Entrepreneur / Technology Lead / Mobile Software Specialist
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Product Lead at Clearspring
- Consulting Work (Self-employed)
- Founder / CTO at AdHoc Mobile LLC
- Past
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- Founder / CTO at Tomo Software Inc
- Research Fellow / Senior Research Programmer at Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute - Medical Robotics Group
- Senior Developer at CASurgica Inc.
- Research Programmer at Brookhaven National Laboratories
- Research Intern at Brookhaven National Laboratories
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Carnegie Mellon University
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Rich LaBarca’s Summary
I'm a software engineer and product leader who thrives at bridging business goals with technical strategy and execution. Starting my career in research with computer assisted surgery, my passion for emerging, life-changing technologies grew. I especially fell in love with mobile technology and eventually decided to jump into the world of mobile software startups.
In mobile, my work in mobile has focused on middleware, but I've designed and built sophisticated client-side applications in J2ME and Windows Mobile as well. I led the development and created the core technology for an AI platform for mobile gaming, a high-performance platform for mobile ad serving, and many smaller projects in between.
I am happiest when I'm forming a technology and product strategy and developing core technology.
I am currently a product lead for several products at Clearspring Technologies - the leading platform provider for the componentized web (more widely known as widgets). I am leading Clearspring's desktop and mobile products, and am developing the next generation of our WidgetMedia products as well.
Rich LaBarca’s Specialties:
technology/product leadership & strategy
software product design
software architecture
web services
mobile software & services
software for scientific/medical research
artificial intelligence
Rich LaBarca’s Experience
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Product Lead
Clearspring
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
I am director of Clearspring's Mobile and Desktop products, and am currently leading development of our next generation WidgetMedia products.
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Consulting Work
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Blue Belt Technologies - Hospital Smartroom Project Design / Flash Development
Pocketsoul Inc. - Core technology plan and whitepaper for networked mobile gaming, Windows Mobile video application development
IXEN Mobile - Mobile social networking design -
Founder / CTO
AdHoc Mobile LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Designed, and with a small team, developed and deployed technology for first mobile touchpoint-agnostic advertisement distribution system
Researched and authored patent provisional for the core technology
Conducted technical discussions and due diligence rounds -
Founder / CTO
Tomo Software Inc
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — January 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Inventor and lead architect for Mobile BEAST content delivery and virtual world platform
Created technology demos that aided in raising $3M in funding for the company
Led a team of 12 developers in developing and deploying the most sophisticated mobile content and MMO gaming platform ever in the US. This included internationalization and mobile device porting strategies
Researched and authored patent provisionals for the core technology -
Research Fellow / Senior Research Programmer
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute - Medical Robotics Group
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — January 2004 (5 years 6 months)
Project lead / chief architect for HipNav - total hip replacement surgical navigation system
Designer / project lead for network-based hardware-independent 3D tracking system interface
Software engineer for KneeNav-TKR total knee replacement surgical navigation system
Provided numerous contributions to Image Overlay surgical heads-up display system
Conducted numerous research projects in the area of medical image registration, accuracy validation, and 3D tracking -
Senior Developer
CASurgica Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1998 — December 2003 (5 years 2 months)
Developed and assisted with commercialization of HipNav surgical navigation system
Project lead for avascular necrosis surgical navigation system -
Research Programmer
Brookhaven National Laboratories
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
May 1995 — August 1995 (4 months)
Software engineer for X-ray diffraction crystallography beamline software at the National Synchrotron Light Source. Wrote software to facilitate data collection for protein crystallography.
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Research Intern
Brookhaven National Laboratories
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
June 1993 — July 1993 (2 months)
Designed computer interface and control program for monochromator system in laboratory's high flux beam reactor.
Rich LaBarca’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Robotics, 1998 — 2000
Masters Thesis: A Unified, Network-Based System for Interfacing With 3-Dimensional Position Tracking Systems. This system was implemented and used in many computer-assisted surgeries and medical research projects.
Advisors: Branko Jaramaz, Tony Digioia, Takeo Kanade -
Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Computer Science, Minor in Physics, 1994 — 1998
Senior Thesis - Towards Robotic Bipedal Walking - received a Senior Undergraduate Research Grant
Advisors: Andrew Moore, Mark Stehlik- Activities and Societies:
- Robotics Club - President
CMU Lacrosse Team
Electronic Media Organization
Additional Information
Rich LaBarca’s Websites:
Rich LaBarca’s Interests:
Mobile Technology, Electronic Music - I produce my own mash-up/remix podcast at www.systeme-d.org, Snowboarding
Rich LaBarca’s Groups:
Mobile Monday NY, Mobile Monday LA, Mobile Monday DC
Rich LaBarca’s Honors:
Hip Society Otto Aufranc Award for acetabular alignment measurement using the HipNav system
Medical Robotics Technology Center Research Fellowship
Rich LaBarca’s Contact Settings
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