field.
8/2001 – 1/2004 — Agilent Technologies — Santa Rosa, CA — R&D Software Engineer
Software developer on Agilent’s ADS, HFSS, and RFDE product lines.
Drove organizational change in a 100 person division by gathering metrics and reporting them at the GM level. This served to align the entire R&D organization behind a united, quantitative effort to increase quality, decrease attrition rates, and decrease support costs.
Skills
- Business intelligence
- Data modeling, schema design, schema optimization
- ROLAP: generating aggregated metrics and KPIs to use in reports to support actionable decisions
- SQL; multi-dimensional query optimization
- Designing for data warehouse scale (1000s of GBs, tens of millions of records per table)
- Dashboarding and visualization, including integration with 3rd party APIs
- ETL with excel, csv, tsv, and sql to get data into custom BI frameworks
- Broadly experienced
- Designed and built several products from concept to launch
- Functioned in lead development, product management, sales, support roles at three start-ups
- Project and product management for small and medium sized teams
- Technical skills
- Agile methodology — SCRUM, rapid prototyping, cost/impact design
- Languages — Ruby, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Perl, PHP, Java, C++, C, shell
- Web Frameworks — Ruby on Rails, LAMP (PHP and Perl), Google App Engine, Amazon cloud infrastructure, Spring Framework
- Databases — MySQL, Postgres, sqlite
- Web services — Flickr, Picasa, Google Maps, RSS, Google Charts, Scribd’s iPaper, and cloud infrastructure
- Retrofitting existing applications to Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine; building software-as-a-service (SaaS) components and APIs into existing systems
Education
2002 – 2003 — Stanford University — Stanford, CA — Non-degree graduate courses in Electrical Engineering through the Stanford Center for Professional Development.
1997 – 2001 — Duke University — Durham, NC — BSE with double major in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science. TA for seven semesters in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments.
Contact
- h@e-huned.com
- 415 680 3935
- Selected work: http://e-huned.com/portfolio
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/huned