At Bright & Shiny, our passion is solving problems. We’ve deployed and maintained highly scaled web applications, designed small, medium and large business websites, created best-selling, award-winning mobile apps, and done pretty much everything in between. We bring a strong software engineering mindset to bear on all projects, never losing sight of the final objective: to create the best solution to your problem in a timely, cost-effective manner. Relying on a common-sense approach to software design and construction rather than rigid conformance to any specific methodology or technology, we are agile in the best sense of the word.

A global innovation firm, working with the worlds leading companies, helping them create and bring to market meaningful products, services and experiences.Managed the technology team, technology portfolio and technology business development efforts for the San Francisco studio.

Leader in the Open Access publishing movement, providing online publishing tools for thousands of institutional customers as well as producing over 40 peer-reviewed journals and other services.Managed a 15-person technology team of Software Engineers, Product Management, UI Developers, QA, Desktop Support and Operations.

Global leader in print technology.Oversaw 17 internationally distributed team members (U.S., Europe, India) in product management, engineering, QA, and customer service and managed $10m in revenue. Directed ongoing engineering operations, include product planning, code reviews, and bug scrubs. Maximized product leverage by merging existing technologies, strategically acquiring intellectual property and creating new intellectual property.Finalist: Excellence in Imaging Award - 2002Panel Member, Topic: Distributed Scanning Trends - AIIM-OnDemand - 2005Best Desktop Document Management Application - BERTL - 2007United States Patent 7506253United States Patent 7653683United States Patent 20060114494

Oversaw engineering and daily business management of enterprise software and SaaS business units.Supervised up to 15 direct reports. Directed ongoing engineering operations, including product planning,code reviews, and bug scrubs.

Oversaw driverless print solution (printme.com) through its full lifecycle, from research and developmentto product shipping. Managed systems architecture, development, and deployment for both software andmultiple hosting environments. Negotiated contracts, provided coding and created web architecture. Developed first cloud based printing solution.

Web startup providing reservations, portals, and e-commerce services for day and health spas.Managed all technology operations, including warehouse and website integration, accounting systems, content management, e-commerce, gift certificates, and hosting environments. Supervised 20 member team, including engineers, content developers, QA developers, and UI developers.Earned recognition as a “Forbes Favorite” in May 2000.

Founded a web development firm to service travel agents and travel consortia with innovative content management, relationship management and recommendation services for over 3500 customers.

Developed web-based services and solutions for customers such as IBM, American Greetings, Ericsson and the Jerusalem Post utilizing a variety of open source technologies.Finalist in the 1996 New Media/Apple QuickTime Web ChallengeFeatured Case Study in "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C"