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Summary

Successful Technology Entrepreneur

Lead consulting practice for early stage companies to large corporate clients.

Specialties are in product development optimization, intellectual property development, and

cost-effective software development.

Computer Scientist by degree and 25 years of practice.

Technology Executive for previous 12 years.

Developing specialty in online education and training.

Organizations

Senior Member of Association of Computing Machinists (ACM)

IEEE Member

Other Skills

Experienced Speaker

Change Agent

Team-builder

Innovator

Interests

Writer (Children's Books, novel on High-tech Startups, and a golf humor book)

Photographer (see site)

Work History

CTO Advisors

CO, United States 2007 - Present

CEO

Founder and primary consultant in company providing technical and strategic business consulting

for both large and small companies.

IHS, Inc.

Westminster, CO, United States 2006 - 2007

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Consolidated revenue products onto single architecture for information delivery and

content collection system.

Led technical architecture committee to develop and deploy single architecture for all

revenue products.

Managed global development organization located in eight countries and 14 locations.

Implemented standard processes across organization.

InShore Software

Arvada, CO, United States 2005 - 2006

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CEO and Founder

Began software development consultancy for fixed-price, rapid turnaround software

development projects. Responsible for company operations, financial, sales, marketing

and technical consulting.

Led development of knowledge management software product line.

Sold company to IHS, Inc.

SAQQARA Systems, Inc.

San Jose, CA, United States 2003 - 2005

Chief Technology Officer

Responsible for determining technology direction and technology strategy. Served as

interface between executive staff and customers.

Participated directly in business strategy development and implementation.

Played significant role in key accounts. Key contributor to Fortune 10, seven-figure deal

Requisite Technology, Inc.

Westminster, CO, United States 1997 - 2002

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Responsible for determining technology direction and technology strategy. Served as

interface for executive staff to customers and partners. Determined both product

direction and product feature sets with Sales and Marketing.

Responsible for all software development, quality assurance, research and development,

ontology development, and product management.

Responsible for the Information Technology (IT) Department supporting global

technology infrastructure.

Responsible for Global Content Services Organization with offices in Germany, Canada,

and the United Kingdom. Managed this staff of 125 people for 18 months.

Grew staff in the technology organization from two to 87 in 26 months.

Exceeded goals for the Technology organization every year.

Requisite achieved its first profitable quarter while on executive management team.

Vice President of Technology

Responsible for leading and managing the research and development department

developing an electronic catalog and content tool set. Groups include a core search

engine, authoring, and content publishing.

BugsEye Catalog Technology selected by Oracle for embedding into Oracle internet

Procurement and SAP for embedding in Business to Business Procurement and

mySAP.com.

Instituted software engineering processes and quality assurance programs.

CADIS, Inc.

Boulder, CO, United States 1995 - 1997

Senior Member Technical Staff

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Responsible for Krakatoa CGI client used for a variety of intranet and Internet publishing

applications. Krakatoa has received numerous awards including Industry Week s

Technology of the Year Award.

Extended this client to utilize advanced Netscape Navigator features for increased

functionality. Worked with OpenMarket to build link from Krakatoa publishing to OMI

Internet commerce.

Worked with key customer accounts to assist in implementation and deployment of Web-

based publishing solutions.

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Member of Technical Staff

Worked on joint development project with National Semiconductor to automatically

generate hypertext markup language (HTML) from a common gateway interface (CGI)

C++ program using the CADIS object database. This product became Krakatoa HTML

and shipped within five weeks after taking control of prototype.

Assisted implementation of a Java-based client for a Web Publishing option to the main

client-server product (CADIS-PMX). Ported the server portion of CADIS-PMX to a DEC

Alpha (64 bit architecture) on schedule.

Implemented and deployed initial CADIS web site (www.cadis.com). Webmaster for the

CADIS Web Site, Krakatoa Web Site (www.krakatoa.com), and CADIS Intranet.

CogniSeis Development Inc.

Boulder 1993 - 1995

Project Manager/Member Technical Staff

Manager of team who developed a geoscientific software program. Responsible for

developing product specifications with the product manager, domain experts, and

customers. Version 1.0 was completed in six months and delivered on time.

Designed and developed a two-dimensional geometry engine for the creation and editing

of complex data.

Wrote over 50% of the on-line help documentation.

Developed and implemented a software engineering process for the CogniSeis Boulder

Center s development group.

Autotrol Corporation

Thornton, CO, United States 1992 - 1993

Senior Engineer

Technical lead for graphics subsystem of large-scale object-oriented framework for CAD

applications. Principle designer and programmer (C++) for the graphics component of

this framework with 3D lighting and shading, data management, device management,

and a wide assortment of viewing methods.

Met the first development deadline and completed systems integration in half the

scheduled time.

Template Graphics Software, Inc.

San Diego, CA, United States 1990 - 1992

Applications Engineer/ Product Marketing Manager

Managed all aspects of technical sales support including managing field engineers,

developing and coding demonstration programs and benchmarks, training sales force,

and developing and presenting technical material to customers.

Responsibilities also included marketing support for new products. Developed ads and

sales literature and conducted national sales meetings and training. Served as Marketing

Product Manager for new product.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.

Burbank, CA, United States 1983 - 1990

Senior Research Engineer

Developed graphics software application for aircraft operations analysis. This interactive

data driven system provided a new capability to perform three weeks of complex analysis

in less than one day. This software is in use today 21 years after initial development.

Evaluated and acquired first computer animation system for Lockheed. Led team to

develop first computer-generated animation for this Lockheed Division.

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Member of team that developed interactive computer graphics models as part of an

Independent Research and Development Project (IRAD) on Human-Computer Interface

with two dimensional displays of map and terrain data with 3D views.

Education

Fielding Graduate University

United States 2011

Master of Arts, Media Psychology

Colorado State University-Global Campus

CO, United States

Master of Science, Online Teaching and Learning

University of South Carolina - College of

Science and Mathematics

Columbia, SC, United States

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Achievements

Nineteen U.S. Patents on database, cataloging, and Internet technologies.

Peer-reviewed papers presented at IEEE SMC 2009 on Agent Technology, Psychology of

Recommender Systems EEE 2011, Psychology in Augmented Reality at ISMAR 2011.

BugsEye received the Oracle Innovators Award.

Krakatoa received Industry Week s Technology of the Year Award for Interactive Finding

Technology in 1998.

Krakatoa won the Java Developer s Journal World Class Award, October 1996.

Lecturer at ACM SIGGRAPH 1995.

Organizations

Senior Member, Association of Computing Machinists (ACM)

ACM Special Interest Group, Computer Human Interface (ACM-SIGCHI)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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