
Founder / CEO at VigLink, Inc
San Francisco Bay Area

Founder / CEO at VigLink, Inc
San Francisco Bay Area
Currently staffing the founding technical team at VigLink: http://viglink.com/jobs/
Network delivered software
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
VigLink is building a unique platform for the real-time optimization of affiliate marketing. The company has some very notable investors and is currently hiring the founding technical team. Job descriptions are available at http://viglink.com/jobs/
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
June 2008 — April 2009 (11 months)
Sourced an opportunity and led investment through successful execution of a term sheet. Participated in all stages of the diligence process across dozens of potential deals. Implemented deal flow management system for improved pipeline visibility. Created financial models to identify fund allocation concerns.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)
July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)
Performed end-to-end review of technical and organizational architecture of 5-year, 200-person software effort, driving significant technical, organizational and cultural changes: reorganization from a dozen product teams to three, consolidation of job titles, movement to a monthly release cycle and a common toolset, elimination of non-strategic projects and change of vendors to reduce costs and increase flexibility.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
March 2003 — March 2007 (4 years 1 month)
Built XBOX Live Video Marketplace and Zune Services teams from
scratch: Secured approval, recruited and managed team, and executed product development from concept to delivery including product definition, design, scheduling and launch across PC, XBOX and Zune platforms. Worked laterally to develop Zune brand, customer promise and strategy. Crafted complex agreements with MTV, all major music labels and vendors like MusicNet. Frequently represented Microsoft in acquisition due-diligence, partner management, recruiting, legal deposition, and internal evangelism. Managed teams as large as 35 and launched numerous other products including multiple versions of MSN Music, Video, Movies, Radio and TV.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2002 — March 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Worked for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, managing various projects including IP portfolio management, due diligence on technology investments and digital media strategy. Founded and managed Project Halo, a ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence research project in “Question Answering”. Managed multiple teams locally and overseas with multi-million dollar budgets. Presented at DARPA and semantic web conferences.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — December 2002 (3 years )
Acted as both product manager and core engineer for award-winning online radio product. Led cross-company team through multiple product iterations. Designed and implemented the technical architecture for real-time communication service supporting thousands of concurrent users. Developed formal partner engagement plans and strategy for technology investment and development.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
October 2001 — December 2001 (3 months)
Designed, built and deployed core subsystems of the Edusoft platform including automatic grader using custom OCR and commodity sheet-fed scanners reducing per-test costs roughly 100x. In November 2003, Edusoft was acquired by The Houghton Mifflin Company.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SCNT; Internet industry)
September 1999 — January 2000 (5 months)
Developer responsible for design and implementation of a financial institution messaging system including all PKI and message integrity verification. Scient is now part of SBI Group.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 1994 — June 1999 (4 years 10 months)
Founded “Hive”, a popular open-source toolkit for making distributed software systems. Conceived, implemented and oversaw project, which served as basis for three masters theses including my own: Hive: A Software Infrastructure for Things That Think. Routinely briefed sponsors including fortune 100 C-level executives. Presented at Intel Play consortium and Nokia’s “Things That Link” workshop in Helsinki, Finland. Created a hardware and software system for the real-time acquisition and analysis of telemetry from wired athletes, deployed on runners in the Boston and San Francisco marathons in support of sports-medicine research.
MBA , 2007 — 2009
M.Eng , Computer Science , 1998 — 1999
B.Sc , Computer Science , 1994 — 1998
Ontario Secondary School Diploma , 1984 — 1994
scalable distributed systems, arbitrage, the marginal utility of data