ADAM L. STOCK 19 Burlwood Drive, San Francisco, CA 94127 adamstock@pacbell.net * v. 415-334-5053 * c. 415-378-5053 I'm seeking an executive position leading a team in creating world-class products and user experiences. I'm a product and business development executive with a proven track record of bringing definition and growth to companies' product lines and businesses. EXPERIENCE AUCTIVA CORPORATION Oakland, CA VP Products and Business Development 1999 - 2001 * Co-founder of online Auction "powersellers" BtoC service. * Grew company to 70,000 online sellers, managing $350MM of online transactions, avg. daily hits 10MM. * Architected, managed development of and launched three websites/products. * Managed relationships with eBay, Amazon.com, Yahoo! and auction service providers. VEON, INC. San Francisco, CA VP Marketing and Business Development 1998 - 1999 * Responsible for product marketing for company's interactive video and streaming media tools and servers. * Formulated business plan for broadband business strategy - assisted closing $9MM in second round financing * Forged and managed on-going relationships and product licenses with key broadband services, content companies, customers, and technology providers including: RealNetworks, Microsoft, Excite@Home, Cablevision, Viacom, etc. LIBERATE TECHNOLOGIES Redwood Shores, CA Director of Marketing & Technology 1996 - 1997 * 10th employee - Managed all marketing activities: company launch, white papers, hired public relations firms, web design firms and marketing staff. * Negotiated with product/technology companies and Internet access providers for Liberate TV Navigator and Network, a TV-based consumer web browser and service. * Drove due diligence and negotiated multiple critical-path technology licenses. ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC. San Mateo, CA Director of Product Planning - Fiery Products (1994-1996) 1990 - 1996 * 10th employee reporting to CEO, managed the product management for EFI's Fiery server, controller and related software products, a $300MM business (Q1 '96). * Headed product planning department with responsibility for product management: marketing, product definition, specifications, user interface development, and industrial design. * Responsible for developing new business opportunities for leveraging existing EFI business ($30MM business 1st year). These included: embedded controller business (Canon, Digital, IBM and others), wide format printer controller business (HP, Encad, etc.) and high-speed color copier businesses (Xerox and Canon). Senior Product Manager - Software Products (1990 - 1993) * Responsible for shrink-wrap color management product lines - EfiColor and Cachet. * Licensed technology to over 30 software, printer, scanner and monitor companies - established print technology lab * Helped define and/or integrate color management systems into major DTP software: QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, PostScript Level 2. * Participated in standardization efforts for passing color information. (Authored MCT Specification.) ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED Burlington, MA Manager of Training & Support 1988-89 * Established all technical functions for Adobe's first field sales office including technical training classes (PostScript, Illustrator & Photoshop), and pre- and post-sales OEM support. * Represented Adobe at standards bodies: X Consortium & OSF - donated fonts to X Consortium. * Provided training, marketing and technical presentations to customers and at numerous conferences. COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS/SERVICES MANAGED/SHIPPED * Auctiva Pro (Web) - Auction management tools and services * Auctiva Showcase (Web) - Automated dynamic web catalogue for small businesses * Veon HyperVideo Suite - Complete system for authoring and deploying interactive video * Liberate TV Navigator - Embedded browser for TV set top boxes * Fiery XJ - industry-leading color print server * Fiery Driven controllers - "Best of Breed" color laser printer controllers * EfiColor Works - Integrated color management software (Drivers, Photoshop plug-ins, QuarkXTension) * Cachet - Award-winning color image correction software PUBLIC SPEAKING * Developer/Industry: RealNetworks Conference (98,99); Encoding.com developer seminars (98); Streaming Media Conference (98); Seybold Seminars (93 - 96); Apple Developer Conference (94); Xplor Conference (94 - 96) Color In Publishing (93). * Finance/Venture: Comdex Venture Forum (98); H&Q Tamir-Fishman Venture (98). PUBLICATIONS * Developer.com 1/98: JavaScript Animation in Navigator 4.0 and MSIE 4.0 -- How to outsmart your browser an article explaining cross browser issues for creating animations in JavaScript. * Metric Color Tags Specification 5/93, Electronics for Imaging, Inc. - open standard for passing metric color information. EDUCATION * BS Computer Science & Molecular Biology, Yale University, 1986 - Cum Laude * Computer Science Thesis: Digital Typography. * Studied under Edward Tufte, Information Design. SKILLS * Digital Imaging: web publishing, compression, desktop publishing, prepress, electronic publishing, print technologies, color science, video compression and encoding, Enhanced TV. * Web Technologies: ASP, HTML, XML, CGI, SMIL, SSL, TCP/IP, JavaScript, VBScript, ADO, SQL, N-tier architectures, PhotoShop, Visio, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Visual Studio, and Fireworks, C/C++. * Design: information architecture, user interface design, type design, and software architecture. * OS: Windows2000, Windows 98, UNIX, Macintosh HOBBIES * Scrabble(r), croquet, travel, recreational programming.