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Experience 1994–1998 InfoLane Corporation Fremont, CA

Founder, President, Chief Technical Officer

One of the first web development and hosting companies in San Francisco Bay area. 
First company to offer ISP services in southern Alameda county.
Bay area leader in web development and hosting for cities and other governmental agencies. Clients include the cities of Palo Alto, Mountain View, Hayward,Pleasanton, Fremont and Gilroy, the Alameda County Voter Registrar, the Alameda Waste Management Authority, and the Newark Unified School District.
Manage telecommunications, including multiple T1s, Ascend MAX 4000 terminal server, Cisco routers, ISDN PRI and BRI connections, and RADIUS software.
Manage enterprise web server hosting over 75 private domains web sites and over 50 web sites within the InfoLane domain.
Manage development of CGI scripts for use within web sites.
Manage domain name server (DNS) and email servers.
http://www.infolane.com
1992–1994 Sun Microsystems Mountain View, CA

Market Development Manager, Virtual Reality

Created "Virtual Globe Theatre", historically accurate VR rendition of Shakespeare’s theatre with computer generated actors.
http://www.macrae.net/globe.htm
Recruited top VR hardware and software vendors to Sun platform.
Started industry effort to create networked virtual worlds.
1990–1992 Sun Microsystems Mountain View, CA

Market Development Manager, CD-ROM and Storage Devices

Created and released Sun Microsystems' first CD-ROM.
Led effort to standardize operating system releases on CD-ROM.
Created and hosted SCSI developer conferences.
Started industry effort to create Unix extensions to ISO-9660 CD-ROM file system.
1989–1990 Sun Microsystems Mountain View, CA

Technology Advisor for Education Division

Evaluated university grant proposals.
Evaluated new technologies for possible acquisition by Sun Microsystems.
Provided strategic direction for development of scholar’s workstation.
Product manager for SunMathematica.
1987–1989 Sun Microsystems Mountain View, CA

Manager, Artificial Intelligence Development Lab

Set up software development team, hired engineers, managed development of in-house AI projects.
1985–1987 Xerox Artificial Intelligence Kansas City, MO

Consulting Engineer, Member of Technical Staff, PARC

Assisted Xerox customers with development of AI based systems.
Developed seminar  teaching basics of AI and Expert Systems.
Taught classes in Object Oriented programming, LISP, and ProLog.

1982–1985 DIT-MCO International Kansas City, MO

Manager, Software Development

Managed team of software developers of real-time applications
Created test language compiler product
Skills
Computer Languages: Perl, TKL, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Smalltalk, LISP, Assembly, C Shell, HTML
Operating Systems: SunOS, Solaris, Linux, BSDI, NT, Win95
Applications: PhotoShop, Front Page, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
Protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP, NNTP, PPP, RS/232
Community Service
Chair, Fremont Library Commission
Member, Fremont Charter Committee
Volunteer, TriCity Homeless Shelter
Interests New technologies, writing, theatre.