Andrew Grumet, Ph.D.
415-728-3134
aegrumet@alum.mit.edu
San Francisco
SUMMARY
- VP Product Engineering at Mevio, Inc.
- Hands-on manager leading the software development and technical operations teams.
- Designed backend data warehouse and reporting system for optimizing video ad delivery against > 100 million video views per month.
- Invented and built a dynamic ad insertion system for MP3, that rotates ads into downloadable files without the need for hardware-intensive transcoding. The system has processed over a billion hits in its lifetime, and currently handles on the order of a million per day.
- Helped bootstrap podcasting by leading the team that built the most popular podcast software, Juice, prior to Apple's entry into the market. Juice has been downloaded nearly 5 million times since its release in 2004 and is localized to over 20 languages.
- Inventor and co-creator of GigaDial, a podcast remixer launched in 2004 that lets users create customized podcast feeds and push recommendations directly to one anothers' mp3 players.
EMPLOYMENT
Mevio, Inc., San Francisco, CA
October, 2005 - Present
Position: VP Product and Engineering
Hands-on manager leading the software development and technical operations teams building a
broadband entertainment platform that supports > 100 million video views per month.
Responsibilities range from hiring to team management to software development.
Regular daily experience with: php, mysql, infobright, memcache, subversion, linux, RSS, xmlrpc.
Andrew Grumet, LLC, Somerville, MA
February, 2002 - October, 2005
Position: Owner
Sole proprietor consulting business, providing software services to large
and small clients, including:
- The Development Gateway Foundation, enhanced and
maintained a web-based multi-language economic development portal.
- MIT Sloan School of Management, developed and maintained
an educational intranet used daily by more than 1,000 members of the
MIT community. Shepherded the system through three major system upgrades,
performing numerous code merges between the system and its
underlying open source platform.
- Warner Bros., provided technical infrastructure for
podcast promotion of the House of Wax movie. Hosted the House of Wax
RSS feed and provided a custom-skinned podcast receiver (desktop
software) built on Juice.
- Elsa Dorfman, portrait photographer.
During this time I served on the board for the OpenACS web toolkit
(http://openacs.org), on which the MIT portal is built.
ArsDigita Corporation, Cambridge, MA
November, 1999 - February, 2002
Position: Technical project lead
Led web projects backed by the ArsDigita Community System (ACS).
Leadership responsibilities included: pitching new clients, business
requirements definition, SQL data modeling, system design, and
technical supervision of a 3-4 person team through initial
implementation, iteration and testing, public launch, and ongoing
maintenance and upgrades.
Major projects:
- The Development Gateway a
multilingual web-based knowledge sharing system that we built for
the World Bank Group. Implemented in Oracle SQL and AOLserver Tcl
(ACS v4.1), the Development Gateway supports community building
within topic areas by providing: content management tools that
designated guides use to moderate, highlight and organize content;
collaborative tools such as content submission, commenting,
bulletin boards, and email alerts that enable users to work
together.
- HP Image Services, a web-based system that we built for
Hewlett-Packard to support collaborative document production
(non-public site). Implemented in Oracle SQL and AOLserver Tcl
(ACS v3.0), HP Image Services provides outsourced file storage,
document production workflow, and order generation and tracking for
organizations that produce printed documents. (November, 1999 -
May, 2000)
EDUCATION
PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999, MIT.
SM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994, MIT.
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1992, Johns Hopkins University.
SKILLS
Software domain: Cross-platform application development with Python
and wxPython, Web application development with PHP, MySQL, SVN,
memcache, OpenACS, AOLserver, Oracle, Postgresql, CVS, .NET framework,
particularly ASP.NET and ADO.NET, multilingual Web publishing, Tcl,
Linux system administration, generic Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX),
Perl.
People domain: Working with clients, technical management, teaching.
Design domain: Web application design, data modeling, user experience
design.
Other skills: Analog circuit design, data acquisition systems,
electrophysiology, speaking French.
TEACHING
Co-taught MIT 6.171: Software Engineering of Innovative Web Services
with Hal Abelson and Philip Greenspun. Responsibilities included:
giving lectures, writing problem sets, supervising student projects,
and class administration. (Spring, 2000, Fall, 2000, Spring, 2002 and
Fall, 2003).
Dozens of hours leading Web programming training sessions at our free
"bootcamps" while at ArsDigita.
WRITING
Books:
- Software Engineering for Internet Applications, MIT Press. Co-author.
Articles:
- "iPodder Overview", self-published.
(http://grumet.net/writing/programmer/syndication/ipodder.html)
- "RSS Powered Tivo To Do Lists", self-published.
(http://grumet.net/writing/programmer/syndication/rss-powered-tivo-todo-lists.html)
- "Deep Thinking About Weblogs", self-published.
(http://grumet.net/writing/web/deep-thinking-about-weblogs.html)
- "Adding Wireless Users to Your Web Service", ArsDigita Systems Journal.
(http://web.archive.org/web/20060204233021/http://ccm.redhat.com/asj/wireless/)