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New York, New York, US

DistroKid is the leading platform for independent musicians to distribute their music. I oversee the technical vision, strategy, and execution of the company, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of our services and products. I am responsible for the engineering, data analytics, data science, IT, and infrastructure teams for the company.

I work with startup and mid-size company leaders to grow their teams, their processes, and their business. Services include short and long-term mentoring of leadership and employees, help with creating organizational structures, and improving company processes and culture. Engagements have lasted from days to years with customers in the US, UK, Australia.

Unit Circle Media includes software products, a record label, several web properties, and a paper and web magazine (published from 1992-1995). I am responsible for all business activities related to this part-time enterprise. While choosing not to grow this business beyond its current size, it has been (and remains) profitable.

Vestre Aker, Oslo, NO

Oversaw and supported the company and the executive team.

Austin, Texas, US

During my tenure at Anaconda: the company had seven consecutive quarters of record revenue growth; we raised a substantial funding round; we launched the company's first SAAS platform and products; I brought the Pyston and Beeware open-source projects under the company's umbrella; I helped to negotiate new partnerships with Snowflake, Microsoft, Amazon.

London, England, GB

Responsible for the 160-plus person Technology Organization, including Engineering, Research, Security, Business Intelligence, IT, and Product Support. The team was in London, Lisbon, Albuquerque, and remote. During my time at Onfido, I drove the company's first acquisition, we achieved our first SOC2 certification and recertified on ISO 27001. We.

Seattle, Washington, US

Support and advise executive team on software development, scalability, hiring, and technical decisions.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Moved to an advisor role after leaving the company as a full-time employee. Worked to support the great team as they continued to build their products and business.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Hired initial development team in US and remote. Responsible for initial microservice software architecture using Kubernetes and Istio. Released iniital B2B and B2C application MVPs to the market.

Seattle, WA, US

Supported and advised the executive team on software development, scalability, hiring, and technical decisions.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

Assisted Godel and their clients to build high-performing teams with a strong culture as they went through a period of rapid expansion of customers and employees.

Seattle, WA, US

Was responsible for leading the software development, test, data engineering, data science, dev-ops and IT functions. Grew the organization from 51 to 77 while significantly improving diversity, productivity, and morale. Profit grew consistently across entire tenure at Avvo leading to a successful exit via acquisition by Internet Brands in February 2018.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, SE

Led the one hundred and seventy-six person Consumer Engineering organization in Sweden and the US. Responsible for all of the user-visible features in the Spotify product, and for the media path from ingestion to storage, streaming, and playback; including back-end systems and user interfaces on all platforms. Led both significant step-change product.

San Jose, CA, US

Managed a thirty-eight person organization focused on building the Adobe Revel mobile, desktop and web clients; as well as building a shared client, cloud and imaging architecture to be used across all of Adobe's mainstream products based on the architecture my team created for the Adobe Carousel (renamed Adobe Revel) product. Direct reports were senior.

San Jose, CA, US

From 2006 until 2011, managed the Adobe Image Foundation group: fourteen senior development and quality engineers creating the Pixel Bender image and video processing language and its CPU and GPU runtime for use in Adobe Products. Was one of the principal Adobe engineering contacts with ISVs, IHVs and standards bodies on areas of high performance.

San Jose, CA, US

From 2004 to 2006, was the Project Lead and Architect in the Innovative Technologies for Emerging Markets team. Worked with Photoshop Elements team to transition nascent technology to create the Adobe Help Center, a new help system. Shipped with Photoshop Elements (version 3, 4 and 5), Premiere Elements (Version 2 and 3), Creative Suite CS2 (and all.

Redmond, Washington, US

Member of the Windows CE Core OS team; responsible for half of the Windows CE standard shell UI APIs shipped in Windows CE 4.2 and 5.0. For version 5.0, completely re-architected and did the majority of the implementation work for the build system in the WindowsCE Platform Builder IDE tool. Overcame significant political resistance from Program Management.

Was a consultant to Microsoft's Windows CE.NET team. Ported the Pocket Excel application to Windows CE 4.2, and created a common shell library to unify the API for the many versions of the Windows CE shell.

Designed the architecture and did the server-side implementation of an automated media encoding and digital asset management application directed at companies with large media libraries. Also met with potential investors, hardware and software partners.

Managed a team using Extreme Programming methodologies to develop a world-class media management, archiving, and productizing solution. Additionally, was responsible for meeting with angel investors, venture capital partners, potential customers, hardware and software partners. Hired all members of the development organization and directly contributed to.

Redmond, Washington, US

Was a developer with the Windows Media version 7.0 Encoder application team in the Digital Media Division from August 1999 to July 2000. Designed and implemented significant pieces of the application. This release was pivotal in Microsoft taking a leadership position in streaming media.

Redmond, Washington, US

From September 1994 until August 1999, was a development lead in the Virtual Worlds Group of Microsoft Research. The goal of the project was to define the future of multi-user on-line virtual environments. The first shipping version of the project was called V-Chat. Created initial prototypes of V-Chat; designed significant parts of the software.

Worked primarily on technologies around the Alive Performance animation system. Contributed to the second season of "Moxie's Pirate Television Show" for the Cartoon Network. Also was a technical consultant on the early stages of the Squeezels video game developed for Silicon Graphics.

Milpitas, CA, US

Initiated and executed several projects, including: Gallery, a virtual reality Art Gallery for the Reality Engine Computer, developed with a team of three other people. Trainer, a multimedia computer-based training station for the United Airlines maintenance base, developed with consultation from the United Airlines technology groups. Lead developer on The.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Worked on an editing system for the TACTUS multimedia toolkit. Acknowledged in Tactus: toolkit-level support for synchronized interactive multimedia (Dannenberg, Nuendorffer, Newcomer, Rubine, Anderson), Multimedia Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1993