CEO at 8Interactive
New Zealand
- Current
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- CEO at 8Interactive
- Past
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- Co-Founder / CTO / Software Architect at MS2
- Co-Founder / CTO at Apricus
- Co-Founder / Software Architect at catalyze . com
- Software Architect at Taligent
- Software Architect at Rational Software
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Irvine
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Glenn Andert’s Summary
I just spent 2005 thru 2007 sailing about 16,000 nautical miles between California and New Zealand, which is an experience of a very different nature. That activity has a whole new set of learning curves! I am just getting my feet back on the ground in Wellington, New Zealand, where I am starting a new software company, and doing some angel investing.
I have
* 25+ years of experience in software technology in Silicon Valley
* co-founded 3 startup companies, one almost 150 employees
* been an individual developer, architect, trainer, analyst, consultant, CTO and business owner
* over 10 patents in object technology
* co-authored an object technology book
* direct hands-on experience from device drivers to large-scale enterprise applications
* built systems using a variety of technologies
* created advanced development processes
* experience across a variety of business sectors
Glenn Andert’s Specialties:
Startup mentoring, product definition and analysis, agile development, training, team building, object technology, enterprise applications, architecture, software development processes, programming, requirements analysis, use case analysis, project management, technical writing
Glenn Andert’s Experience
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CEO
8Interactive
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Building an awesome iPhone application. Doing some very cool content delivery. Can't tell you more .... yet.
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Co-Founder / CTO / Software Architect
MS2
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1997 — July 2003 (6 years 6 months)
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Co-Founder / CTO
Apricus
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1996 — January 1997 (1 year)
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Co-Founder / Software Architect
catalyze . com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1994 — January 1996 (2 years)
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Software Architect
Taligent
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1992 — January 1994 (1 year 2 months)
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Software Architect
Rational Software
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RATL; Computer Software industry)
June 1982 — November 1992 (10 years 6 months)
Glenn Andert’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
M.S. , Computer Science
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University of California, Irvine
B.S. , Computer Science
Additional Information
Glenn Andert’s Websites:
Glenn Andert’s Interests:
I have just finished 3 years of sailing in the south pacific, aboard my sailboat 'Learjet'. My main interest is my Partner, Pamela. My other interests are: Renovation of our lovely beach house in Wanganui. Two years of underwater photography in the south pacific and I'm hooked. Property Investment, now that everything is crashing. Starting a new business venture. Cloud Computing - is this finally for real? Ruby on Rails
Glenn Andert’s Groups:
The Mankind Project (The NWTA was the most profound weekend of my life)
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NZ Angels -
Professional Sailing Group -
Rational Alumni -
Wellington, NZ -
Unlimited Potential -
TribeHQ
Glenn Andert’s Honors:
"Top achiever in engineering" award at Taligent
Co-author of:
WIPO 017721 OS independent I/O system
CA patent 1269639 Service Creation in an OO Framework
US patent 5864668 Connecting client to a server using service descriptions as query parameters
US patent 5548779 Providing system services for a device to a client
US patent 5566346 Constructing device interface systems independent of OS
US patent 6141712 Modelling behavior of expansion boards in a computer system
US patent 6564270 Isolating client application requests for device service
US patent 5546595 Objects representing hardware devices for configuring a computer
US patent 6161151 Global resource conflict resolver assigning resources to each I/O function
US patent 6161150 Informing a computer user of a conflict encounted during resource allocation
US patent 6636901 OO resource lock and entry register
ISBN 0132139847 Book "Object-Oriented Application Frameworks"
Glenn Andert’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
