Daniel Rodriguez Profile - Admit.me

Daniel Rodriguez

Alum New York, NY, United States

My Target Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Grad

Interested / Applying

Full-time

Stanford University - Grad

Interested / Applying

Full-time

Carnegie Mellon University - Grad

Interested / Applying

Full-time

My Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - College Bachelor	Cambridge, MA, United States 9/1996 - 9/2015

My Experience

Admit.me VP of Technology	New York, NY, United States 5/2014 - now

My first responsibility is the strategy and design of technology used to create the admit.me platform. I do this by understanding the needs of our business, contributing to strategy, assessing risk and opportunity costs, creating a design for our product and then implementing that design using incremental improvements. My second responsibility is actual product development and keeping the trains running on time by organizing and syncing requirements, managing our designer and team of offshore developers, and prioritizing weekly tasks.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Front-end Developer	Los Angeles, CA, United States 9/2010 - 5/2014

Worked in the Digital Media Group on Enterprise Asset Global Library (EAGL). Front-end development for new features for EAGL, session server installation, and bug fixes with ASP.NET, jQuery, HTML, CSS tools.

My Other Activities

All Star Code Guest Speaker and Mentor	6/2014 - now

All Star Code is a non-profit initiative that prepares qualified young men of color for full-time employment in the technology industry by providing mentorship, industry exposure, and intensive training in computer science. I served as a guest speaker over the summer, mentored an in house hack-a-thon and gave insights into the college admissions process.

Street Sports Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Instructor	Los Angeles, CA, United States 1/2004 - 4/2014

Black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instructing on its principles of self defense.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.	3/1997 - 12/2000

First of all service to all, we shall transcend all.

Interests & Passions

grappling

skydiving

base jumping

sailing

What I Do Well

Listen

Top Places

Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

Kjerag, Norway

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Languages

Spanish (Advanced)

Portuguese (Native)

Target Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Grad Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Grad
Stanford University - Grad Stanford University - Grad
Carnegie Mellon University - Grad Carnegie Mellon University - Grad

Desired Locations

New York, NY, United States
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Kiev, Kyiv city, Ukraine
Washington, DC, United States
Atlanta, GA, United States

Target Industries

Education & Training Services
Computer Software
Health Care Products Manufacturing