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Charles F. I. Savage                                                  E M A I L : cfis@savagexi.com
                                                                B L O G : http://cfis.savagexi.com


WORK EXPERIENCE

 Now    Founder and CEO ­ MapBuzz, Inc., Denver, Colorado

  to    Started MapBuzz, a leading social mapping site that makes it easy for people to create and
        share local information through the use of maps.
 2006
            ·   Raised angel investment, put together top-notch board, development team, sales team
            ·   Led the design, construction and launching of website
            ·   Signed up first customers and partners, traffic growing 20% per month


 2005   Technical Lead ­ Ubisense, Denver, Colorado
  to    Second employee in US, helped launch Ubisense's real-time, indoor location platform.
 2004       ·   Developed and deployed smart space applications for Fortune 500 companies
            ·   Oversaw services, including installations, supporting services and development
            ·   Responsible for technical sales, including product demonstrations and customizations


 2004   Chief Architect ­ GE Energy, Denver, Colorado
  to    Responsible for the architecture and integration of over ten real-time (ENMAC, XA/21),
 2003   operational (PowerOn), engineering (Smallworld) and optimization systems installed in
        thousands of utilities and telecommunication companies.
            ·   Created the Technology Center of Excellence, directly managed all software architects
            ·   Technical go/no-go approval for all new and existing products releases
            ·   Led Common Technology Platform, linking GE's products into a cohesive whole
            ·   Standards evangelist and representative for OpenGIS, Working Group 14, etc.


2003    Manager and Architect ­ GE Energy/Smallworld, Denver, Colorado
 to     Selected by CEO to lead a skunk works project to develop Smallworld's GIS web product
2000    suite. Using a hand-picked development team, designed and built the first version in seven
        months. The product became one of Smallworld's most successful products.
            ·   Oversaw four major, on-time and on-budget, releases in three years
            ·   Founded and managed operations of the Internet Development Group, helping grow it
                to 15 people, including developers, testers, interaction designers and documenters
            ·   Chief architect for Internet Application Server, HTML Client and Map Mark-Up products
            ·   Lead evangelist - made a number of presentations at user conferences and frequently
                visited customers throughout North America and Europe and OpenGIS representative


2000    Strategic Planning ­ Smallworld, Denver, Colorado
 to     Reported directly to Smallworld's Chief Technology Officer, in charge of monitoring new
1999    technologies and developing Smallworld's web strategy.
 1999       Technical Lead ­ Smallworld, Denver, Colorado
  to        Managed technical sales, development of product demonstrations and customer accounts.
 1997            ·   Responsible for technical sales, including product demonstrations and customizations
                 ·   Led a number of successful benchmarks for multi-million dollar projects.
                 ·   Developed several products, including Smallworld Magician and iCityServices


 1997       Founder and CEO ­ Pinyon Software, Denver, Colorado
  to        Developed RiskEZ for Windows, a human health risk assessment program based on U.S.
 1996       Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.


 1996       Associate Engineer ­ Environ, Arlington, Virginia
  to        Performed environmental audits of industrial and commercial facilities, conducted human
 1993       health and ecological risk assessments, developed application to track concentrations of
            chemicals in paperboard products.


EDUCATION

 1993       Stanford University ­ Palo Alto, California
  to        Master of Science in Environmental Engineering
 1992

 1992       Stanford University ­ Palo Alto, California
  to        Bachelor of Science with honors. Double major in Geology and Mechanical Engineering.
 1989       Honors thesis published in the International Geology Review.


TECHNICAL SKILLS
   ·   Architecture ­ REST, multi-tier systems, design patterns, object-oriented analysis, MDA, MOF, XMI
   ·   Web - Ruby on Rails, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, XML, XSL, XPATH, XML Schema
   ·   Languages - Ruby, JavaScript, C/C++, Python, Java, Delphi, Python, Assembly, Magik
   ·   Databases ­ SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server
   ·   Open Source ­ ruby-prof, geos, gdal, swig
   ·   Geospatial ­ Smallworld, ESRI, PostGis, Oracle Spatial, Google Maps


COMMUNICATION SKILLS
   ·   Excellent writing and presentation skills.
   ·   Written a number of white papers, architecture and strategy documents.
   ·   Number of presentations at user conferences, GITA, Foss4G and customer visits

Additional information available at http://cfis.savagexi.com/pages/resume.