Seeking a Software Sales Executive - Federal

I could use your help finding great candidates for our opening for a Software Sales Executive - Federal at NetBase. Please feel free to forward this.

Software Sales Executive - Federal
Location: Washington, DC

If you ever wanted to take part in how the world’s leading companies and governments leverage various forms of content and next generation search technologies, let NetBase give you the inside track to this dynamic sales career.

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source including the Internet, premium purchased content, and your own enterprise content. NetBase delivers value by "reading" every sentence inside each available document, linguistically understanding that content, comparing that content to "uniquely deliver" relevant answers and insights that you can use to take action. NetBase is being deployed by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Procter & Gamble, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more. For more information on how you can use the power and insight of Netbase, visit www.netbase.com.

NetBase seeks an experienced Sales Executive/Hunter to drive client acquisition in the Federal Government segment. This role is 100% focused on acquiring new clients and driving new business.

The ideal candidate is a bright, ambitious, responsible, hard-working individual with a proven track record selling complex products to senior level government officials, particularly in the Armed Forces community.

This position offers opportunities for significant compensation as well as potential career growth in sales, and sales management. It also features the benefits of working for a startup company, including rapid change, a fast paced team-work environment, and stock options.

US work authorization required.

Qualifications:
- Proven track record selling complex solutions to the Federal Government and Armed Forces, in and exceeding sales targets
- Passion for sales, exceeding sales goals, and adding value for clients
- Ability to rapidly drive sales from cold call to close
- Aspires to the highest level of integrity
- Undergraduate degree (Engineering degree a plus)
- Outstanding communication, leadership, and teamwork skills
- Ability to adapt to rapid change
- Resourceful, flexible, and aggressive about learning new things
- Track record of meeting deadlines
- Skills with computer tools and office automation tools
- Knowledge of Miller Hieman sales methodologies a plus
- MBA a plus

Location: Washington, DC
Percentage travel: 60% Travel

Authorization to work in the US required.

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Software Sales Executive - Federal".

Seeking Machine Learning Specialists

I could use your help finding great candidates for our opening for a Machine Learning Specialist at NetBase. Please feel free to forward this.

Machine Learning Specialist
Location: Mountain View, CA

NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a machine learning specialist.

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise content. NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with relevant answers and insights. NetBase is being used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more.

The Machine Learning Specialist role involves clustering/classification, topic identification, named entity tagging, lexicon acquisition and pattern identification from large corpora. The ideal candidate will have a PhD degree in Computer Science or related field with experience in natural language processing, computational linguistics, or information retrieval/extraction. Strong programming skills are required. At least two years of experience working with real life NL systems is required. A strong research record is a plus. We look for people who are flexible, learn quickly, and love getting into the details.

Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required.

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Machine Learning Specialist".

Seeking a Software Architect

I could use your help finding great candidates for our Software Architect openning at NetBase. Please feel free to forward this.

Software Architect
Location: Mountain View, CA

NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a hands-on software architect.

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise content. NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with relevant answers and insights. NetBase is being used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more.

We seek a hands-on architect with extensive background in software development to translate business objectives into a technology vision and articulated architecture. Candidates should have a strong track record of designing and developing multi-tiered web applications that are high quality, scalable, and reliable. We prefer generalists who have driven feature development at every layer of the stack. We have a strong preference for large-scale text search expertise whether at a big search company or through experience customizing systems like Lucene or FAST. Also preferred are candidates with experience in applying NLP and Machine Learning to solving problems for Fortune 500 end-users.

Candidates should have excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of increasing responsibility. Those who are skilled in organizational needs assessment and driving change via consensus will fit in well on our team. Candidates should be able to establish credibility quickly and provide mentorship to team members. We target talented individuals who are resourceful, flexible, and aggressive about learning new things.

We are an Agile development shop. We do test-driven design and rapid iterative development and are looking for a like-minded architect to help us build for the future.

Requirements:
* 10 years work experience with 3+ as an architect
* Experience in large-scale, distributed, web-based applications
* Agile development methodology
* Deep knowledge of Java
* MS or PhD in CS
* Database design and SQL (MySQL a plus)
* Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
* High degree of integrity and drive
* Expertise in Adobe Flex, Flash and Python are nice to have

Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required.

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Software Architect".

Riya rocks!

I needed to find some pictures of my grandma and didn't have time to go through thousands of photos. I used illumin8 to find an easy face recognition tool and it led me to Riya. Riya quickly solved my problem.

All I had to do was upload all my photos, show it a few examples of my grandma, and then it found 77 pictures of her for me. That was so easy...and fun!

Here are the pictures of her, in case you're interested:



By the way, my Grandma makes the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. They are so good I've even brought them to our board meetings!

Material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear"

Hunting around on illumin8, I came across this very interesting innovation from the University of California at Berkeley: a material that can bend light around 3D objects making them "disappear".

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7553061.stm

Online Self-Assessment for Innovation Practitioners

A Ph.D. in innovation management at Purdue named Brian Glassman contacted me recently about his online self-assessment for innovation practitioners. He explained to me that practitioners can take it to learn where their company is strong or weak in controlling idea generation and idea management, and can get some new thoughts about how to improve their own processes.

Here is a link to the survey:
http://purdue.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_cVhcPUtwiO9ODzK&SVID=Prod

He said the survey takes about 18 minutes to complete.

USB twinkie

I was gazing at my co-worker's shoe during a meeting today and noticed it had a little round metal hole in the side of it. I imagined that it was a jack for plugging in electronic devices. Suddenly his shoe seemed a lot more exciting. It practically made me laugh. But since it was an inappropriate time to laugh during the meeting, I snapped back to attention. Sure enough, my eyes lit once again upon his shoe and off my mind raced again.

I realized you can make practically any ordinary object suddenly intriguing if you add a jack on it for electronics. Add USB to your shoe and just think what people would imagine it does.

USB to a microwave oven?

USB to a coffee cup? Warms your coffee for you?

USB twinkie?

Hat with USB adapters sticking out of all sides? Sounds like a good Halloween costume.

USB adapter for a USB adapter???

California Academy of Sciences Grand Re-Opening

The California Academy of Sciences is holding its grand re-opening this weekend! I fondly remember going to the original one in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park as a kid. The dinosaur skeletons, the African wing, the greasy hamburgers in the cafeteria--I remember them all like it was yesterday. Anyway, don't miss a rare opportunity to be one of the first to step foot into a brand new science museum.

More info can be found on their website: http://www.calacademy.org/

BEVIA

One of Malcolm Deleo's first posts on his new blog is about his concept of BEVIA: Believe, Experiment, Validate, Integrate, and Adapt. I am very excited he has finally put pen to paper (er, hand to keyboard?) to share this idea with the world because it's truly insightful.

BEVIA is a model of process and organizational innovation. At it's core, the BEVIA model recognizes that people do not change all at once, most of the time. To adopt a change, each person and the organization as a whole must go through a process beginning with Believing that the change is the right thing to do. From there the change spreads as it's tested (Experiment & Validate). In the final stage, the idea is Integrated and the organization Adapts to the change.

I can't emphasize enough how this change takes place at multiple levels in an organization. If you lead one department through the phases of BEVIA, it doesn't mean the whole organization has gone through BEVIA. If one department has been successful in adopting a change, it could help accelerate the process for another department, but don't assume it. And, as Malcolm points out, it's important to recognize that each person goes through the phases of BEVIA too.

I think when people talk about organizational change being hard and time consuming, it may be that BEVIA helps us model what's actually making it so slow. Consider the Believe phase, for instance. Individual people may Believe quickly, but if one person takes longer, that can make it harder to get to the Experiment phase. While they're waiting for the organization to unanimously Believe, some people who originally believed may begin to doubt as a result of the lack of progress. Then they have to be re-sold on the idea. While they're being re-sold, the new believers might begin to doubt again. Thus ideas can bounce around among members of an organization for a long time before enough people Believe for it to advance to the next phase in BEVIA. Maybe that's what makes organizational change seem so slow.

I wish I had known about BEVIA when I proposed the Open Innovation Blueprint because it adds some critical missing pieces to a plan to implement organizational change.

Announcing Malcolm Deleo's Blog

Malcolm Deleo, a close member of my professional network and a good friend, has just started writing a blog. Malcolm has tons of experience innovating and is a fountain of ideas, particularly around how to drive innovation through a corporate culture. I highly recommend checking out his blog at http://innovationmuse.blogspot.com/.

Chief Innovation Officer Executive Seminar

I just received an announcement about this seminar for Chief Innovation Officers, it sounds like a good seminar worth checking out. For more information go to:

http://archives.subscribermail.com/msg/322079d574774b7eabbbe5ce4695fe78.htm

Interesting Uses of YouTube

Here are some interesting things I’ve learned people are using YouTube for.

* Police use YouTube to solve crimes - Reuters reports that YouTube has helped Ontario police find a man they believe to be responsible for a murder at a local night club. (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) (source) (source)

* Letting the public act as investigators - "It's our hope that releasing the audio to the public we can come closer to finding Mr. Wali's killer," said D/Sgt Pauline Gray. "I'd be interested in what the public thinks and whether they recognize the suspect's voice.". She said YouTube has been used to encourage witnesses or sources to come forward in past homicide investigations, but never with an audio recording. Click here to visit the YouTube page with the posted audio. "We're using all these great new tools at our hands," Gray said, of posting the audio to YouTube, and letting the public act as investigators. (source)

* Find missing children - By the end of the second week of August, when the McCanns marked the 100th day since Madeleine's disappearance by launching a YouTube initiative to help to find missing children, the Portuguese media had suggested that the McCanns could have killed their daughter, and the British press was not shy about repeating and even revelling in the "monstrous slurs". (source)

* Virtual bands - Three musicians that do not know each other recorded a song together. (source)

* Starting a global yawning epidemic - Mythbusters, which is a pretty cool show in it's own right, is using youtube to try and start a global yawning epidemic. (source) (source)

* Video resumes - Schnurman expects to use YouTube for mass distribution of the resumes and hopes to convince law schools in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to incorporate this project into their career development offerings. (source)

* Broadcast sentencing hearings - Judge James Kimbler might just be my hero. This crafty judge is using YouTube to broadcast sentencing hearings to help shame criminals for their actions. The Ohio-based judge has been quoted as saying he thinks it's a good use of technology. Kimbler's been known to use shame tactics in his courtroom before - the use of YouTube is new. (source)

* Crisis response - Based on how they are using YouTube and podcasts for crisis response , it is clear that the Romney campaign has an understanding of how to use the web in this day and age. (source)

* Using YouTube to “blow the whistle” - An engineer at Lockheed Martin used YouTube to blow the whistle on problems with a large Coast Guard project. (source)

* Mexican drug cartel has been using Youtube - More recently the Mexican drug cartel has been using Youtube, in a sort of cyber drug war, as individuals from rival gangs are killed or tortured the footage is then uploaded to Youtube. (source)

* Chain letters in YouTube comments - Don't know how common this practice is, but I just saw my first "chain letter" in a YouTube comment: (source)

* Doctors give advice to patients in rural locations - Doctors in rural Wales are using YouTube to give health advice to patients. (source) (source)

* Politician congratulates another - Blair uses YouTube to congratulate Sarkozy. (source)

* As a free method of advertising - So I come across a story on CNN about how a toy company used YouTube to create a Viral/Word of Mouth Marketing Buzz for a new remote control helicopter. (source) (source)

* Companies hosting competitions for users to create ads - H.J. Heinz Co. and AT&T Inc. have also used YouTube to host online contests. (source)

* CNN uses YouTube during presidential debate - CNN's use of YouTube for tonight's Democratic presidential debate is being hailed as groundbreaking experiment in democracy. (source)

* Discover new musicians - Video-sharing website YouTube has launched a major music promotion to discover unsigned US bands and musicians. (source)

* Video diaries - lonelygirl15 was a screenname attached to a teenage girl named "Bree" who used myspace and youtube to display diary entries predominantly in video form. (source)

* Cyber bullying - I think Youtube is a terrible website that enables teenagers to humiliate other children. (source)

* Host video walking tours of homes for sale - Real estate agent Krista Miller used YouTube to host a video walking tour of a home for sale. (source)

* Find passwords for FTP sites - The latest Google Hack is using YouTube to find users and passwords for ftp sites. (source)

* Literacy training - Use YouTube for story hours, gaming nights and literacy training. (source) (source)

* Streaming course content - While Berkeley's offerings on iTunes U are mostly available only for listening, and while its videos on its existing, proprietary webcast.berkeley portal are confined to the Real format, YouTube opens streaming course content to virtually anyone with typical bandwidth and a Web browser. (source)

* Teaching ESL - ESL teachers are using YouTube to illustrate the use of everyday English and to help their students improve their listening skills. (source)

Awesome site for cool gadgets

I found an awesome website with illumin8 for cool gadgets: www.vat19.com

Interesting uses for Alarm Clocks and Interesting Alarm Clocks

Here are some interesting uses of alarm clocks and alarm clocks that do interesting, unusual things or wake people up in unusual, better, ways:

Alarm clock that wakes you up by wind chimes – The Wind Chime Alarm clock combines punctuality with the sound of metal pipes clinking against each other. (source)

Activating a hearing aid – The beauty of poor hearing is you can sleep soundly if you can just depend on your hearing aid turning on at the right time. (source)

Pillow vibrator – An alarm clock that vibrates your pillow to wake you up (source)

Alarm clock to alert students to take breaks – Many schools now use Alarm Clock-type desk accessory to alert students to take a break once or twice an hour. (source)

Alarm clock that hides itself so you have to get up - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a roving alarm clock that finds a new hiding spot and waits to go off again when the snooze bar is pressed. (source)

Cure self-mutilating behavior – “Have the victim set a few minute time limit using an alarm clock to delay self injury and note how the intensity of the urge changes.” (source)

Awaken person through light – Oregon Scientific RM313PNA Projection Alarm Clock is an attractive blue atomic clock that beams a fixed projection onto the ceiling of a darkended room. (source)

Headset for sleeping on trains (cancels out noise and wakes you up) – It is an object of the invention to provide a combination noise blocking headset and alarm clock which is capable of blocking out ambient noise of a commuter train or subway in order that a commuter will be able to nap or read without distractions. (source)

'Reverse Alarm Clock' That Keeps Young Children Sleeping (source)

Alarm clock that deduces emotions – Our assignment was to see if we could come up with a concept for an alarm clock that would enable us to deduce a whole range of emotions from the way people use it.' (source) (source) (source) (source)

Remind people to be mindful – A second object is to provide an alarm clock system for facilitating a moment of mindfulness, awareness, stress reduction and quiet at random times during the day. (source)

Alarm clock to get out of bad dates – I myself (please forgive me Lord) have used the alarm-clock mode of my cell-phone to get out of bad dates. (source)

Improve voter turnout – A London-area municipality has launched a new Election Alarm Clock service designed to improve voter registration and turnout. (source) (source) (source)

Replicate sunrise – Philips has developed an alarm clock that replicates a sunrise to wake you up naturally, making you more refreshed when it's time to get up. (source)