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 <a style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12" href="https://twitter.com/eedeebee">@eedeebee</a>
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 <a style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
+<br style="font-family: monospace;">
+<a style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12" href="https://medium.com/@eedeebee/how-to-eedeebee-29eaffc8b4c4">HOWTO: eedeebee</a>
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 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 SUMMARY
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     <ul>
-        <li>Deep understanding of software development practice.</li>
         <li>Technical leadership and strategic, business-focused decision making.</li>
-        <li>Growing of teams building cutting edge and/or high-performance products.</li>
+        <li>Deep understanding of software development practice and operations.</li>
+        <li>Growing of teams building meaningful products.</li>
         <li>Joy in shipping commercial quality products and services that customers love.</li>
+	<!--
 	    <li>Open-source advocacy, community building, and contribution (See <a href="https://www.openlaszlo.org">https://www.openlaszlo.org/</a>, 
 	<a href="https://github.com/marklogic">https://github.com/marklogic</a>, and
 	<a href="https://github.com/eedeebee">https://github.com/eedeebee</a>
 	).</li>
-        <li>Experience in both start-up and large company environments, as well as Consumer and Enterprise markets.</li>
         <li>Hands-on when needed.</li>
+	-->
+        <li>Experience in both start-up & large company environments, as well as consumer and enterprise markets.</li>
     </ul>
     <p>
-        I am a detail-oriented software engineering manager with broad experience
+        I am a seasoned technology executive with broad experience
         in Internet technologies, web applications, email systems, education technology, electronic-discovery, search, digital media, computer graphics, 
-        user interfaces, anti-malware/security, open-source software, parallel, multi-threaded programming, and distributed
+        user interfaces, anti-malware, application security, open-source software, parallel, multi-threaded programming, and distributed
         multi-user computing environments. 
     </p>
     <p>
-        I have hired, managed, directed, and mentored software engineers through all phases of
+        I have hired, managed, directed, and mentored managers and individual contributors through all phases of
         software development. I have an attention to detail, a passion for shipping products, and a strong desire to
         build software that makes people say, "Wow!"
     </p>
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 EXPERIENCE
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 <b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.udemy.com/">Udemy, Inc.</a></b>, San Francisco, CA.<p>
-<b>VP of Engineering</b>, Aug 2019 - present.<p>
+<b>VP of Engineering, Head of Udemy Business Engineering</b>, Aug 2019 - present.<p>
 <b>Senior Director of Engineering</b>, March 2017 - Aug 2019.<p>
 <b>Director of Engineering, Teaching and Learning </b>, March 2015 - March 2017.<p>
     <p>
 <ul>
-    <li>See <a href="https://about.udemy.com/">About Udemy</a> for sense of scale.</li>
+
+
 
     <li>Grew team that develops Udemy's core teaching &amp; learning platform by one engineer per month in 2015.</li>
     <li>Reorganized staff and adjusted process so that teams reliably made their 2 week sprint commitments.</li>
-    <li>Helped build the Udemy engineering team in Dublin, Ireland from near scratch.</li>
-    <li>From 2017-2019, more than doubled team size while directing platform, video, 
+    <li>Built the Udemy engineering team in Dublin, Ireland from near scratch.</li>
+    <li>From 2017-2019, more-than-doubled team size while directing platform, video, 
         SRE, and full-stack feature teams for consumer &amp; enterprise offerings.</li>
     <li>Directed refactoring of Udemy's entire web application from a custom PHP app to Python's Django.</li>
     <li>Conducted technical due diligence for <a href="https://about.udemy.com/instructors/embracing-the-power-of-experiential-learning-through-talentbuddy-acquisition/">acqui-hire</a> of Talent Buddy; subsequently integrated staff and shipped Udemy's coding exercises feature to plan in 3 months.</li>
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             experience for students.
     </li>
     <li>Pivoted existing services infrastructure efforts to Kubernetes and services written in Python and Kotlin.</li>
+    <li>As head of Udemy Business Engineering, I led the development of Udemy's SaaS product, going from from $100K to $280M ARR over my tenure.</li>
+    	<li>See <a href="https://about.udemy.com/">About Udemy</a> for sense of scale.  As of Jan, 2020: 
+		<ul>	
+			<li>50M students, 30M mins. of content. </li>
+			<li>57K instructors teaching 150K courses in over 65 languages. </li>
+			<li>190M course enrollments for students from 190+ countries and 2/3 of students outside U.S. </li>
+			<li>Udemy also has over 5,000 enterprise customers and 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Udemy.</li>
+			<li>Udemy's native Android app replaced Tinder as the most revenue-generating app in India in early 2020.</li>
+		</ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>Nasdaq IPO in October 2021 (as <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UDMY/">UDMY</a>)</li>
+    <li>Skills: Management · Team Leadership · Recruiting · Strategic Planning</li>
 </ul>
 
 <b><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hightail.com/">Hightail, Inc.</a></b>, Campbell and San Francisco, CA.<p>
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 transmission.</li>
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 <p>I also have experience with QA processes and automation, continuous integration, project planning, and several source code control systems.</p>
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