ari schindler

* Scouted locations. * Negotiated purchase of existing business. * Assembled investment package. * Brought on investors. * Acquired necessary permits and licenses. * Designs interior. * Supervises contractors and work crews. * Curates liquor selection and cocktail menu. * Develops and tests custom infusion recipes. * Still very much a work in progress, and labor of love.

* Arranges permits for events ranging from private parties to ten thousand person outdoor festivals. * Curates liquor selection and cocktail menu. * Develops and tests custom infusion recipes. * Designs portable furniture, signage, and other infrastructure for events.

Manages community of 400 citizens and 20 functional groups, modeled after a small city, providing bars, music venues, fine dining restaurants, a bakery, a bathhouse, and other attractions, operating at a commercial level for over a week, in a desolate desert lakebed, under extreme conditions, at the Burning Man festival. Supervises the annual creation of this community, from initial vision, to recruiting and fundraising, to purchasing and logistics of basic infrastructure and heavy equipment, to transport, assembly, operation, disassembly, and final cleanup, leaving not a trace that any of it ever existed.

* Worked in tandem with Business Development closing deals with mobile carriers such as Vodafone. * Designed visual representations of proprietary technology to secure multiple rounds of investment. * Designed sales materials to accelerate closure of deals with content partners and mobile carriers. * Developed platform for intelligent automatic scheduling of content in online stores.

* Developed team and procedures for launching hundreds of mobile sites. * Created systems for handling different design and content standards for dozens of mobile carriers. * Managed hundreds of mobile storefronts across dozens of countries and countless handsets. * Developed systems for analyzing site design and customer purchasing behavior. * Put infrastructure in place for monitoring uptime and quality of service. * Documented intellectual property for patent filings.

* Worked with the rest of Senior Management to successfully pivot from a B2C focus to a B2B focus. * Worked in tandem with Business Development to form partnerships with Vignette, BroadVision, and other leading content management firms of the time. * Documented intellectual property for patent filings.

* Managed development of personal publishing and social media platform predating Facebook. * Increased adoption to millions of users through organic growth. * Helped grow the company from its desk in Idealab to an independent enterprise. * Worked in tandem with Business Development to form partnerships with Fox, AOL, ICQ, BET, Discovery Channel, AltaVista, Pioneer, and other leading brands of the time.

* Managed development of massively multiplayer world predating Ultima Online. * Managed development of products based on Diablo and Unreal engines. * Managed development of multiplayer infrastructure shared across company products. * Devised algorithms for automatic generation of stories, puzzles, worlds. * Designed multiplayer games to teach analytical and creative thinking skills.

* Lead software engineering for flagship projects of the Film Group and Game Group. * Designed and implemented architecture for rapid prototyping and deployment of multimedia products. * Designed and implemented automatic software testing system. * Designed and implemented combined task and bug tracking system.