tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57546047872999720412023-11-15T10:51:43.461-08:00Sheridan FosterSheridan Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05775492797781534825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754604787299972041.post-54919355457862483852010-09-23T17:41:00.001-07:002017-03-06T12:59:15.615-08:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Market vision, business acumen, and product management augmented with hardware and software engineering experience. Proven track record of developing innovative products at industry icons such as Sony, Microsoft, and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Founder and CEO of this exciting new resource for brands to connect their sustainable products with homeowners, builders and architects. Education, inspiration and real solutions for the rapidly evolving green building market. At www.Elemental.Green, users can learn WHY go green, WHAT is green, WHERE to find green products, and HOW to make it happen.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Vice President and General Manager of the Broadband Solutions Group, an "intrapreneurial" software and system development organization focused on bringing Sony technology and media assets into new markets. Successfully deployed multiple software development and system-level products - Cablevision iO Digital Cable System, DIRECTV multichannel broadcast centers, CNN Archive system.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Planning for current and future generations of the Windows products as they relate to entertainment and rich media. Worked across Microsoft product and strategy teams and across the “3 screens” of PC, TV, and mobile to create a rationalized rich media story for the consumer.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">First of a kind product brought directly from research to market. Innovative mini-supercomputer launched within two years - IBM Power Visualization System.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Led a soup to nuts product restart of an innovative digital jukebox which was an early provider of streaming music services, in stream purchase, digital portable audio player, consumer electronics component system and prestige jukebox.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Targeted strategic and tactical support for technology organizations - focused on startups and nimble development groups within larger companies. Worked with CEO's and their teams to hone the vision and create achievable plans to get where they needed to be.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Resident fixer in the Engineering Product Management group. Tackled issues in engineering, procurement, manufacturing, marketing and life-cycle management. Great team and interesting projects in computer graphics peripherals and raster image processors.</span></h6>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">My first foray into the land of startups. Lots of hats to wear and lessons to learn. Part of the team developing a custom CPU to use in a new computer for graphics intensive applications.</span></h6>
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