Work history
Executive Director, Data Analytics and Technology
SRS | Acquiom
May 2012 – Present
San Francisco
Responsible for Data Analytics and Technology division of firm representing the interests of selling shareholders in venture-backed and private equity merger transactions. Responsible for data analysis, technical support of operations, and new product development to leverage our rapidly growing database of information on such transactions.
President and Founder
Glenn Kramer Consulting, LLC
January 2004 – December 2012
San Francisco Bay Area
Provided technology (architecture and design) and business (strategy) consulting services, mainly for Internet-based product and service development. Focused on the development of new markets and on the development and protection of intellectual property. Engagements included:
1. Knowledge representation review for major oil exploration company (USA)
2. Design of intelligent set-top box recommendation engine with learning capability (Japan)
3. Online business intelligence for monitoring of gray market and counterfeit goods (Europe)
4. Security review and re-architecture for a mobile commerce company (Latin America)
5. Design of a hard-to-spoof seal of authenticity for web sites (Europe)
6. System for annotating legal documents with relevant data from a corpus of documents, transactions, and historical behavior (USA)
Founder & Owner
Trade-O-Matic
June 2001 – December 2006
Developed software system for “individual use” program trading of equities in the stock market. Charting and technical analysis tools, simulation tools, and a programatic interface to data feeds and brokerage firm APIs to completely automate the selection, buying, and selling of equities using technical analysis. Used on own portfolios.
Vice President, Engineering
Encirq Corporation
November 1998 – January 2001
San Francisco, CA
Built and ran engineering division of Internet-based marketing services startup. Built development team of over 30 people, including software, quantitative marketing, QA during dot-com boom with complete staff retention and loyalty. Delivered high-availability client-server system on time despite changing requirements. Contributed to corporate strategy, technology planning, market positioning, privacy policy, venture funding, alliances. Developed and protected corporate IP; one issued US patent.
Director, Software Systems Architecture
VeriFone
November 1995 – August 1998 (2 years 10 months)
Responsible for overall vision for company’s client/server and Internet-based transaction processing products. Re-architected product lines to leverage common technology, decrease customization and maintenance costs, and increase performance and profitability. Implemented IP protection plan for Internet Commerce Division, including 10 patent applications. HP acquired VeriFone in 1997 in large part because of the Internet Commerce Division, which added 60% to the purchase price of VeriFone and represented a 1200% return on investment in just two years on VeriFone's purchase of EIT (see below).
Coordinated globally distributed development teams to implement changes. Evaluated new technologies, potential acquisitions, alliance partners.
Adjunct Professor
University of Utah
October 1993 – November 1995
Salt Lake City, UT
Advisor to and member of thesis committee for one PhD student.
Research Manager / Head of Consulting
Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT)
August 1993 – November 1995
Palo Alto, CA
Led research into Internet-based design automation tools and electronic commerce prototypes for DARPA. Demonstrated design and commerce systems working between three universities and three private companies. Started and directed a strategic and systems integration consulting business from zero to run rate of $2M/year, for Internet commerce, online presence and security. Clients included Fortune 500 companies plus Internet startups.
Visiting Scholar
Stanford University
October 1993 – December 1994
Palo Alto, CA
As a Principal Researcher at EIT, worked on DARPA-sponsored MADEFAST program, a collaboration with EIT, Stanford, CMU, University of Utah, and others to explore online collaboration and electronic commerce.
Adjunct Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
September 1991 – August 1993
Austin, TX
Assisted faculty in research for computer aided design systems. Supervised Masters and PhD students.
Research Scientist
Schlumberger
July 1984 – August 1993
Designed and built software tools for design of massively parallel computers; used at Fairchild Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard and Stanford University. Created novel high-performance system for solving geometric constraint problems that occur in mechanical design, using artificial intelligence techniques (symbolic geometry) and numerical optimization. Developed and took to market what was then the fastest and most numerically stable geometric constraint solver. Developed and protected intellectual property (eight issued US patents). Published book on geometric constraints on MIT Press.
