Independent Technology, Strategy, Product & Architecture Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
Independent Technology, Strategy, Product & Architecture Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
(Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Internet industry)
May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)
DriveDev Inc.
Co-Founder of CloudStreamer Inc., co-developed product concepts, business strategy, detailed PRD and investor pitch.
Tapulous Inc.
Helped this fast growing startup solve scalability issues arising from early and rapid success. Drove both application and operations efforts.
Milestone Media Inc.
Helped refine product and technology approach for video internet start-up.
Cloud Financial Inc.
Helped this early stage start-up in development of their technology approach and roadmap, early product definition, and general start-up founding issues such as fundraising and personnel
PayCycle Inc.
Participated in corporate strategic consulting effort.
FreePath Inc.
Operating as temporary CTO and strategy consultant.
NOLO Inc.
Evaluated large scale website redeployment effort which had encountered several delays, and guided the team to an alternative and achievable approach.
TurnHere Inc.
Operating as acting VP Engineering/CTO
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
May 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 1 month)
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
February 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 8 months)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
July 2000 — February 2003 (2 years 8 months)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 7 months)
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
March 1991 — January 1996 (4 years 11 months)
Drove both the overall architecture for Quicken, as well as concieved and developed key Quicken features such as "QuickTabs", "QuickFill", and our Hybrid Internet Integration Architecture.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1987 — 1991 (4 years)
Served on the Distributed Applications Architecture team that led the development of HP's New Wave distributed object solution. Also developed key parts of HP's Graphics Gallery business presentation/art solution.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
1984 — 1987 (3 years)
Developed and sold several video games and video game utilities for the Commodore 64. Also developed 2 C64 titles for Fred Saberhagen's (science fiction author) game subsidiary Berserker Works Ltd.
Titles:
- Beserker Raids
- The Sign of the Wolf
Independently invented a proprietary run-length encoding compression algorithm for dynamic loading of graphics files, as well as a complete bit level animation library for the C64.