Oliver Steele

Current

• Software Consultant and Startup Advisor at Oliver Steele Consulting

Past

• VP Software Development at Oblong Industries, Inc.
• Software and IP Consultant at Oliver Steele Consulting
• Founder and CTO at Style and Share

• Founder and CTO at Dotted Pair, Inc.
• Chief Software Architect; Director of the Boston Office at Laszlo Systems, Inc.
• Chief Technology Officer at AlphaMask
• Consultant at Lexeme
• Chief Ontology Officer at Method Software, Inc.
• Project Lead at Apple Cambridge Research
• Software Engineer at Apple Computer, Inc.
• Programmer at Screenplay, Inc.

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Education

• UNC-CH
• Brandeis University
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Chapel Hill High School

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Recommended

2 people have recommended Oliver

Connections

194 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Oliver Steele’s Summary

Software developer, manager, former CSA, CTO, VPE in the fields of computer graphics, computer language design, and natural language processing.

Companies: Apple Computer, Laszlo Systems, AlphaMask (sold to OpenWave)
Co-founder: Dotted Pair, Style&Share
Early-stage: Method Software, Laszlo Systems, AlphaMask
Products: OpenLaszlo (director and architect), Apple Dylan (IDE project lead), Apple Quickdraw GX
Open source projects: PyWordNet, OpenLaszlo, Functional JavaScript, etc.
Presentations: O'Reilly E'Tech, XTech, PyCon, Ajax Experience, MIT LL2
Patents: UI, web sync; others pending
Erdős number: 7

Oliver Steele’s Specialties:

Natural language processing, 2D Graphics, Computer language design and implementation, XML technologies, Haskell, Python, Ruby, Dylan, Common Lisp, Java, JavaScript, C++

Oliver Steele’s Experience

• Software Consultant and Startup Advisor

  Oliver Steele Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  I am a Boston-area software consultant who has shipped products and deployed web sites in C++, Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Ruby, Python, Rails, and JavaScript; with experience in rich websites, natural language processing, and in managing and directing distributed teams.

• VP Software Development

  Oblong Industries, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

• Software and IP Consultant

  Oliver Steele Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — April 2008 (1 year )

  Management, legal, and technical consulting to the software industry, with a focus on (1) web software, (2) visualization and user interaction, and (3) very hard problems.

• Founder and CTO

  Style and Share

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

  November 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 6 months)

• Founder and CTO

  Dotted Pair, Inc.

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

  April 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 4 months)

• Chief Software Architect; Director of the Boston Office

  Laszlo Systems, Inc.

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

  December 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 2 months)

• Chief Technology Officer

  AlphaMask

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

  May 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 5 months)

• Consultant

  Lexeme

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

  June 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 7 months)

• Chief Ontology Officer

  Method Software, Inc.

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

  June 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 7 months)

• Project Lead

  Apple Cambridge Research

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1992 — April 1995 (3 years 3 months)

• Software Engineer

  Apple Computer, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1989 — April 1992 (2 years 11 months)

• Programmer

  Screenplay, Inc.

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

  September 1982 — September 1984 (2 years 1 month)

  Game programmer; worked on the awarding-winning game "Pogo Joe" for the Commodore 64, also TRS-80 and Atari 800 games.

Oliver Steele’s Education

• UNC-CH

  B.S. , Linguistics , September 1984 — June 1999

• Brandeis University

  ABD , Computer Science , 1995 — 1998

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  ABD , Linguistics , 1993 — 1995

• Chapel Hill High School

Additional Information

Oliver Steele’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog