Andrew Peterson

Current

• Software Project Lead at Carbon Five
• Owner at NDP Software

Past

• Principal Architect at TeeBeeDee
• Software Architect/Software Manager at GreatSchools
• President, Board of Directors at Streetside Stories

• Instructor at City College of San Francisco
• Software Development Manager and Senior Software Engineer at NAVIS
• Senior Software Engineer at Farallon
• Senior Software Engineer at Software Publishing
• Software Engineer at Mansfield Systems Inc.

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Education

• University of Oregon

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• NDP Software

Andrew Peterson’s Summary

My mission is to build compelling software. I love brainstorming new ideas, exploring different directions, prototyping, but ultimately I'm a pragmatic person, and I like to build something that will be used (and enjoyed).

I appreciate the nature of software, where each day brings new challenges and things to learn.

Andrew Peterson’s Specialties:

Software conception, design and construction.

Andrew Peterson’s Experience

• Software Project Lead

  Carbon Five

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

  CarbonFive delivers software through an iterative and collaborative consulting process. Most of my projects have been bootstrapping start-ups, or working with them on specific projects. I am responsible for client, project and technical management. We focus on (but are not limited to) open source Java and Ruby on Rails platforms. Projects include:
  - online-outreach for "The National Campaign" NGO
  - Pharmaceutical manufacturing industry networking and web application (gobalto.com)
  - Online educational platform for grades 3-6
  - Online shopping product review service (Powerreviews.com Express product)
  - IM-bot software for a social search (Aardvark)
  - Development and training to facilitate staffing transition at a social networking web property.

• Owner

  NDP Software

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  February 1999 — Present (10 years 10 months)

  Variety of web and software development, as well as software-oriented consulting.

• Principal Architect

  TeeBeeDee

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Built Social Networking platform for Baby Boomers.

• Software Architect/Software Manager

  GreatSchools

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 8 months)

  Created Java implementation of popular school information site for parents.

• President, Board of Directors

  Streetside Stories

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2000 — June 2005 (5 years 6 months)

  Served as board president/chair, on governance committee, and hired the executive director.

• Instructor

  City College of San Francisco

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 6 months)

  Taught web development classes part-time.

• Software Development Manager and Senior Software Engineer

  NAVIS

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

  March 1992 — 1999 (7 years )

  The leading supplier of software solutions for container terminals, shipping ports and lines, and distribution centers. I helped Navis Corporation grow from just a few clients when I joined (employee number eleven) to the world-wide market leader. I focused on the SPARCS product, a real-time, decision-support, client/server system that manages over 100 containership terminals around the world. I served many varied roles (often simultaneously) while at Navis.
  Software Development Manager (shared) I built the development team, helped set the strategic direction of the company, and managed 4-10 major projects each year (and countless minor projects). I advocated for, and helped institute strategic planning, source code control, a coding style guide, task tracking and scheduling systems. Coordinated weekly technical meetings.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Farallon

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  January 1990 — February 1992 (2 years 2 months)

  Led a six-engineer team in the creation of the top-selling SoundEdit Pro / SoundEdit 16 (MacroMedia). To improve software quality, I founded (with three co-workers) the User Interface Task Force, which began user testing company-wide.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Software Publishing

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

  August 1988 — December 1989 (1 year 5 months)

  Designed and coded three cross-platform projects: a high-end word processor, a database and a presentation graphics product (Harvard Graphics). I analysed and recommended potential product acquisitions. I advocated quality, initiated internal documentation requirements and set programming style guidelines.

• Software Engineer

  Mansfield Systems Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 1986 — August 1988 (2 years 2 months)

  As employee number four at this start-up company, I created a technical desktop publishing application for MacOS. I started as a summer intern and grew to a primary developer of the word processor.

Andrew Peterson’s Education

• University of Oregon

  B.A. , Computer Science, Music , 1983 — 1987

Additional Information

Andrew Peterson’s Websites:

• NDP Software

Andrew Peterson’s Interests:

basketball, jazz trombone, kids

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