Geekness:

• Started programming on a TRS-80 Model III at 10 years old.
• Enjoys trailrunning…sometimes barefoot.
• New sailor with visions of far away places.
• Once held his breath for 4 minutes and 12 seconds.

Career Focus:

• Coding, coding…and yeah, more coding.
• Building highly reliable systems.

Accomplishments:

• Wrote code for both mobile phones and hard drives that has shipped in over 100-million devices world wide.
• Built the first certified Bluetooth stack for Windows and mobile in 2002, which was later acquired by Broadcom in 2004.
• Made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

History:

• Co-founded and ran his own engineering services company in 2002, transitioned into a Bluetooth wireless products company in 2005. Made a lot of mistakes, learned from (most of) them!
• Senior Engineer at Symwave developing a USB3 to SATA II bridge chip that shipped in Western Digital hard drives. Symwave was acquired by SMSC in 2010.
• Founder Institute Graduate, Spring 2011.

Specialties

cloud computing, communications technologies, early stage companies, customer development, lean startup