Ted’s Career

Employment

Role

Beginning

Ending

Deaf Services of Palo Alto (DSPA.org)

2/2022

Present

Motocarma

Co-Founder

4/2023

Present

Alphyco

CTO

12/2020

7/2023

Learningtech

Board Member

2017

Present

Brestel

Chief Designer

2014

2017

Kinnexxus

Product Design

2009

2011

Gopicnic

Product Design

2011

Bionesses

Product Design

2008

Rochester Institute of Technology

Adjunct Faculty

8/2021

CTO

12/2020

Co-founder

6/2020

University of Maryland Baltimore

Research Professor

2018

CEO

2017

C3.chat

CEO

2017

Magic Leap

Wizard

12/2015

Aarhus University

Associate Professor

2015

UC Berkeley

Visiting Scholar

2013

FoldiMate

CTO

09/2012

Select2Gether

CTO

06/2012

Scanadu

Chief Scientist

07/2011

Amazon / Lab 126

Future Products Visionary

7/2010

Stanford Computer Science

Visiting Professor

09/2008

CMU Silicon Valley

Distinguished Service Professor

08/2008

MIT, Media Laboratory

Associate Professor

09/1998

MIT/Caltech Voting Project

Co-Director

01/2004

Vert

Board of Directors, Consultant

1998

Selker Design Research, Innovation Speaker, Inventor for Hire

CEO

09/1998

IBM Research Center

IBM Fellow; Senior Manager, Scientist

08/1985

Stanford University, Computer Science

Adjunct Associate Professor

1994

PARC

Consulting Researcher

1984

Stanford University, Computer Science

Teaching Fellow and Robotics RA

09/1981

Atari Sunnyvale Research Lab

Research Scientist

05/1983

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Research Assistant

05/1980

Hampshire College

Lecturer, Director HALCOGS

09/1979

Brown & Sharpe

Product Designer

06/1978

Brown University

Photo Editor

09/1976

Brown University

Research Assistant

06/1978

Weyerhaeuser Research

Research Intern

06/1974

Firm

Beginning

Ending

Techdojo

5/2023

Present

Collaborative Braintrust Consulting Firm

05-2015

present

Impossible Objects, Northbrook IL

12-2013

present

Identification Solutions, Inc.

10-2013

03-2015

IMS (expert witness matchmaking service)

2012

present

Suitable Technologies, Mountain view CA

12-2014

present

Albert Allen, Charlotte NC,
Expert witness.

04-2010

02-2014

TriggerFinger, Portland, OR
Input device design.

06-2010

09-2010

Willow Garage, Menlo Park, CA
Robot design.

08-2010

12-2010

Atoms and Bits, San Mateo, CA
Consulting/invention on immersive environments.

05-2010

06-2010

Lab126, Cupertino, CA
Vision and project management consulting/invention.

06-2010

01-2011

Willow Garage

2009

PIXAR, Emeryville, CA
Interface consulting.

10-2009

12-2010

Emota, San Mateo, CA
Business and technical mentoring.

06-2009

12-2010

McAndrews, Held, & Malloy, Chicago, IL
Expert witness.

02-2009

01-2011

Greenwireless, San Francisco, CA
Business and technical mentoring.

01-2009

05-2009

Green Wireless,

2008

OCTOPY Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
Consulting/design on search technology.

10-2008

10-2008

MARS Corporation, Belgium
Consulting Future of food.

07-2008

07-2008

Nortel Corporation, Toronto, Canada
Innovation/incubation consulting.

03-2008

10-2008

Google, Mountain View, CA
Geolocation and map consulting.

01-2008

04-2011

Industial Technology Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
Innovation consulting.

01-2007

01-2008

Sanyang Motors, Taipei, Taiwan
Innovation consulting.

05-2006

01-2007

Philip Morris, Richmond, VA
Created alternative business proposals.

05-2006

01-2007

North Carolina Office of the Secretary of State, Raleigh, NC
Responsible for hardware certification of voting machines.

10-2005

12-2005

Herman Miller Corporation, Zeeland, MI
Created emerging technology and product opportunity roadmap.

10-2005

05-2006

One Laptop Per Child, Cambridge, MA
Design consulting on form and keyboard.

01-2005

01-2008

American Association of People with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA
Expert on voting disabilities case.

06-2004

06-2005

DOD SERVE Project, Arlington, VA
Evaluation of security for an internet ballot delivery system.

06-2004

11-2004

California Attorney General’s Office, Sacramento, CA
Evaluated problems with escrowed voting vendor software.

04-2004

06-2004

Atigo, Yorba Linda, CA
Created business plans and design of pedaling gas pedal driving car.

01-2004

07-2007

Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY
Created evaluations of cognitive disabilities on voting.

01-2004

07-2004

One Laptop Per Child,

2004

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Created design for smart companion product line.

04-2003

01-2004

France Telecom, Cambridge, MA
Invented tactile phone input device.

04-2003

12-2003

Twin Cities Public Television, Minneapolis, MN
Created LivingCenter; web interactive for Alzheimers care.

02-2003

06-2004

Design Continuum, Watertown, MA
Ideas portfolio creation.

01-2003

01-2006

MasterCard, Purchase, NY
Created secure RFID card prototypes.

01-2003

01-2004

Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Assisted with product vision.

04-2002

02-2008

Nexgen, San Francisco, CA
Proposed technology opportunities roadmaps for Nokia.

02-2002

06-2003

Ergodex, Mountain View, CA
Redesigned input device design.

03-2001

06-2002

City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Analyzed voting machine impacts to disabled voters.

01-2001

02-2002

Getgo.com, Saratoga, CA
Business consultant.

11-2000

01-2002

IBM, Armonk, NY
Consulting on emerging technology.

06-2000

10-2002

Geoworks, Alameda, CA
Expert witness on keyboard design.

06-2000

03-2001

Vert, Cambridge, MA
Business planning, design, and construction of video roof for taxis.

04-2000

12-2001

Message Machines, Boston, MA
Smartphone communication integration.

01-2000

05-2002

Find the Dot, Palo Alto, CA
Physical design of scanner.

11-1999

12-2002

Xift, Palo Alto, CA
Business planning and semantic search user interface design.

11-1999

09-2000

Exsel Design, Arlington, MA
Prepared business opportunities as a company incubator.

10-1999

06-2001

XIFT

1998

Cybertronics International, Palo Alto, CA
Prepared business opportunities as a company incubator.

08-1985

09-1985

Pacific Bell, Walnut Creek, CA
Improved user interface and online workflow for phone operators.

06-1985

07-1985

XEROX Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Built graphical interface tool for LOOPS programing environment.
Built RF controls for position sensing for COLAB.

03-1985

09-1985

VA Rehabilitation R&D Center, Palo Alto, CA
Design and evaluation for robot voice system.

01-1985

09-1985

Communications Intelligence Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA
Business plan for Dreamwriter pen computer.

04-1984

06-1984