Daniel Terry
Computer Science graduate from Cornell University, currently pursuing MBA at Stanford.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Groups: | BASES, Stanford GSB Entrepreneur Club |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Cornell University, Stanford Business School |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Smartleaf Inc. |
| Position: | Vice President of Engineering |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Scalable portfolio rebalancing software as a service (SAAS) provider; market leader with over $10 billion in assets under management; clients and distribution partners include U.S. Bank, D.A. Davidson & Co., Compass Bank, Comerica Bank, SEI and SunGard.
• Managed 13 direct reports and all product design, development, test and ongoing technical operations • Successfully reorganized and revitalized underperforming engineering team • Managed research and development budget of over $1.5 million/year • Led redesign/rewrite of portfolio rebalancing application; launched client visible beta in 11 months • Significantly reduced downtime and system failures • Released two major improvements in proprietary investment reallocation algorithm • Deployed disaster recovery failover site and performed trial failovers with live clients • Completed interfaces with two new securities data feed vendors and integration with three new clients |
| Employer: | OurTaste Inc. |
| Position: | President, Founder |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Web 2.0 site for sharing restaurant and nightlife reviews and ratings among trusted friends.
• Launched complete site in six months with full social networking functionality and 30,000 bar and restaurant pages • Wrote interface, development and test specifications and developed/tested server and client side code |
| Employer: | Blindsight Corp. |
| Position: | Chief Architect and Program Manager |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Startup doing computer vision R&D focused on software and assistive devices to aid blind and low vision persons.
• Designed and wrote two NIH small business innovation grant proposals as Principal Investigator and contributed to a third; all three were funded for over $2 million total • Developed R&D plan, oversaw ongoing R&D and led technical advances in computer vision technology that prompted interest by Google and Navteq; Navteq is exploring a licensing partnership |
| Employer: | Long Term Strategy Project – Olin Institute, Harvard University |
| Position: | Consulting Research Associate |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2005 |
| Description: | • Wrote comprehensive review paper on recent machine vision and cognitive neuroscience literature on visual object detection |
| Employer: | Mars & Co. |
| Position: | Associate Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2003 - November 2005 |
| Description: | Management consulting firm offering analytical, data supported solutions to Fortune 100 clients.
• Optimized regional soft drink manufacturing and distribution network: designed, implemented and analyzed models to study cost structure and asset utilization • Analyzed competitive landscape: conducted interviews and research to model costs, margins and organizational structures of competitors, raw material providers, distributors and retailers |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford Business School |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2010 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Cornell University |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Rock climbing, programming, machine learning/artificial intelligence, internet technology |
