Dean began his technology career at Infoseek in 1996. Hired as an Operations Engineer he was promoted to management, soon overseeing engineering teams in Japan, Germany, England, France and Australia. He moved onto Time Inc. as VP of Engineering for Business 2.0 where he a ran a team comprising engineering, project management, operations, customer service and advertising operations. He started his own consulting business in the DC metro area working as a lead technologist for clients in government, ad agencies, non-profit organizations, and private businesses. As a consultant he has refined his skills for creating and integrating technologies on behalf of smart, collaborative product owners to better their businesses. Focused on both consumer facing technologies as well as business intelligence projects, Dean has helped corporate leadership understand where their business was succeeding and where it needed attention. Selected specialties: Web architecture: LAMP, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Solaris Dedicated and cloud infrastructures: Amazon EC2, Rightscale, Heroku Database systems: Mongo, Oracle, MySQL, Postgresql Information management tools: Google Analytics, Omniture Content management systems: Day Communique, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Radiant Search engine technologies: Solr, Sphinx, Ultraseek Education: Clemson University