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Geology and Chemistry graduate from University of Montana with 20+ years of software development, management, business and marketing. Co-founder of iCloseBy.com, Cynical And Jaded Software Entrepreneurs, and President of RemoteScan Corporation.
Business, C/C++, Entrepreneurship, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Management, Marketing, PHP, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development
Location:
Missoula, Montana
Interested in:
Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
iCloseBy.com
Position:
Co-founder
Time period:
December 2007 - Present
Description:
Glenn Kreisel and I created the iFob family of software for the Apple iPhone as well as PCs.
Employer:
Cynical And Jaded Software Entrepreneurs
Position:
Cofounder
Time period:
December 2003 - Present
Description:
Glenn's and my organization we use to help support local events, art projects, and donations. We sponser the two local Missoula non-profit radio sations, as well as many other local causes, under the "Cynical and Jaded Software Entrepreneurs" name. Have to laugh every time we hear/see it. Vist the site: www.cynicalandjaded.com/
Employer:
RemoteScan Corporation
Position:
President
Time period:
December 2003 - Present
Description:
Technical marketing and sales of Software written by Glenn Kreisel to allow any image scanner to be shared on a network as well as by Terminal Services users. 1,000's of customers located around the world in medical, banking, industrial and commerce applications.
Employer:
EdifyGroup, LLC
Position:
Founding Partner
Time period:
September 2000 - November 2002
Description:
After my obligation at WAM!NET ended, I worked as a consultant for several startup ventures and for established companies, as well working on my own ideas. I work on strategic development and marketing, create and fix system architecture, write marketing copy and code with PHP/mySQL/Java/CSS/XML, etc. My work is done through the Edify Group, LLC., a consulting firm which I co-founded with my business partner, Ray Kang , whom I worked with at WAM!NET, and who is a former Vice President at Qwest, as well as a former Director and Vice President of MCI.
Employer:
WAM!NET Inc.
Position:
Director of Internet Development
Time period:
September 1997 - September 2000
Description:
In October of 1997, Glenn Kreisel and myself sold FreeMail, Inc. to WAM!NET, Inc., a 600 employee global company which was then a partner with MCIWorldCom, for cash and stock which at the time was worth several million dollars to each of our original investors. This involved months of negotiations with lawyers, which I did 95% of the work. As part of this deal, for three years I was obligated to work as an employee of WAM!NET, which specializes in providing secure and managed network file transfer and storage services, and has built one of the largest private IP network in the world. WAM!NET's current customers include Time Warner, Sony, Quad/Graphics and several thousand other 'blue chip' companies. My roles and responsibilities included strategic Internet development planning, management of development efforts and development teams located in five states and two countries (200+ developers), idea direction and focus, nuts-and-bolts of getting those ideas to market, and responsibility for global web site development (managing a team of developers in the creation and maintenance of www.wamnet.com . Same sort of work, just a much larger scale, as I used to do in a laundry room).
Employer:
FreeMail, Inc.
Position:
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Time period:
May 1994 - September 1997
Description:
I am the co-author of a US patent (# 6,088,516) on FreeMail's core / unique functionality, one of the first successful Internet email systems. As one of two original founders FreeMail, I built a two person company, that started in my laundry room, into a successful company. I was one of the original developers of the FreeMail and FreePrint line of communication software products for Windows, Windows 95, WindowsNT and Macintosh. FreeMail's products included WAN / LAN e-mail and Intelligent e-forms systems and document delivery systems for the Internet and for point-to-point connectivity. FreeMail was selected by Kinko's, Inc. and licensed as their world-wide Kinkonet service, the corner stone of their "new way to office" ad campaign. FreeMail was also licensed to AlphaGraphics for use as their AlphaLink Direct world-wide document delivery system. After organizing the company and working on the core development (in Windows with C), then attracting business partners, my duties at FreeMail, Inc. included managing 10 developers, marketing, meetings with industry CEOs, writing code, authoring Web pages, writing, magazine article and review placement, travel, overseeing product development, as well as planning for product direction.
Employer:
St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Montana
Position:
Contracted consultant
Time period:
December 1993 - December 1994
Description:
Oversaw and managed internal and external software development projects for large hospital. Made strategic plans for LAN and WAN expansions, and helped with decisions on major software purchases and installations.
Employer:
Several large organizations
Position:
Software Author and design consultant
Time period:
December 1992 - May 1994
Description:
Authored the time and billing programs, "BillTime," and "ProjTime" which are still on many shareware "top download" lists. Also did system design and development for several large organizations, including NCAT, and ATTRA (Dept. of Energy contractors), etc.
Employer:
St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Montana
Position:
Sr. Systems Analyst
Time period:
December 1992 - December 1993
Description:
Developed large, multi-user database and communication software for hospital. Software was written in C, esql/c, SQL and Clipper on various interconnected platforms (UNIX, Novel, Windows, DOS) All authored programs (approx. 20) are still in active use by hospital and clinics.
Employer:
R/V Wecoma
Position:
Scientific Member on board
Time period:
March 1988 - May 1988
Description:
A dream vacation of a job - Tahiti to San Diego. 3 months in the South Pacific. Scientific member (paid) of Tropic Heat 88, a NOA funded research expedition on the equator. Duties involved technical up-keep of software and hardware data acquisition systems. Became a shellback.
Employer:
CK Computer Consultants, Missoula, Montana
Position:
Systems Analyst
Time period:
February 1988 - November 1992
Description:
Authored software packages for hospitals, aluminum refineries, plant maintenance companies, medical clinics, government agencies and universities. Software was written in C and Clipper, for UNIX and DOS networked computers. Developed a hospital plant maintenance program that was marketed nationally as "CK Prevent."
Employer:
Dept. of Oceanography, Oregon State University
Position:
Faculty Research Engineer
Time period:
February 1984 - December 1986
Description:
Responsibility for creating several technical data acquisition systems as well as writing software for studies of beach erosion. Ran successful experiments on both coasts. Designed and implemented all phases of hardware and software systems using the most sophisticated tools of the time. Left to move back to Montana to start own business.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
• Publications of short stories in Redbook and other national magazines.
• Publications of photos in newspapers, magazines and books.
INFORMATION
Hobbies:
Active and current interests include: walking, writing, playing and recording music, cooking, Burningman, entomology, electronics, chess, go, geology, photography, and ever-obsessive reading and self-study in many directions.
Since 2003, RemoteScan has been the recognized world-wide leader of software solutions for scanning and imaging device connection in Terminal Server, Citrix and all other virtualized enterprise network environments. World-wide customer base.
