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Portugal

Seatle, WA, US

Putting together the pieces to enable billions of users to prove who they are to millions of developers.

US

San Francisco, California, US

Developed identity model for supporting multi-tenant platform. Innovations include crisp separation of identity management from access management that simplifies cross tenant access and centralized identity lifecycle management.

Seattle, WA, US

Led effort to model people separate from Amazon accounts to deliver a person-centric Alexa experience.

Seattle, WA, US

Wide variety of identity projects including writing AWS enterprise identity strategy and starting FastFed standard.

A fun collection of "Tools for Makers".

Cat herd, product manage, market, UX, architecture & software development using node.js.

Toronto, CA

Advised founders on sale of company and optimized return to shareholders and minimized risk to founders.

Authored and edited A2P3 specification. Implemented live sandbox of all components. A2P3 has directed identifiers for all participants to protect user privacy and enables applications to request authorization from multiple resources.

US

Wrote original OAuth WRAP spec and then herded cats at end to get RFCs released.

Maintained product.

Founded and convinced several of the original funding members to join.

Redmond, Washington, US

Identity Strategy and Protocols. led design of what became OAuth 2.0 (WRAP) and JSON Web Tokens (Simple Web Tokens)

Founding board member. Directed organization to selling sustaining memberships to fund operations.

CA

Founded company to solve internet identity problem. Released Simple eXtensible Identity Protocol. Merged protocol into OpenID. Successfully launched enterprise SaaS IdM product for Salesforce.com and Google Apps. Launched personal internet identity manager, Sxipper.

Ludicorp was the parent company for Flickr and Game Never Ending (GNE). Assisted founders in raising angel round and in focusing on Flickr over GNE.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Founded company with investment from O'Reilly and Assoc. Led to dominance in open source dynamic languages (Perl, Python, Tcl). Launched anti-spam product and grew to market leadership position. Financially successful exit in sale to Sophos.

Revamped events to make them more engaging which led to increased membership and influence.

US

Founded company to build dating website. Pivoted to building websites for others. Operated major canadian newspaper websites. Ported Perl 5 to Windows under contract with Microsoft. Sold company and took Perl work to found ActiveState.

Contract position for Microsoft, Adobe, Aldus. Connected Paradigm mail system to internet in 1993 over a nailed up 14.4 kb link.

Developed machine to determine wood species of cut lumber using mid-IR sensor and neural networks for specie detection.

Developed exercise and power measurement equipment for professional athletes.

Hired to develop email client for Windows 1.03. Shipped product for Windows 3.0. Shipped MCI Mail and Compuserve Mail gateways. Wrote TSR in assembly for checking mail. Led team building DOS communications product for IBM OfficeVision.