Welcome to SanfordDickert.com
Cutting-Edge Technologist. Product Strategy Evangelist.
Social Media Marketeer. Democratic Consultant. Systems Engineering
and (former) Dance Instructor.
An NYU MBA student gave my thirty-second pitch as "online product
and customer engagement strategist applying engineering design
principles and a strong network of experts to solve challenging
market problems that need an innovative implementation."
Quite a mouthful. A simplier way of saying it is "Internet contractor".
When you build a house, you hire a contractor to hire the subs to handle all of
your design needs - the architect, the plumbers, the designers, etcetera. With companies
and campaigns, this concept leads to best-of-breed solutions, improved business processes
and measureable returns.
Industries includes telecoms (IP and VoIP), mobile services, web applications,
software development, social media marketing and production, online community management,
infrastructure consulting, and various aspects in Democratic politics.
A diverse experience set to be sure - but with an underlying principle:
solving the problem and executing the solution successfully.
Recent Efforts
Coworking - working with
Tony Bacigalupo on running
cooperBricolage, a coworking space
located in a cafe in the East Village and New
Work City, an up-and-coming coworking space in New York City.
Contagious Conversations -
consulting venture providing guidance and technocal delivery for social media
marketing through marketing programs, media engagement strategies and technology improvement.
Customers like Greg Warren, tripSync, SuperNova 2008, HealthPointPA,
and Goodnight Burbank.
Red Hen Spectra - development of a
collaborative curation platform for managing a diverse set of data provided by a
scientific community. Using Web 2.0 concepts and a healthy dollop of lessons from Wikipedia,
the RHS Project focuses on building a database of chemical "fingerprints" which will
identify the chemical makeup of compounds through handheld spectrometers.
A potential idea for the use of this database can be found
here
or a recent "Artifacts from the
Future" in WIRED Magazine.
Cooper Union and Polytechnic
- adjunct instructor for courses including Emerging Development Paradigms
(curriculum for engineers/entrepreneurs on implementing new technology concepts),
Engineering in Design (teaching New Product Development) and Systems Engineering.
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Vital Stats: |
| Grew up: |
Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
| Studied: |
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science,
Robotics, Communications, Psychology |
| Degrees: |
BSCEE, Purdue MSEE, Stanford EngrEE, Stanford PhD (all but thesis), Stanford |
| Current: |
Social Media
Consultant, Political Consultant,
Coworking Catalyst |
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