Problem:
Wayne County wants to make their bids accessible to small businesses and minorities.

Problem:
Dykema Gossett, a large legal firm, needs to track the work for Sears, Roebuck and Company.

Problem:
Biomedical startups have special facilities needs, that are underserved by commercial Real Estate industry.  Lots of venture capital is wasted building dedicated labs to house single companies.
Solution:
Broker a deal with a shrinking pharmaceutical giant to take over some of their wetlab facilities, and turn it into a specialized business incubator.
Surprise:
Halfway through the process, the pharma […]

Problem:
Homeland Security demands that airports and airlines know who their passengers really are.
Solution:
Photo-ID boarding pass, combined with biometric verification.
Technologies:
Visionics, BioAPI, VB.Net, touch-screen kiosk, mobile terminal.
Engagement:
Venture-level outsourcing of all engineering, marketing and operations. Vendor selection, financial modeling, and international travel.
Developed the SPIdS system, integrated with facial-capture camera, thumbprint, and magstripe/barcode passenger cards, with high-security color […]

Problem:
Salespeople hate SFA/CRM applications, but CFO’s rely on them.Solution:
Salespeople love their cellphones, so create a speech-based interface to SFA/CRM applications - call “Outlook” and talk to your calendar, address book, to-do list, …
Technologies:
Java, LAMP, Nuance, Telephony
Work done on this project:
Developed a human-transcription plug-in for a structured speech-to-text parsing engine - an early “Amazon Mechanical Turk” […]

Problem:
Develop, launch and manage a new online financial services business, from the ground-up, in three months, for Isiah Thomas.
Solution:
Deploy multiple Teams in the US and Eastern Europe, using Agile software methodologies, to develop the financial services portal, branding/marketing, and fulfillment operations.
Technologies:
Zope, Python, Perl, Sybase, Linux, Flash.

Work done on this project:
A total of 24 Factotem Constellation […]

Problem:
Consumers lack an effective way to comparison-shop between competitive utility offerings.
Solution:
Poll and profile usage patterns, then recommend the most appropriate vender/service/plan for each consumer.
Technologies:
EDI, ODBC, LAMP, Flash
Engagement:
Pre-funding: helped build investor pitch, meet with diligence Teams.
Development: full-venture outsourcing of all branding, design, engineering and marketing functions to an interdisciplinary Team in USA and Eastern Europe.
Integration: traveled […]