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Now

Founder and CEO - Zerista, Denver, Colorado

Started Zerista, a leading provider of software for events and conferences, built on the MapBuzz platform.
  • Raised angel investment, put together top-notch sales and development team
  • Launched product in August 2008
  • Signed up over ten charter customers, driving first revenue
Now

Founder and CEO - MapBuzz, Denver, Colorado

Started MapBuzz, a leading social mapping site that makes it easy for people to create and share local information through the use of maps.
  • Raised investment, put together top-notch board, development team
  • Led the design, construction and launching of website
2005
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2004

Technical Lead - Ubisense, Denver, Colorado

Second employee in US, helped launch Ubisense’s real-time, indoor location platform.
  • Developed and deployed smart space applications for Fortune 500 companies
  • Oversaw services, including installations, supporting services and development
  • Responsible for technical sales, including product demonstrations and customizations
2004
to
2003

Chief Architect - GE Energy, Denver, Colorado

Responsible for the architecture and integration of over ten real-time (ENMAC, XA/21), operational (PowerOn), engineering (Smallworld) and optimization systems installed in thousands of utilities and telecommunication companies.
  • Created the Technology Center of Excellence, directly managed all software architects
  • Technical go/no-go approval for all new and existing products releases
  • Led Common Technology Platform, linking GE’s products into a cohesive whole
  • Standards evangelist and representative for OpenGIS, Working Group 14, etc.
2003
to
2000

Manager and Architect - GE Energy / Smallworld, Denver, Colorado

Selected by CEO to lead a skunk works project to develop Smallworld’s GIS web product suite. Using a hand-picked development team, designed and built the first version in seven months. The product became one of Smallworld's most successful products.
  • Oversaw four major, on-time and on-budget, releases in three years
  • Founded and managed operations of the Internet Development Group, helping grow it to 15 people, including developers, testers, interaction designers and documenters
  • Chief architect for Internet Application Server, HTML Client and Map Mark-Up products
  • Lead evangelist - made a number of presentations at user conferences and frequently visited customers throughout North America and Europe and OpenGIS representative
2000
to
1999

Strategic Planning - Smallworld, Denver, Colorado

Reported directly to Smallworld's Chief Technology Officer, in charge of monitoring new technologies and developing Smallworld’s web strategy.
1999
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1997

Technical Lead - Smallworld, Denver, Colorado

Managed technical sales, development of product demonstrations and customer accounts.
  • Responsible for technical sales, including product demonstrations and customizations
  • Led a number of successful benchmarks for multi-million dollar projects.
  • Developed several products, including Smallworld Magician and iCityServices
1997
to
1996

Founder and CEO - Pinyon Software, Inc., Denver, Colorado

President and co-founder of a company that develops software for the environmental industry. Developed RiskEZ for Windows, a human health risk assessment program based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.
1996 to 1993

Associate Engineer - Environ Corporation, Arlington, Virginia

Performed environmental audits of industrial and commercial facilities, conducted human health and ecological risk assessments, developed application to track concentrations of chemicals in paperboard products.

Education

1993
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1992

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Master of Science in Environmental Engineering.

1992
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1989

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Bachelor of Science with honors. Double major in Geology and Mechanical Engineering. Honors thesis published in the International Geology Review.

Technical Skills

Design
Multi-tier systems, design patterns, object-oriented analysis, MDA, MOF, XMI
Web
REST, Ruby on Rails, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, XML, XSL, XPATH, XML Schema
Language
Ruby, JavaScript, C/C++, Python, Java, Delphi, Python, Assembly, Magik
Database
SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server

Communication Skills

  • Excellent writing and presentation skills
  • Written a number of white papers, architecture and strategy documents
  • Number of presentations at user conferences, GITA, Foss4G and customer visits

Accomplishments

Foss4G 2007 Conference

Presented a talk about the advantages of using Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol to exchange geographic information instead of more traditional OpenGIS standards such as GML (Geography Markup Language) and WFS (Web Feature Service). Slides are available online.

GITA 2007 Web Mapping Seminar

Organized and led a roundtable seminar on Web Mapping at GITA's 2007 conference in San Antonio. The seminar included three industry luminaries - Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk), Bill Gail (Microsoft) and Peter Batty (Integraph) - and was one of the best attended seminars at the conference. I spoke about social mapping - my slides are available online.

GE Network Reliability Service’s Users Conference, 2003, New Orleans

Presented two talks. The first talk discussed how OMG’s Model Driven Architecture standards can make it easier to exchange data between different computer systems. The second talk provided an overview of OpenGIS standards and how they are supported by GE NRS’s product line.

Emerging Technology Summit, June 2003

Participated on panel that discussed how Web Services will affect the GIS industry.

OpenGIS OWS 1.2 Initiative

Co-authored OpenGIS discussion paper that describes how OpenGIS standards should use Web Service standards.

GITA Panel, 2001

Participated on panel that discussed the impact of OpenGIS standards.

Senior Thesis

Thesis, which was supported by an undergraduate research grant, was presented at the 1993 conference of the Geological Society of America. Later, the results made up a small part of a paper published in the International Geology Review.

Stanford Geological Survey, Palo Alto, California

Mapped and wrote an 80-page, award-winning geologic report on 45 square kilometers located in eastern Nevada and southern Idaho.

Open Source Projects

ruby-prof
Lead developer for ruby-prof, the most popular Ruby profiler. Rails 2.x includes ruby-prof support, and the Ruby core team plans to integrate ruby-prof into Ruby in the future.
GEOS
Committer for GEOS, the leading open source geospatial analysis engine. GEOS is used in a number of products, including MapGuide, FME and PostGIS.
GDAL
Committer for GDAL, a popular vector and raster conversion program.
SWIG
Committer for SWIG, which allows dynamic languages such as Ruby to use functionality implemented in C and C++ libraries.

References Available upon request.