Tom Raab
About
Tom Raab is from New York, New York, United States. Tom works in the following industries: "Entertainment". In Tom's previous role as a Director of Engineering at Even Financial, Tom worked in New York City Metropolitan Area until Jul 2021. Prior to joining Even Financial, Tom was a Director of Web Development at Viacom and held the position of Director of Web Development at Greater New York City Area. Prior to that, Tom was a Senior Manager at MTV Networks, based in Greater New York City Area from Jun 2005 to May 2012. Tom started working as Senior UX|UI Developer at Workforce Logistics in Greater New York City Area in Jan 2002. From Jun 1995 to Oct 2001, Tom was Product Design and Engineering at NavySeals.com, based in Coronado California.
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Tom Raab's past jobs
Oversaw the company’s B2B client facing Tools Team and dedicated Manual/Automation QA Team. Building SaaS Products and user experiences utilizing Even’s core API infrastructure. Managing IC’s and projects utilizing Scaled Agile Scrum processes. Working with team members and executives to define KPIs, OKRs, and team goals and responsibilities. Working with security professionals to maintain SOC II compliance and maintain a high level of security and stability within our stack. As director I focus on team cohesion across departments and functions. I help build ICs abilities through mentoring and career pathing.
As Director I lead three migrations to consolidate Viacom's technology stacks. (DynamoJAVA to GrailsJAVA, Grails to PHP, and PHP to Node.js) Consolidated systems and aligned teams to deliver a single, dynamic application. capable of responding to any request for any Viacom property worldwide. With our final migration to a single Node application we achieved full multi-tenancy with region, language, and branding support. Introduced a Design Language System to eliminate the occurrences of bespoke branding code within the platform, ensuring consistent and reproducible brand expression and vastly improving the user and developer experience.
Site delivery via ATG Dynamo web framework. Tech Lead for Shows (1.0) Platform Team. Architected and maintained a repository of code that served as our content API and template configuration layer. Java based system written to return XML with page templating in XSLT. Modular platform framework for template configuration and content delivery based on Series objects.
Front end design and development for a web based workforce scheduling application service. The UI was developed as a javascript library of code that allowed views to be delivered to the client via a ReSTful API. Supported a visual representation of schedule data, including editable (drag/drop) calendars and lists. Required to function on every major browser of the day, including Netscape Navigator for linux utilizing W3C compliant DHTML. Java J2EE backend with a JSP(like) front end utilizing SafireWeb.
A recruitment and educational content system. Full stack development utilizing SMX and a custom CMS. Focused on Community,Training, and Military Service. Designed and built custom community and content management systems, plus e-commerce transaction and fulfillment.