Huned’s Resume

Summary — Huned is a broadly experienced engineer, innovator, and planner with a bent toward using data and information visualization to understand and solve problems, inform business decisions, and close efficiency gaps.

Experience

10/2008 – Present — Independent Consultant — San Francisco, CA

Successfully completing large consulting engagements for stealth-mode Bay Area start-ups, including supplying turn-key product development team to companies that don’t have a technical staff.

Advising start-ups on challenges such as hiring well, streamlining product development process, strategic planning, and generating revenue.

Incubating data-oriented products:

9/2006 – 10/2008 — Swivel — San Francisco, CA — Senior Software Engineer

Joined as full-time employee #5. Defined the company’s long term strategy beyond public data, with attention toward establishing and owning a Collaborative BI space rather than in competing in an already crowded, fragmented, and commoditized dashboard market.

With two other engineers, built the majority of Swivel, a large scale collaborative data warehouse, and Swivel’s ROLAP Business Intelligence product, Swivel Business Edition, which includes a real-time dashboard component.  Led development of Swivel’s REST API which eases integration with existing data sources, Swivel’s iPhone dashboard interface, and the Swivel Query Language (SwQL).

Selected press

1/2006 – 9/2006 — KickApps — New York, NY — Project Manager

As KickApps’ first employee, defined and built significant parts of KickApps’ v1 backend prior to Series A funding.  My schema design supported KickApps’ growth to hosting 10s of thousands of social networks.

Managed the project Gantt, task estimation, and work breakdown for a 20 person development team.  Helped sign customers through high-touch sales engagements.  Presented monthly updates to the Board of Directors.

Selected press

1/2004 – 3/2006 — Koos Technical Services — Maitland, FL — Consulting Engineer

Successfully completed several consulting engagements and built relationships with start-ups and high profile clients, including Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Invivo Research, and L3 Microdyne.

As principal developer for start-up Real Digital Media: designed, built, and released Neocast-XF networked, fanless media player.  RDM’s deployment has grown to 1000s of media players in the field.

8/2001 – 1/2004 — Agilent Technologies — Santa Rosa, CA — R&D Software Engineer

Software developer on Agilent’s ADS, HFSS, and RFDE product lines.

Drove organizational change in a 100 person division by gathering metrics and reporting them at the GM level.  This served to align the entire R&D organization behind a united, quantitative effort to increase quality, decrease attrition rates, and decrease support costs.

Skills

Education

2002 – 2003 — Stanford University — Stanford, CA — Non-degree graduate courses in Electrical Engineering through the Stanford Center for Professional Development.

1997 – 2001 Duke University — Durham, NC — BSE with double major in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science.  TA for seven semesters in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments.

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