FossilEra is the world's largest retailer of authentic fossil and mineral specimens. Launched in 2013 FossilEra.com has shipped over 170k orders across the globe. We serve a market ranging from high-end collectors, to people looking for unique gifts, to educational programs and museums.

Developer of Starpires (http://starpires.com), a sci-fi themed, strategy MMO. Bridging the gap between casual games and hardcore strategy gamers.

Development Lead/Manager for Urban Influence, a leading Seattle based design agency.* Led development of Seattlemet.com, PortlandMonthlyMag.com and a custom CMS for Sagacity Media, Inc. Developed using RoR, MySQL, SOLR, and jQuery * Managed a five person development team. This included maintaining project schedules, assigning tasks, conducting code reviews, and making hiring decisions.* Participated in requirements gathering and project estimation process for multiple clients.

Timu Corp. encompasses multiple startup projects as well as a Ruby on Rails development consulting business.* Designed and built Timu.com a social media platform for amateur sports teams.* Created Starpires.com a massive multiplayer strategy game in Ruby on Rails, JQuery and PostgreSQL. Currently with over 100k registered players and profitable. * Designed and fully implemented several web application for clients across a number of industries.* Provided development and business consulting services for multiple startup companies and individuals.

* Created the vision and product design for the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, currently the largest social network for real estate professionals. Acquired by Market Leader.* Developed both online and offline marketing strategies heavily incorporating SEO and SEM, driving rapid customer/traffic acquisition with almost no marketing or advertising spend.* Upon taking over as CEO, took the company from pre-revenue to profitability in under 4 months via licensing agreements for the ActiveRain CRM.* Actively managed the Ruby on Rails based development team. Defined requirements, assigned tasks and conducted code reviews. Wrote key areas of both back and front end code.* Raised multiple rounds of capital from both angel and strategic investors.* Led M&A negotiations and due-diligence with multiple companies both public and private.* Frequent speaker at real estate conferences and blogger on topics of social networking, online marketing strategy, lead acquisition and the financial industry.* Four times named one of the “100 Most Influential Leaders in Real Estate” by Inman News, with ActiveRain receiving the award for the “Most Innovative Real Estate Media Company” in 2007

* Designed and led the development of ActiveRain’s second-generation real estate CRM and lead workflow system that was used by several of the largest real estate companies in the US to manage leads generated online.* Implemented the core architecture of the CRM system in Java/J2EE based technologies.* Assisted developers in re-architected an existing home search application allowing it to be successfully integrated with additional out of state MLS’s.* Provided SEO and SEM consulting to multiple real estate companies, reducing their lead generation costs by 3-4 times, while increasing conversion rates. * Worked with two co-founders in development of business plans and overall technical strategy for the company.

* Collaborated with third party POS vendors to develop specifications for and execute integration with Ontain’s credit/gift card processing solution via .NET web services.* Researched and implemented a data warehousing system for financial reporting that aggregated data from multiple platforms.* Worked with the development team to put in place source control (VSS), automated build scripts via Ant, and release tracking.* Performed database administration tasks including developing data backup/critical failure procedures, developing and executing ad hoc reports, scalability planning and general server maintenance.

* Architected and led development of a highly scalable, web-based educational content management system implemented in J2EE, which is still used to author and serve dynamic content to 100,000+ end users. Responsible for database design, the majority of middle tier business logic, as well as implementing key pieces of the UI* Created a framework taking advantage of database triggers and queuing that allowed Apex’s customer management systems to be seamlessly integrated with multiple educational platforms, saving Apex thousands of hours of manual labor each year.* Worked closely with product management, customers and QA to define functionality, establish timelines, allocate assets and document future product enhancements.* Responsible for implementing database performance and reliability enhancements to SQL Server 2000 in both in-house and third party systems, increasing the maximum number of supported concurrent users by 4 times, and resulting in a 99.99% system availability. Developed and implemented load testing plans using custom built tools built in Java to assure server capacity during times of peak load.* Took the initiative to generate in-depth feature usage reports that were used by management to make critical decisions about future product direction.* Mentored junior developers in clean application design and coding techniques, providing substantial cost benefit to Apex by reducing system maintenance costs and improving code reuse.* Evaluated third party solutions to provide cost effective solutions for application servers, discussion boards, grading systems and educational platforms.