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Sanford Forte
is COSTP's founder, and current Principal of Interactive Development Systems.
IDS is a strategic and business development consultancy that has served
many technology, academic publishing, music industry, and new media (including
Internet) enterprise groups. Sanford is currently a principal and consulting
partner with three Silicon Valley startups: PixCube (consumer imaging);
Snagg, Inc. (RFID-based supply chain and verification systems); and, TeloPhase
(a not-for-profit community wireless networking project).
Sanford's most recent corporate position was with United
Business Media. At UBM he directed Business Development for UBM's American
operation, and played a principal role in UBM's M&A group, including investment
diligence and negotiation in publishing, entertainment and several technology-related
sectors.
Sanford has also worked with Addison-Wesley, Benjamin-Cummings,
Prentice-Hall, Holt-Rinehart-Winston (now part of the Thompson Publishing
Group), Millimeter Magazine, Akai, Roland, Gibson/Oberheim, New Media
Magazine, On Command Video, Radius, SuperMac, Springer-Verlag (GDR), Samsung,
LG (Korea), Apple Computer, Clayton-Dubilier-Ross (Kinko's Corporate Document
Solutions Group), Stanford University (Office of Technology and Licensing),
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Starr Labs, and several others. Sanford
holds a BA in Economics, and an MA in Cognitive Science.
Jay Schaefer is COSTP's
Chief Technology Officer. Jay is former CTO for Miller Freeman Inc./CMP
publishing. Currently, he is the co-founder of TeloPhase, a not-for-profit
community telecommunications startup dedicated to providing cost-effective
broadband solutions communities across America by employing a unique revenue-sharing
model that returns the majority of broadband subscriber profits back to
municipalities.
Jay's experience includes over twenty years of software development
ranging from embedded systems to database applications to online systems.
Since 1990, Jay has been developing information systems using Internet
technologies; he has spent the last six years developing, maintaining,
and managing the technology supporting 300 plus commercial web sites serving
over 3,000,000 pages per day in a 7x24 online environment.
Jay has been the primary architect of highly redundant and
scalable web systems that incorporate n-tier Perl and Java based applications
connected to relational databases. He has managed both internally and
externally hosted data centers and has experience with engineering and
implementing Internet/Intranet/Extranet (EDI) applications, cost savings
analysis and implementation, budget development and management, web site
integration with back office functionality (Oracle financials, fulfillment,
etc.), disaster recovery planning and business resumption, business analysis,
7x24 operations, mergers and acquisitions, business process re-engineering,
and staff development.
During his ten years with Lockheed, Jay provided internal
consulting and systems engineering services for hardware and software
based land, air, and space systems. From 1986 thru 1989, he was one of
three partners in Advanced Timing Systems, manufactures of drag strip
timing equipment. During this time, Jay was responsible for systems engineering
and embedded systems programming. Jay received a BS degree in Meteorology
from San Jose State University in 1985.
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