Technology Entrepreneur and Evangelist
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Chief Evangelist and Director of the Developers Program (on the BD team) at Splunk
- CEO and Founder at Zoto, Inc.
- Past
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- Product Manager at LookSmart
- President and Founder at Grub, Inc.
- President and Founder at The Internet Shop
- Instructor at Heritage Hall School
- Education
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- University of Central Oklahoma
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Kord Campbell’s Summary
I currently serve as Chief Evangelist and Director of the Developers Program on BD at Splunk, where I help external developers leverage their domain experience and Splunk's indexing technology to develop applications in multiple IT related vertical markets.
I also still manage and maintain Zoto, an Open Source photo hosting/management software and site that uses bleeding edge AJAX technology. Think iPhoto on the Web.
In 1999, I started a distributed search engine crawler called Grub which I later sold to LookSmart. Grub was a software ahead of its time, as is now being illustrated by Wikia's new efforts with community search. Wikia purchased Grub from LookSmart in mid-2007.
If you need someone to understand the technology you are about to develop, I'm your guy. I know how to do everything from writing business plans to installing transactional databases. I can compose your revenue models and sniff your network for intruders in the same afternoon, and make all of it fit into a budget.
I’m a meat and potatoes guy - smart and simple is my philosophy. If I don’t know an answer to a question, I’ll admit as much and go find someone who does know, pick their brain, and figure out how that relates to the things I do know. If I know the answer, I’ll teach you what I know, and do it without hesitation.
For me, this is my dream - to create, design, implement and market great software that people love to use.
Kord Campbell’s Specialties:
Business planning and development, marketing, project planning, technology assessment, clustered and scalable server architectures, AJAX/Flash interface technologies, UI design, server administration, and various search engine technologies.
Kord Campbell’s Experience
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Chief Evangelist and Director of the Developers Program (on the BD team)
Splunk
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Splunk has branded me as their evangelist. I'll be working on getting more traction for them on the development side, getting users that normally wouldn't use the product to take Splunk for a spin, and develop a community for wider spread adoption of Splunk as a database for machine generated IT data.
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CEO and Founder
Zoto, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Wrangles product, business and marketing strategy into reality for Oklahoma based online photo sharing startup Zoto, Inc., and maintains its rather large (now open-sourced) codebase.
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Product Manager
LookSmart
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LOOK; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — July 2003 (7 months)
Continued managing the integration of Grub's infrastructure into LookSmart's various search engines. This was a 6 month contract job. Upon completion I moved back to Oklahoma to begin working on Zoto.
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President and Founder
Grub, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — February 2003 (3 years 2 months)
Conceived and founded this search engine technology startup. Grub used a distributed client architecture to attack and improve certain portions of the search pipeline process. Offered a product manager job by M$ to head up their crawling department in MSN Search. Raised funds privately and exited through acquisition by LookSmart, Ltd.
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President and Founder
The Internet Shop
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
May 1996 — December 2002 (6 years 8 months)
Founded, owned and operated Oklahoma's 3rd largest ISP. The Internet Shop sold dialup, ISDN, ADSL, dedicated T1 and wireless accounts to individuals and businesses in central Oklahoma. Being hardcore about new technology I was the first person to have ADSL in my home in Oklahoma, and the Internet Shop was the first company to sell commercial ADSL in Oklahoma.
The Internet Shop had over 500 business accounts, many of which used us for their consulting needs. The Shop was sold in 2002 due to the aquisition of Grub, Inc. by LookSmart. -
Instructor
Heritage Hall School
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Taught Beginning Programming courses (pro bono) at this private college preparatory day school in Oklahoma City from early 2001 through early 2005.
When my work schedule permitted it, I would teach a single class in the first hour slot. This was done a semester at a time, over a period of about 4 years, with time off when I was out in SF.
Note: The end date was set to be 2002 to prevent this job from occupying my second past job spot above. :P
Kord Campbell’s Education
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University of Central Oklahoma
BS, Math and Computer Science, 1990 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Math Club
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Kord Campbell’s Interests:
My kids, my wife, technology, R/C, flying, motorcycles, sun, water, sand, snowboarding, telling people what to do.
Kord Campbell’s Groups:
Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce. Have participated as as a Judge in the Governor's Cup business plan competition for 3 successive years.
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Log Analysis Professionals
Kord Campbell’s Honors:
I don't know if you'd call it an honor, but I was in the fold in Business 2.0's issue on "The best places to start a tech company cheap." That's me in the middle of a dirt road.
Kord Campbell’s Contact Settings
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