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We provide outsourced software development skills and expertise to organizations spanning early stage startups, to established concerns.We focus and specialize in unstructured information retrieval, data acquisition from various sources of information (the Internet, documents, databases), natural language processing and concept indexing, controlled vocabularies or ontology management and application, and concept search and classification search applications.

Founder and CEO of U.S./Chinese technology startup. Raised in partnership with Board Chairman 1.5 mil in Angel funding. Created and developed a company and technology which could provide personalized TV/Movie recommendation, search, and scheduling for both the domestic and Chinese markets. Developed all technology in China under MyShowz supervision. Set-up all necessary legal and business infrastructures, staffed and opened corporate offices in Beijing in the fall of 2006. Directed all aspects of company building (domestic and Chinese), including logistics, management and operations. Developed and led a staff of eight in Los Angeles and nine in Beijing plus a large group of engineers.

Special projects consultant, working for the Director of Digital Initiatives at Adobe Inc. Responsible for research, evaluation, prototyping, early stage development, and advocacy of content-based image retrieval and face recognition systems. Coordinated and managed research and development efforts between Xerox European Research Labs (Grenoble) and Adobe San Jose in advanced image recognition, visual semantics, and tagging technologies. visual semantics, and tagging technologies.

A principle partner in QuickDog, Inc., a venture funded, entity, which grew to sixty employees before it was sold in 2002. Responsible for designing, managing the development (12 engineers), and running back-end search and categorization systems in support of a multi-gigabyte, 24/7 consumer shopping search engine. The system included: a custom-built production crawler, data feed interface, and extraction engine, GUI tools for semi-automated data processing and categorization, real-time search and extraction of prices for products, system status reporting; and full text search. Developed (in partnership with NEC) a web enabled visual shopping system, which used an image-based search interface and digital asset management system to browse, search and select products for purchase.

Created, managed, an applied research and development group for the Information Sciences Institute (A research arm of the University of Southern California). I was hired to create a technology group that would both work in the visual arts and education, and partner with industry, government, and the military creating tools, services, demonstrations, and technology partnerships. A secondary goal was to evolve the division into a profit making concern. The areas of research and development were, thesaural-based information retrieval strategies, image based web query tools, technologies and models, information harvesting, clustering and categorization models and tools.

Successfully created, and managed an applied research and development group of twelve for the Getty Information Institute. The group, working at the interface between the visual Arts and technology, envisioned, designed and built leading edge information systems, tools, and technology demonstrators in support of the visual arts, education, and the cultural community.

Successfully created, and managed an advanced software development group of nine for the Getty Art History Information Program.