As Chief Technology Officer, Joe acts as a strategic and tactical guide for the technical and intellectual property aspects of Danger's business. Joe
brings more than 14 years of experience building consumer products to
Danger, and he has been awarded 13 patents as a result of his work. His
specialty is designing system software for consumer electronic devices.
Prior to co-founding Danger, Joe spent over four years at WebTV
Networks, which was ac...
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As Chief Technology Officer, Joe acts as a strategic and tactical guide for the technical and intellectual property aspects of Danger's business. Joe
brings more than 14 years of experience building consumer products to
Danger, and he has been awarded 13 patents as a result of his work. His
specialty is designing system software for consumer electronic devices.
Prior to co-founding Danger, Joe spent over four years at WebTV
Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1995. As the first
non-founding employee, he was responsible for the architecture and
creation of the system software used in the WebTV set-top boxes. Joe
was involved in the design of every hardware product shipped by WebTV
during his time there.
Before WebTV, Joe worked at Catapult
Entertainment. Joe was part of the team that created the Xband Video
Game Network, a system which enabled multi-player gaming over the
Internet. Joe contributed to the system software as well as the
technology required to enable video games for network play. Before
Catapult, Joe worked at the 3DO Company, contributing to the design of
a game console powered by a PowerPC CPU.
Joe started his
Silicon Valley career at Apple Computer, working in the RISC (Reduced
Instruction Set Computer) Products Group. Joe was a core member of the
ROM (Read Only Memory) development team for the first generation
PowerPC-based Macintosh.
Joe holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University.
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