Experience

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  PreppComm (Sandpoint Technology LLC)

  • Sandpoint, ID

  • President

    • May 2018 - Present
    • Sandpoint, ID

    PreppComm is a startup that designs and manufactures small computerized Morse Code transceivers and emergency GO Bags for the prepper and amateur radio market. The products were developed over a period of 3 years. The transceiver allows an operator with at minimum a Technician Class license to operate Morse Code via text input and output (no code knowledge required). The GO Bag is a complete radio station in a bag, about 8 pounds, ready to go, and EMP safe.

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  Anderson Technical Solutions

  • Sandpoint, ID

  • President

    • Apr 2016 - May 2018
    • Sandpoint, ID

    ATS specializes in Intellectual Property development, patent assessment, user interface design and review, technical writing, and imaging and image processing. However, ATS has extensive experience in many technical and management fields that may also be helpful to our clients. We have extensive experience with start-ups, project management, and running small groups. Contact us if you have a technical issue you need help with!

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  Anderson Creations

  • United States
  • Consumer Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • President

    • Sep 2013 - Apr 2016

    My move to Sandpoint, Idaho enabled me to develop EMP-resistant backup power systems, as well as other preparations to survive exteneded power grid failures. Part of that included looking at options for long-term food storage. I have developed a Preparedness Presentation that contains a lot of information I have learned over the past months. You can download it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8508528/EmergencyPreparedness-latest.pdf Please give me feedback and suggestions! And yes, I know there are a few typos...As a nature photographer, I have recently published a photo book of the last 10 years (2005-2014). It is available by request in hardbound, but a PDF version is available (link below). Note that the two-page panorama in the book was converted to a single page by the PDF program, so you will only see the center of the image of Steelhead Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite National Park.https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebpx3j2ldfzq303/TenYears.pdf?dl=0Other than my photography and my Ham Radio hobby, I am available for contracts that are related to my knowledge and experience.

  • President

    • Jun 2001 - Aug 2013

    Available for technology coaching/consulting, including visionary product definition coaching, intellectual property development coaching, team building coaching and more.In the past, developed web technology based on ASP.NET, helped fund and develop the EduPlex Ministries products, developed websites for non-profit organizations, developed intellectual property under contract, analyzed digital imaging patents for possible purchase under contract, assisted in patent defense and prosecution at the ITC for Apple and FlashPoint based on my inventions assigned to these companies

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  FlashPoint Technology, Inc.

  • Various

  • Intellectual Property Consultant

    • Oct 2001 - Apr 2016
    • Various

    As a part-time employee, I assisted FlashPoint in their efforts to license and defend the patent portfolio I developed from 1995 through 2001 at Apple and at FlashPoint.

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  ISN Connect

  • Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  • Founder and CTO

    • 2011 - 2012
    • Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Social Networking and communications service and application provider. Developing free and fee-based mobile and desktop service for video, audio, or text interactions with groups of any size. Not limited to one-on-one video systems. No talk-over. No confusion. Simple interface. High quality audio and video. Excellent for families, small and medium size businesses, clubs, non-profit and political organizations.

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  EduPlex Interactive

  • Gardnerville, NV

  • Founder & CTO

    • 2009 - 2012
    • Gardnerville, NV

    Transferred education and video conferencing technology developed in EduPlex Ministries to this for-profit corporation for the purpose of seeking capital investment. Continued refining the technology, and created a number of spin-off ideas, including one for ISN Connect and ConnectMe. Filed a massive patent application to cover the many inventions in the visual networking system, and prepared many others regarding unreleased features for future filing

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  EduPlex Ministries

  • Gardnerville, Nevada

  • President & CTO

    • Oct 2006 - 2012
    • Gardnerville, Nevada

    Developed a powerful web-based multi-media education system, including the ability for students and teachers/professors to interact via video. System includes student presentation system, and full easy-to-use course authoring system designed for content providers rather than engineers. System includes branching, interactive quizzes, video, audio, text, graphics, written exams, and multiple forms of interactive quizzes to maintain student interest.

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  Klemmer & Associates

  • ALS and PM Staff

    • 2008 - 2009

    One of the most powerful and life-changing experiences in my life was the Klemmer and Associates leadership training seminars. I went back to the Personal Mastry and Advanced Leadership seminars as a staff member, and was rewarded with lots of hard work but an even more powerful experience. I highly recommend this series - it dramatically changed my life, my wife's life, and enabled me to move forward in ways I would never have been able prior to that training.

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  Scenera Research

  • Inventor

    • 2004 - 2006

    I worked under contract to invent and write up new patent applications for internet and mobile device related technology.

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  BWGI Ministries

  • webmaster

    • 2001 - 2006

    I developed and implemented two major websites for this ministry. These were very large sites with hundreds of pages of content, and were used for many years before being updated.

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  FlashPoint Technology, Inc

  • CTO

    • Nov 1996 - Feb 2001

    Led the development of a digital camera operating system and hardware reference design, including the development of multiple chips. Worked with Motorola to create a microprocessor with functions to support a digital camera with a graphical user interface, designed to run applications and scripts written by developers, Shipped cameras from Kodak, Minolta, H/P and others using this technology. Filed many digital camera patents, and led internal corporate invention discovery process. My full-time work ended in 2001, but I continue to work part time for FlashPoint as an intellectual property adviser, assisting in the prosecution at the ITC of the approximately 75 of my patents assigned to them.

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  Apple Computer Inc.

  • Cupertino, CA

  • Senior Architect

    • 1987 - 1996
    • Cupertino, CA

    As an early Apple // owner, my dream was to work at Apple. I got my dream fulfilled in September 1987, and worked for Apple for 9 years, creating many technologies and filing many patents. I was at the forefront of instituting a patent-focused environment at Apple: when I arrived, the company was not focused on patenting its inventions. I developed a risc-based architecture for a multimedia computer, and shipped the DSP component as part of the A/V Macs - a DSP co-processor and operating system that complemented the Macintosh system, and performed high-speed modem functions, audio processing, graphics processing, and other signal-processing intensive tasks. I developed one of the first GUI-based mobile platforms to support software application development of apps to run on digital camera mobile devices, and led the development of the graphical user interface, as well as the system hardware architecture and operating system architecture. Due to financial difficulties at Apple, our group was spun out as a new silicon valley startup in 1996, called FlashPoint. I was the first technologist to successfully develop technology within the Advanced Technology Group at Apple and transfer it into shipped product.

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  Clear Light Inc

  • Boston, MA and Ft. Lauderdale, FL

  • VP Engineering

    • 1971 - 1987
    • Boston, MA and Ft. Lauderdale, FL

    I developed the hardware and software for over 55 products, including single-chip microprocessors and multi-processing systems utilizing up to 13 separate microprocessors at the same time for controlling banks of projectors, lighting, and other multi-media devices used in large-scale presentations at World's Fairs and conventions. I created control systems that were capable of interactive operation and sensing of projector systems that was considered impossible by the manufacture of the projector systems. I was the architect and user interface designer for the first multi-tasking operating system for controlling large multi-media systems that ran on an Apple // that was not matched by our competitors for over 6 years. I developed branching presentations with audience participation via voting boxes at each seat. I developed a police training simulator, including gunshot detector and heart rate monitoring to convert the branching multi-media presentation system into a powerful police training system that automatically critiqued the reactions of the officers being trained, including auto-shutdown when the emotional state became dangerous to the officer. The system would identify frame-by-frame exactly when the office fired a shot, and would report if the shot was correct or illegal or dangerous to bystanders based on the placement of actors at the exact frame the shot was fired.