Doug Dalton
Started BranchItcorp.com and the owner of Futurebars.com
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.netreveal.com |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Engineering, Java, Languages and Platforms, Management, Marketing, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development |
| Location: | San Francisco, ca |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Getting press, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Emory and Henry College, George Mason University |
FEATURED STARTUP
BranchIt
BranchIt
Enterprise relationship datamining, we find who your companies contacts automatically and help you utilize them effectively.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Profitable
FULL BIO
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | BranchIt Corporation |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | January 2004 - Present |
| Description: | • Complete development of a Data Mining / Social Networking Platform
• Integration with Microsoft and WebDAV products • Established 3 tier architecture to scale to 100+ Million relations • Developed internal interaction processes for QA, engineering and operations. • Opensource development platform based on best of breed technologies (PHP/MySQL) |
| Employer: | Telecom Italia Mobile USA |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | January 2003 - December 2004 |
| Description: | • Managed a team of 50 engineers in 2 countries. Supervising software development, operations, customer care and research and development for a network of 17 carriers in 10 countries.
• Reorganization of team to remove legacy structures, resulting changes resulted in higher performance with reduced headcount to meet board of directors profitability expectations. • Established a formalized internal product pipeline. • Developed internal interaction processes for QA, engineering and operations. • Removal of single points of failure from the infrastructure and the applications. • Managed mergers and acquisitions as well as strategic partnerships. • Development and deployment of STK and J2me based applications. R&D with Brew and Symbian applications. • 99.9% availability for high throughput telecom grade java based applications. |
| Employer: | Estee Lauder Companies |
| Position: | Chief Technology Officer |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2001 |
| Description: | • Built and managed a division of 42 team members, including four directors. Supervised software development, operations, website design, and quality assurance.
• Managed the successful development and deployment of 16 media and ecommerce sites • Identified and met technology goals for the company based on long-term product and profitability goals. • Deployed the core infrastructure for the ELC online website including development and integration of accounting, supply chain management, fulfillment, ecommerce, and reporting systems on the ATG Dynamo java based (J2EE) application server. • Key player in Gloss's acquisition by Estee Lauder Companies. |
| Employer: | Knowledge Universe |
| Position: | Vice President of Operations and Engineering |
| Time period: | January 1998 - December 1999 |
| Description: | • Managed a team of 12 employees, including one director, and one manager.
• Participated on the KU acquisition team led by Michael Milken, that manages a $.5 B account funded by Michael Milken, Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison. • Built and managed the operations team, merging the IT operations of KU's 20 companies under a unified IT facility of the parent corporation including redundancy and disaster recovery plans. |
| Employer: | Netscape Communications |
| Position: | Director of Network Engineering |
| Time period: | January 1996 - December 1998 |
| Description: | • Hands-on management experience includes: four engineers in three countries supervising website operations, infrastructure engineering, and site design; Netscape's Network Engineering and Website Architecture teams; global website infrastructure expansion and maintenance; network peering agreements and partnerships.
• Strategic engineer for new technology discovery and implementation. Implemented IP Next Generation for the Netscape website, as well as Topological DNS (network traffic localization) and SONET/OC3/OC12 technologies. Responsible for the core systems, such as e-mail, calendar programs, Internet connectivity, and general infrastructure systems. • Managed Netscape's extranet hosting initiative for companies like Ford Motor Company • Built and implemented a global disaster recovery plan using pioneering technology. |
| Employer: | Inex L.L.C. (Internet Technology Incubator) |
| Position: | Chief Technical Officer |
| Time period: | January 1994 - December 1996 |
| Description: | • Managed a team of five engineers.
• Led product engineering, operations, and project development. • Led the engineering and operational support of Inex incubated ideas including: o An Internet service provider and services hosting Internet based training and education. o Satellite Internet network services (partnered with Comsat). o Managed the sale of all incubated ideas and finalized the sale of the company model to Troy Systems in Washington D.C. |
| Employer: | Backbone/Core Network and Systems Engineering, Global One/ Sprint |
| Position: | Core Engineer |
| Time period: | January 1994 - December 1996 |
| Description: | • Core Engineer in team successfully deploying the first global Internet backbone.
• Developed global network architecture design and deployment. • Developed support systems, network monitoring and customer services (News, Mail, and Domain Name Services) development and deployment. |
EDUCATION
| University: | George Mason University |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | Emory and Henry College |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BA |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) |
Doug's Startups (3)
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BranchIt
Enterprise relationship datamining, we find who your companies contacts automatically and help you utilize them effectively.
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Sawthem.com
We are still in development but looking for good php developers for online and mobile gaming (iphone and android) and designers
Doug's Contacts (11)
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Kirill Makharinsky
Ostrovok.ru, Quid, YouNoodle, Slide. focused on data, product, marketing.
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Bob Goodson
British, working in San Francisco at Quid. Runaway Oxford medievalist. Former Yelpee.
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Adam Steinharter
San Francisco Bay Area resident, Background in Sales, Recruiting, Business Development and Events/Marketing