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Cory Ondrejka
San Francisco, CA
cory dot ondrejka at gmail dot com
17 years building teams and companies to innovate, invent, create, and solve the impossible
Building What’s Next September 2009-present
Entrepreneur, Board Member, Speaker, and Consultant
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Building initial versions of undisclosed projects
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Startup advisor and board member for early stage technology startups
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Keynote speaker and consultant on corporate transformation and innovation
EMI Music May 2008–August 2009
Executive Vice President, Global Digital Marketing March 2009–August 2009
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Defined and implemented global digital marketing operational excellence across EMI
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Operational oversight of digital marketing for global priority artists, including campaigns for
Katy Perry, David Guetta, Depeche Mode, Alice in Chains, A Fine Frenzy,
and others
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Lead development of technology and global rollout of customer insight and analytics
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Responsible for testing and experimentation with new products and business models
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Defined and designed new music products for connected, digital markets
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Continued responsibilities for EMI digital transition and commercial technology group
Senior Vice President, Global Digital Strategy May 2008–March 2009
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Worked directly with CEO and executive committee to craft and implement digital strategyunderlying EMI Music's transformation resulting in excess of £10 million of bottom line savings
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Drove cultural transformation around transparency, experimentation, analytics, and testing
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Opened San Francisco office, hired senior engineering leaders to build core technology team
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Provide technical diligence and support for business development teams
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Coordinated current EMI efforts around digital content ingestion, processing, and distribution
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Internal and external evangelism and education
Annenberg School for Communication January 2008–May 2008University of Southern California
Visiting Professor January 2008–May 2008
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Co‐taught “Introduction to Online Communities” in Annenberg Program on Online Communities
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Helped to define curriculum, arrange guest lecturers, and lectured
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Delivered series of 7 lectures to Annenberg faculty on virtual worlds, innovation, andcollaboration
Linden Lab December 2000–December 2007
Chief Technology Officer March 2006–December 2007
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Worked alongside CEO in all aspects of Second Life (SL) and Linden Lab development
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Drove the strategic direction of SL, including critical Open Source and standards decisions
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Expanded development team to 120+, in addition to coding, design, and corporateresponsibilities
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Championed and led projects to Open Source the SL client and to acquire Windwardmark Interactive
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Designed and implemented innovative distributed structure to allow Linden Lab’s culture tosurvive continuous growth
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Drove entrepreneurial culture with nearly zero development turnover
Cory Ondrejka
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Primary technical evangelist for Linden Lab, with particular focus on education, research, andgovernment thought leaders
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Responsible for hiring majority of technical staff
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Primary manager of strategic relationships with IBM, Intel, and other corporate partners
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Built relationships with Singaporean government and educators, including Singaporegovernment sponsored training program that allowed Linden to open a Singaporean office
Vice President of Product Development January 2003–February 2006
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Responsible for continued design, development, and releases of SL
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Initiated and led changes to allow residents to retain intellectual property rights on theircreations, including design, coding, and legal projects
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Created awareness of SL through technical and design white papers, conferences, andinterviews
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Built relationships with research, education and technology partners, including MacArthurFoundation, PARC, IBM, Havok, Intel, NVIDIA, ATI, Apple, O’Reilly, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley,Harvard, Yale, USC, UW Madison, and New York Law School
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Prepared and delivered investor presentations with CEO during four rounds of financing,including rounds led by Benchmark Capital and Globespan Capital
Director of Engineering December 2000–December 2002
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Co‐creator of SL
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Built development team that created the foundation of SL
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Responsible for all aspects of SL software architecture and design
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Wrote initial code base, core libraries, scripting language, messaging and network subsystems,compound object code, interest list management, terrain compression and streamingtechnology, map generation, Havok integration, and dwell detection
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Co‐designer of object and avatar editing systems
Institute for Defense Analyses February 2005–February 2006
Advisor
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Invited to advise the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office on the Department of DefenseMaster Plan for modeling, simulation, and gaming
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Worked with industry leaders from DARPA, Rand Corporation, Georgia Tech, DoD, and others todetermine strategies and methods for incorporating modeling, simulation, and gaming into DoD
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Provided expertise about the capabilities of collaborative spaces and their potential impact onthe military
Pacific Coast Power and Light March 1998–November 2000
Principal Software Engineer
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Managed 2 programmers and 12 artists as Banishers project lead, built tech demo, andpresented to THQ senior management. Leveraged technology to build proof of concept for
WWE Crush Hour
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Managed 5 developers as Playstation 2 R&D lead, wrote initial PS2 libraries/VU code, evaluatedand integrated RenderWare middleware into existing codebase
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Road Rash 64
project lead, managed 2 developers and 5 artists, oversaw all development,designed game, and shipped on time and under budget. Wrote graphics engine, optimizedNintendo graphics pipeline to double polygon performance, terrain and texture streaming,animation compression and streaming, character and terrain tool chains, and UI code
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Acclaim Coin-Operated Entertainment March 1998–November 2000
Lead Programmer
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Co‐designer of
Magic: the Gathering: Armageddon
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Worked on all aspects of
Magic: the Gathering: Armageddon
development as senior staff
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Managed 5 programmers, wrote graphics engine, animation engine and tools, particle and FXsystem, creature behavior and flocking code, collision, and Glide texture management andcaching in 3Dfx
Lockheed Sanders April 1994–February 1995
Software Engineer
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Held Top Secret/SCI as programmer on Combat DF/ADAS, VAX/Pascal and UNIX/C
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Wrote specifications and conducted operational testing with US Navy
United States Navy July 1988–March 1994
Naval Officer
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Held Top Secret/SCI clearance at National Security Agency
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Nuclear Power School graduate, submarine warfare and back seat qualified for Naval aviation
Other Roles January 2008–May 2009
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Fellow, Network Culture Project, Annenberg School for Communication
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Supporting MacArthur Foundation grant‐driven research for Network Culture Project
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Consulting resource for Network Culture Project staff and students
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Entrepreneur in Resident, Catamount Ventures
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Reviewed potential investments and conducted technical due diligence
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Brought potential investments to Catamount partners
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Assisted Catamount partners on portfolio projects as needed
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Independent Consultant
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Consulted on various cutting edge technology and education projects, includinganalysis, strategic planning, and due diligence work on game, virtual world, and othertechnology endeavors with industry, academic, investor, and government clients
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Frequent keynote speaker on virtual worlds, education, and innovation
Technical Skills
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Ruby, Perl, C/C++ in game, real‐time, and web applications
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SQL queries when needed for data analysis
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Haskell and Python in an emergency —“it’s on fire!” — break‐out‐the‐manual sort of way
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Developed networked, OpenGL applications on Windows, Mac OS X, and Debian Linux
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Created/maintained code with Dev Studio, XCode, vi, emacs, g++/gcc, make, git, CVS, and SVN
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Built web applications, massively multiplayer, fighting, and racing titles on PC, arcade, andconsole hardware with over 18 million total users
Boston University
Homeopathic quantity of graduate work towards MS Computer Science, 3 credits, 4.0 GPA
Naval Nuclear Power School
Hand picked for program by Naval Sea Systems CommandGraduate level work in nuclear physics, fluid dynamics, and materials science
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