Education
Carnegie Mellon University
PhD, Computer Engineering 1992-01-01 - 1995-01-01Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Computer Engineering 1990-01-01 - 1992-01-01Tufts University
BSEE, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 1982-01-01 - 1986-01-01Work Experience
Rocket Farm Studios
Current
Rocket Farm Studios
Winebars®
2019-01-01 - 2023-09-01
Winebars®
Quattro Wireless
2007-09-01 - 2008-11-01
Quattro Wireless
I'm in!
2006-08-01 - 2007-08-01
I'm in!
Netspoke
2004-12-01 - 2006-08-01
Netspoke
Imidio Corporation
2003-08-01 - 2004-10-01
Imidio Corporation
WatchPoint Media
2000-07-01 - 2003-07-01
WatchPoint Media
Viant
1997-06-01 - 2000-07-01
Viant
Eastman Kodak Company
1995-07-01 - 1996-12-01
Eastman Kodak Company
Skills
Summary
I’ve spent my career building and launching products, and have helped companies scale to $100s of millions in revenue and hundreds in headcount. In my free time I love to run, cycle, golf, ski, walk my dogs, cook, clean, hang with my family, play music, and generally wish I had more free time 🙂 . I spent the first half of my professional career writing code. When I first became CTO of a company, I realized the incredible satisfaction found in setting up individuals and teams for growth and success. At Rocket Farm Studios, we help tech execs build, launch and grow digital products. To do this we focus on 3 things: 🏆 engineering - we are at our core an engineering company. We are super strong at mobile development, both native and cross platform. We’re super strong at cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) and integrations with external APIs. We do hardware devices / wearables for industrial and consumer markets. And we are all in on AI. 🏆 design - we do gobs of design work: brand id and visual languages for early stage companies, UX user flows and wireframe, and visual design. All of our design work centers around the user, so we do lots of interviews, research, prototyping and testing to support our design process. 🏆 product management - we’ve developed a process to take ideas to market - the 0 to 1 problem - and then find the path to product-market fit and scale. We make the user central, while keeping in mind all aspects of organizational capability, business model, competition, market & channel strategies. We help our clients achieve growth with relentless focus on data, experiments, and incremental improvement on the way to fit and scale. We wrap our product dev process with marketing love. Having an integrated marketing capability means that we execute the product development process even better. Better products pre-launch, more effective product launches, and then an integrated approach to growth - data, design, engineering, product, and marketing. Of course, now everything is changing incredibly fast due to AI. At Rocket Farm. we’ve adopted the mantra: “Apps + AI? App-solutely”. It is our commitment to blending our deep technical expertise in apps and systems with innovative AI technologies and business models to deliver exceptional products. As we’re helping our clients AI-innovate, we’re rethinking every aspect of the product development pipeline to take advantage of the exponential growth of AI. Reach out! I love to network: ⫸ Our website: www.rocketfarmstudios.com ⫸ or DM me ⫸ or Email me: dan@rocketfarmstudios.com