Richard Huff

Current

• Senior Manager | Atlas Institute at Microsoft

Past

• Managing Member at Geckowerx, LLC
• President & CEO // Director, Hosting Services at Media Access Internet Solutions, Inc. // Peak Internet, Inc.
• President & CEO // General Manager at Pacific Rim Network, Inc. // Verio, Inc.

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Education

• University of Washington
• Washington Academy of Languages
• Whatcom Community College

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Employer
• My Podcast

Richard Huff’s Summary

• Founded, led and sold multiple, successful, Internet technology companies.
• 10+ years of executive-level management and business development.
• 10+ years of system, network and telecommunications experience.
• Statistics, research and programming proficiency.
• Sun Solaris System Administrator & Network Administrator certifications.
• Internet Firewall and VPN certifications.

Richard Huff’s Specialties:

Business development, especially related to technology companies, startups and the Internet.

Richard Huff’s Experience

• Senior Manager | Atlas Institute

  Microsoft

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

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Drive the digital publisher custom solutions analytics offering for Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Platform unit.
  • Forecast and report demographic target reach and frequency at the placement level for GRP and TRP metric analogs in the digital publishing space.
  • Perform research around Key Performance Indicators and Key Forecast Indicators for the digital display publishing market.
  • Engage digital publishers in optimization strategies for both premium and discretionary ad inventory.
  • Run comparative, longitudinal studies of ad targeting methods (e.g., demographic, behavioral, and psychographic) and ad sales models (e.g., CPM, CPC, and CPA).

• Managing Member

  Geckowerx, LLC

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

  March 2003 — July 2007 (4 years 5 months)

  Own and operate a boutique Web hosting and development company.
  • Serving select mid-market organizations with custom Web development, content management, search engine optimization (SEO), analytics, and hosting solutions.
  • Engineered and implemented modern, high-availability hosting platform based on Cisco, Sun, Apple and Microsoft technologies.
  • Responsible for daily operations, including sales, marketing, finance, systems administration and engineering, programming, and employee management.

• President & CEO // Director, Hosting Services

  Media Access Internet Solutions, Inc. // Peak Internet, Inc.

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

  September 1998 — June 2005 (6 years 10 months)

  Co-founded Web application firm. Focused on talent development, leadership, and business development. Served as the primary network architect and engineer.
  • Authored business plan, raised capital, and oversaw execution of company strategy. Grew annual revenues to greater than $1,000,000 in three years’ time.
  • Created a quality work environment. Implemented profit-sharing and stock-purchase programs.
  • Engineered and implemented a high-availability Web Application Service Provider (ASP) platform based on Sun Microsystems servers and Oracle database software.
  • Merged the hosting business with Peak Internet, Inc., following dotcom collapse in 2001. Became the Director of Hosting Services at Peak.

• President & CEO // General Manager

  Pacific Rim Network, Inc. // Verio, Inc.

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

  January 1994 — September 1998 (4 years 9 months)

  Co-founded regional Internet Service Provider. Sold firm to national provider Verio, Inc. in 1997.
  • Owned and operated a regional Internet Service Provider (ISP). Authored business plan, raised start-up capital. Recruited, hired, and managed employees.
  • Engineered and implemented a dedicated and dial-up Internet access network that supported thousands of customers. Service area spanned five counties and two incumbent RBOCs.
  • Implemented US West’s first commercial Optical Carrier (OC-3) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. First to market in three counties with Integrated Systems Digital Network (ISDN) and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Internet access services.
  • Performed system, network, and telecommunications administration.
  • Personally negotiated sale of business to Verio. Generated better than 3,500% ROI for original investors.

Richard Huff’s Education

• University of Washington

  BA, With Distinction (Honors) , Sociology , 2003 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Dean’s List (every academic quarter), Sociology Honors Program (2004 – 2005), President, Sociology Student Association (2004 – 2005), and Keynote Speaker, Sociology Graduation (2005)

• Washington Academy of Languages

  Japanese 101, 102 2003 — 2003

• Whatcom Community College

  AA Transfer Degree , 1990 — 1992

Additional Information

Richard Huff’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Employer
• My Podcast

Richard Huff’s Interests:

Podcast Producer: www.confabshow.com Podcast Producer: www.podcastingliberally.com Blog: www.richardhuff.com Marathon Runner Cyclist, Single and Dual Century Rider Snowboarder

Richard Huff’s Honors:

All College Outstanding Service Award (1991 - 1992)
All College Outstanding Service Award (1990 - 1991)

Richard Huff’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• job inquiries
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