1. Cloud/Web apps, digital advertising and user-generated content, information governance and information strategy, project management
Provide business and revenue-based solution that resolves Facebook's underlying core business descent due to reliance on user profiling
Analyze the core issues that drive Facebook to rely on ever-increasing user profiles to generate revenue, and propose a simple, far-reaching alternative that generates more revenue and improves the user experience. For more information, visit Dear Facebook, Just Ask.
Advising Fortune 100 company executives on information governance and information strategy
Provide advice and strategic project management to executives at a Fortune 100 company on business transformation initiatives, particularly in the areas of information governance and information strategy. Designed and managed the build and launch of a 100% custom intranet/cloud suite of applications for streamlining and coordinating internal document collection and tracking with integrated knowledge repository and case/matter classification schema.
Cloud Link Multisharing App (concept to commercialized product with global patent portfolio)
Design, develop and launch a cloud app that allows individuals and businesses to share "maps" (and collections of maps) of annotated, highly structured groups of links to any type of content anywhere on the Internet, along with bio and links about the mapmaker. Add advanced features, such as internal chat for mapmaking teams.
Next generation web-based advertising system (concept to commercialized product with global patent portfolio)
Design next generation Web-based advertising system using (1) user generated content in the form of internet "maps", and (2) delivery of ads based on where in each Internet "map" a user is. This system enabled dynamic, real-time delivery of the most relevant ads across any and all maps a user is accessing while at the same time preserving a user's privacy with no need to profile the user and no need to collect data on the user's browsing habits.
Review and recommend feature set simplification and re-focus for user-generated content (UGC) video app
Advised start-up with highly experienced founding team on simplifying and re-focusing their user-generated video app feature set to align with their business model. The team implemented the advice in full, successfully raised capital and has seen rapid user adoption and success.
2. Selected Market, Marketing and Strategic Analysis Projects
Apply "design for emotional value" thinking to increase numbers of registered voters who actually vote
Advice non-partisan group that is thinking out-of-the-box on new ways to encourage more registered voters to actually vote, by applying the "design for emotional value" paradigm to craft their strategy. For more information, see Design for Emotional Value slide deck and visit www.pleasevoteloveamerica.com
Publish paper on the importance of user-facing, patent-protected differentiators for companies
Assess market trends and history of consumer product tech companies, and develop and publish white paper/slide deck on the importance of user-facing patent-protected differentiators for companies to maintain both their market share and their margins, especially in the face of (1) rapid reverse-engineering of even advanced technology-based new product features and low-cost manufacturing capabilities across Asia, and (2) need for and market expectations and demands and financial market demands for on-going transformative innovation.
Assess and project the development of multi-camera smartphones
Assess market trends, and publish a white paper/slide deck foreseeing the development of smartphones with multiple outward facing cameras.
Publish paper on the need for mobile operators to generate non-subscriber revenue
As subscriber fees flatten, and capital expenditures increase to implement next generation mobile high bandwidth (5G) networks, mobile operators will need to generate substantial revenue from sources other than subscribers.
3. Mobile Apps (iOS, Android, Win)
Created a unique musical instrument app for iOS (concept to commercialized product)
Design, select and manage outsourced development team (based in Chicago) and bring to market a unique musical instrument app for iOS devices on the App Store. Includes a unique musical instrument UI for touchscreen devices, and a hybrid cloud component for users to share the music they create via links to content on servers in the cloud.
Created an Android game for personal assessment of accuracy of making predictions (concept to commercialized product)
Design and managed the development of a game app to enable users to model their personal ability to make predictions correctly.
4. Desktop Software
Chinese text entry word processing using open source fonts of brushstrokes (concept to commercialized product)
Invent, design and manage the software development using outsourced developers in the Ukraine of the world's first system for writing and editing every Chinese character in Microsoft Word documents using exclusively fonts of brushstrokes entered in 2D grids directly in any Word document, and editable brushstroke-by-brushstroke. By moving away from systems that index into libraries of whole Chinese characters, and publishing the specifications for open-source development by any typographer of custom Chinese brushstrokes, the full potential of the Chinese language on computers is unlocked. Design and manage the go-to-market strategy of the commercial version of the software.
Next generation emoticon software (concept to commercialized product)
Invent, design and manage the software development using outsourced developers of a unique system for texting stories expressed through advanced emoticons.
Law firm associate experience improvement software (concept and business plan)
Designed feature set and project specifications for software for law firms to use to improve their associate lawyer experience and training via increased business transparency.
5. Sail/Wind Propulsion, Rowing, Fitness Equipment, and Outdoor Gear
Designed a new mast/rigging/sail system for next generation commercial and recreational sail/wind propulsion for commercial and recreational boats. Invented, designed, prototyped and filed patents on a new generation of mast/rigging/sail system.
Designed a new rowing system that works equivalently in rowing shells and boats and as an in-room fitness rowing machine. This rowing system re-thinks and simplifies the traditional seat/slide system of rowing shells and rowing machines to create a new, more efficient and more easily built and maintained rowing system.
Developed and commercialized the world's first stand-up (vertical) rowing machine that fits anywhere (concept to commercialized product)
Invent, design, prototype and bring to market the world's first stand-up (vertical) rowing machine. Research and engage outsourced manufacturer. Design and implement marketing and advertising strategy. Rowing is one of the great all-body exercises, and many people sit for long periods without sufficient physical motion. But, traditional rowing machines are large, heavy, expensive and require the user to sit while using them. The Rocket Rower fits almost anywhere people are sitting (under a desk, in a cubicle, beside a chair, under a bed, in a car, etc), and gives rigorous all-body motion whenever someone wants.
Designed and commercialized a better sun-protective layering system (concept to commercialized product)
Design a sun-protective layering system to better protect from reflected rays. Test various prototypes in alpine and ocean environments. Refine product. Engage outsourced manufacturer, procure fabric and other components, develop marketing and advertising strategy, and take finished product to market.
Designed a portable, go-anywhere 2-4 person racket game (concept to prototype)
Create a portable, go-anywhere 2-4 person game that can be set up in a couple of minutes on almost any surface (indoor or outdoor) that combines the fun of badminton with the flexibility and spontaneity of hacky-sack games.
6. Device Innovations
Next Generation Touchbar (concept to prototype)
Invent and take to market via software, hardware roadmap and IP a next generation interface that dramatically improves and expands on the "touchbar" technology in Apple's laptops. Patented.
Develop and manage global patent portfolio on touchscreen UI ... years before iOS devices
Invent, develop and manage a global patent strategy on next generation mobile user interface technology. Foresee the need for a touchscreen user interface that can accomodate any type of app and the full Web in addition to text and numeric entry ... years before the introduction of the iPhone and iOS. Patent portfolio in US, China, S Korea and other countries.
Designed a mobile joystick with pre-customized controls for embedded apps (concept to patent portfolio)
Invent and patent an detachable, finger-size mobile joystick where all positional sensors are internal to the joystick and that only requires a simple, very small port on the device and/or utilizes an existing port such as a micro-USB port and that has a customizable set of pre-programmed external control features that are pre-optimized for an embedded app. This allows for a far more engaging user experience on a mobile device of even simple games and other apps than a touchscreen UI. Patented.
7. Point of Sale Products
Designed and commercialized a low-cost, large market opportunity, innovative point-of-sale product
Design a low-cost, large market opportunity, innovative point-of-sale product: a sunglass cleaner in a soft-shell design that fits in the palm of the hand, and keeps the clean-sides of the lens cleaning cloths on the inside of the soft-shell. Patented.
8. Office and Modular Home Furniture
Design a stand-up desk optimized for shared office spaces (concept to commercialized product)
Design and build prototype of new family of stand-up desks optimized for shared office spaces. Among other innovations, these create an optimal modular, stand-up conference table.
Designed and built a modular full-size desk with integrated bookshelf (concept to prototype)
Design and build prototype of a full-size desk with integrated bookshelf that can be dismantled, carried in easy pieces and installed by one person up dorm or apartment stairs.
Designed and built a modular shelving system for any living space (concept to prototype)
Design and build a prototype of a modular shelving system that is easily installed, fully re-configurable in multiple ways and highly customizable using an extremely simple and intuitive set of (1) verticals, (2) horizontals and (3) connectors requiring no tools to set up or dismantle, and no hardware.
Examples of the way we think,
and what we've created
The Pillars of Creation, clouds where stars are forming.