More than two decades of technology innovation and leadership, both working within corporations and serving as a high level consultant to senior management and IT organizations. Having created software and applications (for which patents have been awarded), I have also led large teams (up to 200 people), managed significant budgets (in excess of $50MM) and directed major capital projects (upwards of $80MM). ). As an entrepreneur I am the CTO a leading edge startup, and a consultant to the CEOs and CTOs of numerous web 2.0 startups.

Accomplishments

• For Meemli.com, an innovative social networking startup, I am the founding CTO: managing staff, doing technology strategy, raising money, coding, and bootstrapping an early stage startup.
• For many current Startups I am the consulting CTO involved with all technical and company strategic matters, ranging from team building, coding/architecture/operations, market/product/technology strategy, planning and budgets, and technical due diligence for M&A:
• - www.om-direct.com, www.yackpack.com, www.hearplanet.com, www.mytripz,com, www.rocketseed.com

• For Liberty Travel (2005-6), one the nation’s largest travel companies with $1.8b gross revenue, was the CIO and managed a staff of 200 and budget of $50MM in a two-year consulting assignment aimed at assisting the sale of Liberty Travel
• - Revamped technology strategy
• - Re-organized staffing
• - Hired CTO, VP engineering and Director of Projects
• - Fixed projects to be on-time, under budget
• - Represented technology to buyers through Lehman Brothers

• Founded (1999) Inventivity.com LLC (www.inventivity.com) , a  Strategic Technology & Management Consultancy. Among completed assignments are:

• - For Scient/Razorfish acted as Project CTO, created technology strategy, then managed and built engineering team, and developed the systems architecture of a B2C site scaled to 20 millions users for its largest client, $3.5b Hewitt Associates www.hewitt.com. Built overall technology team of 70 and managed 35 engineers.
• - For Rio Audio (www.rioaudio.com), the No. 2 maker of MP3 players, as Product and Engineering Manager.  Managed and delivered outsourced development of iTunes plug-in for Rio products. Managed product, branding, budget, strategy and plans for innovative product for Music search and purchase.
• - For Sonic Solutions, world leader in DVD technology, http://www.sonic.com, managed product entry into Consumer Electronics space.  Directed multiple engineering projects, consumer electronics deliveries to customers Sony and Hitachi. Led senior corporate executives to focus on improving company-wide engineering processes and instigated a variety of initiatives that yielded measurable and rapid ROI for three business units, involving 75 engineers located globally. Implemented first outsourced development projects. Served as Linux consultant for the port of its strategic codebase from Windows.
•  - For Inxight Inc,www.inxight.com, served as CTO/Systems Architect for next generation, state of art Search technology for NASA. Developed architecture for large-scale, search systems using taxonomies, NLP and automatic generated metadata.
• - Additional assignments include:

  - Product Management of plans and development of a Linux technology product for www.fsmlabs.com
  - Consulting CTO to develop technology strategy, budget and plans for startup www.yackpack.com 
  - Consulting CTO and Systems Architecture to direct product planning, technology strategy, budgets, consulting and architecture of a mass market dating application using LAMP, WAP, WML, XML and VoiceXML of startup www.zogo.com
  - Product Manager/Architect of product planning, design, architecture, and coding of Windows & Web-based RSS Editor for financial and investment industry for stealth startup company

Corporate History

• Invented, delivered, and patented web-based medical imaging product using Apache, CGI and Java. Work done directly for John Chambers, CEO of Cisco, to demonstrate the product to then Vice President Al Gore. 
• Authored patents and researched ultrasound imaging techniques, web, AI and voice interface technologies. Managed 12 engineers and was architect and technical lead of TCP/IP based network software (DICOM) portable to Windows, Unix, and Mac in C++.
• Directed development of software and hardware medical products that meet ISO 900x and TUV standards.
  
• Lead architect of Mac, Unix and Windows portable software.
• Led several company-wide strategic engineering investigations to reduce costs and produce efficiencies.

NYNEX/Verizon (1993-1996): Engineering Manager: Systems Architecture (as an Independent Contractor)

• Managed Systems Architecture for residential telephone billing system for company’s largest territory (the entire Northeast U.S).

New Tools, Inc. (1991-94): CTO, Founder

• Invented the first full, drag-and-drop, iconic interface for Windows
• Products recommended by PC Magazine (on the cover), PC World, etc. and featured in books including “Killer Windows Apps”
• Brought app to market (as “Aporia” and “WinTools”)
• Raised angel and VC funds
• Built and managed engineering teams
• Negotiated publishing deals.   

Additional Companies & Roles (1982-91)

• Bell Laboratories, Bellcore Research, Nynex/Verizon Research, Prodigy Inc, Auragen Systems Corp.
- Teaching Unix Kernel Internals at Bell Labs. Developed cross-platform file system and OS for Bell Core
- Core architect for a fault-tolerant Unix kernel. Google for: “Auros Auragen”
- AI focusing on expert systems and search algorithms
- Managed CS PhDs and advanced engineering teams
- Invented a C-based language interpreter for multimedia production
- Developed Firmware for embedded systems
- Technologies: C++, STL, LISP, Sparc, UNIX, AIX, Solaris, TCP/IP, OS internals, expert systems, Windows APIs, and DOS

Patents

- 6,511,426: Medical diagnostic ultrasound system and method for versatile processing.
- 6,514,201: Voice-enhanced diagnostic medical ultrasound system and review station.

Publications/Reviews/Courses Taught

• Applied UML for Engineers. Courses (2003)
• Best Practices Software Management Seminars (2002)
• Use of Voice Technologies in Ultrasound Radiology. Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (1998) 
• Overview of Genetic Programming – Seminar (1997)
• Unix Internals, and, Effective Software Techniques Courses at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research, now Lucent.

Reviews of work

• WebPro Software in Advances for Administrators in Radiology & Radiation Oncology
• In “Windows Power Tools”, QUE Books. and “Killer Windows Utilities”, Bantam Press 
• Cover features and reviews in: PC Magazine, Windows Magazine, Byte Magazine, Windows Sources, Computer Shopper, PC Week, etc. 

Volunteer & Open Source

• Primary author of projects in C++, Linux, Windows, and COM. On Sourceforge
• Volunteer on Technical Committee for Presidio Hills School in Francisco
• Papers on search and advanced computer science in the game of Go at http://opengo.sf.net ’92-‘02

Education