BRIAN K. YODER
972 Cornell Road
Pasadena, California 91106
626-255-3338(c)

Employment History:

Vice President of Product Development, Scalable Network Technologies Inc., 2012 -- Network simulation, military communications, security, and performance analysis (onshore and offshore development teams (India) - Read More

Vice President of Engineering, CyberDefender Inc., 2009-2012 -- Antivirus, security threat research, system security, performance optimization, enterprise systems, onshore and offshore development teams (India) - Read More

Chief Architect, OpenSoft, 2007-2009 -- E-commerce, industrial equipment design, factory floor automation, offset and digital printing technologies, legal software, court case management, onshore and offshore (Russia) development - Read More

CTO and Vice President of Production, CodeFire Studios, Inc. 2005-2007 -- Video game development, distributed micro-transaction system, art direction, in-house and offshore development (Texas) - Read More

Co-Founder, The Fat Cat Club 2005-2007 -- Angel investment club, recruiting and selecting presenters, regulatory analysis, event organization - Read More

Vice President of Engineering, uWink, Inc. 2004-2005 -- Video game development, physical game console manufacturing, remote monitoring and update network, uWink Cafe, onshore and offshore (China) development teams - Read More

Chief Technology Officer, Virtual Language Laboratories LLC, 2002-2004 -- Helped build this startup from the ground up including raising capital, writing business plans, developing technology, and keeping everything together. VLL develops language translation systems, most notably a robust system for live translation of television feeds into foreign languages using a variety of video technologies, web services technologies, machine translation systems, and interfaces for human editors, monitoring, and high-availability architecture. - Read More

Founder/CEO, AuthentiKey, 2001-2002 -- Created a startup company to operate a large-scale Internet identity management system. Supervised all aspects of starting the company including hiring attorneys, a public relations firm, and recruiting other staff, setting up fund raising operations, developing business plans and developing the architecture of technical systems. - Read More

Director of Product Development/Architect, EarthLink 1996-2001 -- Played key roles including group management, high level design work, technology evaluations, artistic direction, multimedia development, partner management, integration of systems from acquired companies, recruiting, scheduling, cross-departmental collaboration, company strategy, and other related issues.

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President and Co-Founder, US Networx, Inc. 1992-1996 -- Managed business and financial operations, solicited venture capital, negotiated OEM and technology licensing contracts, and conducted marketing and sales operations. Marketing responsibilities included everything from product positioning and ad design to channel development. Responsibilities also included coordinating development of network troubleshooting, protocol analysis, virus detection, and network security software. The primary US Networx product is an PC-based network protocol analyzer called LAN Doctor. It is still on the market under the name EtherTest. - Read More

Senior Designer, Peter Norton Computing/Symantec Corporation 1989-1992

Read More Senior Software Engineer, Nastec Corporation 1987-1989 -- Participated in several projects involving the development of CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools. The last assignment was to start a remote R&D office and hire a development team to build a portable CASE tool platform in C++. Principal responsibilities included recruiting the development staff, defining the overall software architecture, evaluating third party tools, supervising R&D activities of the development staff, interfacing with non-technical staff and establishing portability/consistency standards and design methodologies for the system. - Read More

Education:

Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, attended 1980-1985.

B.S. in computer science and minor in mathematics, December 1984.
M.S. in computer science, coursework completed without graduation December 1985.

Concentrations: Graphics, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Compiler Theory.

Dissertation topic: 3-D object model representation, rendering, and animation

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