Steve Ardire

Current

Advisor at Structured Dynamics
Advisor at MemeSpring

Past

Advisor at Nervana
Consultant at Personall
VP Strategy at iQuest Analytics

Bus Dev/Sales Consultant at Trampoline Systems
Bus Dev/Sales Consultant at fourthcodex
Producting Marketing Consultant at Fetch
Business Strategy Consultant/Advisor at Broadstrokes Inc.
Chief Strategist at SchemaLogic
Project Consultant at Boeing
Business Strategy Consultant at The Kelvin Institute
Business Strategy Consultant at Brainhat
Project Consultant at SCT Global Education Solutions
SVP Business Development at LifeF/X Networks
VP Business Development at Big Science Company
Acting VP Business Development at Younology, Inc.
Consultant/Advisor at Net Deva
Sr. Director Business Development & Sales at Cartia
VP Business Development at Numinous Technologies
Sr. Director Business Development & Sales at Bulldog Group
Project Consultant at Microsoft
Business Strategy Consultant at Washington Research Foundation
Director Business Development at Stellar One Corp.
Multimedia, computer graphics/animation entrepreneur at Media Zone
Geological engineering & technical sales at First career in petroleum industry

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Education

Franklin & Marshall College
The University of Connecticut

Recommended

3 people have recommended Steve

Connections

240 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Steve Ardire’s Summary

For the past 15+ years, Steve has provided incisive business strategy and development, product marketing, and sales consulting services to 'disruptive' early stage software startups. Focus is in semantic knowledge discovery, enterprise information management, E2.0 and related. His strength is to establish value— defined through the customer — as the guiding mind-set for all customer interactions.

contact info:
sardire@gmail.com
twitter: sardire
Google Voice: 360-868-4435

Steve Ardire’s Specialties:

Fusing semantic web with semantic enterprise................Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. -- Sun Tzu

Steve Ardire’s Experience

Advisor

Structured Dynamics

(Computer Software industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Structured Dynamics provides ontology-driven applications that fuse enterprise information systems with linked data. The basic premise is that the data itself becomes the application. Via structured, linked data and a combination of products and Web services, information in any form and from any source can now be integrated and made interoperable. Linked data is based on open semantic standards to interconnect any form of relevant information on the Web and in enterprises.

http://www.structureddynamics.com/
virtual organization
Advisor

MemeSpring

(Computer Software industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Automated realtime content classification and discovery engine for Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Market Intelligence, and Content Networks ( Publishers )

Seattle area
Advisor

Nervana

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

June 2009 — October 2009 (5 months)

Nervana provides the fusion of context with analytics for predictive enterprise decision‐management with actionable intelligence.

http://www.nervana.com/
Consultant

Personall

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2009 — October 2009 (6 months)

PersonAll enables knowledge workers to personalize, prioritize, synthesize and share information flows pertinent to business objectives, problems and processes to make collective intelligence easier to aggregate, retrieve and put to use.

http://www.personall-software.com/
Paris, France
VP Strategy

iQuest Analytics

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 2008 — September 2009 (11 months)

iQuest Exploratory Semantic Search & Discovery fuses concept searching and browsing to give knowledge workers the ability to make better sense of information flows from web and enterprise repositories.

http://www.iquestglobal.com
Boston area
Bus Dev/Sales Consultant

Trampoline Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — October 2008 (10 months)

Enterprise social computing for expertise, human capital and organizational change management with social network analysis metrics.

www.trampolinesystems.com
London, UK
Bus Dev/Sales Consultant

fourthcodex

(Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — January 2008 (9 months)

semantic information extraction, concept-based search, knowledge-based decision-support, ontology-driven application development, and scalable meta-data storage.

Chicago
Producting Marketing Consultant

Fetch

(Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — June 2007 (3 months)

Web content syndication player that automatically extracts, aggregates, and integrates massive amounts of Web pages and blogs to enable smarter content syndication and monetization.

www.fetch.com
LA area
Business Strategy Consultant/Advisor

Broadstrokes Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

multimodal notiﬁcation & messaging web service.

New York
Chief Strategist

SchemaLogic

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — November 2005 (11 months)

enterprise taxonomy and metadata management software startup for describing information and aligning content management and search systems for better findability and sharing of information across the enterprise.

http://www.schemalogic.com/
Seattle area
Project Consultant

Boeing

(Aviation & Aerospace industry)

November 2004 — January 2005 (3 months)

Information architecture and business process management.
Business Strategy Consultant

The Kelvin Institute

(Think Tanks industry)

January 2004 — September 2004 (9 months)

intelligent information retrieval and pervasive computing projects for educational consortium seeking to commercialize university intellectual property.

http://www.kelvininstitute.com/
Glasgow, Scotland
Business Strategy Consultant

Brainhat

(Computer Software industry)

February 2003 — July 2003 (6 months)

speech recognition and natural language understanding startup.
Project Consultant

SCT Global Education Solutions

(Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)

collaborative education portal with semantic knowledgebase.
SVP Business Development

LifeF/X Networks

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

‘virtual personality’ software startup used for guided web navigation, product spokespeople, online training.

Boston area
VP Business Development

Big Science Company

(Computer Software industry)

January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

case base reasoning AI engine software startup (acquired by eGain)
Acting VP Business Development

Younology, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

November 1998 — January 1999 (3 months)

NYC personalization software startup
Consultant/Advisor

Net Deva

(Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — December 1998 (7 months)

social networking software startup (acquired by LinkedIn)
Sr. Director Business Development & Sales

Cartia

(Computer Software industry)

August 1997 — May 1998 (10 months)

Formerly called ThemeMedia. Intelligent text analysis software that organized interactive landscapes of document collections. Technology licensed from Battelle PNNL and developed with CIA, DOE funding.
VP Business Development

Numinous Technologies

(Computer Software industry)

February 1997 — August 1997 (7 months)

computer graphics software startup (acquired by Microsoft)
Sr. Director Business Development & Sales

Bulldog Group

(Computer Software industry)

June 1996 — January 1997 (8 months)

content management software startup (acquired by Documentum)
Project Consultant

Microsoft

(Computer Software industry)

January 1996 — June 1996 (6 months)

evaluation & implementation of digital content management system for Interactive Media Division
Business Strategy Consultant

Washington Research Foundation

(Computer Software industry)

June 1995 — December 1995 (7 months)

University of Washington software incubator.
Director Business Development

Stellar One Corp.

(Computer Software industry)

June 1994 — May 1995 (1 year )

for interactive television set top player. OEM deal with Mitsubishi Electric including a $1.2M investment.
Multimedia, computer graphics/animation entrepreneur

Media Zone

(Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years )
Geological engineering & technical sales

First career in petroleum industry

(Computer Software industry)

January 1981 — October 1988 (7 years 10 months)

Additional Information

Steve Ardire’s Interests:

semantic technology information workplace offerings

Steve Ardire’s Groups:

Taxonomy Community of Practice
ValueNetworks.com Value Networks
Semantic technologies
Open Source Universe
Information Access and Search Professionals
TDWI's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Discussion Group
Knowledge Management Experts
CKO (Chief Knowledge Officers) Forum
Semantic Web
Master Data Management Interest Group
Linked Data Web
Semantic Marketing
Emerging Technology Group
Ontologies, OWL-S, SPARQL interest group
Special Libraries Association
Enterprise 2.0 Group
OWL/RDF
UMBEL - Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer
Semantic Web Research
Natural Language Processing People
The Braintrust: Knowledge Management Group
Semantic Technologies Group
Social Network Analysis (www.degreeCentrality.com)
Enterprise Search Engine Professionals
Web 3.0 Applications
SEMANTIC SOCIAL NETWORK 2.0 - One World!
MIKE2.0 Methodology
Semantic Universe
Prediction Markets Cluster
Social Network Analysis in Practice
2009 SemTech: Semantic Technology Conference
Text Analytics Summit
SWEL: Ontologies, Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web for E-Learning
KMWorld
Semantic Professional Network (Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies Professionals)
Information Overload Network
Continuous Innovation
Semantic Web Analytics
Unstructured Data World (Professional Network)
Semantic Enterprise
Linguistic Web