Ed Wolf

Engineer & Tech Aficionado

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I am open to considering new positions. I am a US citizen.

Summary

I'm a Computer Engineer who excels at bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams. I'm charismatic, technical, outgoing, curious and a natural leader.

My passion is creating technology and products that people love. I currently work for Time Inc. and help our brands create new mobile experiences that engage our readers beyond our magazine pages.

My goal is to grow as a Product Manager. I have startup experience and have worked in the Financial, Higher Education, Medical and Publishing industries.

Specialties

M68k Assembly, C++, C, Flex, HTML, Java, VHDL, MS Office, PSpice, OrCad, ModelSim, Eclipse, Eggplant Functional Tester, SubVersion, SQL, Oracle, Minitab, Unix, Mac OS, Xcode, Dashcode, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat, Network Administration/Engineering, Helpdesk Support, Quality Assurance, Though Leadership, Management, Project Management, Product Management


Experience

IT Business Analyst/Product Manager

Time Inc.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TWX; Publishing industry

September 2010Present (1 year 9 months)

I create mobile apps and websites for all our magazines, including People, Time and Sports Illustrated.

- Leverage best practices, industry trends, customer feedback, and application usage to develop business case, requirements and wireframes for new products
- Led the evaluation and deployment of an enterprise Single Sign-on (SSO) platform
- Designed and built a disaster recovery portal via WordPress; optimized support for mobile devices
- Devised a strategy for the CIO to establish an ideation and collaboration platform, consolidate technology spending on existing platforms, and modernize communication tools
- Evaluated a shared services deployment of Microsoft SharePoint with other Time Warner divisions

Associate Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments

Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Financial Services industry

July 2009August 2010 (1 year 2 months) Greater Boston Area

- Developed C++ applications to expand Fidelity’s trading platform to 12 foreign markets
- Analyzed incoming pricing feeds on over 15k securities from third parties; wrote SQL to verify price discrepancies occurred in less than 2% of securities
- Created UML diagrams and technical specifications for a Flex-based application to help traders manage orders; eliminated need for manual trade cancelation through mainframe terminal
- Led 4 Software Engineers and 2 Systems Analysts; delivered a Drupal CMS volunteer portal for a non-profit organization in Boston (Peace First); eliminated a paper-based recruitment process
- Evangelized agile development; established IBM's Rational Team Concert as our SCM and artifact tracking tool.

Prior to becoming a Software Engineer, I participated in the inaugural LEAP IT development program as a Systems Analyst. During this program, I received formal training on how to be a more effective analyst.

President, Student Government

Rochester Institute of Technology

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

May 2007May 2009 (2 years 1 month) Rochester, NY

- Managed a team of 30 student leaders and represented over 16K students to university leadership at the 13th largest private university in the nation
- Oversaw a $250K budget and the distribution of $1.5M to student groups
- Coordinated the planning of a $12M renovation of the Student Union
- Established a strategic plan for Student Government, and expanded representation to student athletes and graduate students
- Hosted Steve Wozniak, Bill Nye and Marlee Matlin as part of an honorary speaker series

Project Manager

The iTheater Project

January 2005May 2009 (4 years 5 months) www.itheaterproject.com

- Founded an open source media center application for the Mac
- Managed the project website, SourceForge, email, SVN, Trac, VBulletin forum and wiki
- Coordinated volunteers around the world (UK, Australia, Mexico, USA) to develop free open source software
- Over 143k downloads worldwide

Quality Assurance Engineering Intern

Savant Systems

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry

May 2008December 2008 (8 months) Osterville, MA

- Developed QA and final test procedures for high-end home control automation products
- Built an XML dashboard widget and Objective-C menu bar application to control ROSIE systems

Desktop Engineering Student

Rochester Institute of Technology

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

March 2008May 2008 (3 months) Rochester, NY

-Worked on implementing a Microsoft SCCM and Configuration Manager environment for over 3,000 enterprise desktops

Senior Desktop Operations Representative

Rochester Institute of Technology

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

November 2004May 2008 (3 years 7 months) Rochester, New York Area

-Supported desktop and servers, as well as end user applications for over 3,000 RIT faculty and staff

Systems Validation & Verification Co-Op

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; JNJ; Medical Devices industry

May 2007August 2007 (4 months) Rochester, New York Area

-Performed software verification and validation for Vitros® Blood Analyzer software
-Verified test limits used within analyzer software through automation processes

Information Technology Intern

Genworth Financial

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry

May 2006August 2006 (4 months) Greater New York City Area

-Saved company thousands of dollars by eliminating paper faxes and implementing desktop fax
-Improved workflow by creating new intranet website for the Capital Market Services division
-Created Java based utilities to assist with the maintenance of company machines
-Helped clear the backlog of IT maintenance issues

Helpdesk representative

The Taunton Press

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry

May 2005August 2005 (4 months) Newtown, CT

-Supported over 200 users on both Mac and PC users
-Supported Lotus Notes and various professional publishing products and Mircosoft Software
-Assisted users with the transition from Quark to Adobe InDesign
-Assisted with the migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook 2003



Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

20042009

President of Student Government, 2007-2009
Vice President of Greek Council, 2006-2007
Vice President of Alpha Epsilon Pi, 2006-2007

Activities and Societies: Student Government, Life Sciences Club, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Order of Omega, Greek Council


Additional Information

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Interests:

Camping, biking, racquetball, technology, management, leadership training, organizational development, strategic planning, programming, inventing/tinkering, HDTV, television broadcasting, music

Honors and Awards:

Time Warner Digital Reverse Mentor, 2010
Fidelity LEAP program graduate, 2009
Silver Award, Venturing BSA, 2007
Order of Omega, 2004
Eagle Scout, Boys Scouts of America, 2002
Vigil Honor, Order of the Arrow, 2003