At DataJoint, we're creating an operating platform for science that makes research transparent, reproducible, and scalable. Leading systems biology labs around the world use our software to structure and automate multi-modality experiments, with data pipelines that run from acquisition through analysis and publishing.

Consultant and strategic advisor to early-stage technology companies, executives, and investors. Representative projects include: - growth and market analysis for a major private equity investor - explaining transition to cloud and SAAS business models to a Fortune 50 Board of Directors - public policy strategy for a manufacturer of LiDAR sensors - transaction strategy and operations for national M&A roll-up - network optimization services for LAN, WAN, IoT, and wireless devices - mathematical models for analyzing social data networks - fundraising advice for AI, NLP, peer-to-peer marketplace, and 3D scanning companies - strategic planning and team formation for investors in personalized firearmsSee also https://angel.co/montgomery-kosma

Led digital transformation for Darcy Partners, a technology research company serving the energy industry. Designed, built, and grew a web and mobile platform serving clients in hundreds of top energy companies with research and events covering over 1,000 innovators and their technology products and services. During the pandemic, successfully pivoted the company from in-person to virtual events, enabling thousands of energy industry executives and engineers to collaborate with each other and to engage with technology providers.

Led development of strategic partnerships for Landover Wireless, an entrant building a greenfield 5G network with a new business model for major technology and media companies to serve their wireless customers directly. Developed business cases for devices with bundled wireless services, streaming video delivery, internet of things networks, and connected vehicles. Developed plans for spectrum acquisition operations and deals with television broadcasters covering over 85% of the US population.

Responsible for the product and engineering teams for Wonder, a sophisticated app that helps people capture and share their reputation by engaging their friends in evaluating their strengths. Led the design, build, launch, and iteration of a cross-platform system using ember.js and cordova for iOS and Android apps, powered by a Ruby on Rails back-end.Sovolve's founders built and led Couchsurfing.com, and are backed by experts in social science, psychology and game theory. The company raised $2MM from investors like Jonathan Teo (Binary/General Catalyst/Benchmark), Chris Kelly (CPO Facebook), Lloyd Carney (CEO Brocade), and Ed Ojdana (CEO FreeCreditReports.com).

Helped create an innovation economy to develop products and services to reduce gun violence as the founder and interim CEO of the Incentive Challenges Foundation (now Smart Tech Foundation), backed by Ron Conway and other Silicon Valley leaders. Established a partnership with teams from the X-Prize to conduct innovation competitions in areas like personalized firearms, community safety, and brain health.

I helped build Fandor, a "Netflix for Hipsters" that's now the leading online service for independent and world cinema. Fandor uses curation to attack the problem of discovery in long-tail markets, and employs a novel licensing and revshare model to level the playing field for creators. Roger Ebert called Fandor “invaluable in finding great films.”As COO, I directed all operations including finance, HR, legal, streaming delivery, content encoding, and marketing. I architected our corporate/competitive strategy, prepared investor presentation materials, and coordinated strategic execution among product, content, and marketing teams. I managed an annual budget over $5M, set P&L/growth targets, and developed financial plans, models, and forecasts. Developed, mentored, led, and coached team of six direct reports.Under my leadership, we attained the #1 rank in the iTunes lifestyle category and among the top 15 free apps overall. I built and led a dedicated engineering team that architected and operated an attention- and curation-driven content licensing algorithm, as well as an AWS cloud infrastructure for video encoding and streaming delivery. We achieved 1,000% improvement in growth rate within five months, after I developed and led execution of an integrated growth strategy across product, content, and marketing organizations.

Led strategic sales initiatives for an internal startup division of $1 billion outsourcing firm CPA Global. Developed and grew a new line of business offering non-traditional alternatives to expensive law firms.

Designed and led a change program for a multi-billion-dollar IP investment fund that improved portfolio risk, halved data management costs, and shifted behaviors towards cooperation and compliance.

Management consultant in the Media, Private Equity, and Lean Operations practice groups.

Antitrust attorney advising clients on economic and legal impact of business models, product design, marketing practices, and industry standard-setting in markets such as digital music, concert promotion, film distribution, tax software, local search, and CPG.Lead counsel in copyright, fraud, and consumer protection cases before US trial and appellate courts, US Supreme Court, and FTC. Managed litigation valued over $100MM and mergers valued over $100BN. Reengineered legal operations to increase attorney productivity by 300% and improve decision quality by 10X.

Grew The Green Bag into one of the nation’s top 5 law journals. "While subscriptions to academic law journals are sagging … Green Bag’s are doubling every two years.” R.K. Cooper, Get Out of Your Own Way 148 (2006); profiled in L.A. Times (2006) and on All Things Considered (2003)

Analyzed competition economics for investigations involving microprocessors, IMS database tools, EDA design software, cat food, and retail category management.Working with Ted Olson, second-chaired a case that overturned FCC regulations permitting FBI to conduct warrantless surveillance of VOIP communications, and supervised the joint factual record preparation for the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore.

On the side, edited and published the bestselling memoir, Judge Dave and the Rainbow People.

Led interaction design for a transformative sales operations application that client’s President described as “the best $900,000 the company has ever spent”; finalist in Windows World Open competition

Managed project estimating and software development for secondary school administration suite

Designed and developed methodology, algorithms, and a software application, Wingspread, to assess skills of knowledge workers, including advanced search algorithms to match employees with positions and analytics to evaluate commonalities among groups of employeesConducted a pilot study profiling successful PepsiCo SVPs to identify characteristics of high-potential candidates for training and promotion

Pioneered use of Thinking Machines parallel processing supercomputers in support of stealth aircraft design by the Skunk Works; solved one of the largest computational problems in history (see NY Times, Nov. 25, 1990, § 1 at 1)

In the psychobiology lab of Dr. Carl Cotman, developed protein-level computer models of synapse junctions to evaluate breakdown of the LTP memory mechanism, a potential root cause of Alzheimer's