Sean Hull

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Bio

Sean Hull is founder of Heavyweight Internet Group, author, speaker, and advisor with twenty years independent consulting experience. Specializing in scalability of high traffic web applications, at notable firms such as Hollywood Reporter, NBC/iVillage, Zagat, Rent The Runway & ideeli.

  • Author of "Oracle and Open Source" - O'Reilly, April 2001
  • Published in DatabaseJournal.com, Oracle Technology Network, NY Oracle User Group, International Oracle User Group SELECT, EFY India and DBA Zine
  • Fourteen years experience as an independent consultant in all aspects of Database and Unix Systems Administration
  • Experience with small startups, and fortune 500 companies
  • Diverse technology background, and exposure
  • Very strong writing, and client-facing people skills
  • Experience running small business (accounting, sales, marketing, hiring, management, strategic decision making, managing budget, contract negotiation, project scoping etc)
  • Experience working with ad-hoc teams
  • Experience working with geographically distributed teams using skype, email, conferencing, instant messaging, wikis, ticketing systems, software repositories, and web project tracking tools