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kevin_rarick@yahoo.com

* hands-on developer in C, C++, & Objective-C from 1986-1999 * established and grew the Yahoo! Entertainment engineering team in US from 1999-2002 * ran all of Yahoo! Europe engineering (EFIGS) from 2002-2005 * managed front-end engineer and international architecture for Yahoo! Ordering and Billing system (PSI) from 2005-2007 * Member of End-to-End integration team for APT from Yahoo! (apt.yahoo.com) 2007-2008, managed delivery of initial set of requirements, established program tracking and progress reporting across the 17 dev teams, and implemented and managed the production deployment and launch process and procedures for zero downtime, high quality deployment. I can help your organization define, establish, and implement the best business operations to maintain a highly effective and efficient product development process that delivers the highest quality product on time.

• Location: Portola Valley, CA
• Specialty: Engineering
• Former Company: Yahoo!
• Former Title: Director, Engineering
• Looking For: the opportunity to assist an engineering organization in transition from small to med or med to large and remain efficient and effective