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Product Management

14 years product management experience developing e-commerce, e-learning, social networking, and financial services web and email applications with cross-functional teams. Projects include search and search matching algorithms, responsive design conversion, and delivery of financial alerts and reports.

Tech Policy

Founding director of Washington D.C. based technology policy office which dealt with national telecommunication and technology policy issues including universal access (e-rate), digital copyright, free speech and filtering on the Internet, media consolidation, and technology funding.

Libraries

7+ years experience on a variety of university digital library projects including providing planning support for digital library journals, implementing and managing various online catalog and public access database systems and developing prototype digital reference tools.

Lectures

Adjunct lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Information Studies, teaching content management systems and systems analysis and design. National and regional conference speaker on digital access and other information and telecommunications policy issues.

Skills & Education

Skills: Agile Certified Scrum Master. Analytics: Google Analytics, SQL, Omniture. Web Development: WordPress, working knowledge of HTML/XHTML, CSS. Project Management: Jira, Confluence, MS Project. Office Apps: Microsoft Office, Google Apps. Education: MBA, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley; MLS, University of California, Los Angeles.

Interests

Improvisational acting (or just “improv” for short) – including games and the improvisation of short or long scenes (usually, but not always, comic) with a group of fellow improvisors. And hiking, particularly in the nearby Santa Monica Mountains and its environs.

J. Andrew Magpantay

Product Management, Technology Policy, Libraries & More…