Experience

Sight Machine

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and CTO

  • Apr 2011 - Present

  Southeast Michigan, USA At Sight Machine I am involved in the architecture of our Manufacturing Analytics product, as well as customer solution design.



University of Michigan - School of Information

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Lecturer

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  I teach a section of the capstone course SI699 - Big Data Analytics each winter. The course is oriented around a value-creating project using multiple data sources, ETL data processing, project management, and reporting.



Blockstackers LLC

• Owner

  • 1997 - Jun 2011

  While at Blockstackers, I was one of the founding partners of Slashdot.org (later sold to Andover.net/VA Software/GeekNet). I developed an open source ad serving software called Ad-fu, and the online community dictionary Everything2.com. I also co-produced PerlMonks.org, the definitive online perl community.



Geeknet Inc.

• Sr Producer, SourceForge.net and Ohloh

  • Sep 2009 - Sep 2010

  As a producer for SourceForge.net I oversaw the development direction for several online properties with a combined audience of over 40 million uniques per month. I developed strategic priorities based on executive strategies and coordinated execution of GeekNet’s product marketing, software engineers, interface designers, and operations technicians.



SourceForge

• SourceForge.net Site Architect

  • 2004 - Sep 2009

  As a software architect I worked with teams of engineers to design key infrastructure components for SourceForge.net and our ad operations team. In this role I oversaw a re-factor of legacy site code to an MVC framework. I also designed and implemented an internal advertising management and billing system which handled ad traffic targeting to millions of users daily, as well as internal billing and reporting.



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Researcher

  • 2006 - Apr 2009

  As a graduate researcher, I worked with Paul Resnick and Rahul Sami on research into using recommender systems for interface design, recommender manipulation simulation, and context-based recommender systems.



SourceForge, Inc.

• Site Creator, FossFor.us

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2009

  I took a 4 month Sabbatacal from SourceForge to produce "FossFor.us: Free Open Source Software for Us", a next generation online "App Store" for Open Source. In this role I hired and integrated a fresh team of Python developers and content editors to build a website cataloging hundreds of free software products.



Everything Development Company LLC

• Owner

  • Nov 1999 - May 2001

  Designed and Oversaw Everything Development Engine, Everything2.com, PerlMonks.org



Blockstackers Intergalactic Inc

• Slashdot Programmer

  • Jan 1997 - Jul 1999



Magna Donnelly

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Industrial Software Intern

  • 1995 - 1998

  At Donnelly I developed software controls for automation and quality control devices using data acquisition, vision inspection, and robotic PLC controllers.