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