Dan Bridge

Woosabi

Mind your business!

truth is, we love products that work well without complexity. so we built a web-based* system that made managing our work easier. your business essentials are split in to individual time saving tools that get the job done.

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Beta

Work Info
Employer:
inPractice.org
Position:
Head of Development
Time Period:
May 2004 - Present
Location:
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Description:
inPractice develops simple and secure web applications for healthcare. We specialise in administrative solutions especially for departments that span multiple sites. We work with Universities such as Cardiff, Trinity College Dublin & Edinburgh to help improve the quality of their students' practice education so that when they enter the world of medicine and therapy they are well prepared. That makes us feel good.

That also sounds quite professional!

http://www.inpractice.org

Employer:
Ping Inc.
Position:
Head of Engineering
Time Period:
February 2000 - January 2003
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Description:
Ping was a dot.com startup based out of San Francisco. We were VC funded, built 2 products, had loads of fun, a great team, spent loads of cash and no customers. Didn't matter. We had a fridge full of Snapple and Kozmo!

Employer:
Thomson Reuters
Position:
Historic Text R&D - head teaboy
Time Period:
February 1998 - February 2000
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Description:
We built the award winning Retuers Business Briefing (RBB) for web. Worked along side Soho design outfit Tui (Russ/Gary drop me a line!)and had a great time delivering something that was actually very very good - until Reuters merged with Dow Jones NJ, canned everything and put 'editorial' in charge of UI development. That's when I decided that I would never work for another PHB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy_Haired_Boss) unless it was me!

Employer:
Persimmon IT
Position:
Bright eyed CompSci graduate with ideas way above my station
Time Period:
September 1996 - February 1998
Location:
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Description:
I think we developed "advanced server abstractions on Apache" for people like Seimens. I mainly remember the wine. It was really good. There was a lot of book reading too. Usually with the wine.