Everything technology related, in an early stage startup.
Architected and led complete overhaul of technology.
Initiated adoption of Customer Development Process to match
the maturing agile Product Development Process.

Performed various executive-level consulting services for clients,
with a focus on early-stage, pre-revenue companies and companies
struggling to reach a reliable breakeven point.

Projects include technology due diligence for Boston- and
Charlottesville-based venture capital firms and IT consulting for
regional technology firms. Expert witness and research
investigator in technology-related class-action litigation against a
large multinational corporation.

Recent clients include:

• BoldMouth – Next-generation
  PR and marketing using viral and social media tools. Wrote custom
  Facebook application using FBML and Ruby on Rails. Built custom web
  widget to accompany it. Performed CSS and HTML work on custom
  MySpace page. Search engine optimization (SEO), CSS/HTML/JS
  customizations on PHP-based site. Wordpress customizations and
  administration. Moved company IT assets to source code control
  using git and GitHub. Researched and recommended hosting solutions
  for company internal assets and client sites.
• General Services Administration
  (GSA) – Two-week sprint to develop comprehensive analysis for the
  applicability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development
  models to a highly visible Government Off The Shelf (GOTS)
  proprietary application.
• SAIC – Keyword extraction from
  unstructured text – standalone binary written in C. Prototyped
  next-generation distributed system built using C and Ruby.
  Resulting system overlayed proprietary binary with an open
  standards-based distributed architecture using message queue
  middleware. The result was very well received, and my SAIC manager
  asked me to give a full staff presentation on SOA / distributed
  systems.
• Mitre – Prototype Ruby on Rails
  application for the Air Force. Built using a combination of
  proprietary solutions dictated by security requirements, alongside a
  suite of open source tools that I researched and selected, including
  Ruby on Rails, SVG, MySQL, and AT&T’s open source directed
  graph drawing tool, Graphviz.
• Netwave – Rural wireless
  ISP. Conducted top-down comprehensive analysis of a heterogeneous
  dialup, leased line and wireless network, including recommendations
  for aligning IT and network operations with overall business
  goals.
• 45Fix – Internet-based remodeling
  and construction services.
• MonkeyClaus -
  Next-generation Internet music distributor, music studio and social label.
• Bluewall Interactive – The
  engine behind Monkeyclaus – multimedia CMS and media software.

Guiding Vmeals from startup to fast-growing and profitable
business.

Interim CTO (1/03-5/03)

Aided Vmeals through funding and technology crisis. Recruited
replacement technology team and CIO/CTO to take over day-to-day
operations.

Guiding the school through a transitional period.

Member, Board of Trustees (Spring/03-present)

Chair of Buildings and Grounds committee.

Helped with most aspects of company launch, with focus on
strategy, fund raising, market approach, and opportunity analysis.

Founded and launched Internet startup. Performed all business
functions, including strategic and business development, sales,
marketing, R&D, finance, HR, and operations. Business concept
development. Raised over $600,000 in seed-stage financing. Filed for
patent on core IP. Hired key management and technology teams. The
company was caught in the general technology sector downturn in 2000.

Co-architect of Kesmai’s massively multiplayer chat game engine,
Voltron.

Led 10 directly-reporting and several indirectly-reporting software
engineers of varying levels of experience from pre-launch of AOL
Instant Messenger (AIM) through acquisition of over 14 million
registered users. Led host server design. Scheduled, managed and
tracked multiple software projects of changing priority. Lobbied for
new positions and hired new employees.

Conducted performance appraisals and actively managed performance of
both high-performing and under-performing software engineers.

Assumed a primary operations role for 10 months after AIM launch,
prior to transfer of operational responsibilities to AOL Network
Operations. Acquired hardware and networking infrastructure.
Scheduled and conducted hardware, operating system and server software
installations for close to 100 HP UNIX machines. Diagnosed and
debugged hardware, network and server problems. On call for frequent
emergency situations. Made hardware and operating system purchasing
evaluations and recommendations. Trained AOL Network Operations
personnel and transferred operational responsibilities to them over a 3
month period. Trained AOL Network Operations Center personnel on AIM
host system monitoring and troubleshooting.

Actively managed the host server technology portion of the AIM co-marketing partnership between AOL and Netscape Communications.

Conceived of and led development of generalized web interface to AIM
and AOL host system complex. System now supports various AOL and AIM
initiatives, including MyNews.

Acted as a liason and informal internal technology consultant for Product Marketing on AIM and related issues.

Key participant in the 6-member team responsible for the AIM host
system architecture. Co-conceived AIM’s Neighborhood Watch and rate
limiting systems with two other team members.

Architected, designed, implemented, tested and maintained a
specialized account database known as MORF, for AIM. MORF is capable
of handling 8,000 lookups per second. It is a distributed, replicated,
non-relational database with 70-100 microsecond lookup latency. It
supported over 6 million entries, and ran with minimal downtime for 18
months. Under intense time pressure, wrote and debugged all 45,000
lines of the MORF source code in less than 3 months.

Co-author of two patents for AIM technology (6,339,784 and 6,336,133).

Designed, developed, debugged and maintained two classes of servers
responsible for interfacing AOL proper with AIM for interoperation of
Buddy List and Instant Messages.

Took a primitive AOL-adapted MOO server that had been developed as a
“proof of concept” into full production. Designed and implemented
features that integrated the MOO fully with AOL, including the ability
to display graphical and web content in the MOO environment, etc.
Trained content development staff and acted in a consulting role as
they created AOL areas around the MOO. Actively managed relationships
with Product Marketing, the AOL Games Channel, Operations, and other
groups on an ongoing basis.

As architect and lead engineer of the small team responsible for
AOL’s USENET gateway, designed and wrote most of the system. The
system is written in C and C++, and makes heavy use of BSD sockets,
libg++, Sybase, IPC, and NFS. At last count, the project was hovering
around 100,000 lines of code. Familiar with many of the issues involved
in design, implementation and operation of a very large scale system.

Designed and implemented most subsystems in the gateway, including
the generic user interface framework which the gateway is based on,
external control via a command port, the user interface, article
threading, presentation and posting, and access to newsrc, preferences
and parental control databases via classes using the letter/envelope
class idiom, etc. In addition, wrote various support libraries and
classes.

Performed network and systems administration tasks necessary until operations personnel were hired.

AOL’s newsgroups gateway was extremely successful, and beat the
competition to market by 6 months. AOL became the largest single
USENET site in the world, and averaged about 10,000 postings per day
(approximately 10% of the total volume of USENET, in postings). In
addition, the gateway generated significant revenue from online usage
(over $60MM/year) and contributed to member retention.

Wrote daemon for use by multiple projects at AOL which collects,
manages and sends users’ outgoing messages via various, extensible
transmission methods, including sendmail and inews. Wrote newsgroups
testing scaffold in PERL using BSD sockets.

Developed coding conventions adhered to by newsgroups project, and
accepted to a greater or lesser degree by many other development
projects. Proposed, implemented and maintained AOL’s standard
Makefile, RCS and software construction processes, methods, and tools,
used by about 30 developers. Gave tutorials on USENET to AOL network
operations, marketing and support staff. Introduced AOL UNIX
development staff to Purify and Quantify.

Software Engineer (5/92 – 9/93)

Lead engineer for 2^nd generation of cross-platform
SNMP-based management and configuration tools. Technical evaluation of
cross-platform development environments. Designed application and
implemented UDP, TCP, and DDP network classes, template-based container
classes, C library wrappers and utility classes in C++. Wrote
UNIX-based test tools in PERL using BSD sockets. Developed coding
conventions and source documentation utilities in PERL.

Maintained and enhanced GatorKeeper, Cayman’s Macintosh-based router
configuration and management tool, for release 2.2 and Cayman’s 4^th
generation hardware platform. Redesigned and rewrote SNMP configuration
module. Maintained GatorInstaller, Cayman’s TCL-based FLASH EPROM
updating utility. Proposed a source code control system for the Mac
development group and wrote MPW tools in C and MPW scripts to support
the system. Wrote 7,000 line “port-node mapping” module for
GatorKeeper.

SQA Project Leader for GatorStar GX, Cayman’s third hardware
platform. Guided engineering quality assurance activities, developed
and executed testplans, and managed SQA analysts. Designed and wrote a
PERL-based implementation of MNP-5 for a UNIX-based testing scaffold.
Tested release 2.0. Wrote functional specification for and tested
Cayman’s Appletalk to DECnet router. Developed DECnet endnode
simulator and a DECnet protocol decoding module for a proprietary
network analysis tool.

Wrote and executed testplans for release 1.5 and 1.6 of Gatorbox
software. Proposed, implemented and maintained SQA bug tracking
system. Proposed and tracked quality metrics reflecting customer
satisfaction.

Architecture, implemenation and technical management of massively
distributed systems with extremely stringent performance and
reliability requirements; 24×7 server systems; BSD sockets and IPC;
TCP/IP; HTTP; database-backed Web applications; NNTP; SMTP; DNS;
Appletalk; DECnet; serial protocols; UML, Design Patterns; CRC.

6,339,784: Self-policing, rate limiting online forums
6,336,133: Regulating users of online forums

An
Introduction to Ruby, published by O’Reilly & Associates

C/C++, Ruby/Rails, PERL, PHP, Tcl, Unix shells, 68K assembler.

GNU tool suite (GCC/G++, Emacs, gdb, subversion, CVS, RCS, gmake,
etc.), Ruby on Rails, git, XML, HTML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, UML,
Purify, Insight, Quantify, Oracle.

Linux, HP running HPUX 10.x, 9.0.x, Solaris.

Experienced software architect, technical team leader, and project
manager. Strong experience with aligning IT organizations with business goals.
Technologist with strong business acumen and successful track record
of business/IT analysis and implementation.

Technologist with extensive background in entrepreneurship and
business across a range of industries. Excellent communicator with
strong analytical, writing, and research skills.

1990 B.A. Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

Available upon request.