Afshin Darian

50 Henry St., Apt. 7C
New York, NY 10002
(917) 721 - 9945
ishtar@gmail.com

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I am not currently seeking a new position, but thanks anyway.

Shiny Metal Assets, Inc. January ’07—April 2008
Lead UI Developer Berkeley, CA & New York, NY

Designed, developed and sold the ajarr™ personal portal, a web-based drag-and-drop feed aggregator
Built front-end functionality using Prototype + Scriptaculous to create a rich, single-page, end-user experience
Built external modules (to complement the main Rails-based portal) to analyze logs and serve parsed feeds using Python
Negotiated a professional services partnership with TalkPoint Communications to adapt the ajarr portal, which was redeployed as Flywheel
Involved in all stages of the product cycle including platform investigation, product specification, development, and sales
Working with a large team of designers, back-end developers, and product managers, built “polite” (i.e., namespaced) Javascript modules for The Orchard using Prototype and documented with JSDoc, implemented on public and internal applications

UC Berkeley, Department of History August ’06—January ’07
Graduate Student Instructor Berkeley, CA

Taught two ancient history sections that each met twice a week in addition to two lectures
Wrote daily curricula and recommendations, provided student mentorship during office hours
Delivered one full lecture with slides to 120+ students
Completed graduate training seminar in pedagogy and education

International Institute for Learning June ’05—September ’05
Development Consultant New York, NY

Researched content management systems, implemented a testing environment for several systems and conducted testing for data migration from a PHP-based content management system to a .NET-based system
Posted daily content to the portal site allPM.com
Built a simple interface to convert unwieldy URLs to “friendly” URLs for marketing purposes

Williams Communications November ’01—September ’02
Senior Developer New York, NY

Trained developers in the production of Williams’ webcasting product set
Developed internal applications and processes for streamlining webcasting such as deal automation tools
Conceived and created an ASP application with a SQL back-end for the management of live web conferences which led to over 60 conference deals
Worked on webcast sites for clients such as: Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney, i2 Technologies, Beth Israel Medical Center

iBEAM Broadcasting October ’00—November ’01
Dedicated Web Development Team Lead New York, NY

Created development processes that were implemented by the global dedicated Merrill Lynch Research team
Designed and developed a client-facing CRM tool between Merrill Lynch and iBEAM
Developed an XML/VB-based web publishing application to post Merrill Lynch’s financial research presentations

NextVenue, Inc. January ’00—October ’00
Web Developer New York, NY

Built and oversaw production sites for live and on-demand streaming media sites
Advanced rapidly in skill set and responsibility, earning a 50% raise in the first six months

Rutgers College, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
BA, Philosophy & Medieval Studies — Highest Honors 2005

Good reading knowledge of French and Latin; fluency in written and spoken Persian (Farsi)
Programming & Development: Javascript (and Ajax), Python, Ruby (on Rails), Java, SQL, VBScript, VisualBasic, ASP(.NET), Perl
Data & Databases: MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, XML, JSON
Presentation: (X)HTML, CSS
Graphics & Design: The GIMP, Adobe Photoshop