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Detroit, Mi, Us

London, Gb

Dext puts powerful tools at your fingertips for real-time and accurate insights to help your business and accounting firm be more productive and more profitable.Manage the overall Dext Commerce (formerly Greenback) product.

Royal Oak, Mi, Us

Acquired by Dext in Aug 2021. Greenback is accounting automation software for growing businesses. Automatically fetch sales & expense transactions from top retailers, payment platforms & seller marketplaces. A top 10 app for QuickBooks and Xero ecosytems 4 years and counting.

Lansing, Michigan, Us

Appointed by Michigan's Governor to develop a comprehensive vision for the State of Michigan's economic future. The commission will set goals and establish metrics to measure Michigan’s economic success, identify the potential for new industry growth, develop strategies to support existing industry, and make recommendations that will distinguish the state as a center for innovation. http://www.michigan.gov/snyder/0,4668,7-277-57577_57657_59871-395696--,00.html

Royal Oak, Mi, Us

Fizzed helps incubate, engineer, and occasionally fund mobile, web, and data products. We've worked with private, public, and government clients that span across a variety of industry verticals, software platforms and device types.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Recruited and managed the mobile team responsible for creating both the client and infrastructure stack for one of the world's largest and most reliable notification platforms that handled hundreds of billions of transactions across a wide variety of wireless devices. Left a unique legacy by engineering the only platform spanning all of Twitter to have 100% uptime (3.5 years and counting) during the most challenging years of Twitter's hyper growth. Responsibilities primarily included managing the engineering and operations teams that built and maintained the geographically distributed platform, as well as the business development team that established 260+ mobile operator relationships across 82 countries. Lead the development of numerous mobile product enhancements and features that became a significant driver of Twitter's overall active user growth and retention over the years.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Acquired by Twitter in April 2010. Cloudhopper engineered the software and operated the infrastructure (software as a service) to reliably scale and geographically distribute some of the world's highest volume mobile messaging programs. Lead the company from its inception to profitability to eventual acquisition. Managed all aspects of the business including engineering and product as well as sales and operations. Cloudhopper's unique intellectual property and meticulously engineered technology was strategically acquired by Twitter to replace their in-house platform. Cloudhopper's team formed the early nucleus of Twitter's mobile group. As part of Twitter, Cloudhopper's mobile platform not only scaled over the years for volume in the trillions, but was Twitter's most reliable as well - with zero downtime since its launch in 2009.

Simplewire was rebranded to OpenMarket and became a new business division of Qpass, which was acquired by Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) in May 2006. As a key member of the division's management team, recruited and lead numerous teams as OpenMarket rapidly grew into one of Amdocs most profitable business units. Responsibilities spanned engineering, operations, carrier relations, product, and support. The original concept, engineering, and intellectual property of Simplewire continues to thrive today as OpenMarket is now the #1 market leader in mobile messaging and payments in North America.

Southfield, Mi, Us

Acquired by Qpass in February 2006. Founded well before SMS text messaging was mainstream , Simplewire was a visionary company that disrupted the traditional closed operator content model and sparked some of North America's most successful mobile content companies. Simplewire was one of the world's first providers of SMS text messaging and mobile payment services on behalf of hundreds of mobile operators around the world such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Vodafone, etc. Lead the company from concept through venture financing to profitability and eventually acquisition. Architected the intellectual property and managed all aspects of the business primarily focusing on engineering, operations, product, carrier relations, and support.

Designed and engineered mission critical database and web applications for numerous Fortune 500 clients such as General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. Rootlevel was one of Michigan's leading firms that specialized in building Internet-based applications.