Ted Larson
CEO of OLogic
Ted Larson
CEO of OLogic
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2003 - Current
OLogic is an embedded systems research and development company, with a focus on robotics applications. OLogic designs electronic modules, and software, for OEM, or licensed for use inside of other company’s products, across a wide spectrum of domains. Current customers include companies who make toys, defense products, medical products, consumer electronic products, and educational products. In all cases, OLogic is taking technologies developed for use in robotics, and adapting them for use in other domains. OLogic has developed a large library of intellectual property, that is currently being licensed for use inside several products.
Technology Strategy Consultant to VP of Software
2001 - 2003
Created a technology and business plan for Iomegas Active Disk software platform that uses Windows & Mac shareware software to drive consumer demand for Iomega Zip disk media products worldwide. Initiated and closed deals with 40 software companies to participate in Active Disk Developer Program. Indentified key performance metrics for product rollout, and P&L to measure new product effectiveness in market. Created online, automated, marketing ROI models for CPC, CPM, and CPA, that were used to maximize marketing program effectiveness, and directly correlate revenue to shareware title demand. Assisted product management, product planning, marketing, legal, and the application development team with the execution of the business and technology plan for both ActiveDisk & QuikSync software platforms.
CTO & Founder
1997 - 2001
Grew Urbanite from a 1-man company to an organization of more than 70 employees. Designed and built the initial product, Metropolis, a web server content publishing suite, and rapid, web integration platform, for enterprise & media customers. Over 4 million wired and wireless consumers used Metropolis to publish content to the internet over the total PLC. Automated many business processes for customer rollout and mainteance. Oversaw and participated directly in ongoing software development of core product suite, containing over 200,000 lines of C, C++, and Java code. Instituted a production engineering process that enabled over 15 separarate releases. Raised over $10 million in private and venture capital, from Selby Venture Partners (Sand Hill Road), Idanta Partners (Bass Brothers), Needham Capital (NY), and various angel investors over several rounds of financing.
Network Technology Consultant
1996 - 1997
GlobalCenter/Internet Systems Worked for founders of company with their early customers to assist setup of customer equipment, firewall security, and software design for use on the Internet Systems network. Digital Chef .com Assisted CTO on technology strategy, software engineering, and network deployment. Bailard, Biehl, & Kaiser Designed and deployed an internal/external network security model & firewall to allow BB&K to safely provide Internet access to their employees, and website access to their customers.
Computer Network Engineer
1992 - 1996
Provided worldwide leadership, and consulting to internal application teams developing large scale, mission critical client/server applications to be deployed over HPs WAN, including middleware, large-scale RDBMS design, network device usage, and software engineering to operate in high-latency, WAN environments. Trained 100s of HP software engineers worldwide on the latest distributed computing technologies. Responsible for deploying a worldwide DCE cell infrastructure of OSFs Distributed Computing Environment. Provided expertise on DCE and sockets programming in heterogeneous environments, Unix, Windows NT, Windows 3.x, and debugging distributed applications using IP protocol analysis, to internal application teams. Designed and tested strategies for secure access to HP resources across its public Internet firewall using token card authentication, ACL authorization, encryption (RSA and DES), and HPs PKI.
Graduate Research Assistant
1990 - 1992
Researched and developed a software system utilizing neural networks, and statistical methods for the real-time, automated analysis of nuclear core discharge data. System was groundwork for the International Atomic Energy Agency to automatically monitor fuel discharge on continuously fueled nuclear reactors, and reduce illegal nuclear proliferation. Employed parallel processing methods on discrete time signals. Project used for Masters Thesis. Designed and implemented an OO/C++ graphical user interface under Open Windows using Interviews OO libraries, to control an ONC/RPC distributed, discrete event, military tactical combat simulator. Engineered a smart, memory caching system for the Cray Y/MP supercomputer. Worked extensively with pattern matching schemes for parallel processing, learning theory and neural networks. Project had 100k+ lines of code.