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Craig Wood |
http://www.craigsblog.com |
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Baldwin, NY 11510 - United States
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Show me a team of passionate developers who actively seek out the latest technology and a company that has the desire and vision to foster a rich community on Internet, together we'll build the next generation social site that combines the best of blogs, wikis, forums, and friends.
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Engineered search systems including caching solutions, content design, and roll out for large scale blogs such as Engadget and Joystiq.
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Worked with a team of developers to redesign the Netscape website as a social news portal. Individual accomplishments include the design of the search infrastructure, spam tools, and live tracker.
During the roll out the team had to continually optimize their code to handle millions of visitors a day across a geographically separate set of server farms. - |
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EVP in charge of Strategic Research. Produced new products dealing with overall trends in Search Marketing.
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As leader of the technology department, hired and managed a staff of 12 developers, information technologists, and statisticians to create and maintained a growing suite of Did-it products. During this 6 year stint the business grew from 4 employees to over 50.
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Co-author and technology editor of the original Search Engine Secrets, a 1997 book that sold 50,000 copies explaining revolutionary tips and tricks for elevating websites to top placements in the search engines.
Architect and engineer of Did-it Plus, a search-engine optimization technology that was one of the first search engine strategies for Ebay, University of Phoenix Online, Deja News, and Playboy, as well as over two thousand other search marketers. Did-it Plus created a pay-per-click search model for search engine placement before Goto.com created the first PPC search engine. - |
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Architect and engineer of the Did-it.Com Detective in 1995. This tool was used by tens of thousands of early-adopter search marketers to test their inclusion, distribution, and position in what were then the top 10 search engines, including memorable names like Infoseek, Altavista, OpenText, Excite, and Yahoo.
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Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Solaris, UNIX, Macintosh
Primary Languages: Perl, PHP, Shell, JavaScript, AJAX Databases: SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL WWW: Apache, HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, DHTML, SSL, CGI, Unicode, HTTP Specialties: Search Infrastructure, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, SEM |
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