Rob Volk

Route Scout is a social travel platform that helps you collect travel tips from people you know and trust. With Route Scout, your friends help you build your trip, so you don't have to rely on the recommendations of strangers.

- Co-founded this startup to address people’s needs to more easily plan a trip
- Still in private beta, we are collecting customer feedback and working with bloggers for launch
- Designed to scale and built on ASP.NET MVC4, Amazon DynamoDB, jQuery, and… Show more

Route Scout is a social travel platform that helps you collect travel tips from people you know and trust. With Route Scout, your friends help you build your trip, so you don't have to rely on the recommendations of strangers.

- Co-founded this startup to address people’s needs to more easily plan a trip
- Still in private beta, we are collecting customer feedback and working with bloggers for launch
- Designed to scale and built on ASP.NET MVC4, Amazon DynamoDB, jQuery, and Bootstrap
- Integrates with Facebook, Foursquare, and Google Maps API’s
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News reader where you could follow topics on Twitter with hashtags or keywords. I started Feed Me Daily to create a better news reader and as a way to learn new technologies such as hosting in a scalable cloud environment. After taking on role as CTO for Beyond Diet, I decided to end the project.

- Developed on ASP.NET with a NoSQL db and hosted on Windows Azue, it was built to scale
- Processed 25M+ tweets in near real-time per day from Twitter’s Firehose using a queue system and… Show more

News reader where you could follow topics on Twitter with hashtags or keywords. I started Feed Me Daily to create a better news reader and as a way to learn new technologies such as hosting in a scalable cloud environment. After taking on role as CTO for Beyond Diet, I decided to end the project.

- Developed on ASP.NET with a NoSQL db and hosted on Windows Azue, it was built to scale
- Processed 25M+ tweets in near real-time per day from Twitter’s Firehose using a queue system and multiple instances of a data processing app
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- Led and formed software development team of six to build all of the technology for Live Smart
- Built flagship interactive community site Beyond Diet (beyonddiet.com) with team to support 300k customers in the US and Germany
- Joined Beyond Diet as third founder and helped grow company from startup to 25 employees in two locations
- Designed fault-tolerant cloud server farm to handle 10M unique users in peak month and over 500TB transferred using 10-20 virtual servers
- Designed… Show more

- Led and formed software development team of six to build all of the technology for Live Smart
- Built flagship interactive community site Beyond Diet (beyonddiet.com) with team to support 300k customers in the US and Germany
- Joined Beyond Diet as third founder and helped grow company from startup to 25 employees in two locations
- Designed fault-tolerant cloud server farm to handle 10M unique users in peak month and over 500TB transferred using 10-20 virtual servers
- Designed and built payment platform (processed $750k in sales), realtime analytics (processing millions of hits per day), affiliate tracking & reporting systems with team
- Implemented agile project methodology to deliver fast and iterative project results to business
- Worked with business on te
- Implemented Git stable master branch strategy to facilitate immediate and long-term development priorities
- Designed semi-automated deployment process from build server with rollback capabilities
- Implemented unit testing and functional testing with Watir to improve software stability and confidence in new releases
- Worked with designers to ensure clean user experience on all projects
- Created and managed Facebook fanpage and ad campaign leading to 50k likes
- Worked with SEO firm to build organic traffic to Beyond Diet Show less

Built Pfizer's internal news portal, PfizerWorld with 12-person on/offshore team, delivering company and industry news to over 100k employees worldwide.

- Delivered PfizerWorld on an extremely tight schedule as a heavily customized MS SharePoint 2007 web application.
- Worked with the business directors on feature prioritization and project schedule

Led 4-person team to build a document repository system for SOX compliance on MS SharePoint 2007. Designed deployment process and successfully deployed releases in USPS’ locked-down and heavily process-oriented environment.

Developed a case management tool used by a large team of investigative, financial analysts to uncover suspicious transactions, such as money laundering activity.

- Developed the Case Management tool with 6-person team as a C# Windows application
- Delivered the tool and processed a 20m+ bank transactions from a bank in Hong Kong and uncovered thousands of suspicious transactions in the pilot launch

Developed Morgan Stanley's financial advisor platform. Web application built on ASP.NET with SQL Server backend.