hire@darianhickman.org | Sierra Madre, CA 91024 | http://www.linkedin.com/in/darianhickman
Summary
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Entrepreneurial professional with 7 years experience in project management and web development.
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Excellent communicator: proficient in writing, public speaking, and training.
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Excellent analytical ability for creatively, strategically producing solutions.
Work Experience
Programmer, Project Manager, Numedeon Inc. (www.numedeon.com), May 2008 – Nov 2008
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Led teams of 2-5 members to produce $68,000 worth of sponsored content inside www.whyville.net.
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Managed 5 banner ad campaigns on Whyville that brought in $20,000 of supplemental revenue.
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Managed weekly focus groups and surveys to determine the highest ROI upgrades to Whyville.
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Managed 3-man team to build production estimates and price points for the 7 best in-world product placement campaigns and produced an ad kit to simplify the sale of these campaigns.
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Conducted competitive analysis to determine best features to improve monthly uniques and revenue per user.
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Programmed 2 chat rooms in proprietary language built on Mysql-Java Servlets-Apache-Velocity stack.
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Programmed Perl script to anonymize chat logs before delivering to customers.
Founder, Village the Game (www.villagethegame.com), May 2006 - Present
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Recruited, managed 3-man team and built a prototype of a realtime strategy version of Village the Game.
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Scripted additional online board game prototype of Village in Javascript, CSS, and HTML.
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Interviewed 7 social entrepreneurs on location in Kenya and India to learn how best to model their organizations inside Village the Game.
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Attended forums, gave presentations, and made over 200 contacts with business school, computer science students and alumni engaged in social ventures at Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, CMU, and USC.
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Gave 5 interviews and received press from SF Chronicle, WorldChanging.com, NextBillion.net and many blogs and podcasts building a fan base for Village the Game (500+ members on launch alert mailing list and 2,000 pre-launch monthly uniques with $0 spent on advertising).
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Continuing to work on prototype development, recruiting investors, marketing partners, and advisors.
Software Engineer, Technology Management Associates, Jun 2004 – Apr 2005
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Built Java apps and PLSQL packages to transform and filter data from xml files, csv files, deprecated oracle records and load them into new oracle records.
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Upgraded and maintained JSP based webapps to display timeline and geospatial data delivered by Microstrategy Intelligence Server.
Software Engineer, Object Sciences Corporation, Sep 2003 – Jun 2004
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Evaluated and deployed the best jabber instant messaging platforms for communication amongst Object Sciences employees and Object Sciences customers.
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Deployed VMWare ESX server to prep software demonstrations for South Korean/US joint Army forces.
Software Engineer, ITT Industries, Advanced Engineering and Sciences, Jan 2002 – Sep 2003
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Developed multithreaded Java applications to interface with various hardware components via Telnet, SNMP APIs and coded Perl scripts to test Java applications.
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Trained teammates in Java, Perl, and Redhat Linux Server Administration.
Education: B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, May 2001.
Additional Information
Volunteer Experience
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Trained youth groups from 18 churches how to do overseas missions with YWAM.org. May 2005- Jan 2006.
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Led 3-man team to build a customized PC for a blind friend with motion disabilities. Nov 2002 – May 2005.
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Performed on CrossCurrent Ministries Drama Team. Aug 2004 – Feb 2005.
Military Experience
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Completed Boot Camp and School of Infantry for US Marine Corps Reserves. Feb 2003 - Jul 2003.
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Continued training as Rifleman in 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion USMCR. Jul 2003 – Jun 2005.
Interests
Acting, entrepreneurship in developing nations, investing, soccer, volleyball, surfing, kayaking, frisbee.
Vincent Nwana,from Cameroon, Northwest Province is one of my classmates here in Thailand. Just to get the visa he had to travel to a neighboring country that had an embassy, push a car 2km when it broke down and deal with corrupt border guards . As I've learned getting an African citizen into Chiang Mai is nothing short of a miracle.
