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Glen Sanford

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Exceptional problem solving skills and ability to quickly adapt to new challenges
Excellent team player, works well as a technical lead or an individual contributor
Motivated and productive, invested in the success of the project, the team, and the company
Languages, Technologies, and Buzzwords: Java, PHP, MySQL, Tomcat, Linux, C++, HTML, CSS, Perl, Shell, Python, JavaScript.

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA, June 2010 — Present

TiVo Inc., Alviso, CA, August 2005 — May 2010

Rapidly promoted from junior engineer to software architect in less than five years
As Architect, provided leadership, guidance, and mentorship to other engineers and technical oversight of the TiVo service, while remaining a productive developer.
Founding member of Service Architecture Steering Committee, which provides architectural guidance and prioritization to the management team for the TiVo service.
As technical lead on development of Java/Tomcat/MySQL webservices backend for TiVo Premiere & TiVo Search, scoped, designed, coordinated, and participated in implementation effort, working closely with client team to increase speed and efficiency and handle bandwidth and client constraints.
Contributed to design, implementation and maintenance of core server infrastructure in C++
Wrote internal Web-based tools in PHP for configuring, testing and managing the service

Liberate Technologies, San Carlos, CA, November 2000 — December 2001

Developed HTML/JavaScript set-top box-based demonstrations of cutting-edge interactive TV applications
Proposed and led project to create a sales/marketing DVD of over 70 iTV demos, using Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro.
Maintained and updated the corporate website
<http://glen.nu/portfolio/liberate.php>

Interactive Bureau / Circle.com, New York City, NY, April 1999 — August 2000

Worked primarily as a client-side web programmer, hand-coding table-based HTML pages from PSDs.
As lead programmer on a complete top-down redesign of the IBM corporate intranet, coded template pages for distribution throughout the company, designed and implemented interfaces for user-customization of features on the intranet home page. <http://glen.nu/portfolio/ibm/>
Designed graphics and interfaces using Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash
Provided tech support to growing staff of nearly 100 employees, ordered and installed required hardware and software, upgraded the network to handle increased capacity requirements

Freelance Web Programmer, January 1999 — August 2005

Designed and developed a variety of Web sites for individuals and small companies.

Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, NY, September 1998 — June 1999

Taught courses in general computing, desktop publishing, programming and web programming to students from third to twelfth grades.

University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, September 2003 — June 2005

Bachelor of Science with High Honors in Computer Science and Engineering: June 2005, GPA: 3.89

Brown University, Providence, RI, September 1994 — May 1998

Designed and maintain apple-history.com, which for more than a decade has included descriptions, specs and pictures of every Apple computer ever made.
Also enjoy electronic music, science fiction, cooking and playing guitar.

Available upon request