Jeff Bone Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” — William GibsonStay tuned.

The Topsight Group pursues opportunities for large-scale risk management and mitigation through identification of and investment in strategic technologies and innovative disruptions. Its sister organization, The Topsight Foundation, is a non-profit whose mission is to help build a positive future. It identifies and assists other organizations and efforts.

NXP Trading is a proprietary trading firm employing machine learning in the cryptocurrency space. Its precursor, NextPrime, provided a global clearing and settlement network and ecosystem bringing together institutional traders, custodians, service banks and exchanges to bridge the gap between the digital asset and traditional finance worlds — the company.

ACQUIRED BY DRW RGM Advisors, LLC is a proprietary trading firm that applies scientific methods and computing power to trading. RGM manages its own funds and does not manage external money. I built and managed the company's foreign exchange practice and later assumed management of its fixed income practice as well. The role involved everything from.

Austin, Texas, US

ACQUIRED BY IBM in December 2012. The Company was a venture-backed, Austin-based startup leading the emerging file management market segment. The Company's innovation is in regarding un- and semi-structured files in enterprise file systems as managed assets and employing workflow-based policies that bring the end-user into information lifecycle management.

Clickfeed was one of the Web's first online news aggregation / publication, social bookmarking and micro-blogging services. Business model was based on ad and affiliate revenue on the C2C side with sales of customized / targeted news feeds to commercial websites on the B2B side. Net loss, caught in dot-bomb.

Started and managed a small consulting organization specializing in rapid delivery of prototype applications and application frameworks for high-tech startups. Clients for management, technical, and advisory services included: Ambac Connect, WebTaggers, LoanFirst, Terrace Mountain Systems / Impart Technologies, KnowNow, Pavillion, and SES / Hyperformix..

Oblivion funded, booked, promoted, produced, and managed live music shows (including nationally and internationally touring groups) in a number of venues in Austin, TX. Broke even.

ACQUIRED BY CMGI IN 1999; achieved sizable ROI for investors. Activerse's award-winning Ding! product pioneered the buddy list / instant messaging space and was the first (AFAIK) commercial peer-to-peer application. Our DingBot SDK was the first commercial chatbot product ever. Activerse was one of the first companies to embrace Java (when it was called.

IP SOLD TO GENERAL MAGIC Active Paper developed the first standards-based Internet e-mail and browser clients that ran on mobile handhelds, as well as the first device-specific application proxy services to support mobile computing. Active Paper was one of the first handheld-oriented software companies and one of Austin's first Internet software companies..

Member of technical staff working on ETI's large-scale data migration toolkit, Extract. Functions included first port of product; license management technology evaluation, selection, and implementation; some project management, development, and delivery of 2.3 release cycle; and object persistence technology evaluation, selection, and prototype.

Client and server hacker (open source) in / on various of the earliest MUDs (text-based online virtual communities / interactive fiction environments.) Projects included: first graphical MUD client implementation, mudtool. Editor / maintainer, MUF Cookbook --- programming recipes for first programmable MUD. Developed first online nightclub (Obsession @.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Architect and lead on Dell's first e-commerce project.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Architect and developer on the tiger team that designed and implemented the information systems behind Sun's award-winning 1-800-USA-4-SUN customer service function. At one point this was the largest information system deployed on Sun technology. Included innovations such as large-scale event notification, distributed transaction management, Scheme-based.

SES was originally a simulation / modeling and CASE tools vendor. Now called Hyperformix, it currently is a market leader in system performance modeling and evaluation for large-scale distributed information systems.

Austin, TX, US

Proctored UT's undergraduate computing laboratory; consulted with students, faculty and administration on systems, network, and software development support issues on UNIX, Mac, and PCs; wrote end-user documentation on systems and services; wrote and maintained laboratory procedure documentation; participated in specification of lab management software.