
Director, Development at Symantec
Greater Los Angeles Area

Director, Development at Symantec
Greater Los Angeles Area
Bradley P. Allen is a technologist and entrepreneur focused on the commercial application of cutting-edge technologies at the intersection of information retrieval, open linked data and machine learning. He is two for three on successful startup exits.
Software start-up entrepreneurship, enterprise software, information retrieval, machine learning, practical reasoning, knowledge management, taxonomies, folksonomies, knowledge representation, case-based reasoning, personalization, data mining, the Semantic Web
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Managing the Revolution Solutions Team in the Security Technology and Response Group.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — December 2008 (7 years 5 months)
At Siderean, Brad focused on applying Semantic Web and digital library technologies to making information access and discovery for enterprises dramatically better and at far lower cost than is possible using current enterprise search and knowledge management solutions.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1997 — April 2001 (4 years 3 months)
In 1997, Brad co-founded TriVida Corporation and served as CTO until TriVidas acquisition by Be Free, Inc. in March 2000. TriVida developed technology for the real-time mining of streaming data, applied to targeted marketing for e-commerce Web sites.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 11 months)
Brad left Inference in 1995 to co-found Limbex Corporation where he created WebCompass, an Internet search tool that won Best Of Show at COMDEX Fall '95. Quarterdeck Corporation acquired Limbex in 1996.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; INFR; Computer Software industry)
February 1984 — January 1995 (11 years)
In 1984, Brad joined Inference Corporation where he was part of the technical team that developed ART, one of the first commercial expert system shells. Brad was ultimately responsible for the development in 1989 of CBR Express, one of the first customer service problem resolution products and one of the first commercial applications of case-based reasoning.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1982 — January 1984 (2 years)
After receiving an BS in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982, Brad began his career as a member of the research staff at the university's Robotics Institute, in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory. At the ISL, Brad was involved in work on knowledge-based approaches to job-shop scheduling and hybrid knowledge representations.
BS , Applied Mathematics , 1976 — 1982