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An advisor to startup high growth companies

Building security software platform to protect core critical data from inception to storage and all steps in-between. Initial targets are mission & life critical data that can not be changed without unrecoverable consequences. Our long term roadmap includes using our shapeshifting time dependent patents to ensure that data remains safe and compliant. Responsible for designing the architecture, building the technical strategy, creating the intellectual property portfolio, recruiting the technical team and managing code releases.* Currently working on several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants from the US Dept. of Energy, US National Science Foundation and US Air Force.* Signed partnership with Blockchain Technology Partners for technology and sales go to market.* Building out a three layer trusted network platform based on core Blockchain immutability, network moving layer defense and network cloaking. * Building an Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) consensus mechanism under a grant from the National Science Foundation.* Core tech is at the packet level, as well as using asynchronous byzantine fault tolerant consensus for the blockchain at extremely high transaction rates. * Building up a patent and intellectual property portfolio. One patent has been granted and several more have been applied for. * Working with initial customers on a full proof of concept and implementation.

App and video courses to help one focus your mind all coupled with real time personal health data from devices you already use to give you a complete scientific view of yourself. Using evidence based scientific methods for the Mindful market. * With our initial MVP launch in the Spanish language market we added 40,000 registered customers in nine months driving growing our MRR 50% month over month - every month.* Over 135,000 followers on Facebook for Mindful Science collaborate on using mindfulness to be healthier and more productive.

Led a consulting company of startup founders and online marketing professionals. After consulting with Duly in the past, assumed the leadership for a short period, while building out my own companies.Client include:* WeeSchool.com - Infant Education site by the creators of Baby Einstein. Built a Daily KPI model with daily email and weekly recaps so rapid adjustments can be made to the new consumer offering that launched in 2017. Acting as interim CTO for consumer SaaS application.* MindfulScience.es - Built Strategic KPI's, managed website build, expansion and Android and IoS app development in a multilingual environment. Managed teams in multiple countries, achieved 50,000 new subscriptions in first 10 months, while getting revenue to cashflow positive.* Rachio.com - Delivered a weekly KPI recap and managed advertising and product modeling for a $100k + ad spend. Grew Amazon marketing ads leading to 10 to 1 return in revenue from ad spend.* Alpine Waste Management - Built and maintained an ad spend campaign to get account in top of search engine ad and organic search models. Modeled KPI's and competitive research.

Led 12 person IBM ecosystem team promoting to Startups, VC’s, Universities & Accelerators in Silicon Valley. Focused on Blockchain and Cognitive Computing as the lead development tools for new generation applications by building concepts, POC’s & demos.• Progressed over $15 million in IBM sales opportunities in first half of 2016• Brought in over 120 startups into the IBM ecosystem in 2015• Managed IBM presence in dozens of hackathons - public and private - as well as 70+ meetups and conferences

Built the services and operations teams for a cutting edge API connection Cloud based startup. Built teams to onboard clients, 24 by 7 support, dev-ops, website operations, internal systems, release management and product documentation. • Hired and created Support and Customer Success teams and process to onboard clients growing 400% in 1 year.• Built high availability, tight application security and monitoring as well as managed implementation in AWS.• Created comprehensive online documentation for product and re-created and managed Website.• Closed and implemented the two largest accounts at Cloud Elements for over $3.3 million per year in ARR• Active with CEO in raising a successful $3 million Series A round.

Worked with team of engineers, scientists and equity partners to create a satellite based hyperspectral information services company that would create petabytes of big data per year. Boeing funded & moved company to Washington DC.

Managed a 92 person Product Management and Software development organization for a $50 million Software As A Service Company, growing platform usage 35% annually. IQNavigator’s SaaS manages over $14 billion in temporary services for Global 1000 companies, in 120 countries, localized in 30 countries. Accomplished several company firsts including the first architecture team, monthly agile releases, outsourced partner, multiyear feature roadmap & cross functional governance group for prioritizing features and future product direction. • Designed and delivered Developer Portal for Partners, Clients and Third Party firms to integrate with IQNavigator• Built Web Services and Framework to deliver 250+ new integrations in IQN global 1000 clients backend systems• Delivered first interactive Business Intelligence dashboard based on Jasper BI Suite and Fusion Charts.• Transitioned architecture from 3 tier to an n tier Web Services horizontal stack using ServiceMix ESB• Replaced Solaris with Linux, added workflow, search and reporting tools replacing home grown tools.

Managed team of 54 employees in all aspects of company technical and data operations as well as custom software. Built a transactional multi tenant 12 million SKU interactive online part commerce engine used by: 42 major retailers and large service clients throughout the US. Partsearch shipped over 1 million packages, added 500,000 new customers a year and performed over 600 million part searches every year, with over 1.5 million unique visitors to its sites every month.• Launched the Company’s first B2B SaaS multi tenant application, first Web Services platform and rebuilt the high volume e-commerce web hosting platform used by 17 large retailers.• Condensed 58 applications to 12 and introduced multi tenancy to all applications.• Embedded Partsearch ordering via Web Services in partner companies proprietary applications increasing sales 50%• Replaced search engine and search user interface on retail site increasing sales 60% YOY a $30 million• Enhanced ordering rules and part sourcing engine which resulting in $2 million + in annual cost savings • Overhauled the technical infrastructure, including dropping downtime over 90% and increasing response time by over 75% in first 90 days, put phone ordering application info as voice driven option on 800# to reduce call costs• Instituted Agile Development Environment, relocated corporate data center, introduced new database taxonomy• Moved a in house C++ software infrastructure to a Java based Open Source infrastructure including Jboss Application Server, SOLR Search, Hibernate, ServiceMix ESB and others.

Management of full lifecycle of products that produce over $2 billion in ADP sales. Products range from newly introduced SaaS front end, with fast growth of features; to mature thick client front end application development. Directly managed a $32 million budget. Managing a direct reporting team composing of 252 developers, architects, testers and analysts and project managers in NJ, Atlanta, India and Brazil along with a matrixed team of over 300 employees that serviced over 100,000 companies and have 100’s of thousands of users servicing 35,0000,000 + employees.• Senior executive who managed a joint development project between SAP and ADP with a 7 figure development budget across development teams on three continents between the two companies.• Directed new Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) serving as the foundation of next generation architecture • Drove delivery, strategy and specifications on Payroll and HR products both hosted and client server based• Rebuilt a SaaS product with features and reliability that drove sales from $25 million to over $1 billion in 5 years.• Built new high HR management system across three business units, in 12 months to deployment with multi-tenancy.• Increased reliability SaaS hosted products to 99.99 % uptime, while reducing hosting costs over 75%.• Managed both Java 2EE based and .Net applications connecting to a variety of ADP legacy systems.• Introduced project management structure and development methodology that speeds delivery and reduces errors.• Introduced 4 new products to market in first 14 months after coming to ADP.• Directed from inception to delivery of the first two online ADP products to have 1,000,000 end users.

After being an active advisor with the original founder of Jabber.com and the original author of jabber.org, I joined the company briefly as an Interim CTO. I contracted Marshal Rose to head the effort to make XMPP an IETF standard. Jabber was acquired by Cisco Systems.

Founding executive of an Application Service Provider startup that offers a set of collaborative programs for managing all phases of software lifecycle from requirements to code versioning and bug tracking. Built company strategy for turning Open Source development techniques into a repeatable collaborative software development lifecycle methodology. I was responsible for turning the original two page vision into an enterprise ready Internet hosted product suited for sale to the Global 2000 companies. Managed teams from inception to 35 people. Worked throughout all aspects of the company.• Created and presented company's business plan with CEO and Founder and raised $35 million in Series A money.• Created revenue stream in first year of over $2 million from a supporting product extracted from the original vision.• Company executive responsible for closing major accounts such as HP, IBM and Motorola• Created and hired several groups inside company, including product management, support and consulting services.• Built company from a handful to over 140 employees.

Envisioned plan for WebSphere product line and championed its initial funding and acceptance as a strategy in IBM. Developed and implemented coordinated concept strategy for the WebSphere product line – IBM’s brand for Internet Software. Developed product plans and functional specifications for standard products in the WebSphere family, including a Java based Web Application Server, XML Server, Site Management Server and Personalization Server. Press spokesman for WebSphere brand and IBM Internet Software. Product line exceeded $100 million in sales in its second full calendar year. Managed matrixed teams from 3-100 people in world-wide geography.• Designed the high level architecture using Enterprise Java Beans and a common management infrastructure for a unified software family designed for complete Internet capability.• Assembled a single unified software strategy from several disparate existing IBM Internet Software products, the strategy launched IBM sales into the Internet segment.• Created strategy for “Web-Up” market a new market not currently reached through traditional IBM sales channels.• Led IBM team for Open Sourcing of the code of the JSP and Java Servlet portion of the Enterprise Java Bean Specification with Sun Microsystems to the Jakarta part of the Apache Software Foundation.• Specifying the addition of XML & XSL capabilities to the server product line.Http Server Product Manager – IBM Software Group Driving core technical specifications for basic Web Server for the Windows NT, UNIX AS/400 and OS/390 markets.• Changed the core focus of the http server within IBM from proprietary servers (GO and WOM) to an open software solution in conjunction with the Open Source Apache Group.• Co-architected IBM’s move to the Apache Webserver as the primary IBM Webserver.• Speaker at industry conferences showcasing the Internet and Internet commerce. IBM Spokesman for WebServers.

Linux and Open Source Strategic Working Group - Strategist for the IBM corporate wide core strategy team for Linux and Open Source. Began IBM’s first organized Linux activities and represented outside Linux speaking engagements for IBM. Initiated and led working group with IBM & Sun Microsystems to release the Java Server Page and Servlet specification to form the Apache Jakarta project. Strategic Acquisitions Working Group - Participated in the recommendation and technical due diligence task forces for seven separate IBM acquisition teams. Work included identifying and negotiating with potential acquisition companies, as well as writing the technical briefs.

Sold to EDS 1997 - Responsible for corporate strategy planning, product specifications, implementing training and new product introductions for the largest fulfillment company in the world. Clients include Wired Magazine, IDG Publications, Ziff-Davis, Time Inc., Simon & Schuster, Nike,US Postal Service and Philip Morris. Managed team of 3 and matrixed 6 EDS employees .• Managed introduction and ongoing ramp up of Web commerce site that took over 1,100,000 product orders in last 7 months of 1996 over the Web.• Architected process flow for order flow, credit confirmations and customer order acknowledgements into System 390 mainframes directly from Web order forms.• Designed functional specifications for extranet that allowed direct supplier update into System 390 mainframes and allowed audited verification.• Oversaw the development of call center software used for the personalized response to consumer e-mails direct from call center workstations, with over 250,000 e-mails responded to in first 6 months of call center operation.• Developed specific product plans, sales guides and collateral material for new backend Web based product offerings

Sold to Microsoft 1996 Built software functional requirements specifications, technical support department as well as indirect sales, distribution channels for a World Wide Web based Collaboration and HTTP Server. Managed from 1-8 employees• Hired and trained the technical support department. • Managed the alpha and beta testing of over 50 test sites.• Developed new distribution channels in Europe, Asia, Canada and throughout the United States.• Speaker at major industry trade shows, implemented World Wide Web Site for Company including server design.

InfoPort started out as my passion for computer bulletin boards and ended up being one of the first ISP's in Denver Colorado in the early 90''s. I sold the InfoPort accounts to concentrate on Resnova software which provided the backbone for much of my business.