Pain comes in many forms. Climate Change which represent a lethal threat. LGBT+ acceptance which is a threat to human rights.

Nearsoft works exclusively with software product companies and startups. We help our clients grow their dev team with engineers in Mexico. Talented product developers, close by, and well aligned in time and culture.

Venture-backed business that delivers enterprise-class Change Management and Impact Analysis software for organizations of any size. $6.5M investment; 19 employees.Responsible for all product development activities, including engineering, QA, and user documentation.Delivered multiple versions of innovative, complex software while building a very senior team from scratch, including two PhDs. Managed multiple locations including engineers in the Sacramento area and Denver and the outsourced QA team in India.

A venture-backed Application Service Provider (ASP) that delivers Patient Scheduling and Access Management software for healthcare. $43M investment; 110 employees.Responsible for all product development activities, including engineering, QA, and user documentation as well as customer support and implementation, and hosting.Delivered very aggressive, monthly releases of the software, including an Internet-based integration platform. Managed multiple locations including engineers in Los Gatos, customer support and implementation in Tucson, a QA team in Santa Rosa.

Patient scheduling and Materials Management for healthcare organizations. Annual revenue of over $27M; highly profitable.Responsible for product development, customer and field support.Turned around the existing product’s quality. Added much needed functionality. Established development and productization processes to assure predictability and high quality.

SR DIRECTOR, SOLARIS OSDelivered Solaris, the leading UNIX system.Responsible for the development of the Operating System and for the integration and release of all other software components. Managed over 200 people, $22M budget, including an outsourced team in Russia. Brought much needed control to the delivery process.DIRECTOR, GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARECreated the multimedia strategy and delivered multimedia, graphics, and windows products.Outsourced sustaining activities that reduced annual expenses by over $1 million. Licensed cutting-edge technology (NURBS) to HP. Managed over 200 people, $20M budget, with offices in California and North Carolina.MANAGER, GRAPHICS HARDWAREDelivered CXP graphics workstation; generated over $25M in incremental business.