I'M A High School Dropout From Alabama:)

CEO, Chroma

Metrc

Executive Vice President

Chroma Signet was a supply chain QR platform for the cannabis industry. Sold to Metrc, the largest track and trace platform in cannabis.

Chroma Signet (ACQUIRED)

Wardenclyffe was a design and software development firm based in NYC, with a specialization in application development for the luxury fashion industry.

At Wardenclyffe I worked with global brands such as Stella McCartney, Hunter Boots, Art Basel, and yes, Kanye West.

Wardenclyffe

I helped Open Sourcery, a web development shop in Portland, OR, create and distribute software to assist non-profit organizations worldwide.

Open Sourcery

Product Manager

In 2007 I relocated to New York to go to work for my favorite radio station, WFMU. I was hired to a grant-funded position in order help develop software and to license music for use in a royalty-free web library used by non-commercial radio stations, music bloggers, and fans. The software component of the project is called the Free Music Archive it's already one of the largest collections of freely-licensed music available on the web:

http://freemusicarchive.org 

While there I worked with artists, record labels, and publishers to help them see the benefits of digital licensing for promotional use. I still believe the industry can work together to heal the damage now being done to internet radio by newly increased royalty rates.

WFMU

Project Director, FreeMusicArchive.org

I served on the Board of Directors at Portland Community Media, one of America's first public access television stations. I contributed to their development efforts and worked with them to build a new digital architecture that will allow them to broadcast their programming on the web.

Portland Community Media

Board Member

Tables Turned helped the independent record industry license and distribute their music digitally to non-commercial radio for promotional use.

We also serviced non-commercial radio organizations with an open source Linux device that automatically encoded their on-air programming into podcasts, and distributed them within social networking applications based on Drupal.

Tables Turned

Co-Founder

Here I marketed a podcasting appliance to universities and I also opened up new markets by negotiating vendor licensing and reseller deals. This is where I first got down and dirty with the application of patent law and business practices involving incentive structuring and VAR business development.

The project that I'm most proud of is the open sourcing of our software platform, under the GPL. This took a lot of analysis, research and old fashioned check-your-gut-courage and I'm happy to have been a part of it. 

We fought against DRM standards and worked to put more Linux boxes on university campuses all over the United States. This company remains a really powerful "Force of Good" in this world and I will always be thankful for what I learned working there.

Box Populi

Director of Business Development and Sales

The Socionomics Institute was a think tank established to popularize amongst academics the notion that public markets are primarily driven by oscillating patterns in mass social mood. I wrote articles about statistical correlations between the stock market and box office receipts from different genres of movies.

(It's true, bull markets produce successful Disney movies; Bear markets, horror movies.)

The Sociomomics Institute

Writer, Director of Internet Marketing

After moving to Athens, GA, I was hired at Elliott Wave International as a writer and began a daily web column on technical analysis of commodity futures.

Elliott Wave has a small but rabidly loyal following of traders who rely upon its novel method of technical analysis to gain insights into potential market moves, from the intraday to large macro price trends.

Marcus Estes