Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Northeastern University

Bentley University

Music, products, and programs

Performing original jazz songs and standards around the Washington, DC area (and other places). Hear my original music on my album "Making Up For Lost Time" https://losttime.hearnow.com

Buffalo Bridge Music

Jazz pianist and composer

QCatalyst

Senior Product Consultant

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)

Consultant

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) runs programs that empower journalists to use technology, data, and media to tell stories that inform and engage people. 
- Developed successful proposals for global journalism development programs, resulting in over $2 million in program funding
- Managed a 15-month program in Moldova: creating and supporting a network of journalists working to counter disinformation and develop collaboration and investigative skills
- Organized and moderated panel discussions at international conferences
- Prototyped systems for collecting and analyzing program impact data
- Managed the redesign of the ICFJ website

Director Of Innovation

* Established and managed agile development processes for 20-person platform engineering organization: aligned sprint schedules, planning meetings, stakeholder reviews 
* Defined and executed the project plan for delivering the first developer offering for SocialCode

SocialCode

Senior Program Manager

Trove (http://www.trove.com) developed web and mobile applications that encouraged engaged readers to build communities around news.

Trove News

Senior Product Manager

●	Led a team of product managers responsible for PBS LearningMedia, an on-demand streaming media service for K-12 educators. Define product strategy and development priorities in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, based on business goals and analysis of analytics data. Drive agile processes to ensure on-time delivery of new features. Product serves over 900k registered users and attracts 2M+ page views per month.
●	Led the effort to rebuild the PBS LearningMedia platform, replacing an earlier version. Project included a new custom CMS, digital media management platform, and responsive web site. Launched the rebuilt service on time in January 2013 after a ten month development process. The new site attracts nearly 5 times the traffic of the old site
●	Led the development of a suite of tools that enable teachers to create and assign interactive lessons and activities using educational media. Project is funded by a multi-million dollar, three-year grant from the Anne Ray Charitable Trust

Public Broadcasting Service

Director, Technical Product Management

Mobile Monday DC (DC MoMo) is an open forum for mobile professionals and enthusiasts in the Washington, DC area. DC MoMo fosters networking and information sharing through face-to-face gatherings, the MoMo web site and social networking.

As a member of the board, I organize events, identifying topics to discuss, and finding speakers, sponsors, and venues to make those events happen. I also prepared a sponsor deck that we will use to attract new sponsors to our organization.

I moderated a panel on mobile games at Apps World North America in November (http://www.apps-world.net/northamerica/), and "co-instigated" the WIP Jam (http://www.wipconnector.com/wipjam/entry/wipjam_appsworld_na) at that event.

Mobile Monday Washington DC

Board of Directors

●	Led global cross-functional program team that delivered a new web application development platform for mass-market mobile phones, exceeding program targets
●	Developed go-to-market program model that aligned engineering, marketing, and partnering activities, improving market impact of new developer platforms
●	Completed alpha and beta pilot programs involving agile software team and external partners in four countries, resulting in quality applications for platform launch
●	Defined developer platform requirements for low cost smartphone aimed at emerging markets, based on market and competitive analysis and input from local experts
●	Collaborated with strategy and product teams, defining browser and HTML5 strategic vision that supported reuse of web content across multiple platforms and device classes

Nokia

Head of Web Developer Portfolio

●	Led a team of two marketing managers, promoting smartphone developer solutions to mobile carriers through print material, customer meetings, and public presentations. 
●	Defined key messages and positioning for web developer offering for smartphones, resolving conflicts among product teams to reach consensus and common vision
●	Evangelized platform strategy and developer solutions through frequent speaking engagements and demonstrations at major industry events
●	Increased awareness of developer solutions through prototypes, demos, and social media channels, establishing best practices that were adopted by other groups

Senior Technology Marketing Manager, Web Developer Offering

●	Defined future direction and technical requirements for music services (radio, streaming audio) and music app development on smartphone platforms
●	Increased awareness of developer solutions through application prototypes, demos, and social media channels, establishing best practices that were adopted by other groups

Product Manager, S60 Multimedia

●	Negotiated terms and drafted text for industry standards in international standards body (Open Mobile Alliance), driving decisions that reflected company strategy
●	Designed and implemented software components for mobile phone Web browser

Technology Architect, Principal Software Engineer

WordStream attempted to create an efficient solution for on-demand automatic translation of text, from any language to any other language(s). 
The concept was based on two key ideas:
1. Controlled language: translating natural language is hard, but translating a defined subset of a language is manageable. The trick is to define the subset and create tools to gather input according to the rules.
2. Interlingua: The WordStream system translated any input into an interlingua, a language-neutral data structure. This can then be converted into any output language.

●	Built software development team in start-up creating solutions for accurate automated text translation
●	Led design and implementation of software for core translation engine and web-based user interface for editing language databases
●	Demonstrated software during 2000 Summer Olympics by automatically translating English news alerts into five languages simultaneously

WordStream, Inc.

Director of Software Architecture

Designed and programmed scripting langauge for creating virtual environments. Created prototype virtual environment playspace for children: building, painting, and navigation in a 3D world. Created and shipped 3D virtual environment trainer for SpaceOrb 360 controller.

Spacetec IMC Corp

Senior Software Engineer

Developed interactive 3D archaeological environments, including first-person navigation and location-based multimedia content. Designed and programmed interactive museum exhibits for The Computer Museum, Boston, MA. Created augmented reality demonstration for VR World exhibition in Boston, MA, Nov. 1995. Called "one of the most impressive VR application demos shown" by CyberEdge Journal.

Oren Levine