Rob Blackin Email Address

Vice President of Engineering

BlogTalkRadio is a web-based platform that allows podcasters and radio sites and talk show hosts to create live and on-demand talk format content for distribution on the web and podcast distribution channels.

KEY SKILLS • Managing engineering and operational organizations - Managed team of over 35 developers, QA and Operations people. • Managing offshore development staff - Managed staff in South America, Russia and Israel. • Technical Troubleshooting - Key person brought in for figuring out why things aren't working. • System Architecture - Designed entire infrastructure for three startups. • Scalability - Scaled Website from 0 to 6 Million visitors. • Everything to do with databases. Skilled with Big Data. Done Data warehousing, mange DBs, managed DBs with billions of records. • Big picture understanding. Cliche but I have a technical and business mind in one as you can see from my education. • Managed multiple Agile teams. I have an MBA in Management of Technology from NJIT and BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University. I have worked as: * CTO Of White Hat Security Startup * VP Development and Operations at BlogTalkRadio, a Web Media property, that scaled to over 6 Million visits per day. * Director of Development for international telecom billing systems at IDT * Primary technologist at three start up companies at VoiceNet, Exprimer and BlogTalkRadio. * Product and implementation Manager for workflow system at IDT * Technical Project Manager on dozens of simultaneous projects ranging from Telecom routing to process automation at IDT * Built automated systems for almost any telecom process you can imagine at IDT, Quicktel, Exprimer, VoiceNet, Econophone, etc. * Built Data Warehouses and worked as a DW evangelist at AT&T and many customers of Red Brick. * Sales Engineer for hardware and software sales at AT&T and Red Brick Specialties: Website scalability, Relational Databases, Technical Troublehooting, Social Networking website integration, Large Scale Web Site development, SEO, E-Commerce, IT Management, Billing Systems, Web Development, Database design, Data Warehousing