Experienced Online Software Engineering and Product Developement Entrepreneur
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Executive Director at NYCwireless
- President at sociableDESIGN, LLC.
- Past
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- Product Development at 10gen
- Director of Product and Community Development at OnForce
- Chief Architect at Primedia Software-on-Demand
- Sr. Software Developer at FareChase
- Operations Manager at Scholastic, Inc.
- Researcher at IBM
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Dana Spiegel’s Summary
A seasoned entrepreneur in product development and design, Dana was previously the Head of Product Development at OnForce responsible for the development and design of the company's innovative online field labor deployment and management platform. While at OnForce, he created a number of patent pending technologies and transformed the company's online tools into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Under his leadership, OnForce was nominated as a finalist for a Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Codie Award.
Prior to OnForce, Dana was Founder and Chief Architect at Primedia Software-on-Demand, where he created a Desktop SaaS delivery platform for K-12 schools. He also served in Lead Engineering roles at FareChase (now Yahoo! Travel) and IBM, and currently serves as the Executive Director and a member of the Board of Directors of NYCwireless, a New York City-based non-profit organization that creates free, public wireless hotspots.
Dana Spiegel’s Specialties:
Online Software Development, Management, and Strategy, Product Management, User Experience, Social Software, Online Communities, Wireless Technology, Wi-Fi
Dana Spiegel’s Experience
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Executive Director
NYCwireless
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
December 2003 — Present (4 years 8 months)
NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates and enables the growth of free, public wireless Internet access in New York City and surrounding areas. NYCwireless, founded in 2001, is a volunteer organization with seven (7) board members, five (5) special interest working groups and approximately sixty (60) active members.
Over the past several years, NYCwireless has built free, public wireless networks in over ten New York City parks and open spaces through partnerships with local parks organizations such as the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation and business improvement districts such as the Alliance for Downtown New York. These include networks in Bryant Park, Union Square Park, Tompkins Square Park, Bowling Green Park, City Hall Park, and the South Street Seaport among others. In addition, the organization has created community engagement programs that take advantage of wireless networks in Manhattan, such as our annual wireless arts festival, Spectropolis. -
President
sociableDESIGN, LLC.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
August 2001 — Present (7 years)
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Product Development
10gen
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)
Product Development (technical and user) and Business strategy for innovative Platform as a Service and Cloud Computing platform.
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Director of Product and Community Development
OnForce
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 2 months)
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Chief Architect
Primedia Software-on-Demand
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; PRM; E-Learning industry)
November 2003 — October 2005 (2 years)
Strategic and technology consulting and member of senior management team for education software service servining the K-12 market. Managed software development and QA teams building product.
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Sr. Software Developer
FareChase
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 6 months)
Travel Meta-search Company. I lead User Interface and User Application development. I actually built an AJAX search interface (still partially in use today at Yahoo! Travel) in early 2003 that provided live travel search results dynamically into a browser window.
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Operations Manager
Scholastic, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)
September 2001 — June 2002 (10 months)
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Researcher
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Advanced Internet Technology Group. Developed Web Services for document analysis in 1998. Created one of the first social networking services, for internal use, in 1999 that discovered connections between people by analyizing email and usenet postings.
Dana Spiegel’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS, Sociable Media, 1999 — 2001
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Brain and Cognitive Science, Artifical Intelligence, 1995 — 1999
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Dana Spiegel’s Interests:
wireless, wi-fi, sociable media
Dana Spiegel’s Groups:
ACM, NextNY
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Wireless Internet Industry Executives (WIIE) member -
New York Venture Community member
Dana Spiegel’s Honors:
Finalist for SIIA Codie (for OnForce)
Patents Pending:
20040111479 - System and method for online monitoring of and interaction with chat and instant messaging participants
20030079218 - Remote collaborative control and direction
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