
Entrepreneur, Product Manager, Channel Builder, Community Leader, and Software Developer
San Francisco Bay Area

Entrepreneur, Product Manager, Channel Builder, Community Leader, and Software Developer
San Francisco Bay Area
I’m a software entrepreneur, product manager, and evangelist currently working as the Google Apps partner lead for Google Enterprise. I spend my days helping 3rd parties, from startups to F500, build businesses on and around Google Apps.
I joined Google through the acquisition of JotSpot, where I was Director of Developer Relations. JotSpot is a hosted, wiki-based collaborative application platform designed to be extended by 3rd parties. I ran developer and partner programs focused on putting JotSpot's platform to work.
Before JotSpot, I founded collaboration software startup Inovie Software, where I was CTO and product manager. We sold a web-based collaboration suite called TeamCenter and bootstrapped to 120+ customers and a couple million dollars in revenue before being acquired by SDRC, a public software company in the PLM space.
I kicked off my working days as a software developer at Peregrine Systems and NCR, where I developed enterprise network management software and hacked UNIX internals. I have also been a lecturer at UC Berkeley's iSchool in the area of XML and e-business.
A techie at heart, I was a PhD student in Computer Science at UC San Diego for a few years. I ultimately dropped out with a Masters after my 6,000 mile motorcycle trip across the US convinced me to pursue entrepreneurship instead of academia :)
Entrepreneurship, Product Management and Strategy, Developer Programs, Partner Programs, Strategic Alliances, Software Development Management, Software Architecture, Product Marketing, Collaboration Software.