Adam Blum
470 Rudy Road
Los Gatos, CA 95033
408-813-0180
a@adamblum.com
CEO of stealth mode mobile technology startup
Details to come...
Mobio Networks, Vice President of Engineering
April 2006 to July 2008. Built up Mobio Networks development, QA, and operations teams from a local staff of one to a globally distributed team
of all star engineers. Mobio's platform is used by several major brands in India (Airtel, IndiaTimes, ESPN India) as their mobile solution
At Mobio, we have developed a platform that allows building mobile applications for all popular device
platforms (J2ME, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian, Brew) with a single high level application description.
Using the platform's standards-based declarative XML syntax a developer can create rich client mobile applications
that leverage device capabilities and work well in offline, disconnected scenarios in a matter of days, versus the weeks
required to write simple applications using the native phone APIs. The benefits of our platform are showcased in Mobio's many high profile consumer applications,
running in many different
countries, across many carriers and with a supported device matrix far exceeding mobile app companies with much smaller application
portfolios and much longer histories.
In addition to leading these teams, I have written several of our applications including our RSS reader and our CheapGas application.
All backends of these applications were written in Ruby on Rails. I have also built our Rails-based framework which allows a single
set of backend code (Rails controllers and views) to generate frontends that can be viewed from WAP client, web client
and our proprietary runner client.
Good Technology, Director of Server Engineering
May 2004-April 2006. Responsible for all server application and enterprise data
access software development (a team of 41 engineers).
- Led development of the first release of the first
offline and asynchronous oriented web browser for mobile devices: GoodAccess
1.0. GoodAccess recently received the Best Enterprise Application award
from Palm.
- Drove creation of a common web-based management console for all Good products (GoodLink,
GoodAccess, GoodApps)
Carnegie Mellon West,
Advisor and adjunct professor
2007 to present. Helping Carnegie Mellon West to start a new masters and PhD level curriculum in mobile application development. First
task is design and co-teaching a course in Fall of 2007 on mobile application development. This includes designing
course material in Ruby on Rails, WAP, mobile XHTML and XForms. It also includes acting as the subject matter expert
and project coach for students in this highly project development focused class.
Cal Berkeley Center for Document Engineering,
Advisor and adjunct professor
2002 to 2006. Helped to start first program of any major university for
the study of XML document design and Web Services. Created first semester long
course on web services which I teach each fall. As part of this created several
sample web service backends and front-end web service clients. Tutor students
on C# and Java development techniques for effective web service development.
Outside of my own course, I also judge student projects,
consult on other course content, advise students and guest lecture in other
professor's classes.
Systinet Corporation, Chief Technology
Officer
August 2003 to May 2004. Driving product strategy, evangelizing technology and
representing Systinet on several standards bodies including as a voting member
of UDDI. Systinet developed the world's first commercial SOAP implementation
and continued to implement new web services standards first with industry
leading interoperability during my tenure. Specifically I laid out a vision
and product plan for converting the UDDI franchise to a more general
enterprise registry play. Systinet executed on that plan and recently
was successfully sold to Mercury Interactive. I also wrote several technical
articles and, while participating on the UDDI standards group, wrote several technical
notes on enhancing the information in UDDI which are proceeding into the UDDI standard.
Talaris Corporation, Vice President of
Engineering
April 2002 to August 2003. Developed world's first services-oriented
procurement application. It was also one of the first applications oriented to
pure web services integration with external trading partners. Architected
Services Business Language, the first derivative of the Universal Business
Language standard for commerce XML documents from OASIS (which was derived from
Commerce One's xCBL document library.
Commerce One, Vice President of
Engineering
March 2000 to April 2002. Managed development of the Commerce One XML platform,
which included MarketSite (the world's first server for integration via XML
documents). With MarketSite's routing and processing of XML documents between connecting
applications, we were in effect doing
web services before there was an explicit name for it.
We held the patents for server to server integration
via XML documents. Managed a team of 85 developers in a very flat
efficient two level structure (a team of nine managers working for me).
We executed several ontime, high quality releases and MarketSite was adopted
by 170 of the Fortune 500.
Microsoft Corporation, Group Manager
January 1995 to March 2000. Managed several teams within Microsoft SQL Server
participating in release SQL Server 6.5 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000.
- Presented on various Microsoft technologies at every TechEd (was highest rated speaker in 1998) and spoke
alongside Bill Gates and other top executives at several other industry
conferences.
- Started
as the Principal Consultant of the Microsoft Federal Practice. Advised
federal customers on Microsoft Internet technologies and built
prototype projects using Active Server Pages, ISAPI and SQL Server. In
order to get Microsoft Exchange accepted by the U.S. House of
Representative, wrote the Exchange Administrative Agent (in C++ and
MAPI). This add-on utility allowed distributed administration of
Exchange accounts and settings via email. The Administrative Agent
shipped subsequently in the Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit.
- As I managed an acquisition of technology known as
English Query, a team of approximately 20 developers and QA members.
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Performed extensive evangelism through writing and speaking on various Microsoft
technologies: from SQL Server to Active Server Pages (including the first book
on Active Server Pages) to ISAPI (reviews have called my book the definitive treatment
of the ISAPI API)
Phoenix Systems, Director of Engineering
January 1990 to December 1994.
Managed all software development for this email
and groupware startup. This was approximately fifty developers at its height before
acquisition by Corporate Software. In addition to managing the group, wrote
several of the core software products sold by Phoenix.
- Individually developed (in C++) Mail Express, under funding from Microsoft,
which was the reference gateway between Microsoft Mail and Lotus Notes.
- Also wrote InterNotes, which created HTML websites from Lotus Notes databases,
and was one of the earliest web authoring tools. It was purchased by Lotus and became
the core of its future Domino offering.
Ketron Management Science, Team Lead.
1986 to 1990.
Led small team team maintaining the world's fastest linear programming-based optimizer
(Whizard). We also ported this optimizer to C to run on Unix systems and 32-bit DOS Extenders.
Publications
Dozens of technical articles and the following books:
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Neural Networks in C++, John Wiley and Sons, 1992
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ActiveX Web Programming, John Wiley and Sons, 1996
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Building Business Web Sites, MIS Press, 1994
Education
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Master of Science, Computer Science, George Mason University, 1992
- Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1987