Lead software engineer and hiring manager on software projects.

I have been leading the technology effort at Rapport as we democratize sustainability for millions of businesses around the world by providing beautiful, affordable software that helps them understand their footprint, reduce their impact, and save money.

I have provided some of my expertise and services through the consultancy, TopTal. Clients have hired me in various capacities depending on their needs, including as interim CTO / temporary Directory of Technology, principal architect, and senior software engineer.

Ipertur is a startup providing a software & hardware based personal digital billboard with telepresence features, that helps friends, family, telecommuters, and others feel connected to the people, places, and information they want.Ever wished you lived next door to your best friend or closest relative? Busy lives may still prevent you from being active in their daily lives, but glimpses you may catch of them through your windows let you feel the pulse of their life, and they yours. And whenever you want you can throw open your window and engage them in live conversation. Ipertur makes this possible, virtually. Ipertur is a deeply personal social network. At its core Ipertur uses your laptop, tablet, or dedicated Ipertur hardware device to create a virtual, two-way window connecting you with those closest to you. Short, silent, looped video peeks, generated at timed intervals and/or in response to motion, represent the glimpses you might catch through a real window. These passively informative glimpses often give you the vital context necessary to encourage the live video chat Ipertur also provides. Tools like Skype only tell me my friend has his computer on and most likely forgot to mark himself as 'away', but Ipertur lets me see that friend in his kitchen right now, making another batch of his famous home brewed beer. It re-connects us, informs us, and makes our live video chats easy and frequent. Ipertur also operates as a digital billboard, showing content from apps you've configured, as well as apps your friends have configured. My friend sees my latest Flickr photos, I see his latest Facebook posts, I see my local five day weather forecast, my Google Calendar events, the latest news headlines, my Twitter feed, and much more. Ipertur can help friends stay in touch, can help families look after each other, can help people monitor their house/work when they are away, can help pet owners monitor their pets, and can help telecommuters be present at work.

I enjoy giving back to others by sharing my business and technical expertise with those looking to grow their careers and companies and Everwise ia a great company through which to do just that. I have benefited from various mentors, personal and professional, throughout my life and am glad to return the favor.

I joined iCentric Corporation in 2002 to lead an extensive redevelopment and modernization effort for its flagship site, DriverGuide.com, a site with a curated archive of over 1 million unique drivers and traffic of 200k unique users per day. I quickly rose to Chief Technology Officer and remained at the company for over 10 years, until life circumstances moved me to the other side of the country. The largest and most popular PC support site on the planet, with hundreds of thousands of daily users and a streamlined crew of ten to thirty employees (depending on utilization of outside teams), I was able to wear just about every hat imaginable in my years at the company. From managing teams of in-house and out-of-house developers, to hands on software development, to art direction, to branding and marketing, to business relations, to employee relations, I enjoyed having the opportunity to do it all. The experience of working with and learning from the company's owner, a pioneer in the field and a true entrepreneur, was invaluable.Technologies and frameworks employed included:PHP • JAVASCRIPT • C# • NODE.JS • MYSQL • SQL • HTML 5 • JQUERY • DOJO • SOCKET.IO • CHROME EXTENSION • OPENTOK API • GOOGLE EMAIL/CALENDAR API • FACEBOOK API • TWITTER API • FLICKR API • APACHE • NGINX • LIGHTTPD • WORDPRESS • JAVA • C/C++ • OBJECTIVE C • ANDROID • iOS

Besiex, Inc. is my dotcom research & development lab, spawning ground, and consultancy. Founded to provide select clients with consulting services and software development, the company evolved to include focus on the design and development of large-scale back-end enterprise software solutions, the creation and sale of desktop/mobile applications, and the self-funded development/launch of several dotcom ventures. Over the years the size of the company has varied according to project activity, from a low of one to a high of ten. I am the founder, often the primary developer, sometimes the art director, and always the last one out the door at night. We are available actively engaged in the startup community promoting our own projects as well as available for consultation and development.We are experts in most of the languages and frameworks of the modern web, most currently:PHP • JAVASCRIPT • C# • NODE.JS • MYSQL • SQL • HTML 5 • JQUERY • DOJO • SOCKET.IO • CHROME EXTENSION • OPENTOK API • GOOGLE EMAIL/CALENDAR API • FACEBOOK API • TWITTER API • FLICKR API • APACHE • NGINX • LIGHTTPD • WORDPRESS • JAVA • C/C++ • OBJECTIVE C • ANDROID • iOS

An early employee at a much celebrated dotcom startup that enjoyed a meteoric (and much publicized) rise and fall, I got to hone many of my software development skills amid the personalities and curious priorities of an age when everything seemed possible and profit was curiously an after-thought. Prototyped and implemented various dotcom solutions in the music community space.

Hired at prestigious University College of London to work as a Research Fellow in their Computer Science department, I was tasked with exploring and working around many of the early difficulties of wireless networking, namely the exchange of and video, audio, and collaboration data in non-homogenous and unreliable network environment. Worked on wireless (wi-fi precursor as well as satellite) technologies, including the development of a mobile trans-coding gateway.