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Roland Tanglao's resume

Posted Wed, 2006-11-01 00:00 by Roland

Summary:
- Blog, RSS, social media, social software, mobile online expression and Drupal subject matter expert and evangelist. Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills combined with a passion for computers and online expression through social software like blogs, podcasting, moblogging (leading user of ShoZu for mobile photo and video blogging), photoblogging (27,000 photos on flickr), videoblogging, wikis, and RSS. Extensive and varied technical knowledge and experience.
Roles
- Blogger: 7 years
- Podcasting - since November 2004
- Videoblogging since 2005
- Developer Support Manager 2 years
- Software Development Team Leader - 2 years
- Software Developer - 14 years
- Web Developer: 5 years
Technical Skills
- Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Social Software - 7 years
- Drupal - 2.5 years
- C++ - 10 years
- Perl - 3 years
Awards, Talks, Papers and Media Appearances
- CityTV on mobile devices and smart phones (July 2006) - http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2006/07/07/smartphone-interview-on...
- HTCE - What citizen journalism means to corporate Communication (May 2006) - http://www.bryght.com/blog/kk/what-citizen-journalism-means-to-corporate...
- Everything Casting at Vidfest 2006 (June 2006) - http://bryght.com/blog/roland-tanglao/everythingcasting-tomorrow-at-vidf...
- VFS DIY Podcasting - January 2006 - http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2006/01/26/vfs-diy-podcasting-and-...
- Blogs n Dogs Faculty Member - December 4-8, 2005
  - http://www.blogsndogs.com/
- Building 21st Century Websites with Blogs with Darren Barefoot presentation to New Media BC November 19, 2004
  - http://www.bryght.com/blog/roland-tanglao/building-21st-century-websites-with-weblogs-and-rss-with-darren-barefoot
- Blogging for Dollars March 2005 - Presentation to IIMA
  - http://www.bryght.com/blogging-for-dollars-iima-presentation-09mar2005
- L'Express du Pacific August 22-28, 2005, La blogosphère Britanno-Colombienne est branché
  - http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/2423
- San Jose Mercury Times, Sunday August 7th, 2005, Brave New Web
  - http://bryght.com/blog/roland-tanglao/brave-new-web-2-0-is-about-expression-and-remixing - references my flickr account with over 15000 photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland
- Northern Voice Blogging Conference Co-founder and Organizer
  - http://www.northernvoice.ca
- Always On Technorati Top 100 - June 2005
  - http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=10852_0_5_0_C
- Feedster Top 500 August 2005
  - http://top500.feedster.com/
- Paper at XML Conference 2005 - Remixing applications with RSS
- How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces
  - http://www.streamlinewebco.com/blog/_archives/2004/3/23/28903.html
- 1st and Best Canadian Food Blog - VanEats.com started in June 2000
- 1st Canadian Blog Consultant and Professional Blogger 2001-2004
- PR is Dead Global PR Blog Week 1.0 August 2004
  - http://www.globalprblogweek.com/archives/pr_is_dead.php
- Web 2.0 Definition
  - http://www.bryght.com/node/204
Languages: German and some French
Education: B.A.Sc. Systems Design Engineering (Computer Engineering Option), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1988
Professional Experience
- Chief Blogging Officer Bryght (June 2004-present)
  - Co-founder of Bryght
  - Lead Bryght's Internet Marketing efforts via blogging, podcasting, etc.
  - Bryght Community Recipes head cook
    - e.g. Web 2.0 Brochure Site - http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/how-to/dynamic-web20-brochure-site-...
    - Create your own Citizen Journalism Site - http://support.bryght.com/articles/personal-urban-vancouver-hyper-local-...
  - Support backup and process lead
- Blogging and RSS Consultant (2001-June 2004)
  - Co-founded UrbanVancouver.com, Canada's first citizen journalism site, and Vancouver's premier community blog
  - Bootstrapped a blogging and RSS culture in E-xact (designed, implemented and updated daily E-xact's developer blog, the first developer blog in Canada) and sister companies
  - Blog strategy and policy consulting, Training, configuration and support
- E-Commerce Developer (2001-2004)
  - Designed and implemented Version 6 and 7 (including Verified by Visa) of an e-commerce SDK in Perl for E-xact.
  - Prototyped an open source XML peer to peer e-commerce application in PHP called Xpertweb
  - Designed and implemented Blog Payment, a e-commerce affinity billing application
- Nortel Networks (1988-2001)
  - Developer Support Manager for 3 SDKs, 2 in C++ and 1 in Java (2000-2001)
    - Created the first internal Nortel blogs which decreased the number of support calls by disseminating urgent material quickly to our customers world wide via the Nortel intranet
    - Consulted to other emergent developer support groups
    - Subject Matter Expert for developer support and complex SDK related problems
    - Initiated, developed and implemented uniform developer support model and processes across entire Nortel network management team
    - Designed and developed a support metrics tracking system using XSLT, XML and Perl which allowed us to see who our customers were, monitor support volume and improve processes
  - Senior SDK software developer (1998-2000)
    - Designed and co-authored a Framework SDK in C++ for device adapters
    - Taught 2 day SDK course to developers and received excellent evaluations
  - Software Developer, Nortel DASA, Friedrichshafen, Germany (1995-1998)
    - Member of a multiple award winning rapid development team that developed table-stakes DMS digital switching features for the German market:QSIG, Advice of Charge and overlap inpulsing
    - Designed a Unix C++ line/loop test manager for an access product for Eastern Germany. Mentored and trained German colleagues on Nortel's access and network management architecture and software
  - OAM Applications Team Leader, London, UK (1994-1995)
    - Led, mentored and trained a 6 person team which developed and delivered on time a suite of event, alarm and software download management applications in C and C++ on two Unix platforms for a fiber access system using Passive Optical Network technology
  - Software Engineer, London, UK (1992-1994)
    - Championed embedded Unix Operations Control [OPC] for management of access and transport systems to UK colleagues in an effort to merge the UK and North American network management system software and reduce duplication and support costs
    - Modified OPC software to work with both UK and North American optical transport systems
    - Improved the speed of network management applications by 25% using Unix sockets
  - OPC Field Support, Ottawa (1991-1992)
    - Reduced the number and minimized the impact of customer problems and complaints by providing onsite OPC support to both customers and Nortel Field enginers for release 3 of Nortel's OC-48 optical transport system
    - Minimized the time to resolve field issues by clearly documenting the problems and working with engineering to solve them. Earned the highest possible performance rating for this work
  - OPC Software Engineer, Ottawa (1989-1991)
    - Designed and implemented a system critical backup and restore protocol using ACSE and ROSE and a GUI in C on the OPC for Nortel's access and optical transport system databases
  - DMS Customer Service Design Engineer (1988-1989)
    - Designed and implemented software which reduced the upgrade time of Nortel's DMS switch by 20%; tracked, solved and patched field problems

Comments

small business

by charlesbrooks (not verified) - 2010-02-08 20:59

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Often we forget the little guy, the SMB, in our discussions of the comings and goings of the Internet marketing industry. Sure there are times like this when a report surfaces talking about their issues and concerns but, for the most part, we like to talk about big brands and how they do the Internet marketing thing well or not so well.

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Web 2.0 Architect

by Pierrette Pigeon (not verified) - 2008-08-05 09:33

Hello we have an opportuntiy here in Ottawa are you available for work

hi thanks for that but can't relocate to Ottawa

by Roland - 2008-08-11 10:04

thanks!

Your web site and Drupal experience

by Gilda Meyer (not verified) - 2008-07-25 09:36

Hi Roland! I saw your profile on the web and am interested in knowing whether you would be available for a contract in Mississauga requiring senior Drupal Development expertise.This is a special project that must come up to speed very quickly and therefore requires expertise in Drupal. Min. requirements:- several years Drupal- PHP- IPsec network topology- OSX- ability to create business tools. Look forward to hearing from you. Cheers,

Thanks for the offer Gilda

by Roland - 2008-08-11 10:05

but I can't relocate to Mississauga at this time

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