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Profile ofscherpbier
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Summary
TitleCTO, Architect, engineer, code monkey, manager
Description
My goal is and will always be to make a difference.
With many general interests in diverse areas of science and engineering, I am able to find solutions to problems that are outside the box.
My experience has been mostly in distributed and server related areas.
* Search, indexing, and metadata extraction
* Filesystem design and implementation
* Web conferencing
Skills
Skills in Java: JSF, Struts, Java SE, Java EE, Swing, SWT, AWT, Eclipse, NetBeans, JBoss AS and MySQL
Location
LocationUnited States (USA) / California
(San Diego area)
This expert accepts to work remotely.
This expert accepts to work as a freelance.
Experience
Positions are listed in chronological order, with most recent at the top.
CTO
for
BlackBall, Inc
March 2001 - Present
(Still in this position)
Location
United States (USA) / California
Industry
High Tech / Software publishers
BlackBall is an OEM software provider specialized in search and management of data located wherever there is storage, including desktops, laptops, servers, NAS, but also semi structured data sources like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Outlook, etc. Everything is distributed ("centralized" is a four letter word!) Metadata can be assigned to any piece of information and sticks with data is it goes through its life cycle.
As the CTO, I am in charge of all technical directions of the company. I am also the largest contributor to the actual code base.
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Chief Scientist
for
Raindance Communications
August 2000 - January 2001
Location
United States (USA) / California
Industry
Communications and media / Internet
Researched improvements on the system created while at Contigo Software.
Worked on transforming Microsoft PowerPoint slides into space and bandwidth efficient vector graphics for use in our presentation sharing system.
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VP of Engineering and founder
for
Contigo Software
June 1996 - August 2000
Location
United States (USA) / California
Industry
High Tech / Software publishers
Founded Contigo Software, the first web conferencing company.
Created a web-based conferencing system to share Microsoft PowerPoint slides, web pages, desktop, whiteboard, etc. with a large number (thousands) of participants.
Everything except the desktop sharing was done using Java.
Our IPO got yanked right before the .com bubble burst. Sold ourselves to Raindance Communications instead.
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Publications
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Certifications, exams and awards
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posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009
updated Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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