Marcus Needham Resume

MARCUS NEEDHAM
6170 W Lake Mead Blvd #461-1714, Las Vegas, NV 89108
720-897-6277
marcus@needham.net

Professional Experience

Mountain Dynamics Inc., Tucson AZ

President & CEO, 2005-Present

Founded company to create SnowRanger™ ski resort maps and services for handheld GPS receivers
Created database, website, and software processes for map creation, publication, distribution, and maintenance
Created and published over 75 US/Canadian resort maps
Licensed and published over 450 European resort maps
Licensed and published snowmobile trail maps of 27 US states as SledGPS™
Created Snow Days GPS ski statistics and tracks service
Established relationships with development partners, resorts, retailers, and GPS manufacturers
Primary tools/formats: PHP, Perl, MySQL, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, HTML/XHTML, Garmin MPC, Magellan MSDK, Authorize.net, GlobalMapper, GPSMapEdit, GPX, KML, DEM, Shapefile, TeleAtlas, NAVTEQ, Facebook App API, Google Maps API

The River Internet Access Co., Tucson AZ

President, 2004-2005

Managed and consummated sale of company to DFW Internet Services, Inc. for $3.34M
Retained by DFW to run The River as subsidiary

Co-Founder, VP of Operations, 1995-2004

Researched, designed, and implemented all technical aspects of an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Highly skilled in TCP/IP networking, Cisco router configuration, and Linux, BSD/OS, and Windows server environments
Developed database-oriented web sites using ColdFusion, JavaScript, CGI/Perl, VB/ASP, PHP, and HTML
Oversaw growth of company to peak annual sales of $5M

Quality America Inc., Tucson AZ

Senior Software Developer, 1990-1999

Wrote SPC-PC IV, the first port of a Statistical Process Control (SPC) application to the Microsoft Windows platform
Became highly skilled in creating Windows applications using C++
Wrote Flowcharting/Cause and Effect and Gage Calibration packages, and supervised development of Design of Experiments (DOE) and 7MP packages

CARE Software Technology Ltd., Reading, UK

Analyst-Designer, 1989-1990

Led team of programmers implementing car rental fleet management system using Informix-4GL and C under UNIX
Worked on teams creating custom software system for a public utility company, and a treasury management system for a major UK bank

Software Sciences Ltd., Farnborough, UK

Applications Programmer, 1987-1989

Worked on team creating program information and scheduling system for major UK TV network using Model204 and COBOL on IBM 4381

Education

University of Oxford

B.A. Physics, First Class Honours, 1987

Other Information

Member of the Advisory Boards of RuralNET Wireless, LLC, Sundial Energy, Inc. and Dreamco Media, Inc.
Former member of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Sub-Committee (TISC) of the Arizona Governor's Council on Innovation and Technology (GCIT)
Interests include skiing, cycling, hiking and backpacking
British National, with Permanent Resident Alien status