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I am the author of several well-known commercial software systems and a founder of several companies. I am a co-founder of RemoteScan Corporation and iCloseBy Corporations. Technologist and Entrepreneur. Co-Founder of RemoteScan Corporation. Co-Founder of iCloseBy. Expert programmer: have worked for highly visible public companies as well as founding my own successful companies.

I've been creating software applications professionally since I was 12 yrs old. I dropped out of high school at 15 to pursue my computer career and to get BS in Computer Science. Solving the computer problems is now easy. I've personally evolved from coding by myself, to working with teams, to building my own companies. I've worked for Electronic Arts (EA), as well as Microsoft. I left the safety of building technology with large companies to work on my own ideas and start my own companies: FreeMail Inc sold for millions, and then I co-founded RemoteScan and recently iCloseBy.

I like being part of fantastic ideas. If you have a project which you think could generate considerable revenue, or one which is you feel has world-class potential for good, please consider having me give you an opinion of it. Though I am not looking for any kind of employment, I could be persuaded to take on additional work for equity stakes or board positions.

• Current Status
• Successful Work
• Additional Consulting and languages used
• Business and Management Skill Set

Current Status:

• 2004 - Present. Co-Founder of RemoteScan Corporation I Invented the well-known RemoteScan software product line. Software allows any image device (scanners, web cams, biometric readers, etc.) to be shared on a network as well as by Terminal Services, Citrix, RDP and ICA users. 1,000's of customers located in over 120 countries in the medical, banking, industrial, and transportation industries. Coding required understanding of the most complex components of enterprise networking, device driver issues, as well as installation and setup internals of all modern operating systems. Co-founded RemoteScan Corporation with Steve Saroff. I am involved with all business aspects of running a successful company.

• 1/2008 - Present. co-founder of iCloseBy.com. I created the iCloseBy family of software apps for the Apple iPhone as well as PCs. Currently, iCloseBy Apps are among the most popular iPhone and iPod touch applications available on the Apple iTunes store. Co-founded iCloseBy LLC with Steve Saroff, and I am involved with all business aspects of running this dynamic and interesting start-up.

• 1/2004 - Present. Cofounder of Cynical And Jaded Software Entrepreneurs. Steve Saroff's and my organization we use to help support local events, art projects, and donations, as well as where we make our talents widely available to other entrepreneurs seeking start up advice. We sponsor 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. Visit the site: www.cynicalandjaded.com

A list of successful work done

• 2001 - 2002 Co-Founder of FlixTown.com With my old company www.ResearchEtc.com and business partner Steve Saroff we've started a venture called www.FlixTown.com. A unique idea.

• 2001 - April 2001 Director of Software Applications Development Dantis, Inc. - Tim Devine, Scott Rediger founders of Ovation ($400 mil)
  I was the leading the Software Applications Development at Dantis. Raised $40+ million in venture money. We are working on web based solutions to automate the web hosting industry. The cornerstone of the company was the Dantis Experience, through which Dantis created relationships with our clients and partners. At Dantis I used Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java, Java Servlets, JSP, PHP, C++, SQL & Data Modeling. I know TCP/IP network programming inside and out. I've been writing TCP/IP and RS-232 communications code for 10+ years.

• '97 - 2000 Director of Internet/Intranet Application Development and Guru at WAM!NET, Inc. Responsible for all Internet/Intranet Application Development at WAM!NET (400+ employees, $600 million in funding) including the www.wamnet.com corporate page.  Some of the Services are WAM!NET's Internet Gateway, Info Center and WorkSpace. All Internet applications developed were globalized with localization into 6 languages, including multi-byte Japanese. WAM!NET was a leading provider for work flow content for the graphic arts industry. Our team developed practically everything at the WAM!NET portal site www.wamnet.com.. Including the web portal and the web based service applications. Click here to view my patents. During the last half of 1997, Steve Saroff  and myself sold FreeMail, Inc. to WAM!NET, Inc. (a partner with WorldCom). As part of the deal, Steve and I became employees of WAM!NET. My official role at WAM!NET was as "Guru," and I was responsible for much of the 'hands-on'  design and development of WAM!NET's products. I have written Mail Servers (SMTP, POP3), Web servers, Middleware servers, FTP Servers, etc

• '95-'97 Founder / Vice President Research and Development of FreeMail, Inc. Founder / V.P. Research and Development of FreeMail Inc. Built a two person company into a million dollar corporation. FreePrint(TM) one of our vertical market products became Kinkos Inc's document delivery system (Kinkonet (TM); the cornerstone to their "New Way to Office" ad campaign), AlphaGraphics' document delivery system (AlphaLink Direct (TM)), and other independently owned print shop's document delivery system. Our other product line consisted of FreeMail Internet Express(TM), FreeMail Internet Express Light (TM), FreeMail(TM). Clients are Moore Corp, NIKE, Ralston Purina, etc... These products ranged from secure network connections only to Web and POP3 servers. FreeMail's main transport is over TCP/IP connections, lending itself to intensive Internet integration. All products are available on Macintosh, Win95, Win3.1x, WinNT. I was responsible for all software development details. Over 90% of the code in use today was written by me. I am the co-author of patents on FreeMail's core functionality. Click here to view my patents.

• '92-'95 Microsoft Corp. Redmond, WA Microsoft Word (The Worlds Best Selling Word Processor) Software Design Engineer. Microsoft Windows and Macintosh Development. Shipped Word 6.0 for Windows. Worked on Print Preview, Page Layout, Zoom, Toolbars, etc... Shipped Word 6.0 for Macintosh. Worked on Mac native portability issues. 

• '92 CK Computer Consultants, Missoula, Montana. As a consultant. I continued work on a 3D rendering/animation package that I have been developing over the past 1 1/2 yrs. Added full Phong shading, directed light sources, spot lights, texture mapping, bump mapping, ray tracing, and quadratic surface (Bezier & Spline). All algorithms are implemented by me and specially tailored to eliminate inconsistencies that normally appear in 3D animation. Continued my work with TCP/IP communication software. Developed a TSR clock interrupt program. Developed deamons on BSD and AT&T System V versions of Unix to allow users requesting a TCP/IP socket connection to log in and access the HBO patient Information Database. The created a bridge between a old and new database system. 

• '91-'92 Electronic Arts, San Mateo, CA Worked for "Electronic Arts" in San Mateo, CA developing the next Deluxe Paint product (DPaintV). My contributions were 3D animation, Spline manipulation, keyframing, along with many enhancements and fixes to exiting code. I also contributed to the Window's version of Electronic Arts Studio Paint. Worked for Molecular Simulations in Santa Clara, CA developing 3D graphics visualization for their chemistry modeling package on SGI, DEC, and SUN machines in C++ with Dore and OpenGL.

• '90-'91 CK_Computer Consultants, Missoula, Montana Worked for CK_Computer Consultants developing Unix Software in 'C' for a local hospital. Designed and implemented a virtual terminal emulator package that made connection and exchanging data between all three of the hospitals platforms (2 proprietary OS's, 1 Unix) transparent to the user. Developed process control and data logging software in 'C' on IBM PCs for VanAlco aluminum plant. This software monitored the flow rates and electrical consumption of aluminum pots and at the end of each day this data would be automatically transferred via phone line to our office for further analysis. Developed a 3D-Rendering package in "C++". This program handles 3D modeling, including specular reflections, shadowing, multiple light sources, as well as translations, rotations, projections, and enabled one to build 3D animation sequences that can be recorded and played back. This package was written using only graphics primitives. Also developed Clipper Database applications. 

• '89-'90 Research Individually designed and implemented a real time Graphical User Interface Builder in 'C' for the Amiga (680X0) based computer. This application generated 'C' source code for a WYSIWYG user development environment. Once code was compiled and linked with my event handling library, the user merely had to write the callbacks for each gadget hook. Amiga's windowing library is very low level and this was a much needed layer. 

• '88-'89 University of Maryland, Towson, Maryland Individually developed an image processing/enhancing/animation package in 'C'/Assembly for the IBM PC, digitizing tablet and a cold temperature CCD camera mounted on a 14" telescope at Towson State University. This package entailed developing a windowing environment and many image and graphics manipulation routines, with the basic bitmap manipulation routines and animation playback routines written in 80X86 assembly. 

• '87-'88 Research, Baltimore, Maryland I have worked extensively developing real time graphics and user interfaces on Sun Workstations in SunView while at the University of Delaware. I developed an arcade style game called MEX (based on Tetris) which was distributed on USENET and SUG tapes. I received many compliments from peers worldwide. 

• '85-'86 SLR Systems Inc, Butler, Pennsylvania Worked for SLR Systems developing Assemblers, Librarians and Linkers for 80X86 and Z80 based machines. Products were developed in Assembly Language. The final products were commercially distributed nationwide. Out performed our competitor Microsoft in execution speed by a factor of 9. SLR Systems was sold to Symantec. 

• '84-'85 Star Systems Software, Orlando, Florida Worked for Star Systems Software developing applications software and real time graphics simulation software. HomePak(TM) (communications, word processor and database package; the first integrated application suite) an application program I jointly developed was on Billboard Magazine's Top 10 Software list for 9 months selling well over 300,000 copies. 

• '79-'84 Owner/Founder BananaSoft Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. Founded a computer software company and sub-contracted to such companies as Adventure International and Atari Soft. Developed real time graphic arcade games and a 6502 Assembler/Editor on Commodore 64, Apple, and Radio Shack TRS-80 series. All software was written in 100% Assembly code and commercially distributed. Games were Preppie, Mailman, Ape, Space Invaders. 
  

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• Molzen Corbin Associates - ASP/VB/Access
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• Boxcar Systems - C/C++/Win32
• Blackdog Software - C/C++/Win32, PHP, Web

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