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Florida, United States

New York, NY, US

Hats & Ladders - career readiness for Gen Z and Gen Alpha. We serve Climbers and Coaches in school-based and agency/provider (outside school) programs. I'm here to scale delivery (for the climbers) and reporting (for customers and coaches) and "ladder construction" (for our authoring teams). I'll also make sure we take the high-road for AI (substantive and.

US

Strategy and Technology Consulting - focus on SaaS companies, educational technology (esp. games and simulations in education and applied AI/ML), and ERP processes for subscription-based software companies.The company slogan is "A great idea should take on a life of its own..."; this sums up hopes for and efforts on behalf of my clients' good ideas.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Hired as the top technical role in this smaller (24-person) startup. Charged with releasing the first SaaS platform and retooling the team to support enterprise-grade learning while retaining the fluid coding.
• Completed a forced-march migration to AWS in the first three weeks (the platform had stopped building the week before I joined!) and added back-end and DevOps expertise to a “pure front-end” team. Mentored staff to.
• Selected and integrated best-of-breed assessment technology to create formative learning-embedded capability. This includes twovisual programming environments, assignable and rubric-gradable item types.
• Migrated to a true hierarchical district/school/teacher data model; migrated to data platform (DynamoDB) supporting millisecondresponse with predictable and improved unit economics.
• Integrated 3 disparate rostering systems (Clever, ClassLink, OpenRoster) to support US and international customer requirements.
• Guided leadership team towards a license model that fits how the larger customers want to buy.

Downers Grove, IL, US

Joined with the acquisition of Metacog. Selected technology and architecture to revamp new scalable cloud-based exam delivery platform. Consulted on architecture for enterprise-wide SSO. Worked with external partners and vendors to incorporate Metacog into the learning and certification platforms.

Downers Grove, Illinois, US

metacog was a new company carved out from Victory Productions whose purpose is to commercialize and expand the metacog™ platform and API. metacog allows you to instrument learner responses from any type of learning object (including assessment items, simulations, casual and serious and multiplayer games, performance tasks, etc.). Our platform aggregates.

Union Lake, Michigan, US

Responsible for developing new technology-based product lines, acquiring technology-savvy partners, and using technology to delight all of our customers and partners by helping them develop effective personalized and data-rich leaning solutions.

New York, NY, US

Incubate new product lines; evolve existing product lines to meet the needs of member schools. Ensure that assessment is not merely a discrete disconnected event, but part of a process which guides teachers and students to reach their fullest potential as learners (yes - good teachers continue to learn).

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Advised the company - before and after its purchase and change of control in 2010 - on market and technology strategy for the particular needs of the K-12 market. Worked with original, interim, and new CEO along with the executive leadership and other advisors as needed. Occasionally exhibited the company vision and products as part of presentations on.

Portland, Oregon, US

Took the company from "single product welded to corporate website" to multiple products on a real instruction and assessment platform serving over 1.8 million students. Rebuilt the platform and editorial/content teams and put in place an Agile development process suitable for a subscription-based SaaS business. Learning.com releases new versions every 8-10.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

I was recruited to join this seed-stage startup and bring a Patented Portfolio Optimization technology out of the lab and into a deployable and salable state—which I successfully completed with minimal capital and time spent. The technology is used by the firm to manage nearly $1B of assets. It's also been licensed to several firms ranging from hedge funds.

Los Angeles, California, US

Shipped V2.0 - after developing a clean XML-based contract boundary between Engineering (backend) and Marketing (UI). Mentored front-end developers on how to build dynamic AJAX UI (lead developer went on to join Yahoo and write a great JavaScript book). Helped sales close a pair of $1MM deals in banking and finance sector. Unfortunately, the clock ran out.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was hired at the highest consulting rank to serve as Enterprise and/or Partner Strategy Consultant serving the largest customers and partners of Microsoft. My charge was to help Cambridge Technology Partners (now part of Novell), a $600 million consulting firm, develop replicable solution offerings in six go-to-market practice areas. Responsible for.

Boston, MA, US

I was hired as first CTO for this global quantitative asset manager ($5 billion AUM). The major strategic goal was to increase investment performance by shortening time-to-market of new research ideas as well as increasing AUM per employee. Developed and articulated vision of message-based corporate architecture to replace batch-oriented UNIX architecture.

London, GB

Started this new interactive business unit within Pearson Addison-Wesley, for which I wrote the technology plan and developed and executed a hiring plan. I brought the business unit from zero to eighteen people while meeting budget numbers for the first two years of operations. Published 6 major titles for higher education math / hard-science markets.

Champaign, IL, US

Developed Macintosh version of Mathematica 2.0; one of two designers of the Macintosh, NeXT, and Motif versions of the Mathematica Notebook Interface. Other responsibilities included: full responsibility for release engineering, documentation and packaging review, external contact and negotiation with partners, development of technical marketing plans and.

Designed and implemented the software for a National Science Foundation project entitled "Advanced Mathematics from an Elementary Viewpoint: Chaos, Fractal Geometry, and Nonlinear Systems‖.

Dedham, MA, US

Founded new department to serve Independent grades 7-12 day and boarding school with 425 students; developed complete Computer Science Curriculum (from basic literacy through Advanced Placement Computer Science); taught full course load (60+ students); acquired and managed networked computer systems and micro- and mini-computer lab; developed technology.

Ma, Physics

Ba, Physics

High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program