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Along with Mike Napolitano I founded the annual fund raising and political awareness event "Ride 4 a Reason". Over the past 14 years of fund raising we have raised over $1.5 Million for Oakland public schools. Providing discretionary funding to twelve schools in need in Oakland enabling the schools to fund essential needs not supported by general school funds.

Leading a stellar team of individual contributors developing and innovating Salesforce mobile apps. We are working on products that will change the way business works! An amazing vibrant place to be.

www.mybasis.comRecommendation"I worked with Mike as my manager at Basis. Mike has a library of knowledge on what goes into and executing the creation of a great product. Great UI/UX instincts and the ability to pull the best out of his engineers makes him a powerful asset to any team. He kept a great agile flow to the development process making it predictable and reliable. Mike knows what he is doing and is capable of inspiring people to build the best products they can. "Kevin almanza

Coco Studios, Inc., was an Oakland startup focused on the development of ground breaking cooperative 3D games for virtual collaboration, creativity, education and information sharing. Projects developed at Coco included a 3D cooperative play math learning game for PBS Kids, called “Fetch Monumental Mini-Golf”. Using the Unity game engine and 3D game mechanics, it is a first of its kind two player game designed for 6 to 10 year olds to solve basic real world measurement problems cooperatively. Now available on the PBS Kids web site. http://pbskids.org/fetch/games/minigolf/Working with a well known Marvel comic artist, Coco also developed a 3D interactive Comic Book for the iPad called “Vision Machine”. It currently is available on the App store. Coco Studios also released it’s own alpha version mobile title “CocoSnap” for the iPad and iPhone. A unique fun 3D sketching application that makes it fun and easy to sculpt animated designs in 3D.As founder I was involved in all the aspects of game development with a focus on project management, budget and provided core guidance on UI and UX design.www.cocodeep.com

I was brought into the APM organization by the Senior VP of Technology to provide UX guidance on a stalled time dependent project. (See Consultant below) After successfully guiding the team in the right direction I was tasked to transform the current development team and the internal application support organization into a world class applications development group. In this role I managed three distributed cross functional teams in the organization. In less than a year all goals were met and a number of products were developed and released. I managed the development and delivery of a consumer news source web application pinsource.org and the redesign and rewrite of a backend reporter CRM web application, called AIR, that is used to manage the customer relations with news sources. I led the delivery of multiple APM news and information related iOS applications. Out of a small unfocused team of engineers I established a clear development framework, tools and processes, (LAMP, Java, JavaScript, Objective C, etc.) built a QA test team and spread these methodologies throughout the internal organization delivering internal and external applications and tools for APM that were on time and of world class quality. My team also delivered a completely new CMS platform for the website of the well known radio show Marketplace.

Consulting with American Public Media to develop new user interfaces.

I lead the research and development of revolutionary collaborative tools for digital media professionals using light path technology and co-lead development of collaborative gaming environments for web and mobile. As lead technical contributor to the Digital Sister City initiative of Mayor Gavin Newsom I managed relationships with cross functional teams from the City of San Francisco and the governments of Ireland and France.

As manager of the Aperture development team I had the unique opportunity to bring to life one of the most innovative tools ever created. In partnership with my technical lead I assembled the creative development team composed of engineering, test, marketing and design and an infrastructure to create and implement Aperture. I created a unique and highly collaborative environment and one in which the whole team was immersed in the world of photography. As a result, an unprecedented number of new and innovative ideas came to life and proved to make Aperture stand out ahead of its time.Aperture is revolutionary in taking the physical metaphors of the analog photography world and bringing them to life in the digital world. Our focus was on providing a complete solution for the workflow of the serious digital photographer. We accomplished all of our goals and released Aperture six months ahead of our nearest competitor who copied a number of our innovations. As a result of this effort we generated five new patents that cover over a dozen new concepts. I was fortunate to have my name on two of these patents. In the course of development I managed engineering relationships with engineering teams from Canon, Nikon and Epson.Not only did we develop a new tool for serious photographers but we created a new market and a new product space - Post Production Photography. After only a few short months critics and customers were using Aperture as the benchmark by which all other management and post production photographic tools are measured. I am very proud that thorough the unrelenting drive of both development efforts, Aperture and Final Cut Pro have together generated close to $3 Billion in revenue to date.

I managed the development team for Final Cut Pro from shortly before the product’s introduction in 1999, through all product releases, over a dozen, to the completion of version 4.0 in 2003. During this time I built much of the development team of thirty engineers, initiated development processes and grew the team into a strong, independent and creative force. I worked closely with product marketing, design and testing, project management, cross functional development teams, quality assurance, corporate legal and have extensive experience managing relationships with world class third party developers.Final Cut Pro, “FCP”, is Apple’s premier professional video editing application. It has garnered countless awards including an Emmy awarded in 2003. FCP has grown to be considered “the” video editing application for any serious video editor, regardless of platform. Since the release of version 4.0 FCP has dominated the professional and independent video editing market.http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/

Assembled and managed the hardware and software engineering development team for Videonics “Effetto Pronto”, Effetto Pronto is a Mac based desktop Video Compositing System. After its introduction in July of 1998 “EP” received numerous awards and excellent reviews.

Managed the hardware and software development of a family of turnkey video animation and compositing systems. KUB Systems was bought out by Videonics, Inc. in 1996

Technical Project manager and principal designer of an advanced Video Windowing system.