Mike Manzano

Current

Chief Technology Officer at Topia Technology, Inc.

Past

Photographer at iStockphoto
Advisor at IndieTV.tv
Director of Development at Business Internet Services

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Education

The Evergreen State College

Connections

84 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Mike Manzano’s Summary

Mike has been working on professionally with Internet and Web technologies since before he graduated in 1996. Since then he's helped BISC and Topia Technology live through the "portal" hype, allowing the companies to survive the .com crash in 2000. He is currently leading multiple projects, including a distributed integration system for government clients including US Army INSCOM and the Federal Aviation Agency, and is currently tending to Skoot, an enterprise and consumer solution for "cloud" document management. His personal goals including helping the Web become even more integrated, and working toward the day that the technical issues involved with using it have disappeared "behind the outlet".

Mike Manzano’s Specialties:

Envisioning the future, people management, software life-cycle management, software development, cocoa development, cocoa touch development, human computer interaction, engineering lead, corporate technology strategy, competitive analysis, speaking, presenting, presentation generation, language translation (translating engineer-speak to C-level speak), web technologies (AJAX, HTML, CSS), Java, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, photography, photo manipulation, 3D, cooking, toilet plunging

Mike Manzano’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Topia Technology, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1998 — Present (11 years )

Topia Technology creates software related to distributed computing, including its first commercial product Skoot, a "cloud" document management system. If Topia were a garden, Mike would be fertilizer.
Photographer

iStockphoto

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Photography industry)

2002 — 2009 (7 years )
Advisor

IndieTV.tv

(Entertainment industry)

January 2003 — March 2008 (5 years 3 months)
Director of Development

Business Internet Services

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )

Mike was employee #1 at BISC, which eventually merged with Topia Technology, Inc. At BISC, he created Industry Online, a portal for vertical markets, along with a dizzying number of web sites in the early years of the commercial Web. Once, a client greeted him saying "Hi, I'm Christian", to which he responded "Hi, I'm Muslim". He currently thinks that besides being a lie, it was highly unprofessional, although quite funny. Christian never did become a BISC client.

Mike Manzano’s Education

The Evergreen State College

1994 — 1996

Likes dark chocolate more than milk chocolate, which he hears isn't really chocolate at all.

Activities and Societies:

Took Computability & Cognition where his favorite instructor was Al Leisenring, a robot from an unknown planet that chain-smoked and could write complex material on a chalkboard without ever looking up to reference a book. At Evergreen, he studied computation concepts related to the field of artificial intelligence, some philosophy, and the hippies that insisted on attending gardening classes.

Additional Information

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Mike Manzano’s Interests:

photography, cooking, graphic design, good user interfaces, social networking concepts, ways to monetize ideas, people who are better than him at... anything