denishurley
Creative Technologist
I’m a self-taught creative technologist and an agile generalist with a particular interest in systemic innovation and frontier technologies. I’m looking for a creative, open-minded, truly collaborative team responsible for producing meaningful work.
Over the past 20+ years, I’ve joined early stage startups as a self-taught programmer; analyzed the successful and unsuccessful uses of emerging technologies across many industries in order to propose and develop products and processes for use in education; created a dozen functional education prototypes using virtual reality, affective computing, robotics, and more; managed relationships with incubators and entrepreneurs in New York, Boston, and Washington, DC; trained hundreds of colleagues in rapid prototyping; served as director of an innovation community of over 250 coworkers; presented at dozens of local, national, and international conferences; co-hosted five episodes of The EdTech Podcast; represented Pearson, the world’s largest education company, while meeting with university administrators and government officials in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Colombia, and Sweden; established and maintained connections with a wide range of innovative small businesses for potential collaboration and partnership; managed the merger of two corporate IT teams for a major insurance company in Australia; and started my own, bootstrapped company, which I ran for three years, building several mobile-first, location-based applications, from initial concept through design, development, user testing, release, sales, maintenance, and shutdown. Most recently, I conceived of and designed BeSync, an information exchange system that functions across both physical and virtual systems. I am making this code available as open source software.
I have nearly 25 years of entrepreneurial and corporate experience and a passion for problem solving through technology and human ingenuity,
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $150,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇺🇸 United States
Residency: 🇺🇸 United States
Experience:
Period | Title | Company |
---|---|---|
2020 - | Founder | BeSync |
2000 - 2001 | Developer | morebenefits.com |
2001 - 2005 | Senior Developer | Aon Consulting |
2005 - 2006 | Development Manager | Aon Consulting Australia |
2006 - 2007 | Development Manager | Aon Australia |
2008 - 2009 | Implementation Manager | Brickfactor |
2009 - 2012 | Founder | Mobile Meteor |
2012 - 2015 | Product Manager, Future Technologies | Pearson |
2015 - 2016 | Director, Future Technologies | Pearson |
2016 - 2019 | Senior Technology Innovation Analyst | Pearson |
Skills:
education
founding-member
work-from-home
product-manager
english
spanish