To creatively leverage my technology and business skills in a fast-moving organization where innovation is highly valued and recognized.

Experienced technologist with a solid business skill-set who can evaluate the business value of new technologies and clearly and concisely communicate that value to any audience; nine years of experience in software and services industry; team player and prolific individual contributor.

Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. June 1993, GPA 3.7

Director of Emerging Technologies. Responsible for working with business development in analyzing new technologies and evaluating prospective partners, along with developing proofs-of-concept, quantifying technology business value, and charting out implementation scenarios. Reported directly to VP of Technology. Promoted from Senior Manager of Partner Integration.

• Worked side-by-side with business development and product management in identifying, qualifying, negotiating, and closing partnerships with companies providing solutions in CRM, SFA, shipping, credit extension, business verification, payment, escrow, and others.
• Consulted for the original two founders pre-funding to evaluate and monetize the technology value of acquiring an existing company in the same market space.
• Worked closely with marketing and sales to brainstorm and implement creative applications of wireless and web technologies to streamline internal business processes and increase transaction velocity and volume.
• Explained technical architecture and integration options to potential partners and acquiring companies in terms of both business value and technical quality.
• Designed a generic and extensible systems solution for integrating partners with widely varying IT savvy and resources – a key element in reducing the cost of partnership implementation and maintenance.
• Provided technical oversight for a web application built from scratch by a team of 10 senior engineers and architects, including validation of system architecture, development environment, and vendor choices.
• Delivered a wireless application focused on enabling mobile transactions and providing buyer decision support.
• Managed the software architecture group in Product Development.

Strategic Consultant. Worked with CEO and VP Business Development in designing the company’s business model and developing the business plan. Played a principal part in qualifying, negotiating, and closing a key technology partnership on extremely favorable terms critical to decreasing the company’s technology risk exposure.

• Part of pitch team to VCs, angel investors, and partners.
• Member of Board of Advisors. Served as acting CTO.
• Established different technology roadmaps for different funding scenarios.
• Determined skills and aptitude requirements for key technical hires.

Manager of Enterprise Application Integration. Designed and executed an incremental and low-risk development roadmap to take the groundbreaking Maxager product from a proprietary data input system, client server, per-tier monolithic system to a scalable, modular, data format-agnostic, arbitrarily n-tier system. The completion of the first phase of this roadmap reduced the sales cycle from six months to three months for qualified clients while decreasing costs.

• Identified the proprietary data input system as a principal roadblock for sales and as the most expensive element of a client services implementation.
• Took the initiative to develop a proof-of-concept for the elimination of the proprietary data input system, instead using similar data already collected by the client in a legacy system.
• Leveraged XML as a data representation that would provide flexibility, simplicity, and ease of debugging in the data flow from proprietary client data to the Maxager system.
• Successfully lobbied upper management to allocate resources for the development buildout.
• Analyzed client businesses on-site for the fit of internal business processes to the Maxager product, along with data availability and quality.
• Creatively solved customer-specific needs outside the scope of the main product functionality through OEM SWAT-style development projects; closely collaborating with client services and product management on design, positioning, and deployment.
• Managed five engineers in executing the first phase of the development roadmap and the implementation of six customer-specific solutions.

Starting as a Software Engineer, was promoted to Software Engineering Manager in 2/96, again to Manager of Internal Development in 2/97, and again to Senior Internet Technologies Lead in 9/97. Principal responsibilities included working with product management to design new functionality, internal design and coding, competitive research and analysis, project management and managing a team of three engineers.

• Developed and executed several internal research projects in collaboration with product management and product development; objective was to develop technologically sophisticated new product features to increase product breadth and market share.
• Led the design and execution of a project to efficiently and automatically identify common subsets of people in a database of 60,000 family trees including over 30 million individuals, enabling faster development of genealogy data projects at a reduced cost.
• Developed and executed several Internet projects, including the creation from scratch of a proprietary custom Internet database server for a table of 220 million records capable of handling 10,000 transactions/second at 5% of the cost of a conventional solution; design focused on scalability and reliability.
• Led a team of three engineers in the design and implementation of a Java applet with much of the functionality of shrink-wrap genealogy applications.
• Designed and implemented a statistical model of event date relationships in human family trees, allowing empty or unknown event dates to be filled in with an arbitrarily accurate date range.
• Upgraded internal database engine to support new functionality; central concerns were efficient operation under low resource conditions and design support for vast databases of billions of people.
• Designed and coded a generic object-oriented database reporting and sorting engine in straight C.
• Designed and implemented efficient white space minimizing tree formatting algorithms.

• Experienced with object-oriented, internet, and wireless technologies
• Experienced with Java, XML, WML, JSP, J2EE, LDAP, UML, C/C++, Perl, HTML, MFC.
• Familiar with Oracle RDBMS.
• Experienced with Windows NT and Solaris operating systems.
• Familiar with XSL, CSS, DHTML and Javascript development; PL/SQL and Objective C languages; HTTP, TCP/IP, WAP, SSL protocols; Linux, NeXTSTEP and Macintosh OS.

• Recent conferences/classes include XML DevCon and JavaOne.
• Professional interests include intellectual property law on the internet, venture finance, internet direct marketing, and monetizing first mover advantage on new technologies.
• Professional technical interests include cryptography, P2P, lightweight client information aggregation, NP-class problem study, natural language processing, algorithm analysis, human-computer interaction, and neural nets.
• Outside interests include basketball, piano, wine, skiing, gourmet food, cycling, and volleyball.
• David Starr Jordan Scholar at Stanford. National Merit Scholar. Published computer author at age 15.

Available upon request