See some of Rich's accomplishments

What follows is an interactive version of my resume. There are various links within the content that allow you to drill down and see more information. For example, the accomplishment of being named to Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Professionals in 2002 is a link to the story. The reference to each of my patents is a link to the United States Patent Office archives. As you will see, I have had an exciting and successful 20+ years as a working professional. Some companies have flourished and grown, other's have failed and declared bankruptcy. Each company offered new experiences and new things to learn. I am proud of the choices I have made in selecting a variety of exciting companies and  developing a diverse set of skills.

 

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 ·     Visionary architect of best-selling products, features and Internet services

·     Extensive experience in P2P and streaming applications

·     True team player with strong communication and people skills

·     Expertise in software development for Windows, Unix and Macintosh

·     Excellence in recruiting, managing, and mentoring employees

·     Effective leader of functional, cross-functional, and mission-critical teams

·     Impressive ambassador to analysts, press, customers and investors

·     Nurtures best of breed partners resulting in win-win scenarios

·     Proven ability to operate lean to control cash burn rate in tough budget conditions

·     Published author, accomplished speaker, panelist, and appeared on TechTV

 

SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS (more at this site)

 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Contract Developer/Architect/Strategist, current

Currently contracting for such fine websites as www.finetune.com and www.greenthislife.com. Also recently completed contracts at Neural Networks and other technology companies. Projects have included everything from architecture for content management systems, online music store, online audio broadcasts, interactive web content, shopping carts, ecommerce and more. Delivered technology developed in PHP, Python, C#/C++ on Linux, Mac and Windows for Apache and IIS web servers. Also have developed desktop software including ActiveX/OCX controls and executables for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Gryphon Networks, Norwood, MA Feb 2007 - July 2007

Product Architect, New Product Development

Responsible for software architecture, staffing and management of development team responsiblr for all new product development. New products in the privacy compliance and user preference vertical market primarily  build in J2EE on Linux using Oracle and best of breed open source software stack. Utilize large team of onshore and offshore personnel.

Pyramid Radio, Inc., Boston MA January 2005 – February 2006

Chief Technology Officer and VP of Technology 

Founding chief technology officer of new radio startup. Designed, protoyped and installed Pyramid Intelligent Receiver in retail stores throughout country. Architected and built Internet distribution system, audio production system, encoding systems, and inter-office VPN/firewall systems. Attended major sales calls with large clients and worked directly with them to define tests and implement systems in-store. Hired and trained engineering, IT and QA staff.

 Fios, Inc., Portland, OR

CTO and VP of Engineering,  Sept 2003 – Nov 2004

As a member of executive team reporting to CEO, led engineering, quality assurance, information management, and support escalation teams. Provided industry’s best online electronic discovery review service. Architected product and corporate technology vision resulting in growth from $9M to $18M. Led teams utilizing .NET, SQL, C#, Linux, Perl and Java to build company’s infrastructure and service offerings. Added critical features to service offerings including redactions and image based importing. Increased capacity of processing factory 10X and online review capacity by 8X. Overall throughput both in factory and for online reviewers tripled.

CenterSpan Communications Inc., Hillsboro, OR

COO, CTO, Vice President of Engineering, May 2002 – June 2003

Led Engineering, Operations, Marketing and Product Management to deliver breakthrough features of peer-to-peer CDN service. Managed company through significant downsizing while ramping revenues. Led major strategic sales and alliances efforts. Company officer participating in board meetings and quarterly conference calls with investors. Senior technical executive in negotiations with investors and large customers. Managed company’s patent process.

RadioCentral, Inc., San Francisco CA

CTO, Senior Vice President of Technology, January 2000 – April 2002

As a founding executive, built entire technical infrastructure and staff of world’s best Internet radio company. Direct report to the CEO. Key contributor to core executive strategy team attending all board of directors meetings. Member of core executive pitch team successfully raising $18 million in funding during tough market. Responsible for software development, QA, webmasters, IT, audio/encoder engineering, product management, budgeting and strategy. Developed software, processes, and audio components to create the highest quality audio stream on the Internet. Created products based on Microsoft Media and Real streaming protocols. Built powerful infrastructure utilizing robust, scalable technologies such as FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, Sybase, PHP, C++, PERL, Oracle, Linux, and Windows. Continuously reducing cost of operations by creating technology and processes to improve efficiency. Filed for three U.S. patents for technologies related to the process of encoding streams, processing metadata, and enhancing the listener experience.

OnRadio, Scotts Valley, CA

Director of Engineering, 1999 - 2000

Directed team of 13 Internet engineers to implement ecommerce, streaming multimedia, and interactive web content in start-up environment. Responsible for engineering, quality assurance, project management and IT group. Led development efforts using Java, Servlets, Enterprise beans, PHP3, XML/ICE, MySQL, and Oracle. Web sites running Solaris, Linux and NT.

Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA 1992-1998

 Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA

Director of Emerging Technologies, 1997 - 1998

Initiated market research on emerging technologies and reported findings to senior executives. Partnered with product groups to integrate new technologies. Designed and implemented product prototypes for test marketing. Areas of research included speech recognition, workflow applications, email systems, thin-client computing, client server computing, small form-factor computing/Internet appliances, directory services/LDAP, Java, and European emerging markets. Drove business development and strategic alliance negotiations with companies such as Netscape, Dragon Systems, IBM and Four11.com. Helped grow corporate sales by 69% over previous 12 months by creating technology to lower the cost of acquisition of products for corporate customers. Filed patent application in collaboration with Norton Utilities engineering team for boot failure recovery.

 Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA

Software Architect and Director of Development, 1995 - 1997

Responsible for design of components from Shared Technology Group and management of staff of 12. Led company-wide effort to improve ability to localize products for international markets. Designed breakthrough LiveUpdate technology, sold idea company-wide, and spearheaded implementation and integration into Norton AntiVirus and all other Symantec products. Resulted in significant increases in market share against competitors and improvement in customer satisfaction. Filed two U.S. patent applications for Internet push related technologies. Managed annual budget of $4 million.

 Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA

Principal Software Engineer, 1994 - 1995

Designed and implemented all new components for installer used in Windows products. Played major role in company's efforts to port core technologies to Windows 95 and Windows NT. Worked with each of the 8 general managers to create WIN32 installable versions of their products. Awarded CEO’s Star Award for my contributions to improving the customer experience.

 Symantec Corporation, Cupertino, CA

Development Manager, 1992 - 1994

Responsible for design and development of Symantec C++ runtime library components and tools.  Managed team of 4 engineers and 2 product managers. Worked with compiler author to optimize RTL and speed compilation. Guided media reviewers through product resulting in several awards against Borland and Microsoft. Worked closely with Macintosh development team.

 TurboPower Software, Scotts Valley, CA and Colorado Springs, CO

Senior Software Engineer, 1987 - 1992

Co-author of Jolt Cola award winning Object Professional class library. Author of company's revolutionary swappable TSR technology. Co-author of groundbreaking Async Professional library for writing communications applications. Author of TurboPower’s network API libraries including NetBIOS, IPX and SPX routines. Responsible for maintenance and enhancement of B-Tree Professional database toolkit for developers. Many TurboPower products are now open source.

Articulate Publications, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Director of Research and Development, 1984 - 1987

Directed efforts of development team for medical software vendor.

PATENTS

·     US Patent 5,790,796 – Invention of Symantec's LiveUpdate technology

·     US Patent 6,123,737 – Push deployment of software packages…

·     US Patent 6,230,285 – Boot Recovery Failure

PUBLICATIONS

"TurboVision TSRs." PC Techniques. Coriolis Group, December 1991

"It's a Real Jungle Out There." Windows Tech Journal. Oakley Publishing, January 1992, 36-43.

"Lightweight Objects." Windows Tech Journal. Oakley Publishing, September 1992, 34-40

"Attaining DOS Enlightenment." Windows Tech Journal. Oakley Publishing, April 1992

"Oh Say, Can You Port?." Windows Tech Journal. Oakley Publishing, November 1993, 42-47

"Memory Mapped File I/O." NT Developers Journal. Oakley Publishing, January 1995

I have appeared on TechTV and spoken on many subjects at industry tradeshow. I was the recipient of IDG's  Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2002.

Interests

Most of the following is personal information. There is more career info at my accomplishments page, my patents page, my LiveUpdate/Norton AntiVirus page, and my story of RadioCentral page.

My family and I raise guide dog puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. We belong to the guide dog club Sightmasters in Beaverton, OR. My first guide dog puppy, Ruffles, graduated November 13, 2004 with her new blind partner. Please contact me if you would like to donate money to either Sightmaster or Guide Dogs for the Blind. Both are non-profits that do wonderful things.

I play guitar, sing, and produce music. I am a fan of Fender electric guitars (USA Standard Stratocasters in particular), Taylor acoustic guitars (714ce acoustic/electric), SWR Strawberry Blonde acoustic guitar amps, Marshall amps, Line 6 POD amp modelers, M-Audio audio interfaces, Event studio monitors, and Steinberg's Cubase recording/sequencing software. I like music from every possible category. I don't discriminate.

I do some side consulting helping musicians, schools, or other institutions set up music recording equipment or studios. Contact me at rich@richsad.com.

In addition to music making, I am an expert at music encoding and streaming. I have recently begun to dabble in video production, encoding and streaming. As you can tell from my post-Symantec days, I am a serial entrepreneur and love the startup executive life. They tell me this cannot be cured.

I have Apple Macs, Windows machines (Win 98, Win 2000, and Windows XP), Red Hat Linux, and an old FreeBSD machine at home. I develop software in C++, PHP, Perl, Java and do web development. I have implemented major systems using MAPI and LDAP as well. I love Open Source tools and use mostly Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP for most new projects. This site was developed using Microsoft FrontPage on a Win XP laptop but I have done some testing and remote development from Safari on my Mac Powerbook.

Other areas of my home page have information on some of these hobbies and side projects. See the Guide Dog link for pictures and information on Guide Dogs for the Blind. See My Music for some songs I have recorded (solo, with my daughter, or with friends).

I like to ski in the winter. The snow is starting to fall on Mount Hood so any day now the season will begin for me.

My wife, daughter and I are political activists for causes that we care about. Note: my lovely wife Cyndi passed away June 17, 2005 see Cyndi's Memorial Page here.

Feel free to email me at rich@richsad.com or drop by the Discussion Forum on my home page.