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Gregg has been a software executive and entrepreneur since 1997. He started three companies in Marin County, including Cafex Corporation, Xippix Inc., and Siterra Corporation. Gregg’s skills as an engineering manager and software architect helped propel these companies to success in the fast moving Internet environment.
Prior to starting Cafex, in 1997, Gregg was a systems architect and software manager in several notable Silicon Valley ventures, including NeXT Computers, Eo Inc., and MicroUnity Systems Engineering. There he specialized in designing cutting edge operating systems development, including PenPoint, Mach and Unix.
Recent projects
- Undisclosed media enrichment projects using open stack protocols, RDF and HTML5.
- Gracenote: Media systems architecture and prototyping (Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex).
- Macy’s West Advertising: General IT consulting including specification of design processes to be used for internal projects.
- ChaCha Search: Designed and developed the ChaCha Underground using Ruby on Rails and MySql.
Open Source projects
- Ruby RDFa parser
- Ruby gem implementing an RDFa parser. Gem hosted at Gemcutter , project hosted on GitHub . More info available in a blog article.
- Ruby on Rails Eager Finder SQL plugin
- Allows the use of custom SQL when doing eager loading through ActiveRecord using the :include option to find. Plugin hosted at Ruby Forge . More info available in a blog article.
- Ruby on Rails Button Labels plugin
- Adds labels to radio-butons and check boxes. Plugin hosted at Ruby Forge . More info available in a blog article.