Entrepreneur and Trouble Maker
Austin, Texas Area
Entrepreneur and Trouble Maker
Austin, Texas Area
Experienced entrepreneur and team leader with a solid track record and proven ability to innovate, deliver, and adapt.
Entrepreneurship, building great teams, creating excellent products, solving complex problems, having fun, causing trouble.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Helping companies grow happy users by building transparent and engaging information centric communities.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
July 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 6 months)
I lead the engineering team responsible for designing and building the Cisco Unified Application Environment, a development and runtime platform for Cisco Unified Communications Solutions. My work at Cisco is a continuation of my work at Metreos.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — June 2006 (5 years 6 months)
Metreos provided a development and runtime platform for unified communications applications. I was responsible for the design, architecture, and implementation of the Metreos product line and played a significant role in selling and supporting large customers. Metreos was acquired by Cisco in June 2006.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Researched, designed, and implemented new telephony application architectures for PointOne's next-generation, nationwide voice-over-IP network.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
(Internet industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
entrepreneurship, programming, leadership, team dynamics, building great companies, user communities, social CRM, social documentation, growing happy users, machine learning, artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, building an e-butler, financial markets, algorithmic trading, computational finance, market microstructure, turning risk into profit, predicting the unpredictable, building rockets, mining asteroids, exploring the unknown