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

Objective:

A position as CTO, vice president of engineering, architect, or similar position in a company developing innovative products. I am particularly interested in projects involving networking, portable devices, software utilities, compilers, audio and video processing, animation, real-time data acquisition and control, CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering), artificial intelligence, and scientific programming.

Employment History:

Chief Technology Officer, Virtual Language Laboratories LLC, 2002-Present -- 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.

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.

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

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.

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 solid object model representation, rendering, and animation

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