Erik Dasque
150 Naples Road
Brookline, MA 02446
T +1-617-517-6088
erik.dasque@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Experienced Technology Executive. Proven ability to direct, establish, maintain, and plan software development, architecture, user interface and product features. Looking to work with a software development and executive team in an
exciting environment on challenging new projects leveraging practical experience of J2EE, .NET, Node.js, LAMP,
NoSQL, MySQL, mobile (iOS, Android) and Cloud based technologies.
EXPERIENCE
Hungry Fish Media (October 2011 – May 2013) - Chief Technology Officer
•Built, managed, mentored a team of twenty-two software engineers (hiring sixteen engineers in twelve months) as
well as Project Management, Dev Ops, Sys Ops, Internal IT and QA functions
•Re-organized the development team, initiated five projects with SCRUM/AGILE
•Re-built project by project most internal web applications, eliminating accrued technical debt
•Introduced real time reporting tools and business intelligence for customer acquisition, marketing metrics, spend
optimization and financial goals across multiple sales channels
•Built a system to measure and report impressions, CPA & Revenue by product and targets for large campaigns real
time optimization (40M+ targeted & untargeted impressions a day)
•Managed the development of a self adapting and configurable Ad Server which dynamically builds and display ads
based on CTR, CTA, CPA from different assets
•Built healthexperts.com, a new sales channel with third party drop-shipping and B2B catalog management
•Built a social selling platform from scratch after having integrated with a SAAS MLM product as a temporary
solution
•Achieved PCI compliance through all sales channels through locked server with web service interface, architected
payment processor agnostic layers
•Technical environment: PHP, Zend MVC framework MySQL, Magento, GoodData, CouchDB, node.js, Git,
BitBucket, Jira, Agile SCRUM, AWS DynamoDB, EC2 & RDS, Rackspace. Phonegap, iOS & Android mobile
application development.
Vivaki (November 2009 – September 2011) - Vice President of Product Development
•Managed the development, support and product management teams for three Search Engine Marketing business
intelligence and campaign management web applications.
•Re-architectured the back-end to dramatically improve the performance and scalability of one of the products. Went
through a complete UI redesign & re-implementation to erase past UI/UX debts.
•Mentored developers and junior product managers. Management of two P&L.
•Organized the roadmap and feature backlog for the three products.
•Evaluate integration points of said products with other products within the organization.
•Re-organized the development team, migrated two teams to Agile/SCRUM
•Deployed and managed a large web application to a cloud-based cluster (Amazon Web Services)
•Technical environment: PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Eclipse, Jira, Trac, SVN, SCRUM, AWS EC2 & RDS.
BzzAgent (December 2005- August 2009) - Vice President of Engineering
•Built, managed, mentored a team of 20 engineers (J2EE developers, Web Development, System Engineers, QA and
IT - production site and internal). Reported to COO.
•Implemented a new agile development structure, which greatly improved BzzAgent’s ability to architect, develop
and release features of its SaaS BzzEngine application.
•Release schedule and project management (10 major releases in 32 months, 30+ features).
•Product and feature design, requirement gathering, product management, SEO.
•Co-created, co-designed and managed the development of the BzzAgent FrogPond which quickly became a key
product in BzzAgent’s offering and a source of revenue.
•Organized a consistent approach to documentation within the development team
•Created and managed: Facebook application, iPhone app, SEO, A/B testing, Data Warehouse, White label sites, Data
center and Product Review Board. Took over and turned around the IT department.
•Main interface with other groups, Executive Team, Principals.
•Technical environment: J2EE & LAMP, Tomcat, JBoss, Apache,, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MediaWiki, GIT, Redmine,
IntelliJ, SVN, Bugzilla, Scrum.
SilverStream / Novell (September 1997-December 2005)
Senior Product Manager, Mono Project — 2003 - 2005
•Drove product direction of one of the top 5 open source projects. Reported to VP of Engineering.
•Worked within the framework of an Open Source project sponsored by a large corporation.
•Interacted with and educated customers, analysts, the press and sales force.
•Transformed an open source project into a viable development platform for Novell’s R&D, Commercial ISVs and IT
organizations.
•Series Editor for Mono development series (Addison Wesley) & book author (Mono Application Development for
Linux).
•Technical environment: Microsoft, .NET, Linux, Gnome desktop, Gtk+/Gtk#, MediaWiki.
Senior Product Manager, J2EE Application server & ePortal/Director — 2000 - 2003
•Designed and established the product features for the SilverStream J2EE application server and the eXtend Director
portal framework.
•Devised and implemented processes for product development and release including performance and scalability
benchmarks as well as architecture validation.
•Established and implemented processes for management of product requirements throughout their lifecycle.
•Worked on cross-functional team to translate customer needs and technology directions into product definitions and
architecture. Built many prototypes, demos and proofs of concept.
•Transformed a proprietary product into a J2EE based framework running on multiple application servers with
personalization, workflow, content Management, portal subsystems.
•Technical environment: Novell exteNd products, eDirectory, J2EE, RDBMS, XML/XSLT.
Pre-sales Department Manager, SilverStream France - Paris, France — 1997 - 1999
•Managed SilverStream France’s pre-sales department including many proofs of concept, prototypes, weekly forums.
Assisted SilverStream France sales force technically.
•Developed SilverStream France web site and pre-sales Intranet Application.
•Technical environment: SilverStream products, J2EE multiple databases. Windows 32bit, UNIX OSes. HTML, Java,
Perl & JavaScript.
SQL Tech (1996-1997)
Internet Department Development Manager
•Managed a newly created R&D/Intranet task force (3 development engineers).
•Development & deployments of database-centered intranet and Internet sites (France Telecom, Médiapost, SQL
Tech).
• Technical environment: Netscape, Microsoft, SilverStream, Sybase & Oracle Intranet products, Microsoft, Oracle &
Sybase databases. NetDynamics, Visual Interdev, Visual Café Pro. Windows 32bits, Linux, Sun Solaris, HP/UX
OSes. HTML, ASP, Java, Perl & JavaScript.
EDUCATION
École Supérieure d’Informatique, Montreuil, France — 1991 - 1996
• Master’s degree (Bac+5) - Computer Science. Thesis on the Java Platform.
SKILLS
•Software Development Management and Product Management. Agile SCRUM development process.
•B2B & B2C high scalability web site development - Consumer web sites, personalization, content management,
workflow, user right management and rules engine.
•Object Oriented Design, OOP Methods, GUI design, U/X, A/B testing, SEO optimizations.
•LAMP stack, Linux/Apache, MySQL, PHP, Zend MVC framework
•J2EE, J2ME and J2SE platforms, Struts, J2EE blueprints, Servlets, JMS, XML, XSLT, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss.
•Microsoft .NET, Mono, ASP.NET, ADO.NET.
•Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, CORBA.
•Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems,
•Database design and development (Oracle, Sybase, PowerBuilder, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
•Proven experience in QA management, automation (Selenium), performance testing. Proficiency with Eclipse,
IntelliJ, Mercury/HP test tools, Source control systems such as Git, SVN, Clearcase, CVS, SourceSafe.
• Cloud-based computing. UEC private clouds, Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SimpleDB, ...)
• NoSQL & Big Data solutions (CouchDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop)
MISCELLANEOUS
•Fluent French and English, Spanish spoken
•Hobbies: astronomy, DIY electronics, scuba-diving (Technical Diver) and photography.
•US citizen
•CPR & first-aid Red Cross certified.