Vice President Software and Professional Services at GenomeQuest, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
Vice President Software and Professional Services at GenomeQuest, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
Successful entrepreneur (sold Mosaic Bioinformatics to NetGenics in 2000) and software wizard with experience in the software, mobile, life sciences, entertainment, and energy industries. MIT Media Lab startup CEO. Executive manager of software development teams, professional services teams, and sales teams in high-tech fast-paced companies.
Entrepreneurial strategy, business planning, fund raising, team building, P&L management and growth, application conceptualization, software development, data warehousing, user-centered design.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Executive management of product development and professional services teams for growing DNA sequence informatics company.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Harmony Line is a three year old software company with roots in the MIT Media Lab. Our flagship product, Hyperscore, allows people with no formal musical background to compose rich, beautiful music. Ten year old children with no music training have used the software to create pieces that have been played by world-renowned symphony orchestras. The New York Times says it, "represents a quantum leap" in composition software. For more information, go to http://www.hyperscore.com.
(Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Developed marketing strategy for US sales and managed the relationship between Marketing and R&D. Rolled out products under a rebranded product line. Worked directly with General Manager of US operations to build a US operation from the ground up. Managed the growing services organization as a profit center.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Biotechnology industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Bioinformatics implementation consultant, managing team of developers to write in-house bioinformatics applications.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 7 months)
Transformed a 9 person, $100,000 revenue department into a thirty person, $5 million organization. Reorganized the group around functional groups and horizontal service teams led by experienced business project directors. Negotiated the single largest contract in the companys history: a solution sale of combined products and services exceeding $3 million over a two-year period. Department ended up generating over 80% of the entire companys business, with only 30% of the companys workforce.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1999 — May 2000 (7 months)
Co-founded company and held direct responsibility for all aspects of organizational growth. Raised start-up funds from local angels in a convertible debt offering. Developed marketing and sales strategy, as well as partnering strategy. Partnering discussions quickly led to interest by NetGenics in a corporate acquisition, creating a 4x multiple for investors in less than a year. Pioneered the adoption of data warehousing technology in the life science industry.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
April 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Integrated a geographically distributed group of 15 engineers to work together on large-scale software development projects in the midst of a corporate-wide reduction in force. Managed the specification and development of gene-finding software which is still in use by the company six years later.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1995 — April 1998 (2 years 8 months)
Founded a consulting practice to deliver software and database services to the biotech industry. Developed a web-based application to connect buyers at scientific laboratories to vendors of oligonucleotides.
MBA , Entrepreneurship, Economics , 2003 — 2004
M.B.A. , June 2003 — June 2004
M.S. , Computer Science , September 1995 — May 1997
B.S. , Computer Science , September 1990 — May 1994