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Dana Woodman

CEO at Teleporter

Serial entrepreneur, software developer, UX designer, maker and community builder.

Founder of Chimera Arts & Maker Space, the first community-powered space for artists, makers, hackers and inventors in the North Bay.

Lover of the outdoors, travel, technology and art.

Sonoma County front-end development ruby on rails UX Design software architecture Teleporter

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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