Technical Marketer | Owner, Great Circle Mapper
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Consultant at (confidential)
- Co-Founder, Director, & Vice President at Chicago.com
- Principal at Great Circle Mapper (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Systems Engineer at Kazeon Systems
- Expert Witness at (confidential)
- Council Member at Leadership Mountain View
- VP/Director of Operations at Mail Abuse Protection System (MAPS)
- CIFS Performance Engineer (Contract) at Rainfinity
- Technical Marketing Contractor at Decru
- Sr. Manager, Technical Marketing at Quartet Network Storage
- Customer Applications Architect at Desana Systems
- Engineer, Reliability at Network Appliance (NetApp)
- Technical Marketing Engineer at Network Appliance (NetApp)
- Unix Guru at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
- Software Engineer (Contract) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Software Engineer at Formtek
- Education
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- University of Oregon
- Knox College
- Barrington High School
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Karl Swartz’s Summary
An enthusiastic and creative marketer, engineer, and manager. Extensive experience with Internet applications and networked storage. Proven ability to build successful organizations, develop staff members, and win the respect and trust of engineers, executives, and highly-technical customers.
Excellent written/verbal skills with diverse experience and analytical talent provide a foundation for understanding customer needs, translating them into broadly-applicable product requirements, communicating them within the company, and driving sales.
A list of published papers may be found on my web site.
Personal interests include my family, aviation, classic cars, railroads, orchids, cooking, and travel.
Karl Swartz’s Specialties:
* Network Attached Storage (NAS)
* WWW: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP
* Messaging: SMTP, NNTP
* Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, Ethernet
* Programming: C, Perl, Unix shell, YACC/Bison, LEX/FLEX, Pascal, FORTRAN, various assembler
Karl Swartz’s Experience
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Consultant
(confidential)
(Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (5 months)
Consultant to various high tech companies in businesses including storage search and management, news and information services, and reputation services.
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Co-Founder, Director, & Vice President
Chicago.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2002 — Present (6 years)
I originally registered the Chicago.com domain circa 1990 because I grew up near Chicago; at the time there was no WWW and only a few thousand .com domains.
In 2002, I sold a partial interest in the domain to Josh Metnick, a lifelong Chicagoan who wanted to develop an information portal based on the domain. We formed Chicago.com, Inc. and soon launched the site. I retain a substantial interest in the company and serve on the board of directors. -
Principal
Great Circle Mapper (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Airlines/Aviation industry)
September 1996 — Present (11 years 9 months)
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Systems Engineer
Kazeon Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Kazeon produces information appliances for eDiscovery and storage management. Hired to do technical marketing, I actually served as the Western Region systems engineer, initially covering everything west of the Mississippi but later contracting to the West Coast as the company grew. In this role I managed the largest customer deployment and my region was consistently a top sales performer.
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Expert Witness
(confidential)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — August 2007 (1 month)
Served as an expert witness (report and testimony) in an arbitration of a software dispute.
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Council Member
Leadership Mountain View
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)
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VP/Director of Operations
Mail Abuse Protection System (MAPS)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
January 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 9 months)
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CIFS Performance Engineer (Contract)
Rainfinity
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
March 2003 — July 2003 (5 months)
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Technical Marketing Contractor
Decru
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
June 2002 — July 2002 (2 months)
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Sr. Manager, Technical Marketing
Quartet Network Storage
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2002 — May 2002 (5 months)
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Customer Applications Architect
Desana Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
April 2001 — November 2001 (8 months)
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Engineer, Reliability
Network Appliance (NetApp)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NTAP; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 2 months)
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Technical Marketing Engineer
Network Appliance (NetApp)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NTAP; Computer Hardware industry)
May 1996 — September 1999 (3 years 5 months)
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Unix Guru
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
October 1989 — May 1996 (6 years 8 months)
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Software Engineer (Contract)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
August 1988 — September 1989 (1 year 2 months)
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Software Engineer
Formtek
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1983 — August 1988 (5 years 8 months)
Karl Swartz’s Education
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University of Oregon
1980 — 1982
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Knox College
Computer Science 1979 — 1980
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Barrington High School
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Karl Swartz’s Groups:
Leadership Mountain View, LAPP, Bobnet
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