Free Agent Web Tech with a Startup Habit
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder at InkBbl
- Technologist at Freelance
- Past
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- Chief Technology Officer at Crosscut
- CEO at Transmutable Networks
- Founder at Transmutable (Sole Proprietorship)
- Member of the Research Staff, Computer Science Laboratory at Palo Alto Research Center
- Member of Research Staff, Computer Science Laboratory at Palo Alto Research Center
- Applications Development Lead at i-drive.com
- Applications Engineer, NetPositive at Be, Inc.
- Customer Service Manager at Mindspring
- Education
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- The University of Georgia
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Trevor F. Smith’s Summary
Software lead and contributor in creative software situations which require equal parts vision and production. Recently managed and made core technical contributions to a cloud hosted scalable platform for multiuser shared 3D spaces using a web stack including Linux, Tomcat, MySQL and which is fronted by an Ajax app talking to a RESTful web service.
Trevor F. Smith’s Specialties:
Large scale web apps, web based 3D spaces, photo maps, recombinant networking, social software
Trevor F. Smith’s Experience
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Co-Founder
InkBbl
(Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
We're in a short period of stealth, but you can assume that I'm performing my usual mix of technical management and business development.
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Technologist
Freelance
(Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
I turn my clients' napkin sketches into clean, efficient products. I bring more than a decade of engineering and tech management experience in tech startups and research organizations. I specialize in projects with a progressive vision of the future.
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Chief Technology Officer
Crosscut
(Online Media industry)
June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)
I led the development of a new form of online news engine for a team of forward looking journalists. My work involved the synthesis of many different fields such as journalism, engineering, and collective intelligence. I was also the core technical contributor to a cloud hosted, Django powered web application for news gathering.
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CEO
Transmutable Networks
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — April 2008 (9 months)
As co-founder and CEO of a company dedicated to building purposeful applications which combine the lessons of the web with accessible 3D environments, I spent my time advocating open standards, managing the development process, and building the company.
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Founder
Transmutable (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 8 months)
I am leading the effort at Transmutable to build a web hosting service for compelling 3D environments. My work involves equal portions of advocacy, business development, and technical management.
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Member of the Research Staff, Computer Science Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Prototype development, experiment design and execution, and industry analysis for the ubiquitous computing group of the computer science laboratory.
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Member of Research Staff, Computer Science Laboratory
Palo Alto Research Center
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 4 months)
Prototype development, experiment design and execution, and industry analysis for the ubiquitous computing group of the computer science laboratory.
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Applications Development Lead
i-drive.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 1999 — June 2000 (9 months)
While leading the web applications development team, I coded WebDAV (Windows Web Folders) access to i-drive's multiple terabyte database, designed and implemented a Java WebDAV client library and took part in all phases of creating the i-drive web rendering architecture for i-drive.com's millions of users.
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Applications Engineer, NetPositive
Be, Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 1 month)
I implemented an entirely new downloading scheme and UI for NetPositive, a web browser. I also tracked and fixed many HTTP and HTML rendering bugs while maintaining and updating legacy C++ browser code and stress testing new features of the BeOS.
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Customer Service Manager
Mindspring
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 1995 — April 1996 (11 months)
I managed the support call desk for a fledgling Internet service provider.
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