Serial entrepreneur, software architect, prodigal PhD student
Greater Atlanta Area
Serial entrepreneur, software architect, prodigal PhD student
Greater Atlanta Area
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26 years of intensive commercial and enterprise product development experience spanning research and development, engineering, business strategy, and senior management. Serial entrepreneur, having founded or co-founded six software companies, with a track record of commercial success. Extensive, deep technical expertise includes user interface development, operating system architecture, expert systems, commercial software development, and robotics. Strong, proven engineering leadership background and high-level customer communication skills. Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where artificial intelligence, expert system development, and natural language processing were the primary focus.
Technical: artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, natural language processing, color science, computer graphics, robotics, user interface design, software architecture, video compression, internet application design and systems architecture.
Youth baseball (coach for many years, RYBA board member), bluegrass banjo (semi-pro level for about 30 years)
Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, The Long Now Foundation, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Roswell Youth Baseball Association, Southeastern Bluegrass Association
Patents awarded:
5,963,201 Color processing system
5,909,291 Color matching apparatus and method
5,528,261 Operating system software architecture and methods for supporting color processing
Commercial Software:
Phoenix3D 1984-1985 First 3D program for Macintosh.
PixelPaint 1987 First 8-bit color painting program for Macintosh.
PixelPaint Professional 1988-1996 First 32-bit color painting program for Macintosh.
Macintosh OS 7 1989-1992 Operating system software architecture for Macintosh.
ColorSync 1991 Color matching / reproduction software for Macintosh.
DocMan 1993-1994 Enterprise document management software for Windows and mainframe systems.
InfiniteFX 1994-1997 First plugin for Adobe Illustrator.
ClearVideo 1995-1997 Fractal video compression for Windows and Macintosh.
neuSecure 2003-2004 Robust security management system for Linux and Solaris.
Reflex IPS 2004-2005 Intrusion prevention system for Linux.
21e Platform 2004-2008 Platform for internet television.