Joseph Smarr
Bio
Joseph Smarr is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. He is currently leading Plaxo's "Open Social Web" initiative to put users back in control of who they know when using socially-enabled sites by using open data-sharing standards. An active participant in the Web 2.0 community, Joseph has built web applications for many years, including Plaxo's online address book, web widgets, and was architect and lead developer of the Plaxo 3.0 rich AJAX address book, calendar, and sync tool. Joseph has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.
Work History
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June 2007 - September 2006
Having successully built the NLP e-mail parsing engine that bootstrapped Plaxo's growth, I broadened my role to work more on the server backend and Plaxo Online web site. Which is to say, of course, that I was already wearing many hats as one does at a small startup, but now it was actually my job to do so!
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March 2002 - May 2004
Built a lot of Plaxo's web-based client (complex CGI/DHTML/JavaScript/etc) and also built the Natural Language Processing engine for automatically parsing e-mail messages and extracting contact information.
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February 2000 - February 2002
I worked with the founders and CEO to build and organize the engineering team and work as the bridge between the business and engineering teams. I accompanied the CEO to several fund-raising meetings with VCs as the technical lead. I was also working as a web engineer.
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October 1999 - March 2000
Consulted for WebEx while at Stanford University on building a variant of the business-targeted WebEx platform for college use (interactive grading, meeting with TAs, remote student collaboration on projects, etc.). Wrote specs for several use cases and set up meetings between WebEx and Stanford Student Enterprises for implementation.
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