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1. Julio Hernandez-
Miyares
VOSVX is an automated B2B marketplace connecting
digital video sellers with digital video buyers.
Phone: 917 370 2880
Address: 505 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Email: juliomiyares@mac.com
Experienced Hands-on Technology Product
Development Leader with over 18 years in the
Digital Space including 10 years with AOL and
4 years bootstrapping and building out the
Sports Digital development for USA TODAY
Networks Sports Media Group. Have led large,
globally distributed technical development
teams in the areas of Native Apps (iOS,
Android & Windows) , Web site Development,
Video ,Search and Content Management
Systems for some of the Internet's largest
Web Properties such as AOL Music,Television,
MovieFone, ShoutCast as well as Winamp
Client . Specialties: Hands on experience
using the following software development
and platform technologies Development: iOS
and Android Frameworks, Objective-C, Java,
Python, Django, PHP, C, SQL, Ruby on Rails,
Amazon Alexa Voice Services. Content
Management Systems: Drupal, WordPress,
Joomla Database: MongoDB, Mysql, Sybase,
Oracle Mobile Frameworks: Netbiscuits,
Onswipe Operating System: Unix, Linux, Mac
OSX Other: Amazon EC2, Linode, Rackspace,
AKAMAI, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx,SOLR/Lucien
EXPERIENCE VOS Digital Group
Chief Digital Officer
February 2016 - Present
(8 months)
As part of the Strategic expansion of the VOS Video Exchange
business, responsible for leading efforts to recruit and staff a
Product Development Team consisting of Software Engineers,
Quality Assurance engineers ,UX Designers, Product & Project
Management primarily based in our New York City offices but with
a foreign presence as well. Leading a comprehensive re-
architecture of the existing Video Exchange Product Technology
stack with the purpose of establishing a technology platform to us
allow us to integrate major influx of new Video Content Creators
and Consumers in a largely Self-serve manor.Heading efforts within
Product and select Engineers to take our existing reporting system
which concentrates on billing centric type analytics and establish a
2. Business Intelligence Infrastructure and implementation to provide
greater long term and trending analytics based on voluminous
transactional raw data we are capturing from our Video Exchange
Platform. The current prototype favorite is using Amazon EMR and
associated services as the native technology stack.
USA Today Sports Media Group
VP Architecture & Engineering
January 2012 - February
2016 (4 years 2 months)
- One of the original Executives of newly formed USATODAY
Sports Media Group set up to manage & Digitally monetize the
vast Sports Assets present within Gannett as part of Gannett's
evolution from Print to Digital Media. Vice President Engineering for
USA TODAY Sports Media Group based in New York City and
responsible for the Digital Sports properties of USA TODAY and
under who's leadership catapulted us to the top 5 in the Sports
category as measured by Comscore. - Recruited & hired new
Software Development & Quality Assurance teams in New York
City, Pittsburgh, PA & Los Angeles CA offices with Technical
Ownership of all USA Today Sports Digital Properties including the
marquee site usatoday.com/sports, the High School Sports
product , US Presswire & the Sports Digital Owned and Operated
websites. - responsible for integrating recently acquired Sports
Digital Web properties onto standard open source technology
LAMP stack on the Sports Amazon Cloud consolidating the number
of hosting providers to 1 with reduced cost of operation and
maintenance as well as corresponding increases in reliability,
performance and quicker time to market with Product feature
extensions. - Led team that built out the latest generation Sports
Realtime and Statistics Database Services Layer powering all
Gannett Digital Sports Properties including Native Apps. - Led team
that built & engineered "For The Win" ftw.usatoday.com that
became the fastest growing Socially driven Sports Property in the
USA.
I'mOK Inc
Co-Founder & Head Of Technology
January 2010 - January
2012 (2 year 1 month)
Co-Founder and Lead technology development and infrastructure
management at a recently formed and funded Startup in New York
City. I'mOK is a Social Network geared towards families , rewarding
kids for taking responsibility for staying connected with their
parents and extended family. We call it "Knowing without the
Nagging" It is centered around the proliferation of Smartphones
even for very young children. The first version of a Mobile
application targeting iOS devices launched in the iTunes stored
August 2011.
Jittr January 2010 - January
3. Jittr
Co-Founder & Lead Developer
2012 (2 years 1 month)
Co-Founder and Lead Developer Boot strapping a New York based
Startup concentrating on the Environmental movement with a
product called Brng.it. It is an app and service to help fuel the Bring
Your Own Reusable Movement (BYOR). Developing new, healthy
behaviors is often about creating new habits. We take inspiration
from apps that are successfully helping people get more fit or lose
weight. The best ones connect you to a community of like minded
people, motivate you and let you track your progress, and
celebrate your success. And while doing good should be its own
reward, it also helps to get recognition in the form of virtual and
real world rewards. Targeting late fall 2011 for the first version of
Brng.it. We are aiming high, a fully compliant HTML 5 application
that will work equally well on regular browsers and Mobile
Browsers.
AOL Inc
CTO -AOL Media
Entertainment/Games/Latino
Development
April 2008 - January
2010 (1 year 10 months)
Led Technology & Product Development organization of over 100
Software and QA Engineers and Project Management at AOL Media
responsible for the next generation Web Channel Experiences for
the Entertainment Line of business including the #1 Music Site by
Comscore AOL Music , MovieFone & AOL Television, Video Portal
and Player , AOL Games and Latino Businesses. Directly
accountable to General Managers of Entertainment, Games and
Latino lines of business and successful in creating a Business +
Technology Development partnership.
AOL - Web Services & Publishing
Senior Technical Director
September 1999 -
December 2006 (7
years 4 months)
Led AOL Search Technology team that owned the lucrative
consumer Search business for AOL. Responsible for both the
Consumer experience and providing Search related services to the
greater AOL suite of products. Was a key leader of the
transformation of AOL from the client based AOL product to Web
oriented suite of experiences for all major product lines culminating
in all major product lines being on the Web by 2006. Integrally
involved with Head of International to spinup an offshore Product
Development team in India that eventually grew to a size of over
1,000 Technology Professionals.
AOL
Senior Technical Director - Video
Program Tech Development Lead
February 2006 -
September 2006 (8
months)
Overall Program Technology Development Lead with team size
4. over 100 reporting to CTO for AOL Video Program which was the
Top Priority Program at AOL during 2006. AOL Video was AOL 's
initiative to establish a presence in Video on Demand Over the Top
(OTT) via the Web. Video Program suite of products including
Purchase to Play site successfully launched on time August
22,2006. Managed Distributed Technical teams responsible for
Video Portal (video.aol.com), Video Search
(search.aol.com/aolcom/videohome), Video Player. Teams located
In Dulles, VA; Seattle, Washington, Dublin, Ireland, Bangalore, India.
Lockheed Martin IMS
Director Technology Development
1995 - 1999 (4 years)
Division of Lockheed Martin specializing in technical solutions for
State and Local governments.
Technical Lead for the ground breaking E-Z Pass Automated Toll
Collection solution implemented initially for the New York State
Thruway Authority and then rolled out to the MTA Triborough
Bridge & Tunnel Authority which is the largest toll collection
Agency in the world.
Led Technology development group providing technical solutions
in the E-Z Pass Automated Toll Collection, Red Light & Speeding
photo enforcement, parking ticket enforcement and collection.
Led efforts to bring Customer Facing Web Solutions allowing
citizens the ability to manage and pay Parking infractions/fines
online. This involved building gateways to enterprise Mainframe
backend systems exposing functionality to Web Server based
experiences.
Sherbert Blach Inc
Senior Software Engineer
April 1988 - August 1993
(5 years 5 months)
Design , Architect and build Proposal management sofware for IBM
Federal Systems Division.
EDUCATION CUNY - Hunter College
Computer Science & Math
Completed Requirements for Major in Computer Science and Minor
in Mathematics
City University of New York-
Queens College
Bachelor of Arts Degree,
Accounting and Minor in Economics,
5. VOLUNTEERING Emergency Medical Technician at
Astoria Volunteer Ambulance
Corp
Working with other volunteers that were preparing for the most
challenging jobs in New York City's Police and fire Departments
LANGUAGES Spanish , (Native or bilingual proficiency) , French
(Limited working proficiency)
SKILLS MySQL, Program Management, PHP, Enterprise Software, Python,
Mobile Applications, Agile Methodologies, Software Development,
Cloud Computing, Databases, CMS, Start-ups, Java, Linux, E-
commerce, Mobile Devices, Product Development, Distributed
Systems, User Experience, Software Project Management, HTML 5,
Apache, SQL, Integration, Leadership, System Architecture,
Software Engineering, SOA, Entrepreneurship, WordPress, Strategy,
Web Development, Project Management, Agile Project
Management, Product Management, SaaS, Scrum, Web
Applications, Oracle, Analytics, Architecture, XML, Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Social Networking, Scalability, Ruby on Rails, Web
Services, Android, HTML5