Doug Sheppard

Current

CTO/CIO at Ujogo
Owner at www.douglasandcompany.com

Past

Senior Director, Systems & Software Engineering at NorthPoint Communications
Director, Network & Systems Engineering at InfoGear Technology
Manager, Dedicated Network Engineering at Pacific Bell Internet

Manager, Network Operations & Development, NAS Project at CSC/NASA Ames Research Center
Senior Engineer / Team Leader at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

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Education

The George Washington University

Recommended

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Industry

Computer Software

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Doug Sheppard’s Summary

Technical professional with over 18 years of management and hands-on experience in both development and operational organizations. Positive track record collaborating with marketing organizations to define requirements and bring products to market. Proven team leader, creating highly effective development departments.

Doug Sheppard’s Experience

CTO/CIO

Ujogo

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Co-Founder of Ujogo.com, a casual games website focusing initially on free online poker that awards prizes to players. AS CIO, defined and built out server colocations to handle development and production environments; as CTO lead client and server development, worked with strategic partners on platform integration and API development.
Owner

www.douglasandcompany.com

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — Present (9 years)

Founder of dougco.com a technical consulting group that provides web application design and development, and server hosting at our San Jose colocation facility.
Senior Director, Systems & Software Engineering

NorthPoint Communications

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NPNT; Telecommunications industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)

Lead department created by the CEO to specifically address company critical needs. Staff of 20+ engineers worked with multiple internal departments to develop software for the company OSS (Operational Support System). The applications that were delivered from this effort were directly responsible for increasing efficiency by 500% and generating yearly savings of over $10 million.
Director, Network & Systems Engineering

InfoGear Technology

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)

Created technical staff from ground up responsible for design and installation of the network and systems for InfoGear Networks -- an Internet service for multiplatform Internet Appliances including proxy and content services. Acted as liason with technocal team based in Israel. Company purchased by Cisco Systems.
Manager, Dedicated Network Engineering

Pacific Bell Internet

(Telecommunications industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

Manager of team responsible for design and rollout of the statewide network for Pacific Bell Internet (now AT&T) providing DSL and business internet connections. This wide area network consists of 10 main POPs with over 30 leaf POPs linked with T1 and T3 links using OSPF for internal routing and BGP for peering. Team also responsible for designing procedures and software tools for use in the NOC and Customer Service Organization.
Manager, Network Operations & Development, NAS Project

CSC/NASA Ames Research Center

(Computer Software industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years)

Manager of engineeering team responsible for management of the NAS (Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation) local and wide area network environments. Local networks consisted of several high-speed computers (Cray, Convex, Connection Machine). Wide area network consisted of 40 sites spread across the country connected via T1 and T3 links. Yearly budget of $10 million.
Senior Engineer / Team Leader

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

1989 — 1992 (3 years)

Employed by the Research Computational Division, Computer Operations and Communications Branch. Leader of team responsible for the design of the NRL campus wide FDDI network and fiber optic cable plant, geographically covering the campus with over 20,000 meters of fiber optic cable through 16 distribution buildings. Designed network service using Cisco routers, methods used for supplying optical fiber service to entire laboratory, including all interbuilding and intrabuilding wiring.

Doug Sheppard’s Education

The George Washington University

BS , Computer Engineering , 1989

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Doug Sheppard’s Groups:

Board member Russian Hill Neighbors (rhn.org),
2004 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Small Business Advisory Council Member,
Alumni Leadership San Francisco