Work Experiences

Over the past decade, during and after graduating from Stanford, I have been involved in a number of different ventures, ranging in roles from engineering, marketing, sales, product development, product management and executive management. The following is a list of ventures and organizations I have either been a part of or have a stake in:

Red Hen Spectra - creating 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, we are focusing 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.

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.

dabble - Investor in video meta-information aggregation service

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.

Cooper Union and Polytechnic - instructor for various courses including Emerging Development Paradigms (curriculum for engineers/entrepreneurs on implementing new technology concepts), Engineering in Design (teaching New Product Developpment) and Systems Engineering.

Suzanne's Files - Selectives interim CTO and investor in luxury selection service (email newletter and blog) - sold to Spire.

Falkin - Consultant developing business plan for new digital identity management company focusing on biometric and other identification factors in a hardware/software infrastructure.

16Bars - Consultant hired to develop online engagement strategy and platform to engage hiphop enthusiasts in the first sports-like hip=hop competition.

Rawlings Political - Consulting offshoot focused on Internet engagement and fundraising strategies for political campaigns.

Peter Deutsch for US Senate - Director of Online Strategy for Congressman Peter Deutsch's US Senate run in Florida.

John Kerry for President - CTO of the John Kerry for President Campaign during the primary season. Responsible for or responsibilities in infrastructure, online services, online marketing, online fundraising and online community engagement.

Rawlings Atlantic - Director and founder of consulting and investment company focusing on telecoms, media and technology companies, also based in London, England and the US.

Interoute - VP of IP Products and Services while also serving as product manager for Enhanced Network Services (read: programmable bandwidth using APIs), based in London, England.

hotrecruit.com - CTO and online marketing director for the start of The Hot Group, based in London, England.

eGroups / Yahoo! Groups - Direct of Product Marketing for the precursor to Yahoo! Groups, known as eGroups. I focused on product development, management and incentive programs for high-value customers.

ICVerify - Marketing Director for point-of-sale software company driving product development for online payment mechanisms using the credit card transaction systems.

Accenture - Consultant on some of the first self-service web interfaces developed for the telecoms industry.

IBM - Robotic engineer for workcells used to build disk drives in San Jose, California.