Kee Hinckley

Current

• Owner at Somewhere.Com, LLC

Past

• CEO/CTO at Somewhere, Inc.
• Owner at Somewhere.Com, LLC
• Directory of Technology - Hosted Services at MessageGate, Inc.

• Co-Founder & General Partner at Messagefire, LLC
• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at OneCallWeb, Inc.
• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Saroca, Inc.
• Managing Partner at USWeb
• Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer at Utopia, Inc.
• Senior Software Engineer at Wildfire Communications
• Co-Founder & Vice President at Alfalfa Software, Inc.
• Member of UEC Selection Team at Open Software Foundation
• Software Engineer at Apollo (Hewlett Packard)
• Co-Founder & Senior Software Engineer at Bright Ideas, Inc.
• Software Engineer at Sperry Research Center
• Summer Intern at Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill)

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Education

• Bates College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• TechnoSocial Blog
• Twitter

Kee Hinckley’s Summary

I founded or co-founded seven of the ten startups I’ve been involved in. I have dealt with everything from financing (VC pitches, finding private investors, cutting deals with corporate investors, using my own bootstraps) to marketing and sales, to public presentations, tutorials, panels and standards committees. On the technical side I have ranged from pure development, to managing development and IT groups, to providing architecture and technology solutions for developers. My strongest skill is the ability to translate a customer problem into the architecture of a technical solution. My focus throughout my career has been on building solutions that are customer-appropriate; in terms of how they meet customer needs, how well they fit into the company’s processes and culture, and how easily the customer can support them once the sale is over.

Kee Hinckley’s Specialties:

internet development, internet communications, startups, email, anti-spam, compliance, social media

Kee Hinckley’s Experience

• Owner

  Somewhere.Com, LLC

  (Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Sometimes you need a temporary CTO to handle a spurt in growth, a change in direction, or a specific project. You need someone who can quickly integrate into your team and learn your product, yet who won't leave a gaping hole afterwards. Someone who can be on call to follow-up, but who will also make sure you have processes, documentation and clear buy-in and ownership of the results. You need to get from here, to somewhere. That's what I do.

• CEO/CTO

  Somewhere, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  January 2007 — January 2009 (2 years 1 month)

  Somewhere provides a single location where you can communicate with your friends (using services such as Twitter) and at the same time see a summary of what they are doing on all of their social networks; including their latest blog posts, chat status, music plays, facebook entries or any other updates. Existing attempts to consolidate social networks end up creating a new problem of information overload. We provide the information in the context of communicating with your friends. Showing you what is relevant and new to the people you are focused on right now.
  
  Information about your friends is currently scattered across dozens, if not hundreds of web sites; people can't keep up, and when they try, there is too much noise. Existing services such as Twitter provide raw communication, but no context about the people you talk to. We believe those two problems are best solved together in a single service

• Owner

  Somewhere.Com, LLC

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  March 1998 — January 2007 (8 years 11 months)

  Founded Somewhere.Com, an internet consulting and development company that provides services through a network of independent consultants. Projects have included web site and security consulting, spam-tracking tools, intranet and extranet development, e-commerce sites, graphic design (print and web), and startup and business-plan evaluation.

• Directory of Technology - Hosted Services

  MessageGate, Inc.

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

  February 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  Released version 3.1.x with support for bulk manipulation of phrase dictionaries. Released a customized Solaris 10 port for Sun. Created version 3.2 with new a database-driven phrase dictionary format and significant performance enhancements. Took over management of out-sourced reporting component, evaluated scalability issues and recommended against inclusion in 3.2. Provided technical support and architecture evaluation for V.P. of Engineering. Gave presentations on object-oriented web site design, and doing objected-oriented design when you don’t have time to design. Wrote white-papers on the potential benefits and issues of using header-analysis to pre-classify and prioritize incoming email, on strategies for source-code control, and addressing enterprise security needs. Managed the Messagefire website and provided backup technical support for Messagefire customers. Analyzed potential partner relationships and wrote internal and external proposals for partner companies.

• Co-Founder & General Partner

  Messagefire, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2002 — January 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  Co-founded end-user, anti-spam service. Collaborated on marketing strategy and the design of spamdetection rules. Designed and implemented the Messagefire public web site and internal administrative tools including content management, account management, e-commerce and billing, web-mail, and automated customer-support. Helped negotiate the sale to MessageGate.

• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

  OneCallWeb, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  Re-launch of a company providing automated-calls to small organizations as a phone-tree replacement. Re-designed website and billing system. Designed architecture to integrate OneCallWeb into NetCentric’s Unified Messaging Platform to facilitate sale to NetCentric... who promptly failed to get their next round of VC financing and went under.

• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

  Saroca, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Shipbuilding industry)

  September 1999 — August 2000 (1 year )

  Re-launch of a small boat company. Designed web-based reseller system to take a lead, identify an appropriate rep., set up contact, follow-up on sale, take the order, notify the manufacturer and shipper, and follow-up on delivery. Co-wrote marketing collateral and business plan. Helped obtain initial angel financing, but company was unable to meet unexpected construction costs.

• Managing Partner

  USWeb

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  October 1997 — May 1998 (8 months)

  Created a plan for an east-coast Strategy and Solutions Center. Created presentations and literature to aid offices in developing strategic consulting offerings for USWeb offices. Created a database-driven intranet site to aid USWeb employees in tracking organizational structure and individual roles and interests of their peers. Worked with corporate to improve internal communications.

• Founder, President & Chief Technology Officer

  Utopia, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1994 — October 1997 (3 years 2 months)

  Founded Utopia as an internet consulting and web development company. Did sales, development, design, and emptied the wastebaskets. Designed and implemented secure commerce, conferencing, custom search, database, push, dynamic web page, server plugin and Java solutions for clients ranging from Fidelity Investments to the Chicago Tribune to the Boston Museum of Science. Made sales pitches, both solo and as the technical half of sales teams. Wrote marketing literature, white papers, proposals and RFP responses. As we grew, brought on partners to manage sales, marketing and day to day running of the company. Utopia had 70 employees and five offices when we sold it to USWeb.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Wildfire Communications

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

  September 1992 — August 1994 (2 years )

  Designed and implemented the underlying user-interface toolkit for a phone-based, digital assistant. The toolkit transparently handled voice, computer and two-way pager interfaces for Wildfire’s digital assistant. Designed and created Wildfire’s web-based intranet in 1993. Created an exception package for C++ that worked with ObjectDesign’s ObjectStore database.

• Co-Founder & Vice President

  Alfalfa Software, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1989 — August 1992 (3 years )

  Designed and implemented the user-agent for Poste; a multi-media, client/server-based electronic mail system supporting both X.400 and internet standards. Poste’s underlying object model allowed C++ objects to be manipulated both locally and remotely transparent to the programmer. Portions of Alfalfa’s email technology became the backbone of AT&T’s WorldNet mail system. Designed C++ class wrappers for OSF/Motif, and patched a multitude of bugs in the toolkit. Chosen as the sole non-member, beta-test site for Motif 1.2. Wrote an implementation of the X-Open standard localization package for Unix that was included in the Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD operating systems. Wrote a distributed source-code-control package that allowed multiple developers to check in and merge across UUCP links. Founded and maintained the world-wide Motif and NT Developer mailing lists. Designed, wrote and published Alfalfa’s logo, ad copy, press releases, photo layouts, newsletters and tradeshow booth designs.

• Member of UEC Selection Team

  Open Software Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1988 — August 1989 (1 year )

  On loan from Apollo Computer, Inc.. Member of five person User Environment Component team to select the standard GUI for the Open Software Foundation. Evaluated more than thirty submitted technologies, and specified the final mix of components that seemed most viable technically and politically. Those became the industry-standard OSF/MotifTM GUI, adopted across the Unix workstation market. Gave a number of presentations on the selection process and decision at various conferences and press announcements in the U.S..

• Software Engineer

  Apollo (Hewlett Packard)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1983 — August 1989 (6 years )

  Designed and prototyped a graphical extension language. Project Engineer to ready a port of X10 for first industry X announcement. Ported Open Dialogue UIMS from X10 to X11. Project Engineer responsible for defining Apollo’s standard “look and feel”. Project Engineer for release of OSF/Motif on the Apollo platform. Designed and implemented new programmable version of the Aegis command shell. Section manager and principal designer of a data-driven software release mechanism. Served on swat team to fix problems in the first major Apollo release of Unix. Apollo’s representative to the IEEE P1201 GUI standards committee.

• Co-Founder & Senior Software Engineer

  Bright Ideas, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1985 — 1988 (3 years )

  Designed and implemented a portable scenario compiler and runtime system for writing simulation games. Designed a PC-based fax communication system and wrote an extensible graphic format converter. Designed, wrote, and released a 250 recipe cookbook that supported user-added recipes, generation of permuted indices, shopping lists and cooking suggestions.

• Software Engineer

  Sperry Research Center

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 1982 — August 1983 (1 year 2 months)

  Designed and implemented a terminal-based windowing system for “smart” terminals. Assisted in the design of an work-flow office automation system.

• Summer Intern

  Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill)

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1981 — August 1981 (4 months)

  Designed and wrote data analysis software for statistical analysis of a backlog of psychology experiments.

Kee Hinckley’s Education

• Bates College

  BA , Anthropology , September 1978 — June 1982

Additional Information

Kee Hinckley’s Websites:

• My Company
• TechnoSocial Blog
• Twitter

Kee Hinckley’s Interests:

PAPERS, ARTICLES, PATENTS A Network-Based Knowledgeable Assistant, patented with other Wildfire employees, US Patent #5,652,789. Media Independent Interfaces in a Media Dependent World; Arnold, Hinckley, Scheinbrood; Proceedings, COOTS '95 (Conf. On Obj. Oriented Technologies), USENIX Association. Geometry Management with Xt: Advice for Widget Authors, with Andrew Schulert, Xhibition, June 1991. The OSF/Motif User Interface, Chemical Design Automation News, Oct./Nov.1989. A Comparison of Motif and Open Look, written on contract to OSF, Sept. 1989. The OSFTM User Environment Component, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Spring 1989. A Portable and Extensible Environment for Developing Interactive Applications, with Andrew Schulert, CompCon 88, San Francisco. An Object-Oriented Extension Language for Integrating Disparate Applications, INTERACT 87, Stuttgart, 1987.

Kee Hinckley’s Groups:

Former Member of the Technical Advisory Board for The X Journal.
Former Apollo Computer Representative to IEEE P1201., Twitterers Anonymous

•    Ruby on Rails
•    Business on Rails
•    Apollo Computer Alumni
•    Perl Mongers
•    Boston Perl Mongers (Boston.pm)
•    Bates Alumni
•    Perl

Kee Hinckley’s Honors:

PRESENTATIONS
Building Custom Web Applications: An Overview,
full-day course at Boston ACM's Professional Development Seminars, April, '97.

Technologies for Developing Web-based Applications,
full-day course at School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee's MIS Consortium course series, May, '97.

TXJ Talks with Kee Hinckley,
interview by Brian Holt, The X Journal, Mar/Apr. 1992.

Designing a User Interface and Future Directions in Terms of Tools and Interfaces,
invited talks at Unix '91, Stockholm, Fall 1991.

State of GUI's in Unix,
invited panel at Summer Usenix, 1991.

Programming with OSF/Motif,
full-day course presented at Summer and Winter Usenix's in 1990 with Brian Holt.

Kee Hinckley’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
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