MP Sharp Technologies was founded by Mike Patnode as an entity to license the technologies necessary for the MPST  Digital Jukebox.

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Skills: Unix/Linux, Windows NT, Java, C, C++, XML, LDAP, PKI Security, Biometrics, Graphics, Multimedia

Work Experience

Director of Engineering - Centrify Corperation - 03/04-present
Designed and developed a Unix identity management product and development team.

Vice-President, Systems Architect - Wells Fargo Services Co - 04/02-12/03
Designed and developed biometric fraud prevention system and J2EE loss reporting applicatons.

Principal - MP Sharp Technologies - 10/01-04/02
Design, developed and manufactured a remote control, LCD, MP3 jukebox for a consumer stereo component.

Chief Architect - InnoVentry - 4/99-10/01 
Designed, developed and deployed a 24x7 three tier Java transaction engine for self-service financial kiosk.

Director - SPYRUS, Inc. - 3/98-4/99 
Designed and implemented PKI and hardware crytography solutions.

Manager - Netscape Communications, Inc. - 6/97-2/98 
Led design and development of a Java PKI certificate server.

Technical Lead - Netscape Communications, Inc. - 7/96-6/97
Primary contributor for point release of Enterprise and Fasttrack Web Servers.

Research Sabbatical - X Consortium - 6/95-3/96
Designed, developed and published a network multimedia protocol along with a sample implementation.

Architect - The Santa Cruz Operation - 7/89-7/96 
Designed and developed Unix internet, graphics and kernel software.

Education: California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo BS, Computer Science, 1989