Kin Lane

My work at Postman is an extension of the API life cycle work I have done as API Evangelist, but involves helping enterprise organizations and government agencies actually apply my learnings using a proven API platform that 10M users are already using across the enterprise.

Skylight is a digital government consultancy driven by making government work in a digital world through design, technology, and procurement. https://skylight.digital/

In August I will be starting as a Presidential Innovation Fellow, working at the Department of Veterans Affairs, assisting in the streamlining of partner relations using APIs.

I am writing more for ProgrammableWeb on APIs. I try to stay focused on the business of APIs, but find myself covering new APIs, features, and other API industry related news.

I'm helping get the word out about CityGrid Places, Content and Advertising APIs.

I was the API Evangelist for Mimeo.com web to print company. I managed the family of print API and enterprise print connectors.

I am very excited to be part of the WebEvents Global. I am the VP of Technology, and overseeing our entire technology platform and technology product development. We have just completed migrating our entire platform into the clouds so that we can better scale and meet our clients needs. Currently we are reworking our entire core technology to better meet the future of event and conference planning and marketing. We are making all of our tools accessible through popular social networking and social media platform. Look for more updates on what we are doing at WebEvents Global.

Social Media Squad is my own side project to give me some focus and direction in learning more about real life application of social media in business. Through my experience in online marketing, web application design and just my general interest in everything 2.0 I started the Social Media Squad to help give me a framework to evaluate applications, methodologies and coordinate with other businesses in the Social Media Space.

I have been the social media strategist for Altrec / Great Outdoors. I am still contracting with the company to help take Great Outdoors and their partners into the social media space.

Original Web Solutions is my web development company I started with my wife Isbhel Lane. We focus on web application and content management driven web sites for small businesses and non-profits.

I was the lead web application developer for Palo Alto Software. I lead the technical development for the internal web-based administration system as well as its integration with the public web sites www.paloalto.com and www.bplans.com as well as the UK counterparts.

I was lead developer for IDX Broker. It was a partnership between Chad Barczak, Jeff Kast and I to deliver inventory and real estate web site solutions. The web sites utilize Multiple Listing Service (MLS) real estate data from across the country and would provide it an a search engine optimized web site format that could easily be integrated into the customers web site. I built all the systems that extracted the data from the MLS and the mechanisms for distributing to agent or brokers web sites. I also recently have built 50 state real estate portals for IDX Broker showcasing agent / brokers nationwide. The Real Estate for Sale in Network.

Managed the development team for Vihn.net and My Little Salesman.

Managed the development team at Netcorps.