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– Financial advisor delivering comprehensive financial planning services as "The Pasadena Financial Planner" http://www.financialplannerpasadena.com/– Registered Investment Advisor – State of California, Series 65 license holder– Developed VeriPlan, a lifetime personal financial planning software product available for home use by individuals – Promotion of VeriPlan through the Internet http://www.myfinancialfreedomplan.com/– Author of "Low Cost No Load Mutual Funds and ETFs" book available in multiple formats at http://www.myfinancialfreedomplan.com/financial-planning/– Editor and Publisher of The Skilled Investor, a scientific finance website and blog offering objective planning and investing information to individuals: http://www.theskilledinvestor.com

– Acting President under contract to the founders of this seed stage startup– Defined commercialization and technology transfer business plan for VRVS– Negotiated patent, copyright, and trademark licenses with Caltech– Recruited former CIO of Merrill Lynch as outside board member– Assisted Board in recruiting full-time CEO with a video communications background– Assisted CEO with strategy and modeling to secure $4M in strategic partner & venture capital– VRVS is a software-based, globally scalable Internet solution for collaborative multi-point video.

– Developed information service provider business plan targeting securities market professionals– Raised $8M in Series A venture financing from Putnam Lovell and East West Venture Group – Secured $2M revenues for a demonstration product– Hired full management team and 60 professional and technical employees– Lead all operational functions via steering groups, while directly managing corporate and business development, marketing, finance, planning, real estate, and HR functions– Established business and financial policies as CFO; Worked with Deloitte on audit and tax– Developed financial models, and negotiated or approved all budgets, expenditures, and contracts– Codexa's scalable, real time Internet system for website and news feed data acquisition, information filtering, and human interface reporting is described in the book “J2EE Technology in Practice” by Catell and Inscore.

– Conducted financial, product, technology, and acquisition analyses for the Chief Strategy Officer– Developed business models and acquisition summaries for approval by Sun’s Board of Directors– Evaluated and managed external partnership and investment proposals made to Sun’s Executive Committee members– Developed proforma acquisition, merger, investment, asset, licensing, and partnership models and valuation spreadsheets for each transaction– Assisted Sun operating units with a full array of corporate development services including target evaluation, deal planning, executive pre-approvals at the operating unit and corporate levels, negotiation, due diligence, board approval of definitive agreements, and operational integration– Lead strategic partner executive relations with Xerox, Novell, MCI, and other firms.

– Acquired third party vendors' product lines for PC integration, Internet access, high availability, volume management, network backup, and printer management– Negotiated Motorola / Solstice Enterprise Manager partnership deal worth $14 million– Managed SunSoft/Hewlett-Packard distributed object strategic relationship– Established partnership and licensing best practices for third party relationships– Negotiated joint venture collaborations with IBM, Hewlett-Packard, DEC, Xerox, and others– Supervised marketing and business development professionals; Promoted three times

– Managed Unix and MS-DOS object oriented artificial intelligence application development tool product lines

– Lead third party system strategic relationship program for the commercial system product line– Acquired high availability software product line with $4 million in software and $16 million in hardware revenues over three years.– Established U.S. commercial UNIX program, which exceeded sales quota by 80% in first year– Promoted three times; Supervised marketing, business development, and technical professionals

– Focused on continuous quality improvement for five major OS releases – increasing six month customer adoption rate from 25% to 60%– Migrated strategic partners and major accounts to new RISC systems via Fast Start program

Mba, Finance And Marketing

Carnation and Christensen Fellowships

Ma, Political Science And Public Policy

Gordon Fellowship

Bs, Political Science And Economics

plus science, engineering, computer, and statistics coursework