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Daniel Rodriguez

Alum New York, NY, United States

My Target Schools

Stanford University - MS/PHD

Applying

Full-time

My Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - BS/BA

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)
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Target Schools

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