
Builds technology companies
San Francisco Bay Area

Builds technology companies
San Francisco Bay Area
Building nascent companies
software development, product and project management, strategic planning, agile methodology, rapid prototyping, business intelligence, infovis
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Built swivel.com; built Swivel's business edition; defining product direction and feature requirements; leading long term strategic direction of the company.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — August 2006 (8 months)
One of KickApps' first hires, functioned as project manager, software developer. One of four engineers who built the KickApps v1 backend. Met with leads for sales and support purposes. Led strategy to aggressively claim ownership of niche social networking sites.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Defense & Space industry)
January 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 3 months)
Architect and lead developer for Real Digital Media's (www.realdigitalmedia.com) software platform for Neocast-X and Neocast-XF media players; embedded systems engineering and software design for Sparton, Lockheed-Martin, Invivo Research, and Northrop-Grumman.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; A; Telecommunications industry)
August 2001 — January 2004 (2 years 6 months)
R&D software engineering; member of Software Engineering Process Group that advocated best practices for a staff of ~60 software engineers; implemented a metrics-driven program used at the GM level that drove improved product quality.
Electrical engineering 2003 — 2004
BSE , Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science , 1997 — 2001
bootstrapping companies, building amazing products, monetization, market strategy, economics, location-based services
IEEE, ACM, Duke University Alumni Association, Duke University Admissions Advisory Council