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Currently I am contracting, working part time with Judy's Book and developing new company ideas like this calendar feed and wiki site. I am available for contract work including technical due diligence, technical staff evaluation and interviews, and product development consulting including architecture and prototyping help.

Experience 1990-1996 ResNova Software, Inc. Huntington Beach, CA
President and Founder
  • Founded small software company which created client and server software for Macintosh and Windows and grew to 17 employees
  • Involved with most aspects including product development, marketing and PR (5-star product review from MacWeek), business development, customer relationships
  • Sold to Microsoft in November 1996
  1996-1997 Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, WA
Development Lead, Mac Internet Group and Outlook
  • Shipped Microsoft version of acquired products as part of Mac Internet Explorer 4.0 product family
  • Involved with Internet Standards work- HTML, HTTP, early XML
  • Prototyped future storage concepts for Outlook (port to SQL)
  1997-2001 Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, WA
Lead Program Manager, Exchange Server
  • Created XMLHTTP, key component of AJAX platform and built first true AJAX application (Outlook Web ACcess for Exchange 2000)
  • Lead program management team for protocols, Outlook Web Access, developer platform
  • Initiated Exchange Front End servers and rearchitecture of Outlook Web Access to meet customer needs and grow business > $50 million
  2001-2005 Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, WA
Group Program Manager, Avalon
  • Developed program management team for Avalon frameworks (higher level APIs, controls, layout, data, web support)
  • Involved in architecture team, focusing on making sure that Avalon follows its key principles and works cleanly for real application and web developers
  2005-2006 Pure Networks  Seattle, WA
Director of Program Management
  • Lead team in design and execution of Network Magic 2.0, a major new release that included a personal web server, universal router support, licensing and retail support in 6 months
  • Played important role in recruiting key talent to the company
  • Prototyped redesign of Network Magic as a web-service with AJAX-based web UI and cloud and local-based services
Education 1989-1993 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  • B.A. Physics, concentration in Computer Science.
Other
  • Granted 13 patents, many others pending.
  • Contributed to design of HTTP 1.1, HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, WebDAV, AJAX, CDF/RSS.
  • Co-Author of Internet Standards MHTML, PICS

MacWeek review of Web For One

My favorite quote-

"So easy an adult could do it"

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