Neal Sample

Current

• VP Social Platforms at Yahoo!

Past

• Chief Architect at Yahoo!
• Founder at SynectixGroup, Inc.
• Chief Scientist at RightOrder, Inc.

• Consultant at various
• QA Engineer at Maxtor Corporation

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Wyoming
• Stanford University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Neal Sample’s Experience

• VP Social Platforms

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Chief Architect

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  May 2004 — October 2008 (4 years 6 months)

  Previous role was Architect for Community Platforms and Products (Groups, Profiles, Y!360, Photos, etc.).
  
  Promoted to Chief Architect within the Platforms and Infrastructure Division.

• Founder

  SynectixGroup, Inc.

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

  April 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 9 months)

• Chief Scientist

  RightOrder, Inc.

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

  2000 — 2004 (4 years )

• Consultant

  various

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  1996 — 2001 (5 years )

  Worked directly and indirectly on high-value development and software design projects with several large customers including HP, SAP, Everdream.com, Helzberg Diamonds, Wells Fargo, and CHRW advertising. Served in various roles including architecture, development, and engineering management.

• QA Engineer

  Maxtor Corporation

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

  1993 — 1994 (1 year )

Neal Sample’s Education

• Stanford University

  PhD, MS , Computer Science , 1998 — 2004

• University of Wyoming

  MS, BS , computer science , 1992 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa
  Debate Team captain
  IEEE & ACM

• Stanford University

  post-doc , Computer Science

  2 years as a funded researcher with CIA Office of Research and Development (ORD). Partnered with Stanford University.

Additional Information

Neal Sample’s Groups:

•    Stanford CS Alumni
•    Stanford University Alumni
•    IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Alumni Association
•    Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp

Neal Sample’s Honors:

7,299,235 Method and apparatus for ternary PATRICIA trie blocks
7,287,033 Efficient traversals over hierarchical data and indexing semistructured data
6,804,677 Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing

1 20080155080 PROVISIONING MY STATUS INFORMATION TO OTHERS IN MY SOCIAL NETWORK
2 20060230061 Displaying aggregated new content by selected other user based on their authorization level
3 20060184997 Control for inviting an unauthenticated user to gain access to display of content that is otherwise accessible with an authentication mechanism
4 20060184578 Control for enabling a user to preview display of selected content based on another user's authorization level
5 20060015516 Method and apparatus for adding supplemental information to PATRICIA tries
6 20050038798 Cascading index method and apparatus

(Continuations and CIPs omitted)

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