Bernt Rainer Wahl
P.O. Box ***** Berkeley, CA ***12 • ********@*****.*** •
www.berkeley.name • 510-***-****
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: Strong
background in mathematical analytics, physical sciences, business
entrepreneurship (primarily in technology products and energy sustainability),
finance, public policy, and economic modeling. Goal oriented, forward thinking
and driven to make a difference.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 22 years
management experience including 12 years business development, 10 years
Internet search technologies, and 7 years developing and marketing software.
Designed, developed, and implemented Internet strategies for: SME, Fortune 500
companies, and US Government. Currently
serving on the advisory board to several start-up companies.
U.C. BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY /
MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY (2001 - 2012)
Taught: Corporate Management, Cyberpreneurship,
eBusiness, eCommerce, Entrepreneurship,
Marketing,
Multimedia, and Strategic Management --focusing on achieving a competitive
advantage, planning, and emerging technologies, Lectures: fractal geometry,
chaos theory, emerging markets, innovation and future technologies.
Consulted
to: Multimedia
University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, MAVCAP DebtVentures ($500 million venture
fund), MSC Incubator companies, United Nations Development Program, and SME
companies.
Fulbright Fellow - US State Department (2002), Berkeley Industry Fellow (2006
-2012), U.C. Berkeley Skydeck – Executive in Residence
FACTLE CORPORATION Co-founder, CEO (2004 - 2012)
Factle Maps provides
geographic boundaries and demographic data. Clients include search engine
companies, government agencies, real estate organizations, marketing firms and
others. Its data is used by the agencies to measure foreclosure rates and its
neighborhood-mapping project received the MapWorld Meridian Award
(2006).
ENTREPRENEUR / CONSULTANT (2003 -2007)
Built several independent Internet
affiliates associated with Classified Ventures. Helped HomeGain become the
second largest real estate portal with 4.5 million unique monthly visitors.
Developed new search methods including providing neighborhood level search of
the 100 largest U.S. cities. Worked closely with Google and Yahoo on providing
vertical search result
WALT DISNEY, GO NETWORK, INFOSEEK (2000-2001) Senior Manager
As Datahunt CEO lead buy out attempt of
Infoseek from Disney. At Go.com lead product development teams – between 6-20
people comprised of marketing groups, designers, engineers, and support staff
--to design, build and test Internet business/search products. Deliverables
included Product Planning/Market Requirement Documents with cost and revenue
projections, production plans with milestones and resource allocation managed
through the complete product/project life cycle. Other responsibilities
included technical development and partner negotiations. Products/services
responsibility: GO Express, GO Search, Power Search, GO branded Internet Explorer,
related topic search and URL indexing services.
QUANTAL INTERNATIONAL (1998-1999) InvestIQ Online Services
Planned and developed Internet services for
financial sites; primarily for risk portfolio management. The development
included market plans for: risk analytic services, Value at Risk models and
stock asset administration. The company developed high-end financial algorithms
that were delivered through a Java back-end supported by sizeable data feeds.
GLOBAL WEB WORKS (1996-1998) Co-founder, CEO
Internet
commerce site development: provided market analysis, developed business
strategies, and constructed web catalog sites using on-line database ordering
systems (Microsoft Commerce Server using SQL and WebCatalog using Access,
NetObjects Fusion, Java, also developed custom secured encryption methods).
Examined streaming video options. Clients: Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Informix,
Macromedia, NPS, retail establishments and consulted to three Internet start-up
companies on business strategies, technology issues and controlling costs.
DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE (1995-1996) Co-founder, CEO
Lead teams to produced software based
exhibits/technology in: virtual reality, biotechnology, CAD,
digital
technology, Internet, global positioning systems, speech synthesis, character
recognition, fractal
geometry
and audio/video processing. Incorporate multimedia-authoring tools (ex.
Director,
Shockwave,
VRML) with custom code.
Key users: science museums, CD ROM
titles and Internet sites
DYNAMIC
SOFTWARE BERKELEY, CA (1987-1996)
CEO, Co-founder, Product Manager, Brand Manager,
Software Developer and Cheerleader
Co-developed mathematical, graphic, and
educational software. Worked with educational publishers to create mathematics
materials for educational institutions, graphic designers and fashion industry Products: FractaSketch,
MandelMovie, Fractus:IFS and Chaos: Mathematics for the 21st Century.
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ, SANTA CRUZ, CA (1985-1987)
Physics Department Computer Instructor Conducted research in chaos
mathematics and wrote programs that modeled corresponding dynamical systems.
Aided in teaching one of the first classes on Chaos theory - a graduate level
course.