Building a self healing and self organizing factory-as-a-service platform for deployment anywhere on earth and (eventually) in space.

At TradLabs we build bespoke adventure-inspired gear. We help make dangerous things safer and make safe things just a tiny bit more dangerous.

Brook is a digital health company, creating a wellness platform to solve the growing need of chronic disease self-management. With our initial focus on diabetes, Brook is a personalized diabetes management service using a conversational UI to deliver customers with real time contextual insights, recommendations and care circle support to help them stay in the zone.Brook is created with love, for diabetics, by diabetics. Check us out at www.brook.ai !

The CSP Beta was an identity-based, many-device, multi-OS, multi-CPU-architecture, client-aware, developer services platform launched with 6 people in late 2011 and ultimately expanding to over 160 in 2013. The CSP team shipped its first 6 major releases with ~95% coherence to committed features per release while each release was always within 1 week of target delivery dates. In those releases the team delivered the foundation for a complete web platform consisting of over a dozen working RESTful/JSON APIs, including eCommerce/billing, SW updates, location, identity, context, recommendations, distributed computing, and end-user privacy.

AppUp was born as a result of a presentation to Intel senior executive mgmt about the state of long-tail software development in the Spring of 2009. This led to the creation of a secret “roomed” start-up inside Intel codenamed “Agate Rock” which combined of the Intel Atom Developer Program with a new Appstore framework called "AppUp". When the Intel AppUp center beta was released in early January 2010, it was the first release by Intel of organically developed direct-to-consumer software and also Intel's first open beta. It took 192 days to go from the pitch green-light to the first external release at CES 2010. This required the management of a highly-distributed organization consisting of 27 cost centers, engineering teams from 4 continents and multiple divisions speaking 3 native languages in 5 timezones.

In 2009 I flew beside a man who spent his entire flight using his brand-new Intel Inside laptop as a giant and very expensive battery for his iPhone. He did this so that he could play a game on that phone for the whole flight. (see attached pic) This event crystallized in my mind everything that was going wrong with the software ecosystem for PCs and everything that was being done right for software on smart phones at that time. This is why we created "Agate Rock", a top-secret "roomed" project aiming to (re)create a modern and vibrant software ecosystem for the PC.

I managed the small team responsible for managing the Google/Intel strategic relationship. This spanned the gamut from close and active working relationships between the two companies to actively hostile ones.

Trampoline systems built enterprise-centric AI solutions focused on expertise identification and retention and social network mapping. Customers simply pointed our server at a corporate data set (like an Exchange mailbox) and about a day later we'd have a fully-mapped and editable network of users, behaviors and subject matter. Within a week we could start to tell you interesting and actionable things about the people, relationships and expertise in that network. We were a billion dollar idea with an extremely talented technical team capable of delivering the goods. Unfortunately we were 7 years ahead of our time across the board. Very few enterprise customers were willing to take a risk on putting startup software in their data centers, they were extremely wary of "the cloud" and they had very little experience in managing privacy issues for their own employees. In the year and a half I managed engineering at Trampoline we: > re-factored our server from a dozen deployments to a single VM-based package (using homegrown containerization because that didn't exist yet) > shipped and deployed SONAR Server and Dashboard into multiple fortune 500 customers > delivered Metascope 1.0, which was used as the primary analysis tool by the world's worlds best ONA consultancy > grew the engineering org by 300% Additionally as an IC I partnered with head of Sales (Adrian Jones) to engage with enterprise customers, directly managed all engineering functions and personnel, and reported to the board monthly. As a P&L owner I was responsible for half of Trampolines operating budget and was within budget on a monthly basis.

Multi-discipline management and leadership position in hardware and software security product development. Products shipped: Windows (multiple releases), BitLocker™ Drive Encryption, Enterprise Rights Management (ERM), Media DRMTechnologies & projects owned and managed: Palladium, NGSCB, Hypervisor, Red|Green, Unity, XrML, TPMs, Security, Secure Hardware, TyphonPartners I worked with during this time: Intel, AMD, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, IBM, Infineon, Toshiba, SONY, ATI, nVidia, Dell, Compaq Job Description • Created and managed multi-discipline teams (org span up to 100 people). • Pioneered Palladium and built secure operating system and group from scratch. • Built Microsoft’s first Hypervisor team. • Partnered with HW industry to develop HW technologies and align complex schedules. • Created and shipped BitLocker = many $100's of millions in revenue for Microsoft to date.

Technical Evangelism in hardware and software security and new media. Products Shipped: Windows (multiple releases) Technologies I owned: Trusted Windows, Content Protection, HW-based Security, Digital Audio, Streaming Video, Motion Compensation, DRMStandards bodies and trade associations: CPTWG, SDMI, TCPA, TCG, DVD-CCAPartners I worked with during this time: Real, Apple, Intel, AMD, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, IBM, Infineon, Toshiba, SONY, ATI, nVidia, Dell, Compaq, Warner Music, SONY Music, Universal Music, Panasonic, C-CUBEJob Description: • Invented and pioneered Trusted Windows (which later become Palladium and BitLocker). • MS lead content-protection negotiator with music and CE industries. • Partnered with AMD, Intel, OEMs and IHV’s to develop new secure HW platform. • Created “the Biddle Diagram” and the SDMI Hacker Challenge. • Founded TCPA/TCG, and invented the DarkNet.

Owned DVD for MSFT to ensure that the technology worked well for customers and users. Initiatives I owned for Microsoft: DVD, CD-ROM, MPEG-2, DVD Content Protection, CPTWG, Flash Media, CD-R, DVR Standards bodies and trade associations: MPAA, TWG, CPTWGPartners I worked with during this time: MPAA, CEA, Real, Apple, Intel, AMD, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, IBM, Infineon, Toshiba, SONY, Philips, ATI, nVidia, Dell, Compaq, Warner Home Video, SONY Pictures, Universal Pictures, Columbia/Tristar, PanasonicJob Description• Lead Microsoft on DVD. • Created 1st prototype of a DVR within MS. • MS lead negotiator with movie industry. Wrote portions of DVD-CSS license. • Forged cross-industry content-protection alliance for DVD. • Shipped DVD in Windows. Responsible for allowance of VGA for DVD playback.

Hardware Partners: Apricot/Mitsubishi Electric, Hewlett Packard• Technical collaborator and technical partnership manager.• Windows development resource and last-tier “line down” emergency response.• Contributor and participant in Windows 95 licensing negotiations.

Various Positions, Product Support Services• Started at MS as an entry-level Phone Support Technician I for Windows 3.0. • Beta Lead for Windows 3.1 (first MS shipping credits)• Technical Lead for Las Colinas PSS startup. Grew site from 17 to 300+.

Started and ran "GoggleBlotters", a small paintball field on 100 acres in Monroe, WA. Managed all facets of the business, from building out the space, managing inventory, staffing, book-keeping, equipment, and marketing. GoggleBlotters actively targetted and served the high-end market with the highest field fee in the state, and most of our players were white-collar professionals as well as organizations (eg Boeing). GoggleBlotters hosted the states largest "big-game" (at the time) of over 250 players. .