Experience

Codi

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  Codi is a revolutionary workspace platform that focuses your resources away from expensive office leases to what matters most - growing your business.

• Board Member

  • Feb 2020 - Present



Schuman Family Games

• Board Game Designer / Publisher

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  California Designer and publisher of board game "Kill Merlin!", Kickstarted in 2018 and awarded the "Recommended by American Mensa" designation in May 2023!



RaiseMe

• United States
• Higher Education

• Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder // Acquired

  • Apr 2013 - Jul 2018

  San Francisco, CA RaiseMe brings together experienced educators and technology professionals to reinvent financial aid and help close the achievement gap. We received support from the Gates Foundation, Facebook, Imagine K12, and the Education Design Studio at the University of Pennsylvania. At RaiseMe, I wore multiple hats as we raised over $30MM and grew from a team of 3 co-founders to a company with over 60 employees. I personally architected and developed the RaiseMe system, and I also hired and… Show more RaiseMe brings together experienced educators and technology professionals to reinvent financial aid and help close the achievement gap. We received support from the Gates Foundation, Facebook, Imagine K12, and the Education Design Studio at the University of Pennsylvania. At RaiseMe, I wore multiple hats as we raised over $30MM and grew from a team of 3 co-founders to a company with over 60 employees. I personally architected and developed the RaiseMe system, and I also hired and managed over 20 engineers to help extend our software platform to multiple user groups on multiple platforms. The RaiseMe platform is comprised of several modern technologies, including: - Ruby on Rails - MongoDB - Node.js - React.js - Golang - PostgreSQL - AWS Infrastructure - Chef Show less



ThoughtMatrix

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Architect

  • Aug 2007 - Apr 2013

  Architecture / development of web-based and mobile applications / systems on a variety of platforms for a variety of notable clients, including (but not limited to): - PayPal - eBay - Palm - Apple - Mozes - Sunrun - Copart / Outbid - Plus 3 Network - Owner's Pass - Zinio Technologies utilized included: - Java - Ruby on Rails - iOS - Android - WebOS - Flash / Flex - MySQL - PHP (standalone and with Zend framework) - C# -… Show more Architecture / development of web-based and mobile applications / systems on a variety of platforms for a variety of notable clients, including (but not limited to): - PayPal - eBay - Palm - Apple - Mozes - Sunrun - Copart / Outbid - Plus 3 Network - Owner's Pass - Zinio Technologies utilized included: - Java - Ruby on Rails - iOS - Android - WebOS - Flash / Flex - MySQL - PHP (standalone and with Zend framework) - C# - ASP.net - HTML / css - AWS ... and more Show less



Daveworld, Inc.

• Software Development

• Software Consultant, Mobile App / Games Developer

  • Sep 1999 - Apr 2013

  Delivered technical software consulting services to a variety of clients. Developed and published dozens of original apps and games to the iOS App Store and Google Play. (Most of these have since been decommissioned.) Created several albums of original music available digitally and in CD form. Please browse iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, or several other online music services for "dave schuman" and "liquid playground" to check them out.



Guess Your Songs, LLC

• Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

  • Aug 2011 - Mar 2013

  SF Bay Area I was the sole architect and developer of Guess Your Songs, a social music game platform which introduced a fun new way to experience your and your friend's music libraries. Guess Your Songs was launched in February, 2012 for iOS, Facebook and the Web. By the time it was decommissioned on November 1, 2014, there had been over 471,000 downloads of the Guess Your Songs app.



Precision Media

• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Architecture Consultant (Contract)

  • Nov 2012 - Jan 2013

  San Francisco Bay Area Designed a migration and caching strategy for new and existing Wordpress sites to a high availability architecture hosted on AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud infrastructure. Migrated an existing site as a proof of concept. Delivered detailed documentation describing the steps to deploy / migrate sites. Mentored the developer performing the migrations.



iHound Software, LLC

• Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder // Acquired

  • Aug 2007 - Dec 2010

  I was the sole architect and developer of the iHound Software product line, which consisted of a website, an iOS app, an Android app, software for USB drives, anti-theft stickers, smartphone warranties, and the backend technology to support it all. iHound's mission was to help people find their lost stuff, including smartphones, USB devices and people. iHound assets were acquired by Safetyweb in December 2010.



AssetMark Investment Services

• Software Consultant (Contract)

  • Aug 2005 - Jun 2007

  Designed and developed a Strategist Management Interface, primarily using ASP and .NET technologies.



Pure Digital Technologies

• Consumer Electronics
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Consultant (Contract)

  • Jan 2005 - Sep 2005

  Developed web applications, managed software development projects.



Ameriquest Mortgage

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Application Architect/Designer/Developer (Contract)

  • Jun 2004 - Jan 2005

  Designed and developed a context-sensitive help solution for an internal web application.



Autodesk

• India
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Writer, Product Designer, Software Developer

  • May 2001 - Jan 2004

  Product management, product design, specification writing, and development of prototypes for mobile application solutions within the Autodesk Location Services Division. The platform we were creating, LocationLogic, formerly Autodesk's Location Services Business, was a leading provider of infrastructure, applications, content provisioning, and integration services for deploying and maintaining innovative location-based services (LBS).



Answerthink Consulting

• E-commerce, Senior Consultant

  • Aug 1999 - Oct 2000

  Remember e-commerce? I developed web applications and software solutions for clients, including Keystone Energy and Proctor & Gamble.



Goldman Sachs

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programmer / Analyst

  • Jul 1998 - Aug 1999

  Designed and developed web-based email subscription solutions for GS Asset Management's Tokyo branch. Maintained and developed various data-driven reports.