CARDEN

Prior to law school, I spent 17 years in the software industry in roles including CTO, Principal Engineer, Software Architect, and VP-Product Strategy. I have a B.S. in Computer Science from UW-Madison, and also studied Computer Science at Princeton University. My employers have included Hewlett-Packard (where I designed network management products), Perspecta (an information visualization offshoot from the MIT Media Lab co-founded by Nicholas Negroponte), Open Market (an early e-commerce provider), and Network General (where I worked on the original "Sniffer" network analyzer). In 1999, with several partners I helped create an online marketplace called Ithority which was purchased by FreeAgent.com in 2000. Following the sale of this company, I worked as a technical expert for several Bay Area venture capital firms, twice serving as CTO of ventures being incubated. I loved writing code and wrote over 100,000 lines of it, in C, C++, Java, assembly, etc.

Primary location: Costa Mesa United States