Education
Stanford University
, -Goddard College
, -Work Experience
Headlamp
Current
Headlamp
Prometheus Sherpas
Current
Prometheus Sherpas
data.world
2021-04-01 - 2024-02-01
data.world
FK+
2019-05-01 - 2020-06-01
FK+
Chartboost
2018-07-01 - 2019-04-01
Chartboost
JASK (now Sumo Logic)
2018-01-01 - 2018-06-01
JASK (now Sumo Logic)
Ticketfly
2016-08-01 - 2017-09-01
Ticketfly
Stitch Fix
2015-09-01 - 2016-06-01
Stitch Fix
BandPage [acquired by YouTube]
2015-04-01 - 2015-08-01
BandPage [acquired by YouTube]
Vungle
2014-08-01 - 2015-03-01
Vungle
Skills
Summary
Engineering Management - Software Product Development - Technology Innovation I wrangle innovative technologies into products, and I manage & up-level talented tech teams. Engineering Leader: Managed core software development (programming, QA, doc, release, support) products and services at Symbolics, Software Publishing Corp, Electrogig BV, McAfee Associates, Vungle, Chartboost, Sonic Solutions, Stitch Fix, Ticketfly/Pandora, JASK.ai, Flow Kana data.world etc. Social media, discovery, search, algorithms and data services for web site with over 300 million worldwide users for Tagged.com. Managed hardware groups at Symbolics Inc. and Electrogig BV. Certified Scrum Master. Advanced Technology Director: Manage labs, project leaders and brilliant individuals for Autodesk and Adobe in virtual reality (VR), security, media, graphics, signal processing and programming systems; technology transfers, products, publications and patents. Software Developer, Architect: Write production code in Java, C++, Lisp, assembly and firmware. Also coded in Scala, JavaScript, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, PHP and others. Work product deployed from super-computers to PCs, devices, enterprises, high-traffic web sites, RESTful API software services (eg LAMP, SQL/noSQL, SaaS) and clouds (Amazon EC2/S3/etc). Domain-driven design, architecture and evolution of complex systems products across multiple releases (Symbolics, Siebel, start-ups). Scientist, Researcher, Hacker: Staff at top research sites (Stanford, MIT, Xerox PARC). Published in signal processing and math journals (JAES, MAA, CMJ, JIS etc). Trustee of math foundation OEISF.org; my Erdös number is 3. Co-created the original Apple Macintosh and architected and coded the demonstration prototype. Organize Tech Forums, public professional programs, Hackers conferences. Professional: Worked at all scales from start-ups to Fortune 50. Led teams of ~30+ reports, with site-scale responsibility for larger units (~70+) with international teams (Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa). Reported to C-level in four public companies (Symbolics, Autodesk, McAfee and Sonic Solutions) plus many other CEOs, CTOs, VPs and General Managers. Enjoy working with marketing, sales, product managers, consulting clients and customers.