...at least two good ideas before breakfast.
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Partner at The Search Associates
- Founder at Graphnical (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Principal/CTO at imc{search}
- Founder at Future Progress Organization
- Sr. Technologist at Vykarian
- Chief Technology Officer at International News Media
- Senior Technologist at Position Maker, Inc.
- Technologist at Vykarius, Inc.
- Authoring Specialist at iVAST, Inc.
- Director at United Clothing
- Founder at NEOS Interactiv (Self-employed)
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Gabriel Kent’s Summary
Gabriel Kent is a technologist with an inborn technolust. He loves making music, travel and good food. For more than a decade he has worked in a variety of technology related fields such as intelligent media presentation, systems automation, consumer electronics, video games, Internet marketing and MPEG-4 systems. He has given talks on MPEG-4 Systems authoring, Open Source Education and Grid (a.k.a. Cloud) Computing. His primary focus since 2004 has been Information Retrieval and Internet marketing. Gabriel is the inventor of Search-based Contextual Routing (SbCR) and is currently a partner in an Internet marketing consulting firm he co-founded in early 2009.
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Gabriel Kent’s Specialties:
Design and execution of creative technical solutions.
Gabriel Kent’s Experience
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Partner
The Search Associates
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
The Search Associates bring an extensive menu of search and Internet marketing services to the table along with project management experience to turn ideas into action and results.
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Founder
Graphnical (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
2003 — Present (6 years )
A creative technical solutions company.
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> Designed social bluetooth wristband device for manufacture in Japan
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Principal/CTO
imc{search}
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Founded as the search marketing arm of IMC.
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Founder
Future Progress Organization
(Think Tanks industry)
2003 — January 2009 (6 years )
FP.O primarily concerns itself with the goal to engender social stability and economic growth in poor/conflict countries through the use of cheap ad-hoc wireless communication systems.
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> Created "Drop Comms not Bombs" initiative to bring wireless communications to poor countries
> Founded non-profit with focus on cheap wireless communications for conflict and poor countries
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Sr. Technologist
Vykarian
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
August 2007 — January 2008 (6 months)
Vykarian, based in Shanghai, aids game publishers in creating the games you play.
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Chief Technology Officer
International News Media
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2004 — October 2007 (3 years )
INM has produced some of the most innovative and technologically effective digital marketing programs and online properties ever to be assembled under one umbrella.
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> Founder of a high-capacity online marketing platform:
>> Press release distribution system
>> Managed business blogging platform
>> Content production and distribution framework
>> Pay-per-click management framework
>> Standards-compliant content conversion and syndication system
>> ROI Tracking and analytics system
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Senior Technologist
Position Maker, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2004 — 2004 (less than a year)
Position Maker was purchased by International News Media, see above.
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Technologist
Vykarius, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
A completely new breed of game art outsourcing company - which specializes in building art assets for the world's best known video game brands. The new company represents the strongest bridge between AAA western game titles and Chinese game art outsourcing industry.
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> Developed CRM game asset creation/approval system to work with outsource teams in China
> Designed web to console 3D model preview and feedback system with Renderware
> Xbox Certified Developer
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Authoring Specialist
iVAST, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years )
A cutting-edge MPEG-4 software and hardware company.
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> Developed prototype next-generation interactive television and broadband media products for Panasonic, Intel and Macrovision
> Developed MPEG-4 Systems authoring courses used to educate hundreds of online/traditional media industry professionals
> Worked with members of MPEG and DVD committees to affect changes in the area of MPEG-4 Systems and next-generation DVD standards
> Developed and coordinated with several in-house teams to successfully launch multiple software and hardware products in the areas of authoring, trans-coding, serving and playback of MPEG-4 medias
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Director
United Clothing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
A graffiti/hip hop clothing company.
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> Directed a hip hop clothing line with distribution throughout the US, Japan and Germany
> Worked with hip hop luminaries, such as: artists from the Can't Be Stopped crew (CBS), DJ Rob One, Tony Tee, Rock Steady crew
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Founder
NEOS Interactiv (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
A web application services company.
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> Founded and directed a web applications development company
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Additional Information
Gabriel Kent’s Websites:
Gabriel Kent’s Interests:
Learning, Wireless Communications, Ubiquitous Computing, Smart Systems (AI), Biotechnology (bio-computing & bio-hacking), Space Exploration
Gabriel Kent’s Groups:
Future Progress Organization, Ukini, The Intellectual Protection Fund, ITESM Incubator
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Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) -
Semantic Professional Network (Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies Professionals)
Gabriel Kent’s Contact Settings
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