Visionary product development, often years before the mainstream.

Asking the right questions, engaging unexpected answers, delivering powerful results.

Connecting deeply with the right people, then it's effortless.

Affirmable App

Creator, Programmer, Designer

Affirmable is the most beautiful way to create and curate your personal affirmations. A clean, beautiful interface, set in a large, fun, readable typeface, with a page-based format, just like reading a book.

Runs on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. Wrote and designed the app in seven days, to focus on beauty and simplicity. (iTunes link)

2014

Ace It! App

Creator, Programmer, Designer

Ace It! is the fastest way to increase your self-confidence and make a great first impression, in any social situation. Use Ace It! video rehearsal to prepare for job interviews, sales calls, or first dates.

Runs on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, using Parse.com as a cloud-based key-value server on the backend. (iTunes link)

2012

Open Museum

Co-Creator, Front-End Design/Build

Open Museum is a participatory exhibit space that permits creators, keepers and lovers of the arts to share (and connect around!) one rich object at a time. This helps make the arts more accessible to everyone and supports museums in engaging people around their collections.

Ruby on Rails, originally hosted at Joyent, let the good times roll.

2007 - 2008

Online Honor Roll

Creator, Information Architect

This server-side app auto-generates hundreds of web pages based on class year, donor level, etc. from a database, and yields many millions of dollars in online contributions.

I wrote the specs, workflow, data model. Clever pre-archiving strategy maintains SEO ranking after annual rollover. Either perl or php, on Ubuntu at client servers.

Since 2004

PivotCMS

Co-Creator, Designer, Proprietor

PivotCMS is a multi-user, cloud-hosted, enterprise-class, static-page publishing website content management system.

I originally wrote the requirements, designed the user experience, sold and delivered the project. Continued with deployment, docs, sales, support.

Perl, SQLServer, Apache at Rackspace.

Since 1999

Emergent Branding System

Strategy Consultant

After leading several facilitations regarding goals and consensus over several months, I created organizational and technical workflow systems to allow for maximum staff flexibility when first developing and deploying a new brand identity for the first time. PivotCMS and Yacavone-proprietary loosely-coupled iterative workflow.

2006

Communications Audit

Strategic Research Consultant

I designed and delivered this multi-month, qualitative, in-depth investigation of constituent attitudes, opinions, and perspectives on communications prior to $1 Billion Ivy league capital campaign. I developed a proprietary toolset for content analysis and reporting.

2005

Society for Organizational Learning

Consulting Member

World Cafe co-designer and presenter at Global Forum (Vienna) on shape-shifting questions that have long-range implications to build personal and community capacity. Also led design team and co-facilitated two-day workshop for Consulting Members. Served as Recording Secretary for Trustees.

Since 2004

I3P Knowledge Base

Information Technology Consultant

Organizational requirements analysis and data model design for online knowledge base and portal for academic, governmental, and corporate information security personnel. Interim technical lead to design and build platform.

2003

NextMark CataList

VP Product Development

Significant contributor to product direction. Engineering team leadership and feature priority management. Wrote five-year product development plan. Helped close initial customer contracts.

Java, J2EE servlets and JSP, Oracle, iPlanet, Solaris, all co-lo'd at a biometric secure facility.

2001

NextMark MarketMax

VP Product Development

Significant contributor to product direction. Engineering team leadership and feature priority management. Wrote five-year product development plan. Helped close initial customer contracts.

Big piles of money to spend on Java, J2EE servlets and JSP, Oracle, iPlanet, Solaris, before the days of open source.

2000

Cooperative Governance

Director

Served as President, Treasurer

Largest consumer food coop in the USA ($70M sales, 350 employees). Co-lead the policy governance team which re-wrote all governance policies in one term. Facilitated dozens of board meetings, working groups, and workshops.

1999 - 2010

Website Design/Build

Consultant and Producer

Led hand-selected teams of designers and engineers to deliver polished and savvy branded educational content for complex institutional clients.

Since 1994

Sales-to-Service Manager

Co-Creator

Specifications, user experience, data model, testing, training. Possibly the first defined-followup marketing software for small business. 4D relational database, Macintosh client/server architecture.

1994

BOM-to-Build Manager

Co-Creator

Insane specifications, user experience, data model, testing, training.

First mass-customization software for small manufacturers. Unlimited nested sub-assemblies, PO aggregation, et al. From scratch. 4D relational database, Macintosh client/server architecture.

1993

ShallowTray Modeler

Co-Creator

Specifications, user experience, data model, documentation, testing, distribution, support. C++ on Mac and Windows, delivered on a floppy disk with a 212-page printed spiral-bound manual.

1992

Tri-Ambient Synthesis

Inventor and electronic architect

Multi-channel psychoacoustic audio system, makes music sound way, way better. US Patent #4612663 based on original research. Pre-dates home theater by 15 years.

Wrote the patent application. Designed and conducted experiments to prove effect. Hand-built the initial electronic prototypes.

1982

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