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.