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Palo Alto, California, United States

San Bruno, California, US

Empo Health is creating in-home health monitoring systems that fit seamlessly into patients' lives to improve diabetic outcomes, starting with a system to eliminate severe diabetic foot ulcers.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Supporting inspiring ideas and founders of early stage startups. Ubiquity Ventures is a "nerdy and early" venture capital firm investing in "software beyond the screen". With over $150 million under management, Ubiquity invests $1m-$1.5m into pre-seed and seed stage startups transforming real-world physical problems into problems solved with "software.

Menlo Park, CA, US

September 2024 update: After 5 years, I can finally talk about one of the biggest projects I worked on, Meta's Orion AR glasses.https://lnkd.in/gA4k_PgDhttps://lnkd.in/gjkAqG4AAlso responsible for the end-to-end product design of Rayban Stories, Meta's smart sunglasses, which first shipped in September 2021. Led 120 person design team setting the vision.

Led the product design for Facebook's new Portal hardware products, including smart-camera based video presence, AR experiences, and voice assistant.

Mountain View, CA, US

Helped start and build the Google Stadia gaming platform, and the design and research team.

Mountain View, CA, US

Helped create the Home hardware business at Google, and led the design and research for Google Home products (Original, Mini, Max, Hub), Chromecast products, and Android TV, over 5 years.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Until the Google acquisition, lead 100-person team responsible for all software design in the 50-product portfolio, including the new Razr smart phone, the G2 watch, and an HTML5-based TV and device experience platform. Moved to Google before the acquisition.

Seattle, WA, US

Helped start this NGO (non-profit) whose goal is to put a library of books into the hands of every child in the developing world using e-readers like the Kindle. Conducted the first e-reader trials in schools on the African continent (Ghana), and helped jumpstart wide-scale iREAD pilots with the involvement of education ministries, local publishers, the.

Seattle, WA, US

Took a year+ sabbatical in Barcelona to immerse my kids in a cultural experience, to learn Spanish guitar and cooking, and to do volunteer work for several worthy causes.

San Jose, CA, US

After the merger with Macromedia, responsible (along with a partner) for the design of Adobe’s products, new businesses, and Internet/TV/Mobile platform. This 100-person design team helped conceive and design new versions of existing products, such as Creative Suite 3 and 4, Acrobat/Reader 8 and 9, and Adobe Elements 6. We also helped drive the conception.

San Francisco, California, US

Co-founded and managed the Experience Design (XD) team at Macromedia. Our mission was to define the next generation experience for our Rich Internet Application (RIA) and Mobile platform. In addition to creating visions for internal products like Breeze, FlashCast, and Flex, we designed more than 100 RIA’s for customers, including Amazon, Verizon, BofA.

San Francisco, California, US

Responsible for Macromedia's creative tools product development, which grew to a 350-person organization shipping 12 products, including Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Freehand, and Flex. Helped define and ship Macromedia's first product suite - "MX". Helped start and define several new products (Flex, Contribute, Breeze, FlashCast), got executive.

San Francisco, California, US

Managed 50-person Dreamweaver product development team for versions 3 and 4. Acquired Elemental software, merged teams and shipped UltraDev, a new product for web application developers. Dreamweaver built a 90% share of the pro web authoring tools market, $1B+ revenue, and was the best-selling product in Macromedia’s history.

San Francisco, California, US

Design lead for Dreamweaver 1 and 2. Contributed to conception of the product, and coded many parts of the user interface (for Dreamweaver and Flash) and a number of features, using C++, for both Mac and Windows. Also wrote AppletAce, Macromedia's first Java effort.

Software engineer, then development manager of Gain Momentum, a high-end multimedia authoring platform. This startup was purchased by Sybase, along with PowerSoft, where we ported Interplay, our Flash-like player, to set-top boxes and worked on interactive television trials.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Developer on, then manager of development for marketing, forecasting, and sales systems for Sun's field offices. Developed in C++, Lisp, and X-Windows.