Team Professional Biographies
The principals at Burning Door have worked together in the software
industry for the last 11 years. In 1993, then at Andersen Consulting,
two of the principals built and deployed the world’s first
web-based training application. As part of Digital Knowledge Assets
(DKA), the principals helped architect one of the first networked
publishing environments. The product was highlighted at the prestigious
PC Forum in 1998. The principals founded Spyonit.com in 1999. Spyonit.com
was quickly chosen by Yahoo! as one of the web’s Top 50 Most
Useful Sites, and the company was sold to 724 Solutions one year
after its inception.
Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo leads the Best Practices service offering,
helping customers understand and incorporate pragmatic software
development best practices, in order to deploy products and
services successfully and more efficiently.
Previously, Dick Costolo served as Senior Vice President,
Mobile Network
Operator (MNO) Solutions at 724 Solutions. He was responsible
for defining
and implementing market strategies for the global network
operator space. Dick joined 724 Solutions as Senior Vice
President, Notification Services in
September 2000, upon 724's acquisition of Spyonit.com, Inc.
Dick was CEO and co-founder of Spyonit.com—a leading
developer of Web-based monitoring and notification technology.
Other entrepreneurial activities included founding and managing
a web services consulting firm and running product development
for an Internet startup focused on collaborative publishing
technologies that was featured at PC Forum '98.
Dick spent eight years with Andersen Consulting, where he
was part of the team that created the first Web-based enterprise
training
application.
Dick holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science
from the
University of Michigan.
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Eric Lunt
Eric leads the software development best practices business,
specializing in architecture design and development, and
helping clients make build/buy/employ open source decisions
in a world where software development organizations are expected
to deliver more with less. Eric helps customers think about
how build architectures that are flexible and allow for ease
in customization, using freely available tools as building
blocks where most cost- and effort-effective.
Eric's most recent experience was as Vice President of Development for 724 Solutions,
leading architectural responsibilities for their alerts and messaging products,
including the launch of their MMS services offering. He co-founded and served
as CTO at Spyonit.com (which was acquired by 724 Solutions in 2000), served as
lead technical architect at Digital Knowledge Assets (creators of the collaborative
personal publishing software "sceneServer"), and helped to lead the application
architecture team in Accenture's next generation technology group known as "Project
Eagle".
Eric graduated from Princeton University in 1992 with a B.S.E. in Mechanical
Engineering and a Certificate in Applied Computational Mathematics. He
was also granted Patent 6,543,046 ("Apparatus and method for navigating objects
within a computer-implemented object environment"), which he assures will
never be used for evil.
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Steve Olechowski
Steve helps both operators and software vendors
navigate the quickly changing wireless data services landscape
from both a technical marketing and software development
perspective by teaching best practices implemented around
the world.
Steve most recently held Vice President positions in charge
of Development, Product Management, and Product Marketing
at 724 Solutions Inc. There he was responsible for setting
direction for the next generation of device independent,
multimodal, and active wireless applications, and working
with
mobile operators to define their VASP (value added service
platform) architectures. Steve's career spans a number for
corporate, consulting and startup experiences including lead
technical management roles at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture),
Digital Knowledge Assets, and Burning Door LLC. He also co-founded
Spyonit.com, the alerting and messaging platform acquired
in 2000 by 724 Solutions.
Steve holds a B.A. in Computer Studies and Economics from
Northwestern University.
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Matt Shobe
Matt has ten years' experience solving ease-of-use problems
in desktop and web software design. Starting with usability
test design and evaluation at Microsoft in 1993, and continuing
through several startups throughout the 90s to the present
day, Matt's mission is to create worry-free user experiences
through observant evaluation and design. The results include
Yahoo's 2000 "Top
50 Most Useful Sites" award for
Spyonit.com, desktop development tools for XML and Java-based
alert development for 724 Solutions, and a host of other
efforts for large and small companies alike dating to the
web's earliest days. Matt still agonizes over personalized
services that still don't set focus on
the login field,
just for starters.
Matt holds an M.S. in Technical Communication from the University
of Washington and a B.A. in English from Purdue University.
That Purdue's first football game when he was a Freshman
was against Washington is regarded as, well, a complete coincidence.
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