Norman Clarke

Current
  • Partner at AddThree Inc
Past
  • Technology Director at Don't Blink Media, Inc
  • Senior Software Engineer at nanoMaterials Discovery Corporation
  • Owner, Systems and Software Engineer at ePersonals Inc.
  • Systems and Software Engineer at Combimatrix
Education
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Massachusetts Boston
Connections
35 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Norman Clarke’s Summary

Experience: I have founded several moderately successful startups and also worked for a few that provided... ummm... more "learning opportunities" than profit. I've always worked for smaller companies because that's what I love to do.

Goals: To finally hit that home run out of the park. To always be working on something interesting and never lose the love for what I do. Also, to get paid for doing that. :-)

Norman Clarke’s Specialties:

Ruby on Rails, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Java, J2EE, PHP, Apache, JBoss, XHTML/CSS etc. Figuring out how to glue together disparate technologies in creative and functional ways.


Norman Clarke’s Experience

  • Partner

    AddThree Inc

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    September 2007Present (11 months)

    I am a partner and owner of AddThree Inc, a Performance Marketing Agency with offices in Seattle WA, San Jose CA and Buenos Aires, Argentina. AddThree offers professional consultation and management services for organic and paid search marketing.

  • Technology Director

    Don't Blink Media, Inc

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    May 2006September 2007 (1 year 5 months)

    Responsible for all development initiatives and oversight of the Don't Blink development team.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    nanoMaterials Discovery Corporation

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

    January 2005September 2005 (9 months)

    Database development, systems architecture, web site development, and data analysis software for a nanotechnology company focused on fuel cell and battery matrials research.

  • Owner, Systems and Software Engineer

    ePersonals Inc.

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

    July 2002January 2005 (2 years 7 months)

    Starting from zero, I conceived, designed, implemented, managed and sold the ePersonals online personal site with 3 other friends. It was one of the greatest learning experiences of my life to date. I did all of the architectural work, the database development, systems administration, and a significant chunk of the software development as well.

  • Systems and Software Engineer

    Combimatrix

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

    June 2000July 2002 (2 years 2 months)

    I was brought in to develop the database layer of the applications Combimatrix was working on at the time, and also do some network and systems administration on the side. I got to work on some interesting stuff, including a cobbled-together but blazing fast cluster of machines running Mosix for some CPU-intensive gene sequence analysis software. At Combi I also ended up learning a lot about Java programming and began moving away from hardware and databases, and more towards software development.


Norman Clarke’s Education

  • University of Connecticut

    Linguistics September 1998May 1999

    Spent one year in the graduate linguistics program before deciding it wasn't for me and started a career in programming. It was a productive year however and find myself using the knowledge I picked up there from time to time.

  • University of Massachusetts Boston

    BA, Hispanic Studies, Linguistics, 19901995

    The Spanish department at UMass Boston offered me the chance to pursue several independent studies during my BA, including being one of 5 students to participate in an experimental linguistics course taught by Noam Chomsky at MIT. Although I graduated with a degree in Hispanic Studies I pursued a great deal of coursework in Linguistics with my advisor Esther Torrego, and after graduation went on to work towards a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. I was somewhat of a professional student and took many classes in German, philosophy and music.


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Norman Clarke’s Interests:

Foreign languages, travel, open source software, baseball, backpacking, photography and Brazilian music. I live in Argentina and speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese fluently, as well as decent German.

Norman Clarke’s Groups:

Lista Ruby Argentina


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