The GFO operates the largest genealogical library in the Pacific Northwest and hosts over 100 educational events every year.

Co-founder and initial CFO of a specialty sports retailer

The Oregon Angel Fund (OAF) is a community supported, professionally managed, investor driven angel fund. The fund provides investors privileged access to the most promising startups and early-stage growth companies in Oregon and SW Washington. Founded in 2007, OAF has grown to become the most active local venue for funding startups in terms of both participants and dollars invested.OAF launches a new fund each calendar year. Employing a rigorous and disciplined due diligence process, each annual fund aims to make 5-7 investments over a 12-month active investing period, followed by another 9 years of fund life to grow and exit each portfolio. The fund targets to invest $100K to $2M per deal with individual OAF members and venture capital funds often investing alongside and after OAF.

StormConnect is developing an innovative storm detection system

Notion is the analytics layer for modern business teams. Acquired by Jama Software in January, 2018.

Revamped the system architecture, developed the company's go-to-market strategy, and led our showing of the prototype at CES.WellWaze is developing several products for medication adherence with a common system management platform. Key features:- Home-based device - organizer and reminder- Remote monitoring- Provide alerts and reportsThe WellWaze system architecture presents a comprehensive approach that overcomes many pitfalls of medication adherence and supports social feedback to provide positive encouragement.

Advisor/mentor on technical, product marketing, and financial issues. Asicspace is the leading innovator in providing non-captive hosting services for the Bitcoin industry.

Top-level manager of a multi-national team responsible for the (Linux) kernel on Intel platforms running Android, including phones and tablets. Engineering liaison for the tier 1 customer of Intel's first commercially meaningful Android product.The mission of the Ultra Mobility Group (and its successors) is to bring the Intel architecture to the burgeoning small-scale device market through innovations at all levels, from chip microarchitecture to board design and software.

Directed all software development activities at a start-up. Our product was a blade server centered around an innovative and unique optical interconnect technology. Built up a team from scratch and led the SW program from inception to productization and delivery to Lightfleet's vanguard Fortune 100 customer. Managed the software development, quality assurance, and IT departments.

Identified and championed compiler improvements of commercial interest to IBM, managed development of contributions to gcc, glibc, gdb, and other open-source projects, negotiated uptake by Linux distros, strategized and managed funding of 3rd-party contributors to open-source. Managed $8M budget of group spanning 4 countries.

Managed the development of the Apex product line for embedded targets, including the runtime libraries and the integrated test management product. Rational was acquired by IBM in Feb 2003.

Led software development on mission-critical embedded systems for avionics and military applications. Lead engineer on a DSP-based airborne satellite phone system for commercial use. Software program lead for PLGR'96, a military receiver to which we added an opportunistic algorithm to improve accuracy and special-purpose features for ranging and fire control.