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Los Altos, CA
Chief Architect
Founding employee. Hired to lead the design, implementation, deployment and ongoing running of the product. MerchantCircle is both a platform for small business to market themselves online, and also a consumer directory of more than 15 million local merchants and tens of thousands of consumer reviews.
- As acting Product Manager: Analyzed market and customer base, wrote requirements and feature specifications.
- Lead the design and implementation of the web application.
- Deployed and managed productions systems.
- Achieved our scaling goals, serving O(1000) sustained requests per seconds, and >2M page views per day.
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Cupertino, CA
Engineering Manager, Xgrid / Cluster Computing Team
Mac OS X Server Engineering
- Managed the team responsible Apple's Xgrid cluster computing software platform.
- Designed, specified, and implemented product features.
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Sunnyvale, CA
Director of Product Marketing, and Product Manager
Palm OS Platform Product Organization
- Managed two marketing teams through the research, analysis, design, implementation, launch and support of Palm OS.
- Represented PalmSource, Inc. to customers and partners, press, industry and financial analysts, investors, and the public.
Sr. Software Engineer
HotSync Software Engineering
- Researched, designed, and prototyped multi-user synchronization software.
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Palo Alto, CA
Independent Contractor
Contract Software Architecture and Engineering
- Developed C++/RDBMS based online banking software for BroadVision.
- Developed JAVA and Python based web applications for other clients.
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Mountain View, CA
Sr. Software Engineer
Technical Staff
- Developed JAVA / CORBA based distributed systems applications.
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Santa Clara, CA
Engineering Manager and Technical Lead
Email Products
- Conceived, planned, and lead the implementation of Claris OfficeMail, a turnkey client-server email system for small business.
- Managed the development of Claris Emailer through a major release cycle.
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Foster City, CA
Sr. Software Engineer
Developer Tools Team
- Designed and implemented development tools for the PenPoint OS.
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Corporate Memory Systems
Austin, TX
Technical Lead
Founding employee, and lead developer for CM/1 (QuestMap) product.
- Designed and led the implementation of a groupware decision support tool for MS Windows and X/Motif, including a multi-user GUI and a distributed peer-to-peer groupware engine.
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Austin, TX
Associate Member of the Technical Staff
Software Technology Program
- Researched and prototyped UNIX/X hypermedia development environments.
- Designed and built an object oriented, threaded Scheme interpreter.
- Presented research in an academic environment.
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Austin, TX
Software Engineer (part-time)
LabVIEW Software Group
- Built Mac OS mathematics and graphics software.
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Austin, TX
Graduate Studies
Two semesters toward MS CS; left to start Corporate Memory Systems.
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Austin, TX
Bachelor of Science, Computer Sciences
BS in CompSci with high honors; minor in Physics and English composition.
- GPA 3.8/4.0 overall; 4.0 GPA in major
- 1987 Unisys Scholarship recipient.
- Student Council representative