|
||
|
I am a technology innovator with 10 years of software development experience and 5 years of professional experience developing commercial and open source software. My hands-on technical experience spans mining the Wikipedia database, advanced computer network security, innovative 3D construction, pioneering educational learning systems, and novel mobile web applications. I have skills in information architecture, system usability, algorithm implementation, multi-threaded interactivity, low-latency responsiveness, fault-tolerance, and network communication, with applications generally towards interactive applications. I seek the opportunity to innovate and be a key contributor in a startup like environment, working with other talented individuals in a mission critical team. I enjoy both right and left brain challenges, and I look forward to leveraging my background computer science and economics to learn and lead. |
|
Professional Experience
Dyscotheque is a software company I founded with partner Andy Bayowski to build mobile social search software for allowing people to quickly make new friends. We targeted the iPhone ecosystem, leveraged innovative user interface concepts, and developed novel intellectual property based on datamining Wikipedia to determine which people would make optimal friends. Our vision changed over time, thus we developed several concepts to the level of prototype, including mobile personal cards, mobile event flyers, mobile fashion eCommerce, and mobile picture rating. We were self funded.
Untangle is an open source software company founded with the vision of easy-to-use, comprehensive, low-cost computer network security for SMB. I came onboard as #5, then became an investing partner and technical advisor, then led development of all product user interfaces. Untangle is now the leading open source network security gateway with over 500,000 downloads and millions of protected computers. Untangle was venture backed by CMEA Ventures and Rustic Canyon Ventures, has raised >$20M, has had 50 employees maximum, and competes with Watchguard, SonicWall, Symantec, Cisco, etc. I left due to health complications.
Lego is one of the most recognizable toy brands in the world, focusing on plastic building block toys. After I was discovered by Lego for my research on 3D building block connectivity algorithms, I was invited to work with a producer on their advanced 3D digital construction system "Digital Designer" which was a Lego-based CAD system for young children. I assisted in various technical and non-technical ways, and ultimately left due to national visa related restrictions.
Blue Pumpkin is a software company focused on developing a suite of tools for measuring and optimizing the performance and quality of service of telephone call centers. Their flagship product was relatively mature and was being sold to large corporations but was in need of a super-modern look and feel, usability improvements, and a few minor technical features.
The Advanced Telepresence Lab is a research group within Carnegie Mellon University which focuses on developing next generation interactive 3D software for public school science education. The primary goal was to develop software for real-time exploration of Mars, based on NASA datasets. I joined this group upon finishing my undergraduate studies, but before continuing on to my masters work. I was asked to help improve the software for use in real-world public school settings, where it was failing.
Apple is the most recognizable brand in the world, and builds personal computers, software, and consumer media electronics. I was hired as a summer intern.
|
|
Skills & Interests
Engineering: Objective C, Core Java, Java Swing, Java3D, Wikipedia, OpenGL, C, svn, ant Web: Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Firebug Design: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
|
|
Patents, Awards, Leadership Author, 2008 United States Patent (US-2008-001 0606-A 1) Titled: “Graphic User Interface Device and Method for Security Application Rack". My first invention which revolutionized the computer security user interface and was part of the IP core of Untangle, Inc.
Untangle, Inc. was voted "winner" by a panel of independent judges and industry experts in recognition of product innovation and solutions in open computing.
Founding President, 2001 Carnegie Mellon Student College (StuCo)
As a legacy to Carnegie Mellon, I developed a college program which allows students with domain expertise to develop their own courses which can then be taken by other students for official credit. StuCo has helped increase the diversity of courses offered by CMU by letting the students themselves teach bleeding-edge courses.
|
|
Education
Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
M.S. Software Engineering (2005)
Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
B.S. Double Major in Economics and Computer Science, with College Honors (2001)
Notable Coursework Software Architectures, Software Process Definition, Software Process Management, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Fault Tolerant Systems, System Level Programming, Machine Learning, Theory of Formal Computation, Computer Algorithms, Engineering Statistics, Internet Economics, Econometrics, Antitrust Theory |