Inventor
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Inventor at Inventor Labs, LLC
- Past
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- Advanced Technology Group at Adobe Systems
- Founder/CEO at Five Across, Inc.
- Director of Engineering, Consumer Applications at Apple Computer
- CTO / VP Engineering at ebrary
- Founder at RightBrain Software
- Product Manager for Interpersonal Computing at NeXT
- Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems
- Education
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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- Industry
- Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
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Glenn Reid’s Summary
I spent 20 years developing software in graphics/publishing, consumer photo and video, and communications. I have built many successful products from scratch, some single-handed, most with the help of excellent small teams. Apple's iMovie and iPhoto are the most visible examples. But I'm done with all that.
I've embarked on a new career as an Inventor. I've started an entity called Inventor Labs, a place for prototyping, patenting, and bringing to market ingenious inventions in many different areas including green power, child safety, construction, transportation, and anything else that makes sense.
Glenn Reid’s Specialties:
Mechanical devices, green power, transportation.
Glenn Reid’s Experience
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Inventor
Inventor Labs, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Inventor Labs is a place for prototyping, patenting, and bringing to market ingenious inventions in many different areas including green power generation and storage, child safety, construction, transportation, and automation.
Inventor Labs is interested in helping other people bring their ideas and inventions into the world as well--not as a way to steal your idea and profit from it, but as a way to truly help make the world a better place, and to help you with all the things you have no idea how to do (make a prototype of your invention, for example). Feel free to contact me to explore this; I will respect your intellectual property. -
Advanced Technology Group
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)
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Founder/CEO
Five Across, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2003 — July 2006 (2 years 8 months)
I founded Five Across in 2003 to create compelling network software. We built innovative peer-to-peer file sharing and messaging, blogging, and social networking software. Five Across was acquired by Cisco in February of 2007.
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Director of Engineering, Consumer Applications
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 4 months)
Developed the revolutionary iMovie application for Apple, kicking off a new software division and a whole new category of "digital hub" applications. Also led the iPhoto development effort and grew both teams into world-class organizations.
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CTO / VP Engineering
ebrary
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — May 2001 (10 months)
ebrary is a great company developing breakthrough software for sharing copyrighted PDF content (books) through an innovative web interface that allows full-text search and browsing without being able to download the PDF file.
Worked with a great engineering team developing browser plug-ins, sophisticated servers with e-commerce, security, and a custom PDF rendering engine. -
Founder
RightBrain Software
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1990 — September 1993 (3 years 5 months)
Founded a company to build a revolutionary page layout application (PasteUp) for NeXT computers. Won "best of breed' award.
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Product Manager for Interpersonal Computing
NeXT
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1989 — May 1990 (8 months)
Reported to Steven Jobs in a product management capacity. Responsible for the "Interpersonal Computing" strategy which was really "the internet" about 4 years before the internet actually became mainstream. We had T-shirts at next that said "1980s: Personal Computing 1990s: Interpersonal Computing". We were ahead of our time. I worked on Mail and got fax capabilities built into the OS, right in the print panel for outbound, and as an email service inbound.
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Senior Engineering Manager
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
June 1985 — October 1989 (4 years 5 months)
Joined Adobe when there were only 25 people, grew through many product launches, new technologies, going public, etc. Wrote Adobe's "green book" on PostScript programming, still in print since 1987 (that's 19 years, a great run for a technical book).
Glenn Reid’s Education
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Computer Science, 1978 — 1984
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