Dana Woodman
CEO at Teleporter
Timeline
CEO
Teleporter, Santa Rosa, California
Lead architect and strategist, specializing in Ruby on Rails, front-end development and UX design.
Teleporter is a software consulting and innovation studio in the North Bay.
Developing projects with agile and lean processes and methodologies, practitioners of pair programming and TDD/BDD.
July 2012 - Present
Product Manager
Giveplace, Santa Rosa, California
Craigslist for nonprofits.
An early stage startup attempting to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money by leveraging their members used electronics, furniture, jewelry and other goods to . With each sale, a percentage of the profits would be sent directly to a nonprofit of the seller of buyer's choice.
I was in charge of taking an existing codebase written in Django and evolved it to meet changing business needs. Lead product development and UX design. In charge of managing a small local and remote team of engineers.
October 2011 - June 2012
Lead Engineer
OasisCMS / GoLocal, Santa Rosa, California
Content management system for alt-weekly newspapers and magazines.
Started as the lead front-end engineer and designer. Eventually moved to lead engineer and eventually product manager. Took a buggy and incomplete codebase written in Django and developed out essential business components including a business directory with geolocation features, an events management application, content publishing and more.
Developed multiple business tools to streamline the publishing and management processes.
May 2007 - February 2010