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Snooty Monkey, LLC is a product development consultancy that specializes in taking your idea from the back of a napkin, through version 2.0 and to profitability. I have a long history of conceiving, developing and launching new, successful products, and with Snooty Monkey I put that experience to work for you.

Snooty Monkey makes BubbleTimer, the best way to achieve your goals through better time management, and Goalie Trainer for the iPad.

Some notable Snooty Monkey projects include WinTheTrophy, Hexawise and TalkTo.

I'm the President and Founder.

Exploratory venture. Researched, conceived and built a beta quality proof of concept product in the area of syllabus creation and management in higher education. This was a result of work I'd done at the School of Information and Library Sciences at UNC.

Worked on the technical strategy and the implementation of IBM's open source activities in the area of text search with Apache's Lucene, Solr and Tika projects. Helped create an embeddable text search component from open source and IBM assets for use across all IBM products.

Product Manager for Search and Discovery in IBM's Software Group. Responsible for the conception, approval, development and launch of IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition, an award winning product that re-invented what product usability means at IBM.

Mentored other product groups across IBM in the areas of consumability, user experience and how to make the IBM elephant dance.

Led the technical activities of the engineering team as Venetica was integrated into the IBM organization. Worked across IBM product teams to embed Venetica's Venice Bridge product capabilities into various existing IBM products. Led the effort to align the product architecture to the IBM technology stack including internationalization, localization, accessibility, and hardware and software platform support.

Founded the product engineering group at a small consultancy and led product strategy and architecture for what then grew to become a 50 person VC funded startup. Conceived and built 3 successful and profitable products in the area of content management and process automation.

Invented a new market segment, Enterprise Content Integration, that grew to be recognized by all the top analyst firms and sprouted numerous competitors.

The 3rd product, Venice Bridge, resulted in a lucrative acquisition by IBM. I was the main technical point of contact with IBM during the acquisition process.

Designed, developed and deployed enterprise imaging, content management, workflow automation and product data management systems for Fortune 500 manufacturers and banks.