Business Experience

Compaq Computer Corporation (1998 – 2001)
VP and Chief Technology Officer, Advanced Technology

      • VP and Chief Technology Officer, Advanced Technology.

VP and Chief Technology Officer, Commercial PC Products Group

      • Conceived and brought to market the first iPAQ computer. It finished its first year of production at a $1B run rate and was the fastest computer to reach 100K units.
      • Chaired Compaq Patent Committee 

Digital Equipment Corporation (Acquired by Compaq in 1998) (1995 – 1998)
VP and Chief Technology Officer, NTSBU (Digital’s PC Business)

      • Technical lead on strategic activities inside and outside the company.
      • Development of the NTSBU technical community including patents and senior promotions.
      • Technical exec on NTSBU management team and senior corporate technology committee.

VP and GM, Network Computing Segment, NT Systems Business Unit (NTSBU)

      • Temporary additional role (July ’97 to Oct ’97) to define strategy and get business running
      • Develop PC products related to thin clients.

Chips and Technologies (Acquired by Intel in 1997) (1990 – 1995)
Vice President, Software Technology, Member of Executive Staff (3/90 – 1/95)

      • Identify and develop new chip architectures optimized for Windows and Windows NT.
        • Wingine – First cost effective high-performance Linear Frame Buffer graphics for Windows.
        • Printgine – First commercial implementation of Enhanced Capabilities Printer Port (ECP).
      • Head of MIS – Apply client server technology to company MIS and sales forecast systems.
      • Created strategic vision to focus company around portable graphics market. 

Tandy Corporation (1984 – 1990)
Vice President, Tandy Computers Software Design (8/87 – 3/90)Senior Director, Software (10/84 – 8/87), Director, Systems Software (4/84 – 10/84)

      • Provided systems software (DOS/Windows, Utilities, BIOS, Network) for over 20 Tandy computer models and numerous domestic and international-language versions of computers OEMed to GRiD, DEC, Panasonic, InterTan and American Airlines.
      • Developed the DeskMate family of products including DeskMate, SchoolMate, DeskMate WorkGroup Companion (network version).
      • DeskMate runtime became the industry standard MS-DOS low-end graphical user interface in the late 1980’s. Significant DeskMate applications included the first graphical version of Lotus 123, the first graphical version of Intuit’s Quicken and TandyLink online community, which later grew into America Online when it was ported to Microsoft Windows.

General Electric, Corp. R&D (1976 – 1984)
Manager, Video Systems (1/82 – 4/84)
Manager, Microcomputer Systems (4/81 – 12/82)
Manager, Microcomputer Controls (1/80 – 3/81)
Electronics Engineer (6/76 – 1/80)

      • Responsibilities at GE covered numerous applications of microprocessors and custom integrated circuits ranging from Large Steam Turbines to residential ovens and microwaves.
      • 7 issued patents ranging from algorithms for cooking meat to remote diagnostics to video signal processing.
      • Developed high definition TV and Cable TV bandwidth compression systems.
      • Chairman of 3,500-member internal Electrical Engineering organization.
      • Attended GE’s 4-week Management Development Course in Crotonville, NY.

Infocom (Acquired by Activision in 1986) (1979 – 1986)
Co-founder while still at General Electric

      • Responsible for development of microcomputer system software used by Infocom games.
      • ZORK family sold over 1,000,000 copies and is still in production over 20 years later.

MIT, Laboratory for Computer Science (1969 – 1976)

      • Various teaching and research positions throughout schooling.
      • Research areas were operating system design, microcomputer networks and computer graphics.