BRIAN K. YODER
972 Cornell Road
Pasadena, California 91106
626-577-9976(h) 626-255-3338(c)

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.

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.

• Software Development: Built a world class development group from the ground up and lead development projects involving as many as 130 total contributors. This included everything from feature selection, detailed design, and art direction, to press contacts. An online summary of the EarthLink 5.0 software is available.
• Product Management: Conducted focus groups and usability studies, established product strategies, created and approved graphic and video designs, and handled press and partner relationships (particularly with Apple, Microsoft. Netscape, and others).
• Technical Advisory Board: Met quarterly with a formal board of respected industry leaders (such as Arno Penzias, Stewart Alsop, Christine Varney, Phil Neches, and Dave Farber) to discuss industry trends and company policies.
• Broadband: Developed the core architecture of EarthLink's broadband systems and strategy including PPPoE architecture and multiple transport strategy.
• EarthLink Everywhere: Worked internally and with partners to establish a non-computer device product strategy.
• Portal: Helped design the world's first customizable web portal.
• Enterprise Systems Design: Designed an XML-based enterprise data exchange standard to handle new customer registration, account management, and service authentication.
• Product Line Design: Participated in a focused 3 month offsite project to chart a comprehensive course for the company and its products including business model, product features, and technical design in 2001.

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.

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

• Network Management/Administration Utilities - Lead design, architecture, and corporate acquisition efforts associated with several network management utilities. This included creation of prototypes, demonstrations, evaluation of competitive products, employee recruitment, and organization of focus groups.
• Norton Desktop for Windows - Designed and implemented disk utilities, and general user interface for this desktop the first Norton Desktop product.
• Bedrock Object-Oriented Environment Framework Design Group - Participated in the design of Bedrock, a portable object-oriented application design framework. Bedrock includes a rich set of data structure classes, user interface classes, and other useful tools.
• Norton Utilities for Unix - Was the product manager coordinating activities between the Norton group, the development company (Segue Software), and the marketing company (Interactive Systems).
• Norton AntiVirus - Originated the project concept for Norton AntiVirus and its modular design.
• Norton Utilities for the Macintosh v1.0 - Directed the quality assurance efforts and drove the project to completion despite many previous delays.
• Acquisition Department - Conducted due diligence investigations focusing mainly on the technology and personnel of at least 50 companies under consideration for acquisition by Symantec in areas of communication, databases, networking, and object-oriented technology, among others.
• Norton Commander - Worked as a developer including the Commander Link component, file viewers, and user interface design, widely considered to be the best DOS interface ever produced.

Education:

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 solid object model representation, rendering, and animation

Hobbies & Interests:

• 19th Century and Realist Art
• Mountain Biking
• TV Animation Production

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