IT Consultant specializing in UNIX systems, especially internet commerce solutions based on Sun Solaris and Redhat Linux servers.Clients include Sun Microsystems, Wells Fargo Bank, Informix, Organic Online, Hotwire.com, Match.com, Epylon.com and numerous internet startup companies no longer among the living.Skills range from systems & network administration, infrastructure architecture & re-engineering, software design & development in C, C++, Java and Javascript, to product… Show more IT Consultant specializing in UNIX systems, especially internet commerce solutions based on Sun Solaris and Redhat Linux servers.Clients include Sun Microsystems, Wells Fargo Bank, Informix, Organic Online, Hotwire.com, Match.com, Epylon.com and numerous internet startup companies no longer among the living.Skills range from systems & network administration, infrastructure architecture & re-engineering, software design & development in C, C++, Java and Javascript, to product design, development, marketing, strategy and management. Show less

Teaching assistant for undergraduate students in a two-quarter introductory financial and managerial accounting courses taught by the U.C. Davis Graduate School of Management faculty.The textbook is Financial Accounting - Information for Decisions 9th Edition, and the course is a follow-on to Financial Accounting, dealing with the details of the theory of product costing, analyzing the role and impact of accounting information on decision making, planning, and performance… Show more Teaching assistant for undergraduate students in a two-quarter introductory financial and managerial accounting courses taught by the U.C. Davis Graduate School of Management faculty.The textbook is Financial Accounting - Information for Decisions 9th Edition, and the course is a follow-on to Financial Accounting, dealing with the details of the theory of product costing, analyzing the role and impact of accounting information on decision making, planning, and performance evaluation.Teaching assistant for undergraduate students in a Financing New Business Ventures course taught by the U.C. Davis Graduate School of Management faculty in the technology management minor program.The textbook is Essentials of Corporate Finance, and the course is oriented towards entrepreneurship, startups and small businesses and includes extensive homework in Excel covering the time value of money, net present value, income statement, balance sheet and sources & uses accounting, cash flow analysis, capital budgeting, and two student projects.The usual TA duties: attend lectures, teach discussion sessions, hold office hours, grade homework and exams, and respond to student emails. Show less

Sole founder, Chief Executive and Chief Technology Officer of a venture-funded startup computer company in Silicon Valley utilizing the JavaOS operating system, JavaServer webserver and HotJava web browser software source code and related technologies licensed from Sun Microsystems for the Intel x86 architecture. Product idea, concept and design, company formation, naming, and creation, negotiation of legal issues and software license agreements, authoring of initial strategy and business plan.… Show more Sole founder, Chief Executive and Chief Technology Officer of a venture-funded startup computer company in Silicon Valley utilizing the JavaOS operating system, JavaServer webserver and HotJava web browser software source code and related technologies licensed from Sun Microsystems for the Intel x86 architecture. Product idea, concept and design, company formation, naming, and creation, negotiation of legal issues and software license agreements, authoring of initial strategy and business plan. Closed initial seed round funding of $1.1M in only four months. Specification, design, and development of an initial prototype product. Fund raising of follow-on $3M second round of venture capital. Show less

Product management duties for Sun-internal and third-party software development products used in the design, development and deployment of artificial intelligence expert systems used in stock trading, military C3I, MRI, machine vision, unmanned drones and vehicle application areas. Software language and development tool product design, strategy & management for C, C++, CommonLisp, Java, Smalltalk. Worked with the inventors & developers of the Smalltalk-80 language to spin-out of Xerox PARC. Was… Show more Product management duties for Sun-internal and third-party software development products used in the design, development and deployment of artificial intelligence expert systems used in stock trading, military C3I, MRI, machine vision, unmanned drones and vehicle application areas. Software language and development tool product design, strategy & management for C, C++, CommonLisp, Java, Smalltalk. Worked with the inventors & developers of the Smalltalk-80 language to spin-out of Xerox PARC. Was involved in the early phases of the Oak project which led to the invention of the Java programming language. Show less

Manager of a group of software engineers and system admins who supported all of Sun's third-party HW/SW developers including a large pool of loaner hardware, as well as all worldwide corporate trade shows, conferences, product introductions, the corporate demo room, and large volume, OEM & strategic sales. Sun's Catalyst third-party HW/SW products program was a model for the industry which we grew from an initial 10-20 products to several thousand different third party hardware & software… Show more Manager of a group of software engineers and system admins who supported all of Sun's third-party HW/SW developers including a large pool of loaner hardware, as well as all worldwide corporate trade shows, conferences, product introductions, the corporate demo room, and large volume, OEM & strategic sales. Sun's Catalyst third-party HW/SW products program was a model for the industry which we grew from an initial 10-20 products to several thousand different third party hardware & software products in numerous vertical markets. My group had our hands-on and hands-in the code of our third party vendors traveling often 2-3 weeks per month. Show less

Hired as the 3rd systems engineer in the company to support Boston-area customers including two $40M OEM "company-maker" deals with ComputerVision & CompuGraphics, and customers Harvard, MIT AI & Media Labs, Woods Hole Research Center, MIT/Lincoln Lab, MITRE. Transferred to Mt. View corporate home office to help build the technical support organization from the ground up.

While leading the continued development of mainframe-based financial modeling tools, I was also one of the lead developers in the specification, design and development of similar tools running on UNIX-based microcomputers. Face-to-face consulting on a billable hour or project engagement basis to Fortune 100 corporations, Wall Street investment banks, brokerage firms and corporate raiders. Co-designer and sole developer of a merger & acquisition simulation environment which would simulate the… Show more While leading the continued development of mainframe-based financial modeling tools, I was also one of the lead developers in the specification, design and development of similar tools running on UNIX-based microcomputers. Face-to-face consulting on a billable hour or project engagement basis to Fortune 100 corporations, Wall Street investment banks, brokerage firms and corporate raiders. Co-designer and sole developer of a merger & acquisition simulation environment which would simulate the merger of two companies and then allow the modeling and forecasting of the merged company's financial statements, linking to industry-specific, country-specific or macroeconomic models which won the McGraw-Hill prize for best new business venture in 1982. Show less

Based in Global Insight's corporate headquarters, I was the lead developer of a set of software tools used to model and forecast financial statement information for individual products, business units, divisions and corporations and link these micro-economic models and forecasts to macroeconomic econometric models and forecasts. Also face-to-face billable hour consulting and project work for Fortune 100 corporations, Wall Street investment banks, brokerage firms and public utilities.

Econometric & business forecasting and modeling consultant to Fortune 100 clients including Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, Toyota, Boeing, Charles Schwab, the Pacific Stock Exchange, the Electric Power Research Institute, PG&E, SoCal Edision, San Diego Gas & Electric, Crocker Bank, First Interstate Bank, Montgomery Securities, Hambrecht & Quist, Schlage, Chevron, Safeway, American Airlines, United Airlines.

Half-time staff position while an undergraduate working for campus computing services supporting remote job entry sites for campus and UC-wide mainframe computers, Burroughs B6700 & B6800 mainframe computer operator, Burroughs mainframe software design & development in the Basic, Fortran, Pascal and Algol-60 programming languages. Member of a team that brought UNIX to UCD from UC Berkeley to run on DEC PDP 11/70 mini-computers. First started working with UNIX at the source code level, writing… Show more Half-time staff position while an undergraduate working for campus computing services supporting remote job entry sites for campus and UC-wide mainframe computers, Burroughs B6700 & B6800 mainframe computer operator, Burroughs mainframe software design & development in the Basic, Fortran, Pascal and Algol-60 programming languages. Member of a team that brought UNIX to UCD from UC Berkeley to run on DEC PDP 11/70 mini-computers. First started working with UNIX at the source code level, writing shell scripts and programming in C and Pascal in 1978. Management of a staff of 15-20 part-time student computer consultants who provided technical support to staff, faculty and students campus-wide. Show less