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Business acquisitions, management and engineering.

Buffalo, Wyoming, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Cloud Advocacy – Cloud Platform Evaluations and Insights teamI work for Developer Relations Engineering, and support Google Cloud developers.

Hoahu Database for AndroidNOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center - Data Extraction tool in PHP w/ Oracle 10, AJAX using JQueryMove.com - Wrote a web-service that provides mortgage rates and advertising for the Realtor.com website. Maintained and enhanced their internal Business Intelligence software and provided ad-hoc information for executive briefings. Enhanced MemcacheD with custom features. (Java,JavaScript, MySQL,WebObjects,Linux,Jasper, TomCat, WSDL, JSON, XML, CXF)Valley Isle Loan - PawnReport, MyStolenGoods, AdWords and lots of websites using PHP, MySQL, jQuery & JavaScript.Gravier Corp - TheCoordinator using FileMaker, AppleScript, HTML, I also edited their wedding magazine.Élan Vital Galleries - Inventory/Sales Tool using FileMakerArica Institute – Converted legacy database to XML for inclusion on Oracle’s NetSuite Small Business. Custom JavaScript for NetSuite Backend. Many other projects.

Designed a p2p video conferencing system using Java/Flash, Python, SWT/AWT, JNI, Amazon EC2/S3, Linux.Funds ran out before completion. Vooji has since morphed to a video dating site. It was original goal was to be the next generation of "cam" sites.

Sextant's first product was MyCarMyWay.com a drop in Automotive portal, the only partner was ClassMates.com. It had extensive customization capability for look and feel. The main feature was to help the user locate a used car by searching 10 sites and aggregating the results. This was done live using screen scrapping techniques. We would then facilitate the users sending a lead to the appropriate party. The Used Vehicle Locator product developed with for our partner BlackBook was used by Used Car Sales Managers to help them find vehicles from to stock their lots. It was a bit more database intensive. • Designed the application, implemented the prototype. • Recruited and managed a team of 8, including 4 programmers. • Created automotive new car configuration tool using WebObjects 5 (Java) and JavaScript, database design, tracking down hard to find Bugs, vendor bugs, and made the code more robust overall. Installed the Xp methodology. My role was as a mentor / coach. I took on all deployment related activities. Configuration: 2 rented racks at AboveNet, with a 100base-T coming in to a 3Com 12 port gigaswitch. 7 Mac 800/DP’s. An Apache server that fronted our 3 app servers. Each talked with our 2 db servers running FrontBase in a cluster configuration. We had a hot standby system configured to take over for the web server or the App Servers in case of a failure, but it could replace any other function.

Cupertino, California, Us

PC World magazine named the AirPort Base Station #34 tech product of all time. I was the technical lead. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,8-c,technology/article.html 34. Apple Airport Base Station (1999)Apple wasn't the first company to introduce Wi-Fi, but in 1999 its flying saucer Base Station became a visible (and stylish) emblem for the joys of wireless connectivity. Apple was a forerunner when it came to incorporating 802.11b into laptops, and it championed the technology before other vendors did. Nowadays, Apple's Airport Extreme Base Station is a direct descendant of the earlier technology. But even though the company is a relatively minor player in networking hardware, the original Base Station had a powerful influence in the early days of Wi-Fi and helped kick-start the migration to the wireless world as we know it today.Hired to help redirect Apple's Newton technology to the Macintosh, I was the software technical lead of the initial engineering design of the iBook. Software technical lead on AirPort, Apple's wireless networking product. (IEEE 802.11b based) Duties: developing the requirements, defining the User Experience, writing the engineering specification, software development budget, recruiting team members, negotiating contracts, writing the drivers for the Macintosh, hardware bring up, managing the vendor “Lucent's WCND” in the Netherlands, and their vendor KarlNet. He also oversaw the AirPort software base station, implemented the MacOS driver, and hired and managed the vendor, Sustworks. Additionally I was part of the team championing the Core99 chipset, North bridge / South Bridge chips, and a new keyboard controller. I also helped in the redesign of power management throughout the entire product line.Regularly briefed Sr. Management, including Jon Rubinstein (Sr. VP - Hardware) and Steve Jobs.

Oracle-Designed and implemented the database back end for a Jet Engine repair system deployed at GE. C, Object Store, Oracle.Apple Advance Technology Group: Ported and productized Apple's printed handwriting recognizer to the Newton. The New York Times gave a positive review. At the time, this was the largest deployment of Neural Networking technology. Rewrote the Neural Net kernel in ARM assembler, including a method to maximize cache coherency. Converted the entire product from floating point to integer arithmetic, including various forms of fixed point and offset base arithmetic. Localized German and French versions. Designed and implemented handwriting sample data capture. Proposed several enhancements to the recognizer. Additional work on alternative input methods for the Newton including the porting of T-Cube, a self disclosing input system.Waverly Publishing, Williams & Wilkins-Prototype Newton book of Griffith / Dambro's "The 5 Minute Clinical Consult."Syvax/SCI/Apple-Token ring manufacturing QA software.Learning Company–Design of Word Processor for Middle/High students.3Com-Ethernet drivers for Apple. Worked with AppleTalk, TCP/IP, Netware stacks.

San Jose, California, Us

Technical Lead of "Q&A for Macintosh" a multi-user database with a natural-language front-end.. Managed 10 including 7 engineers, and 2 designers. Was also responsible for 30 people at the facility. Involved with all aspects of the product including user interface design and implementation.

Ashton-Tate-Designed and implemented the spreadsheet for Full Impact™. Many of its innovative features can now be found in Excel from Microsoft. This included R&D of the minimal recalculation algorithm and innovative ways of storing spreadsheet data. We were able to recalculate a 10 MB Spreadsheet on a 512k Mac.3Com, Inc – Remote Console management over AppleTalk for their EtherSeries product. Including TCP/IP emulation over AppleTalk.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

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Chicago, Illinois, Us

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