About Nasi Peretz
Nasi Peretz is a graduate of the University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering in Computer Engineering & Computer Science. He completed his Masters in Engineering Management at USC in 2006, and is currently maintaining numerous development and production internet/intranet environments. He recently started his PHD at USC and is planning to complete his dissertation by 2011. As the founder of Abstrakt Designs, he has developed numerous custom applications for small to medium sized businesses in an array of programming languages and platforms.
His focus is on improving business processes through IT by creating, maintaining, and hosting web applications, and shaping web needs around businesses to help them grow. Project manager of several web dev projects, designer of multiple large scale sites, and production manager for 50+ application servers.
Nasi Peretz’s Specialties:
Project Management of Large Scale Web Apps
Web and Network Infrastructure, Web Design, & Implementation
Languages: Hebrew, Spanish, English
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Chief Information Officer (CIO)
WestsideRentals.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
July 2007 — Present
Provide technology vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the largest rental website in Southern California. Provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems for this large scale site. responsible for the management of multiple information and communication systems and projects, including voice, data, imaging, and office automation. Develop and implement enhanced features for the site, as well as integrate with 3rd party vendors. Lead development team and manage server racks in off-site datacenter as well as internal datacenter.
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Senior Web Architect
University of Southern California - USC Law School
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — Present
Developed several large scale web apps for the University Provost office including: USC iTunes U, USC YouTube, Continuing Education, Google Apps w/ Single Sign-On, and an array of online financial applications (example: CEO.usc.edu).
Lead the development of a new portal system for the school of Law, create an online alumni community for the purpose of increasing donations, develop over 30 applications for internal & external process enhancement. Manage server deployment and SAN solution. Manage development and release of new public website and intranet. Designed and developed the 5000+ page site for USC Law: http://law.usc.edu Management and training of seven staff members.
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Owner
Abstrakt Designs
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)
Founded Abstrakt Designs, LLC, a premier consulting agency specializing in design and development of web applications. Company focus is improving business processes through IT by creating, maintaining, and hosting web applications, and shaping web needs around businesses to help them grow. Currently collocating and administering multiple servers in a downtown LA Datacenter. Created http://www.perfectbusiness.com, http://www.laughstub.com, http://www.fitscape.com, http://www.visualeffectssociety.com, http://www.bizworld.org, http://www.disabilityrightslegalcenter.org, and many more sites. Portfolio available upon request or by reviewing: here
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Web Applications Engineer
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)
August 2002 — June 2005 (2 years 11 months)
Production (live systems) manager supporting all of Marshalls Web Applications, more than 15 web applications spread across 18 servers. Redesigned main USC Marshall site: http://www.marshall.usc.edu
Enhanced and designed the Marshall Registration System, Marshall Admissions System, and the Marshall Career Opportunity System. Prototyped, designed, and developed with a team of programmers JSP and Coldfusion applications, including the main portal: MyMarshall, Event Management System (MEMS), Marshall Undergraduate Scheduling system, MBA Career Opportunity System (similar to Dice.com, Monster.com), and MBA Admissions.
Secured all of Marshalls web environments, and improved performance on the core system: MyMarshall portal. Manage, train, and schedule a staff of five computer science Masters students.
Nasi Peretz’s Education
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University of Southern California
PHD, Higher Education, 2009 — 2011
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University of Southern California
MS, Engineering Managemenet, 2003 — 2006 -
University of Southern California
Minor, Multimedia and Creative Technologoies, 2002 — 2003 -
University of Southern California
BS, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, 1999 — 2003