Mark Coggins Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Author of eight novels in the August Riordan crime fiction series, a collection of first-person essays and several short stories. My work has been nominated for the Shamus and Barry crime fiction awards and selected for best-of-the-year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press, and Amazon.com, among others. My novels Runoff and The Big Wake-Up won a Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award respectively, and The Immortal Game was optioned for a film.

San Francisco Bay Area

Images of mine have been shown in galleries across the United States and Europe, including exhibitions jurored by acclaimed photographers and curators Amy Arbus, Elizabeth Avedon, Judy Dater, Henry Horenstein and Michael Kenna. I have has won multiple awards, participated in solo and small group shows, and published a monograph entitled Street Stories.

Consulting in fund-raising, product management, engineering practices and go-to-market strategy.

Mountain View, Ca

Responsible for driving adoption of Mozilla open web and mobile technologies among independent developers, with a particular focus on Firefox OS, Mozilla’s new mobile operating system.* Bootstrapped the Firefox Marketplace—the app store for Firefox OS—with app recruitment campaigns targeted at independent developers. With no budget for contests or financial rewards, netted a solid foundation of thousands of high-quality apps at a pace faster than comparable ecosystems (e.g., Tizen and webOS) where millions were spent on contests. Apps recruited directly by my team were higher rated than apps which came in through business development deals or those submitted without a Mozilla contact.* Recruited multi-platform game engines and app development platforms to support Firefox OS, including Intel’s mobile app platform and the Flambe game engine (used by Nickelodeon, Disney and Mattel).* Directed development of documentation, blog posts, sample codes, newsletters, videos and conference talks to educate and evangelize developers on Firefox OS and other Mozilla technologies.* Partnered with Geeksphone, an independent handset manufacturer, to create two preview phones for developers to build and test apps in advance of the release of the first production devices for Firefox OS.* Working with the community of Mozilla volunteers, planned and executed “Firefox OS App Days,” a series of developer hackathons with over 2,500 attendees in twenty-five locales around the world. Provided materials for the Mozilla community to host over a hundred additional Firefox OS developer events.* Set up web properties to gather feedback and support developers creating apps. These included a Transifex project to pair Firefox OS app developers with volunteer localizers, sponsorship of a Firefox OS tag on StackOverflow and a feedback forum on UserVoice.

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for all engineering, quality assurance and technical publications functions for this start-up in the price management and optimization space. * Managed completion of much-delayed major release (8.0) and led retrospective to determine improvements in process and tools. This included decisions to adopt Kanban, Kanban tools and Git.* Trained and led engineering and product management organizations in the adoption of Kanban software development process.* Integrated new development organization based in the Czech Republic, initially focusing their efforts on Sustaining Engineering.* Analyzed issues with existing patch process and developed new process to improve quality and customer uptake of critical updates.* Developed "Customer Commitment" process to provide a managed communication channel for the Sales organization to escalate product enhancement requests critical for revenue generation opportunities.

Proposed and led the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) open source project at the Eclipse Foundation and served on the Eclipse board.

Reporting to the CEO, responsible for engineering, product management, open source evangelism, quality assurance, usability, back line escalation and technical publications functions for this public company in the business intelligence (BI) space. Managed a global team of nearly 200.* Played leadership role in formulation and execution of Actuate’s open source strategy. Success of the strategy and resulting sales of Actuate’s open source-based commercial products has been the primary driver in the company’s revitalization.* Proposed and led the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project at the Eclipse Foundation and delivered seven major releases of innovative, web-oriented BI technology as part of the project.* Led technology evangelism efforts for BIRT, driving over thirteen million downloads of open source BIRT components and culminating in a user base of over three million Java developers worldwide.* Delivered nine new commercial products in the course of seven major releases, including sophisticated capabilities like 64-bit in-memory analytics, “live” Excel export, user-created analytical and operational dashboards, mobile visualization and flexible multi-tenancy and elastic clustering for public and private cloud deployment.

Mscs, Computer Science

Ba, International Relations

Graduated with distinction. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in junior year.