163 Carrie Street, San Jose, CA 95112 Phone: (408) 993-8241 Mobile: (408) 812-3241
August 2008
– Present SVP Technology,
NetSeer
Responsibilities:
- Product Development, Software Engineering, Operations
- Interim President for six months after resignation of CEO
- Development of Strategic Partnerships
Accomplishments:
- Championed and released ConceptLinks, Contextual Services, and Media Products
- Cut cash burn rate in half while focusing the company on viable products
- Infrastructure to respond to 3 billion Real Time Bidding requests per day
- Infrastructure to serve 6 million dynamic contextually targeted ads per day
October 2006
– August 2008 VP Engineering, Yahoo!
Responsibilities:
- Lead Matching, Serving and Marketplace development for Sponsored Search and Content Match (CM)
- Manage $20M annual development budget that controls $2B of annual revenue
Accomplishments:
- Released Panama Revenue Reordering, Quality Based Pricing, Market Reserve Price, Domain Blocking
- Greatly increased revenue per search while improving user experience
- Released complete replacement of CM software, dramatically increasing click through rate and revenue
- Migrated index creation and click feedback processing to Hadoop grid
- Transitioned several large development projects to India
January 2004 -
October 2006 VP Engineering,
Efficient Frontier
Responsibilities:
- Built team to develop, test and release Search Marketing Bid Management software
- Lead transition from early stage startup to reliable, scalable and profitable enterprise service
- Recruited and nurtured world-class algorithms group to develop viable commercial products
- Guided product vision and strategic planning
Accomplishments:
- Released a reliable, scalable and profitable product
- Architected infrastructure to grow spend under management to $200M annually
- Grew team from 2 to 20 with zero attrition for the past 2 years
- Opened offshore development office in India
- Developed Small and Medium Enterprise product with self-serve GUI
- Extended product to include keyword generation, and allow ad copy and landing page optimization
- Introduced multi-byte product for the Japanese market
September 1997
- January 2002 VP Engineering,
Inktomi Corporation
Responsibilities:
- Built team to develop, test and release Enterprise & Web Search Software
- Managed $13M annual development budget that generated $75M in annual revenue
- Guided product vision, strategic planning, MSN & AOL relationships, and PR
Accomplishments:
- Grew team from 9 to 60 with 11% annual attrition
- Architected infrastructure to allow Web Search to grow from 3M to 57M queries per day
- Instituted Web Search relevance testing and performance monitoring
- Evaluated and implemented acquisition of Ultraseek from Disney/Infoseek
- Introduced XML Repository and Search Toolkit product
- Developed products that are competitive/superior to major competitors with a third of their headcount
May 1995 - September 1997 Manager Digital Media Software, SGI
Responsibilities:
- Managed development of all audio, video, and compression products for the Desktop Systems Division
- Identified customer needs, specified products, reviewed hardware and software designs
- Managed bringup, diagnostic, driver, library and application software development
- Worked with customers and 3rd party software developers
- Hired and retained productive engineers
Accomplishments:
- IMPACT Compression (dual stream JPEG real-time video compression) shipped 4/96
- SGI Audio Library (support for analog, AES digital, and ADAT audio I/O) shipped 9/96
- Optional Video, Compression, and Audio products shipped 5/97
- Engineering team grown from seven to twenty
1991 - 1995 Director Software Development, nCUBE Corporation
Responsibilities:
- Directed all nCUBE 2 software development: OS, drivers, compilers, libraries, diagnostics
- Managed all nCUBE 3 software design, and software review of hardware design
- Worked with Oracle to port Data Base and Media Server products
Accomplishments:
- Oracle Media Server production sites including BT and Bell Atlantic
- Oracle 7 database production sites including ING bank and Mercedes
- 1024 processor installations including Sandia National Lab and AMK
- Over two hundred nCUBE 2 installations worldwide
- Software development team grown from zero to about 20 with no significant attrition
- nCUBE 3 proprietary processor/compiler design
- nCUBE 3 I/O and adaptive message routing design
- nCUBE 3 full chip device emulation on 512 processor nCUBE 2
- nCUBE 3 processor instruction emulator design and implementation
- nCUBE 3 microkernel architecture and device driver design
1986 - 1991 Software Developer/Manager, nCUBE Corporation
Responsibilities:
- Principal contributor to nCUBE's Parallel Software Environment (PSE)
- Ported production software to PSE
- Benchmarked and provided sales support
Accomplishments:
- Implemented parallel program load, debug, profiling and I/O
- Wrote graphics, video and I/O libraries
- Parallel MOPAC (molecular modeling package)
- Parallel OSUGCM (atmospheric general circulation model)
- Parallel FFT's, linear solvers, circuit simulators
Worked on climate modeling of carbon dioxide induced global warming
PhD Nuclear Engineering, Imperial College, London 1977 - 1980
BA Physics, Magdalen College, Oxford 1974 - 1977