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Business Development

Identifying potential business development partners
Negotiating long-term, multi-million dollar strategic partnerships with large and small Internet companies
Establishing relationships with content providers
Identifying and negotiating hardware, software and service agreements for technology infrastructure

Business Analysis

Extensive review of many business plans in consultation with business, angel investors and venture capitalists
Performing business and technical due diligence on many companies in financial services, supply chain software, durable medical devices, fasteners, mixing systems, organic LEDs, industrial fibers, education and gaming systems

Senior Corporate Management

Active participant in many corporate strategic decisions including direction setting, fiscal planning, non-technical issues, human resources, IPO considerations, capital funding, etc

Product Management

Served as a product manager of Cricket Graph for almost a year while at Cricket Software
Directed the product management department while at Reality Online

Technical Management

Lead the recruiting efforts to staff engineering departments interviewing many hundreds of applicants
Met the challenges of both small and large engineering departments having successfully managed budgets in excess of $3 million
Established department and corporate environments for such things as quality, vision, communication and priority
Strategically utilized external technology resources to better serve both engineering and other departments

Technology

Provided strategic technology direction for companies since 1992
Helped evaluate and implement content and e-commerce solutions since very early days of the web
Established security policies and procedures
Modern world wide web technical concerns such as development platform, advertising, external hosting, capacity planning and production infrastructure
Building deep, rich, dynamically generated content web site
Programming languages: C/C++, PERL, SQL, VB, Java, JavaScript
OS:  Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux

Public Speaking

Check out what I am currently doing at Temple University's Fox School of Business by visiting my Temple website.  I am a fellow in the eBusiness Institute and an active adjunct professor.
Developed and taught a class for two semesters on innovation at Temple.  The class guided student's through four phases of product lifecycle including idea development, creating an executive summary, pitching an idea and developing a prototype.
Currently volunteer teaching decision making to prison inmates instructing one-on-one, in front of up to 20 prisoners or in front of new volunteers learning about the program.  Visit the Thresholds organization website for more information.
Spoke for a number of sessions as part of a lecture series conducted by b3 magazine called the b3 Networking Conferences.  Check out my PowerPoint presentation here.  The b3 magazine is currently out of business.
Helped develop and helped teach a class on technology planning to area arts organizations as a volunteer, through a program offered by The Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia.  The sessions were taught in the fall of 2002.
Guest lectured to a Temple University class on eBusiness.  Check out my PowerPoint presentation here
Sat on a few panel discussions at various trade events while at Reality Online and InteliHealth