Hal Bogner Email & Phone Number

Half Moon Bay, California

Provider of consulting services, in conjunction with a diverse network of colleagues, across a range of technical, business and social needs. Recent clientele include CASIS and MIT, several associated astronauts, and the National Scholastic Chess Foundation.Advised and performed numerous projects for U.S. Chess Federation executive director Bill Hall.

The leading chess e-learning web site, ChessMagnetSchool.com is a computer-based, adaptive learning web site presenting an extensive curriculum of chess puzzles developed over more than a decade by a leading chess master and professional educator, and proven through more than a decade of use by leading chess coaches and by thousands of independent.

ChessLecture.com has the world's largest library of professional-quality video lectures by proven chess masters and educators, with more added daily. Videos presented by Grand Masters, International Masters and National Masters provide instruction for chess students, enthusiasts, casual and competitive players who want to learn more, play and win.We.

San Mateo, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Pasadena, And Other locations...

After learning how to ice skate in southern California at the age of 30, joined a beginners program and have been enjoying the feeling of being a kid again, of being a member (and, several times, captain) of a team (after 20 years competing as a solitary chess player), and of slowly climbing the ladder of progress so I can win the Stanley Cup within the.

Half Moon Bay, California, United States

After considering taking on housemates at the start of 2021 to share the incredible house we rent from our architect friend Chris Ridgway - who we think of as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of curves" - a friend suggested that we offer a room via Airbnb, and we quickly achieved Superhost status. In late 2021, Airbnb informed us that we had been identified as the.

Assisted with business development and strategy as CASIS - the NASA partner responsible for management of the US National Laboratory component of the International Space Station - work to bring the labs up to full utilization, to enable commercial partners to utilize 50% of that capacity, and to leverage the activities onboard ISS to inspire students to.

Cambridge, MA

I am a member of the "Founders Group" for the Zero Robotics (zerorobotics.org) programming competitions, conducted annually by MIT and NASA, responsible for assisting with business development and program management aspects of this series of national and international programming competitions for high school and middle school students, with the finals.

Hired as consultant to managing partner of leading internet chess playing site, October 2002.Named General Manager, December 2002.Drove double-digit year-on-year revenue growth rate for 2003 (nearly triple the 2002 rate).Negotiated establishment of Chess.FM subsidiary, Q4 2002; oversaw relationship with founder/manager of Chess.FM as General Manager of ICC.

Assisted founder in growing a two-person software development consultancy with revenues of ~$125k in 1996 by providing business development, recruitment and project management service.Doubled revenues annually to ~$250k in 1997, ~$500k in 1998, and ~$1m in 1999.Established second field of services to provide back-end web site technical development for.

Half Moon Bay, California

Produced three chess programs for Windows and Macintosh:Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess (chessplaying portion), for Davidson & Associates/Simon & Schuster joint venture, 1996-97Eric Schiller's Chess Game, for Zane Publishing, 1997Internet Chess for the Macintosh (Mac only), for use with the Internet Chess Club, 1996-98

Cupertino, California

Joined leading early Fortune 500 web design firm (first client was FedEx in 1995) as employee #8 to establish project management as a distinct department, helping grow company to 24 employees within six months.I was responsible for the complete life cycle of all projects for Apple, Novell, and multiple Promus Hotel brands (Embassy Suites Hotels and three.

San Mateo, California

Hired to provide leadership to an external development team who had begun work on a competitor to the leading Chessmaster franchise in 1990. Redesigned and produced an award-winning PC chess program, Kasparov's Gambit, DOS, released late 1993, to better reviews than the concurrent release of Chessmaster 3000; Gambit was ranked a top-100 PC game by Computer.

Southern California

Active competitor at the master level, 1980 - 1992, earned Life Master title (300+ games)winner, 1st Hong Kong International, 1981Active event organizer and arbiter, 1980 - 1990- awarded International Arbiter certification by World Chess Federation, 1983- #3 chess event organizer nationally in 1980s- promoted most successful US Open Chess Championship in.

Santa Ana, California

Wrote weekly chess column for Sunday edition, which had a circulation of over 1 million copies.