Featured in Editor & Publisher and New York Times Magazine for his technology leadership—with work that has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and on TV at MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN—Taylor Buley is an Ivy League-schooled decision scientist and Stanford-trained communicator, dedicated community volunteer, excellent father of two, a dedicated volunteer and a proven C-suite coach and business executive with transformational management experience and the flexibility to deploy into nearly any environment after spending 15 years as a professional journalist and technologist in the media industry.

Education

2021–2022
M.D.R. Dispute Resolution
Negotiation, Mediation & Arbitration
Pepperdine University
Caruso School of Law
2007–2008
M.A. Communications
Journalism
Stanford University
School of Humanities & Sciences
2003–2007
B.A. Philosophy, Politics & Economics
Choice & Behavior
University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts & Sciences

Fun Facts

  • Likes hard work and has steadily held a job since his 13th birthday.
  • In high school, founded an Iraq War peace zine and a student peer mediation club.
  • A former windsurfing instructor, once jetskiied across Lake Michigan.
  • Once an Ivy League champion rugby (backup) scrumhalf and the captain of his high school rugby and ski racing teams.
  • In college, operated a major blog, wrote a book about libertarian politics, co-hosted a college television show, was founding editor of Penn's PPE scholarly journal, and re-launched an independent student newspaper.
  • Has lived in or around several major cities including Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Washington DC. He has moved between the Bay Area and New York five times.
  • Lifetime student and language aficionado who has studied abroad in Spain, Japan and Czech Republic, and domestically in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Palo Alto and Malibu.
  • Enjoys coaching, landscape photography, microelectronics, poetry, FPS videogames, lockpicking, digital media production, and modern art.

Skillset

Project Management

  • Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Project Plans
  • Timelines
  • Resource Allocation
  • Change Management
  • Workflow Management
  • Team Management

Engineering Leadership

  • Technical Leadership/li>
  • Engineering Management
  • Cross-team Collaboration
  • Cross-functional Coordination
  • Employee Engagement

Software Development

  • Software Testing
  • Problem Solving
  • Computer Science
  • Web Development
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Solidity
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • ApolloServer
  • GQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React
  • Angular
  • MySQL
  • Neo4J
  • MongoDB

Data Analytics

  • Data Exploration
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Analytics
  • Analytical Skills
  • Attention to Detail

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

  • Written Communication
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Communication
  • Mentoring
  • Leadership
  • Negotiation
  • Mediation

Content and Digital Media

  • Publishing
  • Digital Media
  • Journalism
  • Content Management
  • Blogging
  • Editing
  • Copy Editing
  • Content Strategy
  • Content Development
  • Writing
  • Video Editing

Technical Skills

  • Linux
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Data Modeling
  • Exploratory Data Science
  • Data Visualization
  • Rest API, GraphQL APIs, Protobufs
  • Database Administration
  • Web Security
  • System Admistration
  • Optimizing Performance

Language Proficiency

Spanish
French
Catalan
Czech
Japanese

Programming Confidence


JavaScript
97%

TypeScript
92%

PHP
56%

Ruby
74%

Go

R

HTML
100%

CSS
100%

Bash
63%

Service Clubs

Taylor has been inducted into Rotary International and Soroptimists International.

Awards

1/
January 2022
Theodore Winters Award
Winters Chamber of Commerce award recognizing significant community impact.
2/
April 2019
E&P’s 30 Under 35
Editor & Publisher’s round-up of top young media professionals in the publishing business.
Featured in Editor & Publisher and New York Times Magazine for his technology leadership—with work that has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and on TV at MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN—Taylor Buley is an Ivy League-schooled decision scientist and Stanford-trained communicator, dedicated community volunteer, excellent father of two, a dedicated volunteer and a proven C-suite coach and business executive with transformational management experience and the flexibility to deploy into nearly any environment after spending 15 years as a professional journalist and technologist in the media industry.
Present

Forbes

Director, Engineering (Data Core)

Director of Engineering in the Products & Platform Engineering group, supporting the API, Lists, and Web3 teams as part of the Data Core team. Serving the business API, people/organization knowledge graph, and other data needs for Forbes' US Top-50-ranked website serving data and other media to more than 150 million users a month. Managing engineering managers, architects, senior programmers and more than a dozen contractors. 2023 Webby award winner for digital business experience.
2022

Manager, Engineering

Jersey City, NJ
Oversaw various revenue-related data initiatives, including data Lists. Managed the technical aspects of Forbes' universe of data people, places, companies, and things. Engineering management for analytics, licensing, and revenue sites.
2021

Neutral Mediation

Mediator

Davis, California, United States
Boutique neutral practicing confidential mediation and negotiation, coaching, training, and conflict consulting.
2022

Pepperdine Caruso Law

Coach

Malibu, California, United States
Coached students through depositions, negotiations, and legal analysis as part of Law In Practice, a course for legal professionals in the LLM program.
2014

McNaughton Media

Chief Technology Officer

Fairfield, California, United States
Managed Systems department providing IT services and product development for 5 offices and over a dozen brands. Responsibilities included social media, audience development, data science, machine learning, systems integration, operation and maintenance, network and server management, cloud integrations, desktop support, virtualization management, mobile app and web development, documentation, and training.
2013

Parade Media Group

Development Manager

New York, New York, United States
Led product development team and audience development. Accomplished content migration to WordPress CMS and implemented design and rebranding strategy for storied brand and most-circulated print magazine in the world.
2013

Senior Developer

New York, New York, United States
2010

Forbes Media

Developer

New York, New York, United States
Led development of editorial tools, dashboards, and data visualization. Utilized machine learning and applied data science related to content measurement, production, and efficiency.
2010

Staff Writer And Lead Editorial Developer

San Francisco Bay Area
2009

Reporter

San Francisco Bay Area
Reported on enterprise IT, technology infrastructure, and Web companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Fact-checked for staff writers at the magazine and wrote video scripts.
2008

Reporter

New York, New York, United States
Fact-checked magazine content, wrote small clips for Forbes magazine and Forbes.com. Wrote features, picked stocks, and penned reviews of luxury goods.
2008

Reporting Intern

Fact-checked magazine content for staff writers and reporters.
Present

Nonprofit Work

2021

Davis Chamber of Commerce Board

Member
2020

Yolo Community Foundation Board

Finance & Operations, Board Development
2019

Winters Community Foundation Board

Secretary
2018

Rotary Club of Winters

Community Service Chair
Past

Other Experience

2007

Robert Bartley Fellow

Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)
2006

Burton Gray Intern

Reason magazine (Washington DC)
2005

Council of Economic Advisers

White House (Washington DC)

References

Available upon request.