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United Kingdom

We design, build, and publish strategy games that encourage fun and critical-thinking skills with homages to popular culture. The first in our series of franchises, based on our custom ability intelligence/AI engines, is The Outlaws: Desperado (TM), the adventures of a band of rogues in the Old West trying to save the universe from time criminals. Drawing inspiration from historical stories, this turn-based strategy RPG encourages clever disguises, cunning gunfighting strategy, and mastery of fun and challenging mini-games. I was asked if the game was autobiographical. It isn't: I keep myself out of the video game storylines. Space-time aliens though.Our Knight's Gambit: Chess (TM) franchise focuses on Sword and Sorcerer-style chess-based adventure gaming. Without going into detail, it's a play on chess missions, focusing on high-speed blitz-style chess. You engage in a battle of wits against the formidable warriors of Project Nemesis. "Your feeble book moves won't save you, human. Muahahahahaha."Our Journey of Defenders (TM) franchise launches with JoD: Fortresses (TM), the Mission Impossible-style invasion of extra-terrestrial bases that mystically appeared around the galaxy. Using your inter-dimensional powers, you lead a team of heroes trying to prevent extra-terrestrials from destroying your timeline and the very fabric of existence. It's up to you whether you want to shoot first and ask questions later or bring your diplomatic skills. The bases act as jump points, but to where and when, and for what purpose?Our science fiction series, Cyber, starts with Cyber: Year 2050 (TM). It's a story about a lone robot named Cyber trapped in the North Pole, desperately seeking a way home. In a poignant series of story-driven missions, you help Cyber reconstruct his memories while fending off agents of villainous governments looking to zombify the world using his powers. Reunite Cyber with his family and save the universe in the process.See images for more...

We design, build, and market ability intelligence/AI platforms and tools based on my designs and experience, including London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Milan, New York, and Silicon Valley. Our company values are, basically, don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't covet --- unless we're designing video game villains for our sister company STRATEGIX Games, so be forewarned. The "10+ Editors' Choice awards" CEO doesn't rest on laurels.Our mantra: "Classical Innovation (TM)" We're cutting edge, but we do things in a straightforward way using classical methodologies. Our motto is "intellectual freedom."We are magic with systems, data transformation, and integration, then turning it into recommendations and actions. We built an open source windowing toolkit to support it.Here's an example from what we call the "2010's" nowadays: One of our platforms lets people create their own AI. These AIs can answer basic and advanced questions about data. We built a natural language processor (NLP) that converts regular spoken and written language into SQL, and other data-aware languages.You can see older demo code and a sample database at https://github.com/stephenje007/thebaseballengine_in_nodejs. The code supports English, French, Italian, and Spanish.Our AI engines can be built using regular spreadsheets and documents. People interact with our engines in the same way they use ChatGPT / Bing or Siri. On a personal note, I built my first NLP engine in 1990 and started my first multiverse in 1995.fyi: the videos below do not include audio. People are at work and some browsers autoplay.

Independent study. Created my own photography style (some photos at https://stephen.je). Published The London Book (https://thelondonbook.com). Photographed London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Milan, Vatican City, Montréal, Edinburgh, New York, and other American and international destinations. Spent a month in Montréal, QC to practice French and live in Europe. Pursued my projects in C, C++ and JavaScript. Designed STRATEGIX ability intelligence/AI engines. Finished The London Book in Barcelona.Other accomplishments: Asked to photograph a couple's wedding in Nashville while standing around Whiskey Row, Tennessee. Random artistic thoughts: When I was young, we had a typewriter. For you kids in the audience, a typewriter is sort of like a computer keyboard and a printer combined. You type by pressing the keys. Duh, right? An electric or mechanical hammer with a raised etching of the letter hits an ink ribbon and presses the ink onto a piece of paper. It's actually a very interesting device. Back in the day, some typewriters used the same key for the lowercase "L" and the digit "1". Many proportional fonts display "l" and "I". I know great fonts are hard work. Here's to the future.

Connected World Award Winner for Internet of Things (IoT) Home Health Cellular / Mobile in 2012. Our product was a matchbook-sized cell phone (SurePod and its successor, Genesis Phone). We integrated the MVNO (phone company) we created, third-party 24/7 emergency call center, GPS, instant service activation, M2M application server, and a provisioning portal for our channel partners. I led negotiations with all four major U.S. carriers at the time (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile) for our nationwide cell phone network / MVNO. We created channel partnerships in 10 states.We created an integrated value chain, allowing one simple code to turn on recurring billing, switch on the cell phone service, allow the GPS to send data to our partners, bring our call center online for that device, and allow emergency mapping information to be stored in a database then pulled into third-party mapping software. Partners were impressed that we even removed the letters "O" and "I" from our codes so users wouldn't confuse them with zero and one when activating their phones and M2M capabilities. We also created a standalone MVNO called Genesis Mobile with multi-gigabyte (GB) 4G LTE data plans.Carriers announced a "sunset" of the industry-standard GSM network we were using for our matchbook-sized emergency phone. I created a circuit board design of the 4G LTE version and wanted to pivot to selling our provisioning software while radio chip prices declined. I readied myself and company to also build the firmware upgrade. My business partner disagreed. I didn't want to sell a product that, through no fault of my own, was declining in quality. I thank Connected World for the award.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Our customers included 77 of the top 100 newspapers in the U.S., the Associated Press, and many others. This was a full-company leadership role, with ultimate responsibility for sales, professional services, and technical support, and influence responsibility for marketing and IT support. I developed the 2010 corporate plan and we achieved Inc 5000 status as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States.I was also responsible for our product and development teams. We changed our development and testing culture and created a 10x improvement in our product release cycles, going from releases every 18 months to releases with the same number of features every 6 weeks. This was a culturally challenging: the CEO demanded I do things using his process. I wasn't worried: the CEO raised my salary $10K the first week I was there. We didn't have the right QA process to find the design flaw, so I started the future product designs, and released the under-development product to customers. It crashed all the servers, we found the bugs, and I reorganized all our Ukrainian developers to be QA automation developers, then released a successful feature-bearing product a few weeks later: I got a hero's welcome by the staff that day and the CEO bought lunch for me.We kept our support call volume flat while we accelerated the growth of the product's feature set. By the metrics, this is a big deal.Reports included director of development; product manager; project manager; developers; test automation engineers; and manual testers. Team based in Silicon Valley, Russia, and Ukraine.Caspio received the Cloud Computing Business Value Award from THINKstrategies. Our data integration and transformation platform allowed raw data to be pulled from external sources using FTP, SSH, and HTTP into our database, then be transformed into calendars, charts, and reports. I designed these, led their development, and managed their deployment to our cloud.

Independent study. I created and sold the largest Silicon Valley real estate blog, 2007 and 2008. Based on this success as both writer and technologist, I worked with many real estate agents, the world's largest watch blog, a Dean at Stanford of a very famous and popular department, and startups around the country. I consulted on their technology, print campaigns, advertising copy, real estate, content strategy and writing style. I hired and worked hands-on to customize WordPress, integrate third-party tools like Salesforce, and create new lead generation products. One example is real-time alerts when person revisits a web site. Also, a former licensed real estate agent, Silicon Valley Association of Realtors (tm), SILVAR. Another example is customizing a WordPress email marketing plugin. Separately, I generated four high-status active homebuyer leads per month using nothing except the blog and a lot of technical research, which at the time was awe-inspiring.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

When people visit a website, their web browser translates the name of the site (e.g. ESPN.com) into an IP address. An IP address is analogous to a phone number computers use to exchange data. I was responsible for defining and marketing software that Internet service providers (Comcast was a customer, for example) use to assign IP addresses and create IP address directories. These products are DHCP and DNS servers, respectively, and they were Nominum's flagship offerings. This company included the inventor of DNS. Promoted from Director of Product Management.I doubled Nominum's sales leads for these product lines. I did this by identifying both sales and technical opportunities in the IPTV market. We won the Internet Telephony Magazine Excellence Award for our product lines that enabled online communication and broadcasting.I worked closely with our outbound sales team and sales consultants to create our customer approach strategy. Separately, I was the internal consultant for our Internet appliance strategy. I created the "build vs. buy" plans, created the evaluation plan for hardware vendors and designed the software user experience.

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Our products were deployed on sites such as ESPN.com and Costco.com. We had over 300 enterprise customers. I was the senior-level glue before, during and after our $132 million acquisition by Juniper. I took individual initiative, as people say, to ensure development, sales, and support teams were ready for "day one" of the combined company, and the transition was transparent to our customers. They implied I wasn't white enough ("Juniper-friendly") to be an executive at Juniper, so I left. Many people left a few weeks after I did, and I kept in touch with them for a while. My day-to-day role was managing the internal product release process and sales training for all product lines. We won the Network World Clear Choice Award.We built HTTP and SSL acceleration appliances. Our value proposition was that an IT department could purchase one of our appliances and reduce the number of web servers they needed, saving tens of thousands of dollars per year on average. Implied in that is customers wouldn't have to reduce headcount if they so chose. HTTP is the language that web servers use to communicate with web browsers. SSL encrypts HTTP messages. The Redline Networks E|X Series was a Network World Clear Choice Winner. The product is actually pretty decent and beats F5's offering hands down.

Austin, Texas, Us

Oracle was the Google of its era. I led a team of 12 product managers at HQ and Bangalore. When I was 22, as Sr. Product Manager, my products were credited with $100 million in sales, the largest product launch by revenue in Oracle history at the time. I was highly-recruited as the first HTML product manager and earned the 1999 Rookie of the Year Award. We web-enabled Oracle's flagship, the database.I traveled as worldwide product evangelist, "the face of the franchise", to London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, München, Belgium and other destinations while the product was in development.Oracle increased its lead in the database market (33.8%) over IBM (30.1%) and Microsoft (14.9%). I designed and created the technical product management position in 1999, an innovation other companies such as Amazon use today.Also transformed waterfall releases into routine, parallel monthly tracks, a precursor to Agile.My team launched Oracle's first online developer program, then recruited the largest organizations, from AT&T to the U.S. Army alphabetically, to share code in lockers similar to GitHub today (7 years before). From my perspective, they simply joined our program.Created our software development kit (SDK), the Oracle 9iAS Portal Developer Kit (PDK). Earned #1 Portal in the Forrester TechRankings.Designed a JavaScript news syndication system released as part of the database.Led Oracle's first team with a 24/7 "Agile-style" development cycle.Highly-regarded as a process innovator, promoted 3 times in 5 years. Managers walked out of my meetings. I fought Safra (current CEO) to set up Legal for our "GitHub" innovation. I also had to joke about suing an exec for publicly routing me to individual contributor instead of management: he apologized in writing.Separately, I ran the product release process, leading sales, technical support, consulting, marketing, etc. Also participated in the JSR-168 process for standardizing web portlets.

At the age of 20: Apple was one of our customers. We created several innovations before the beginning of the dot-com era.Created before Amazon.com had a shopping cart, I designed and built CartMaker, a point-and-click shopping cart builder, and probably the first launched after Viaweb (acquired to become Yahoo Shopping), released a few months earlier. Over a decade before Facebook/Meta, I built a product called Voxx, and its successor QStats, that lets readers rate websites with a thumbs up or thumbs down (smile or frown, actually), then provide more detailed feedback. You can think of it as a Like button and StatCounter combined, with the intent of helping businesses better understand what their customers enjoy seeing, a precursor to web personalization. The original version was built using what is now called "microservices architecture", RPCs (remote procedure calls).In addition, we created a web-based point-and-click survey builder, similar in features to early versions of Wufoo today, to support our pre-Facebook "Like" button.We also built web applications and "applets" in Java, and used a Microsoft SQL Server stack with Active Server Pages 1.0, precursor to .NET. Experimented with Linux (Slackware distribution).It was a great time to be an independent software company. Inflation-adjusted, I earned more than the Mayor of Chicago does today. I left to learn how to build enterprise-scale software at the "Google of its era", Oracle, the world's second largest software company. When they're doing their jobs correctly, you might not ever hear the company name.My job offers out of college included IBM as a microcode developer for hard drives ($77K in 1999 dollars, Raleigh/RTP, NC), Activision as a C++ AI developer for path finding ($35K, not a lot in any year, Los Angeles), and management consultant ($100K in 1999 dollars, Boston, MA).

Redmond, Washington, Us

My group and the feature I published, Instant On, were the technical highlight of the Microsoft Windows 95 One-Year Anniversary press release.Laptops were rare at the time. (To give you an impression, most only had monochrome screens.) I productized the first Windows and Intel developer specification for laptop power management (actually all computers), the ACPI integration specification. This is the specification for laptop sleep modes. By 1996, it was included in 40 million copies sold, and we grew to be supported by 348 hardware vendors, 267 software vendors and 273 PC manufacturers. I also contributed to the idea of drag-and-drop menu options in the Windows 98 Start button. Both of these influences are still in use today.Among other awards, we won the PC Magazine Best of 1995 Award, the PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award, the Most Important Product of 1995 Award from InformationWeek, the PC Computing Most Valuable Product of the Year Award, and the Win 100 Award from Windows Magazine. In its time, those are similar to winning a raft of Emmy awards and an Academy Award.I was one of two non-whites I saw at Microsoft and they made me babysit the white contractors I shared an office with. Management track, not bad for 19 years old.I did well enough at this program management internship that I met Bill Gates (asked me about Linux), was introduced by the future #3 at dot-com era Hewlett-Packard to the engineering team, represented our division to the next Windows team (Windows NT, the basis of Windows 2000 and beyond), and my mentor flew the two of us in his Cessna over Puget Sound. We buzzed an active U.S. aircraft carrier. "Buzz" is kind of an overstatement. When a plane flies over a carrier, they're required to do a scramble. Whether this was set up in the flight plan, I don't know. However, the U.S. Navy did their drill and didn't launch any aircraft. I appreciate the amazing experience helping to launch the 32-bit PC revolution.

I designed and built enumerated data types for 2008 Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov's CLU compiler. The Turing Award is the "Nobel Prize of Computing". CLU was a programming language used in MIT's course curriculum and is considered a precursor to object-oriented languages like Java, because of its use of clusters (classes) to encapsulate functions and data.CLU directly influenced Python call by sharing; C++ templates and exception handling; and Perl multiple assignments.

I trained high school students to teach their peers classical science and critical thinking skills. Chief of staff role assisting program co-administrators.

I developed Alive's patented multimedia financial calculator for Windows, then moved it to the web. I wrote the Windows version in Visual Basic and the web version in Java.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

I evangelized the IBM OS/2 operating system. OS/2 is still used today in ATM machines. It had pre-emptive multitasking in an era when Windows had cooperative multitasking. Applications on OS/2 could run smoothly alongside each other in separate "virtual machines." The tagline was "better DOS than DOS, better Windows than Windows" because it could run OS/2, Windows, and DOS applications in their own protected memory. I always wondered about that tagline because Microsoft worked with IBM to develop OS/2; some versions are labeled Microsoft OS/2. I ran OS/2 and Windows on my personal 486 to do my MIT schoolwork.

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Born At Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Ga, Usa: 1975