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
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