Curt Stevens

Current

VP Engineering / Co-Founder at Responder Technology

Past

Director of Engineering at Ensim Corp.
Development Manager / Senior Software Engineer at myCFO
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at Verano, Inc.

Senior Scientist / Senior Engineer at Apple Computer
Lead Software Engineer at Knight Ridder Information Design Lab & New Media Center
Networking Consultant at The Root Group
Consultant at U S WEST
Intern at MCC - Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation

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Education

University of Colorado at Boulder
University of California, Berkeley

Connections

180 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Curt Stevens’s Summary

Curt Stevens’s Specialties:

Usability & User Interface expertise.
Implementation of Agile processes and cross functional process improvement.
Collaborative team building.

Curt Stevens’s Experience

VP Engineering / Co-Founder

Responder Technology

(Public Safety industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Director of Engineering

Ensim Corp.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 6 months)
Development Manager / Senior Software Engineer

myCFO

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead

Verano, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Responsible for leading a team of engineers integrating Verano's encrypted security solutions for mission-critical industrial operations, with IIS and the Microsoft Windows desktop. Designed and lead implementation of a Windows Namespace Extension where documents are visible to and shared with authenticated users via folders in the Windows interface as though they are local while actually remaining safely encrypted on the Verano web server. Implemented a custom protocol for communicating with Verano’s NSAPI plug-in to seamlessly transfer documents to the server when closed, automatically encoding extracted metadata to ease future retrieval and encrypting the modified document.
Senior Scientist / Senior Engineer

Apple Computer

(Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )

Developed search tools, proof of concept demos, and OS technologies. Developed initial Sherlock search application for Mac OS X developer release CDs. Invented a patented indexing technique released as the core of the Mac OS help system. Augmented the Sherlock search engine indexing and retrieval algorithms to raise capabilities to best in class in precision and recall. Prepared Apple's successful entry in the annual NIST Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). Enhanced Sherlock to excel in retrieval accuracy of realistic web-based queries containing only 1 or 2 words. C, Objective C, Mac OS 9 & X.
Lead Software Engineer

Knight Ridder Information Design Lab & New Media Center

(Newspapers industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year )

Architected, designed and developed the software for Knight-Ridder's Newspaper of the Future, a high resolution, color, flat panel, wireless document reader running software designed for the domain specific needs of the newspaper industry. Lead software engineer in the development of Knight-Ridder's second generation automated news clipping service (NewsHound), a web-based system that delivered filtered news content from across Knight-Ridder's many newspapers to subscribers via email. Smalltalk, C.
Networking Consultant

The Root Group

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

January 1992 — January 1994 (2 years 1 month)

User interface design and evaluation for Macintosh, Unix, and Windows applications. Network design, implementation, and maintenance. C, various shell scripting languages
Consultant

U S WEST

(Public Company; USW; Telecommunications industry)

1988 — 1989 (1 year )

Designed and developed operational prototype of an intelligent, forms-based integration platform for service provisioning operators, providing them a single interface for accessing the myriad databases required for even the simplest provisioning tasks. The system was subsequently deployed in the field for use by US West operators. Lisp, KEE - Knowledge Engineering Environment.
Intern

MCC - Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation

(Computer Software industry)

1987 — 1987 (less than a year)

Designed and implemented the user interface to a second-generation intelligent computer advising system. This innovative product provided the ability to select previous portions of the advising session so that users could ask for further explanation of misunderstood advice. Lisp, CLOS

Curt Stevens’s Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

Ph.D. , Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction , 1985 — 1992
University of California, Berkeley

BA , Economics , 1980 — 1984