Tom Baker

Experience

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  Red Sky Interactive

  Apr 1995 - Oct 1995

  Mutimedia Developer

  * Multimedia Authoring with Macromedia Director and Shockwave * Web Site Development

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  Intuit Inc.

  Oct 1995 - Jun 2005

  * Project Managed enterprise system hardware and software upgrades* Concurrently managed multiple project teams of 4-8 direct contributors* Managed project hardware/software budgets up to $500k* Projects Delivered: - Web site redesigns for www.intuit.com and www.turbotax.com - Annual scaling of www.turbotax.com for Tax season traffic - TeamSite/OpenDeploy upgraded from 5.0 to 5.5 - TeamSite/Siebel integration streamlined web knowledge-base creation Show less * Managed large team of 22 people; Including Project Managers, Developers/Engineers, and QA * Controlled a $1.3 Million budget for staff and hardware; Saved $100k with optimized hardware * Led Reorganization to split Project Management, Development, and QA * Projects Delivered: - Intuit.com, turbotax.com and Intranet site redesigns and Fulcrum search - Internet and Intranet Web servers migrated from Netscape to Apache - Implemented TeamSite as enterprise system; Shared by 150+ Intuit Internet/Intranet Web sites - Upgraded TeamSite from 4.5 to 5.0; "Self-Service" content updates - Internet and Intranet Business Continuity Plans (disaster recovery) Show less * Prioritized production work requests; Assigned production team resources * Requirements gathering, documentation, technical design, and development * Developed Web Applications and enterprise system integrations using Perl and ColdFusion * Projects Delivered: - Created CMS requirements, evaluated vendors, and selected Interwoven TeamSite/OpenDeploy - Led Y2K Remediation; Web servers migrated to Sun hardware - Implemented Job Search and other Web Applications; InQuery Search Show less (Contract Employee from October 1995 - August 1996)* Delivered corporate Web sites; HTML, JavaScript, and Server Side Includes * Managed Web content and code using command-line Unix RCS and FTP * Created Web Development training for internal business units * Educated senior management on privacy implications of "Web Bugs" * Projects Delivered: - Initial launch of intuit.com and qfn.com (Quicken portal) Web sites - Provided requirements and technical feedback for in-house CMS Show less

  • Technical Project Manager

    Nov 2003 - Jun 2005

  • Web Engineering Manager

    Apr 2003 - Jun 2005

  • Web Development Manager

    Aug 2000 - Apr 2003

  • Web Production Lead

    Aug 1998 - Aug 2000

  • Web Production Specialist

    Oct 1995 - Aug 1998
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  Robert Half Technology

  Aug 2005 - Jun 2006

  Contract Project Manager & Web Developer

  Carat Advertising – Contract Project Manager and Web Developer (Carat.com) * Project Managed requirements gathering, scoping, and budgeting for winstarcasinos.com redesign * Developed PHP/XML content management for flash-based sites: winstarcasinos.com & xmodsrc.com Gumas Advertising – Contract Web Developer (Gumas.com) * Web development for various client web sites and advertising campaigns

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  Charles Schwab

  Jul 2006 - Nov 2007

  Technical Project Manager (contract)

  Contract Technical Project Manager in for the Intranet team. Managing various projects using Rational Unified Process (RUP) with both on-shore and off-shore resources.* 11/2006: Delivered Interwoven LiveSite 2.1 Implementation* 6/2007: Migrated Intranet from Solaris/SunOne to Linux/Apache* 10/2006: Started WebTrends upgrade to v8 Windows from v6 Solaris* 1/2007: Moving TeamSite 6.5 Solaris to 6.7.1 LinuxNote: Schwab has an 18 month limit for contractors, and they were unable to offer me a staff position. Show less

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  ThoughtMatrix

  Dec 2007 - Jul 2012

  Technical Project Manager

  Technical Project Manager/Content Management Architect* Insperity Inc (Administaff)CMS Training Documentation Development - Documented "as developed" FatWire CMS classroom training and "leave behind" documentation.* Johnson & Johnson - Children with DiabetesContent Migration Manager - Used Kapow software and some custom/manual processes to migrate 3,700 pages from "lovingly hand-coded" HTML site dating back to 1996 into the open-source Drupal CMS. Required extensive content analysis, content-type mapping, database schema architecture and Kapow "robot" script development.* Equinix IncTechnical Project Manager - FatWire CMS Design, Development and Launch implementation. Coordination with Marketing, IT and global data centers to implement clustered CMS Delivery systems in Sunnyvale, Chicago, London and Singapore.* Apple IncTechnical Project Manager - FatWire CMS Prep Site audit for Apple.com and the AppleCare (Support) sites. BRD "Findings", Site Audit "Patterns" and 3-Phase Project Roadmap development.* Copart IncProject Management for visual design deliverable process to enable technical development.* Palm Inc (Hewlett-Packard)Technical lead for webOS Mojo Help app development, web content, and TeamSite CMS. Europe-based dynamic site migration to USA-based Teamsite 6.7.1/Apache.* Kerio Inc. (www.kerio.com)Technical Lead for Drupal template development leveraging CCK's, JQuery, and extensive CSS-driven front-end page design.* SilverlignContributed Technical Leadership for UI-design driven projects. Liaised between Silverlign and their clients for technical implementation.Other clients included:* Altera* Bank of the West* Becker* Insperity* LSI* Pacific Union* Palo Alto Networks* Polycom* SEMI - Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International Show less

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  ThoughtMatrix, a Rauxa company

  Jul 2012 - Jan 2014

  Manager QA Services

  Now that ThoughtMatrix has hit the right size, we are moving QA out of the Development team to become its own team. I continue to build and leading the QA Services team.QA clients have included:* AAA * Bank of the West* Becker* Bsquare* CytoSport Muscle Milk* Equinix* Farmers Insurance* General Electric Power Generation Systems* GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Panadol* Insperity* LSI* Netgear* Mekanism* Pacific Union International* Palo Alto Networks* Polycom* Salesforce* Sunrun (Solar)* Virgin America Credit Card* Verizon* VMG Partners Show less

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  Rauxa

  Jan 2014 - Aug 2014

  Now that ThoughtMatrix has made the transition to becoming Rauxa, I've also transitioned into a consulting role.I am a part-time contributor to content migration projects. This will include all the inventory, analysis and planning for how to extract content from the current site as well as the execution effort for loading into the new one.The first project in the hopper is a fun migration to a big Adobe AEM (CQ5) implementation. The site we'll be migrating from is built from a combination to Autonomy (Interwoven) TeamSite, SQL databases, Siebel feeds and classic old-school Perl CGI's.As JFK said: "We do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Show less

  • Web Content Migration Consultant

    Apr 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Manager QA Services

    Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
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  Hook 42

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2017

  Web Development Manager

  At Hook 42 I focused on Project Estimation, RFPs, Project Management, Process Optimization, QA Testing, Certified SCRUM, JIRA, Drupal, Pantheon, and Acquia.Key clients I worked with were SunPower, UCSF-CHI, UC Davis, Anki, Zicasso, and Reiki.org.

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  Myself

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Paternity Leave

  Our son was born in the Summer of 2016, and I took a leave of absence when my wife's maternity leave ended. I took 9 wonderful months for this paternity leave. It was a growth experience like no other "job" I had before.

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  Quicken Inc.

  Jun 2018 - May 2019

  Consulting Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master

  I was hired on at Quicken to drive a 3-month subscription technology project. That project was completed successfully and, afterwards, I was kept on for a year, working as a project manager, scrum master and marketing technical producer.This was a great experience. I started my career at Intuit (Quicken's creator), working there from 1995-2005. Quicken Inc. has been independent from Intuit for over three years now, and it was great to help them become more self-sufficient and process-driven. Show less

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  TommyWillB.com

  May 2019 - now

  Lease and tenant management Web Project Management for Smule.com, Harley Brookens Transportation, TaskRabbit, and Hook 42

  • Residential Property Manager

    Nov 2019 - now

  • Independent Consultant

    May 2019 - Dec 2020
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  2020 Census

  Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

  Census Enumerator
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  Spatial Path LLC

  Dec 2020 - now

  Consultant

  Web Content Management, QA Testing, WCAG Accessibility Compliance, 508 Trusted Tester

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  Student Transportation of America

  Mar 2022 - Jul 2022

  School Bus Driver

  Type 1 40’ transit bus with air-brakes. DMV class B with Passenger & Air Brake endorsements. CHP School Bus Certificate.

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  Castro Valley Unified School District

  Jul 2022 - now

  School Bus Driver

  Thomas Built & Bluebird Type 1 40’ transit buses with air-brakes. DMV class B with Passenger & Air Brake endorsements. CHP School Bus Certificate.