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Brookline, MA, US

Wakefield, Massachusetts, US

Glance is a customer experience platform that allows companies to provide real human guidance and expertise at the most important moments to their customers.As one of the first employees, I hired the initial engineering team and led the development of an instant screen-sharing product which we bootstrapped to a profitable SaaS business with thousands of.

I have done occasional consulting on architecture, technology, strategy, hiring/interviewing, or "Virtual CTO" type engagements; particularly to very early stage ventures or companies in transition.

Dot-com eHealth site.

Managed the development, operations and QA groups for this online travel company. I was then appointed by the VCs as part of a 3 person executive committee to run the company and lead the process of selling it. This culminated in a sale to Rosenbluth Interactive (a joint venture of Rosenbluth International, Marriot, Continental Airlines, Sun Microsystems.

We built an award-winning online travel site focused on the frequent business traveler. We also ran the web sites for United MileagePlus and Marriot Rewards programs in these early days.

US

ON was founded by Mitch Kapor and other Lotus alumni to create a new programming language and platform for distributed applications (something like Java/J2EE). I was originally hired to help design the language and write the compiler. The plan changed. I worked on Instant-Update, a collaborative document editing system, then eventually wound up as.

I developed a Common Lisp compiler for a new RISC/VLIW processor. The compiler was based on the ORBIT [Kranz, Kelsey, Reese et. al.] and Guy Steele's RABBIT Scheme compilers. I also wrote a 3D graphics system to emulate a simple subset of the Silicon Graphics IRIS display functionality.

ACT was a small software and multimedia company located in the Latin Quarter of Paris. I developed the Macintosh version of Le_Lisp (a dialect of Lisp from the French national research laboratory INRIA).

New York, US

In 1980 Alan Kay founded a research department at Atari with labs in Sunnyvale and Cambridge. I worked at the Cambridge center on the Gesture Project developing graphic environments, including programming systems, manipulable via touch and force sensitive screens. I also built a system to recognize the position of a human body from television images, then.