Manager Engineer

GORDON IRLAM

Los Altos, CA, USA

abo6sz@r.postjobfree.com xxx=gordonipub

http://www.gordoni.com

OBJECTIVE

To utilize my skills and passion to make a positive difference in the world.

EDUCATION

**** - Self study in economics

MIT OpenCourseWare - Principles of Macroeconomics

CMU Open Learning Iniative - Experiments with (micro-)Economics

2005-6 - Graduate student, Zimmerman malaria research lab, Dept. of Genetics, CASE

2003 - GRE General Test: essay 5.5/6.0, verbal 640/800, math 800/800

GRE Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology Test: 700 - 96th percentile

1988 - Honors Computer Science, Adelaide University, Australia

IBM Prize for Honors Computer Science - top student of the year

SKILLS

I view myself as a generalist with a broad range of skills and experiences.

Computing skills: Strong knowledge of operating systems, databases, networking, and Web

technology. Detailed knowledge of system hardware. Experienced at developing industrial

strength technology. Extensive systems performance analysis and tuning expertise.

Biotechnology skills: Knowledge of biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology at the

graduate student level. Lab experience with PCR, DNA minipreps, ion exchange, affinity,

gel filtration, and HIC chromotography, BioRad BioPlex analysis, agarose and acrylamide

gels, SDS-PAGE and Western blots, restriction digests, bacterial transformation, cloning,

and tissue culture.

Management skills: Experienced at formulating and executing business plans and strategy.

Experienced as a technical lead, engineering manager, and as a business product manager.

Comfortable working with senior management to meet specific financial goals.

Other skills: Experienced at starting both for profit and not for profit corporations.

Basic knowledge of associated legal, taxation, and accounting issues. Strong knowledge of

patents, intellectual property, open source software, and drug access to treatment issues.

First hand experience with the challenges of health care delivery in the developing world.

Exceptional ability to solve complicated technical problems. Can rapidly assimilate and

extend new concepts and ideas. Solid communication skills. Able to work independently or

as part of a team.

EXPERIENCE

Entrepreneur, 2/06 - Present

Rapidly come up with new ideas, implement them, and send them out for evaluation. Keep

doing this until find something that sticks and it makes sense to build a startup around.

Projects to date:

FreeTable.org (2010-) - A public commons for open data; two person team.

Back of the Envelope Guide to Philanthropy (2008, 2011) - Quantitative charity

evaluation.

SilverCloudVideo.com (2009-10) - Web based live video startup; four person team.

GiveToFriends (

2008) - Classified ads app for OpenSocial social networking sites.

osnlive.com (2007-8) - Open source peer to peer social network.

Resyndicator.com (2007

) - Feed reblogging website.

Votocracy.com (2006-7) - Feature rich Internet voting website.

Philanthropist and Founder,

Gordon R. Irlam Charitable Foundation, California, 7/01 -

Present.

Running a small private foundation active in global public health. Small scale funding

focused on HIV/AIDS and public policy. Spending time in Tanzania performing HIV/AIDS

education. Visiting El Salvador to study microcredit.

Software Engineer, Google, California, 5/04 - 5/05.

Improving the performance of, and adding new features and functionality to, Gmail,

Google's web based email system. Developing system performance measurement tools.

Assessing and optimizing system performance. Implementing remote mail fetch functionality.

Technologies employed include Java, Python, and C++.

Senior Engineer and Founder, Postini, California, 3/99 - 6/01.

Technical founder of Postini, a 300 employee startup that was bought by Google for $625m

cash. Postini provided spam blocking, virus scanning, and integrated email management

services.

Responsible for technical architecture, design, implementation, and planning. The

resulting system is highly scalable and handles in excess of 1 billion email messages per

day. This makes it the fourth largest email processing system in the United States (behind

AOL, MSN, and Yahoo). Technologies employed include numerous Sun client machines, several

terrabytes of EMC SAN based storage, Oracle databases, Apache, Perl, C, and C++.

Product Manager, RedHat / Cygnus Solutions, California, 10/95 - 7/98.

Managing the development of an open source Java compiler. Product targeted for use by

embedded systems developers and based on the GCC compiler technology. Formulating business

plans and strategy. Preparing product specifications. Determining project resource

requirements. Specifying trade show, sales, and marketing collateral. Making customer

presentations. Drafting contracts for deals of up to $2m in value. Also managing the

development of a number of Internet derived open source software products: Apache, Perl,

Tcl/Tk, and Expect. Preparing business plans and directly managing engineers.

Managing patents, copyright, trademarks, and licensing for a 200 employee company using

open source business models. Especially skilled at formulating profitable business

strategies that leverage the Internet and free software communities.

OTHER INTERESTS

Economics. Poverty. International development. Public health. Patents. Free software.

Linux. Evolution. Psychology.

References Available Upon Request

PUBLICATIONS

Petry, Irlam, and Maggi. US Patent 7,428,410: Value-added electronic messaging services

having web-based user accessible message center. 2008. .

Irlam. TIPS for Retirement. 2007. .

Petry, Irlam, and Maggi. US Patent 7,277,695: E-mail policy compliance techniques. 2007.

.

Petry, Irlam, and Maggi. US Patent 7,272,378: E-mail filtering services using Internet

protocol routing information. 2007. .

Irlam, Maggi, and Petry. US Patent 7,236,769: Value-added electronic messaging services

and transparent implementation thereof using intermediate server. 2007. .

Irlam, Maggi, and Petry. US Patent 7,133,660: E-mail filtering services and e-mail

service enrollment techniques. 2006. .

Irlam, Maggi, and Petry. US Patent 6,650,890: Value-added electronic messaging services

and transparent implementation thereof using intermediate server. 2003. .

Irlam. Andrea: The Pig Lady of Panchimalco. 2000. .

Irlam, Formaro, Bothner, Petit-Bianco, Grossman, Tromey, Akimine, and Knuttila. Cygnus

Implementation of the Java Language: Architecture and Design Manual. Cygnus Solutions,

1998. .

Irlam. Controlling the Internet: Legal and Technical Aspects of the Domain Name System.

1997. .

Tiemann, Irlam, Taylor, Evans, and Bothner. Evaluating Hardware/Software Tradeoffs.

Embedded Systems Conference/West, 1997. .

Irlam and Williams. Software Patents: an Industry at Risk. Submission by the League for

Programming Freedom to the Patent and Trademark Office on Patent Protection for Software-

Related Inventions, 1994.

Garsden, Irlam, McDonald, Smith, and Wendelborn. The Development and Efficient Execution

of SISAL Programs. In Advanced Topics in Data-Flow Computing, Prentice-Hall, 1991

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