How to contact Reed Sturtevant
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Reed Sturtevant's career spans 25 years in the software industry and includes company formation, technology strategy, engineering management, product management, and software development.Career HistoryReed manages a Microsoft product development center in Boston. Prior to Microsoft, he was Chief Technology Officer of EONS, Inc. Before EONS he served as a Managing Director and Vice President of Technology for Idealab, where he was founding CTO or CEO of several companies. Prior to Idealab, Reed co-founded Radnet and RadioAMP.
He was architect and designer of Freelance Graphics, a best selling presentation package acquired by Lotus Development in 1986. Reed was an innovative force at Lotus where he served as a key member of the senior technical staff and launched many products including InterNotes, Lotus' first web product.
Microsoft
Director, Boston Concept Development Center
September 2007 to present
Building and managing a new product development center in Boston.
EONS, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer
November 2005 to September 2007
Responsible for engineering and technical operations at this startup founded by Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, and funded by Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst. Recruited the engineering team, set the architecture, built and launched a comprehensive web portal for consumers over the age of 50.
Idealab, Inc.
Managing Director, VP Technology
March 2000 to October 2004
Responsible for new company development in Boston. As member of the Idealab Operating Committee, participated in investment decisions and oversight of Idealab companies.Founding Chief Technology Officer of four companies: Refer.com, Compete, Picasa (acquired by Google), and Paythrough. Founding CEO of three companies: Newbury Networks, Pathspace, and Newbury Payments. Hired and managed product development teams to launch these companies.
At the same time managed an R&D team (engineering, design, product management and business development) that built a dozen prototypes including search, social networking, online advertising optimization, telepresence, and mobile applications.
RadioAMP
Chief Technology Officer and co-founder
May 1999 to February 2000
Built a hosted streaming audio service that provided private label Internet radio to portals and ecommerce sites. Customers included Altavista, Barnes & Noble, iNBC, CDNow, iwon.com and others. RadioAMP was covered in the Wall Street Journal.
Radnet
CTO, co-founder
September 1995 to May 1999
Radnet developed a groupware server for the Internet and portal software for extranets.Responsible for technical strategy. Helped raise $38M of venture funding. Managed corporate marketing for successful company launch. Spokesperson to media and analysts and frequent speaker at conferences. Lead the startup and staffing of professional services group.
Lotus Development Corporation
Director of Product Management and Design, InterNotes
1994 - 1995
Key role in creating and launching the first Internet products at Lotus. Product gained sales of $1 million in half a year and was folded into Notes to create the Domino server. Presented Internet Strategy to analysts and conferences including DEMO '95, PC Forum, MIT Enterprise Forum, Andersen Consulting ASSIST, and Lotus Symposium Series. Lotus technical representative to IBM Internet Strategy group.Consulting Engineer (Staff technology position)
Chair of the Lotus Architects' Council. Defined and evangelized Notes/FX, a technology that differentiated SmartSuite through integration with Lotus Notes. Participated in design of next-generation products.Senior Product Development Manager - Graphics Products Group
Managed software development for second largest product line at Lotus. Responsible for multiple simultaneous projects including product transitions from DOS to OS/2 and then to Windows. Member of management committee for graphics business unit ($100 million annual revenues).Director of Advanced Development, Graphics Product Group
Graphic Communications, Inc. (acquired by Lotus Development Corp.)
Architect
Inventor, designer and lead engineer, Freelance Graphics 1.0. Freelance won numerous awards and quickly became the best-selling graphics package for personal computers.Software Engineer
Key developer and team leader on Graphwriter. Involved in twenty-five product release cycles using BASIC, Pascal, and C under DOS, UCSD P-System and UNIX.
Strategic Planning Institute
Software EngineerDeveloped software for graphic display of econometric models used in the PIMS Study.
Personal / Awards
US Patent 7,035,825 "Managing Relationships of Parties Interacting on a Network", granted April 25, 2006
Co-founder of AXLE, Association of ex-Lotus Employees, a business networking group with 2700 members.
Recipient of PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award, recognized as creator of Freelance Graphics.
I grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and am an M.I.T. dropout.
My spare time is spent enjoying family life in New England.
As We May Think, the prescient 1945 paper by Vannevar Bush. Required reading for anyone interested in the intellectual history of the Web.
The Tragedy of the Commons, 1968, by Garrett Hardin.