Scott Jangro’s Resume

Overview

Scott Jangro is a software engineer and online marketer. Scott started out in customer support, managing technical support departments at Dragon Systems and Open Market, Inc. Joining Be Free in 1999, he was involved closely with the development of the BFAST platform and the formation of the affiliate marketing industry.

In 2004, Scott co-founded MechMedia, a performance marketing and website publishing company, which has grown to become a profitable, five person firm and a top-performing publisher.

Scott is well-known as an expert and active member of the affiliate marketing community, is a frequent speaker at industry events, and has been recognized with a number of awards for his work on an affiliate industry blog. He serves on the advisory boards for Google and Commission Junction affiliate networks, Affiliate Summit, and the Performance Marketing Alliance.

Work Experience

MechMedia, Inc.

Stow, MA 2004-Present
President and Co-founder

  • Mechmedia is a website publisher and performance marketing firm specializing in niche retail community shopping sites.
  • Develop and operate Costumzee.com, one of the most popular halloween costume websites, reaching the Comscore top sites report in October 2008 with over 2.1 million visitors.
  • Develop and operate ShoeHunting.com is the “Facebook for Shoes”, where shoe lovers can share their favorites and find the newest and greatest deals in shoe fashion.

Be Free / Commission Junction / ValueClick

Marlborough, MA 1999-2004
Product Management

  • Performed many product marketing roles, including Director of Product Management for the BFAST affiliate software platform, Be Free’s flagship product.
  • Spearheaded internal efforts for monitoring and uncovering affiliates using technology and other illegitimate means for gaining commissions.
  • Served as public voice of Be Free on industry message boards.
  • Worked on the integration team formed to determine strategy and process for the integration of the Be Free and Commission junction technologies.

Open Market, Inc.

Burlington, MA – 1996-2009
Technical Support Manager

  • Managed the team responsible for 24×7 support for some of the then largest online commerce providers and stores.
  • Managed critical escalation of high severity issues
  • Served as the liaison between the customer and engineering department in resolving critical customer issues.
  • Recognized as employee of the year in 1998 for strong customer-facing efforts.

Dragon Systems, Inc.

Newton, MA 1991-1996
Technical Services Manager

  • Served as technical support engineeer and trainer
  • Promoted to manager of technical services, responsible for technical support, training, and quality assurance departments.

IDEAssociates, Inc.

Burlington, MA 1990

  • Nine-month co-op work program in the Quality Assurance department testing terminal emulation hardware.

Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Strong focus on computer science and software development.

Awards

  • 2009 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award Winner – Best Blogger
  • 2008 ShareASale Exceptional Affiliate Winner
  • 2008 Linkshare Golden Link Award Finalist – Most Vocal Affiliate
  • 2008 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award Finalist – Affiliate Industry Advocate
  • 2007 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award Finalist – Best Blogger

Technology

  • Linux Server Administration
  • Apache Web Server Administration
  • Databases: MySQL, Oracle
  • Languages: PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS
  • Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, Smarty Template Engine
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Paid Search Management
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