
President & CEO, bdg
Washington D.C. Metro Area

President & CEO, bdg
Washington D.C. Metro Area
President and CEO of bdg, a software consultancy specializing in enterprise 2.0 software development. Our products include "The Social Collective," a social application that gives conference attendees the ability to establish meaningful and lasting connections with others. Past projects have included deployment, custom software development and corporate training related to Plumtree (BEA AquaLogic/Oracle Web Center Interaction), Siebel, Documentum and other enterprise software applications. Thought leader in enterprise portals and the inventor of "gadget/portlet frameworks," a methodology for leveraging Plumtree's Enterprise Development Kit to provide customizable views on various data sets through a single gadget/portlet. Graduate of Stanford University's CS program; partnered with pioneer Nils Nilson to use AI techniques to analyze clinical HIV data. Interned in some of most competitive and pretigious intern programs at Microsoft, Sun and Trilogy.
Conference social networking software development, enterprise 2.0 software development, portal deployments, custom portlet development, application integration, corporate training
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2002 — Present (5 years 10 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; PLUM; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — December 2002 (4 years 6 months)
Deployed Plumtree at the first several customer sites; architected and built administrative and end-user UI for the portal; designed and built several gadget/portlet products including portlets for Excel, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP/POP, Lotus Notes, Documentum, SAP and Siebel. Invented the concept of a "gadget framework" and applied this new technology to the Siebel, SAP and Excel Frameworks. Managed teams of Senior Engineers.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — September 1996 (4 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1995 — September 1995 (4 months)
BS, Computer Science, September 1994 — January 1998
Northern Virginia Java User Group, Northern Virginia Ruby User Group, Stanford Alumni Association, Plumtree Alumni, Sun Alumni
2007 SXSW Interactive Web Award Nomination (for http://www.feedhaus.com)