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Scott Daniel
scott@danielfamily.com
www.danielfamily.com
| 2005-present |
Critical Pursuits
Owner
Publisher of Toolcritic.com, a tool review and analysis site, and DoyleBluffs.com, a whimsical movie review site. |
| 2006-present |
Sunny Hills Foundation for Education
President
Board member and President of Foundation to benefit Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton (www.sunnyhillsfoundation.com). |
| 2001-present |
Woodworker, Writer, Husband, Father
Built a 700 square foot shop on home property for woodworking projects and doing some writing. |
| 2000-2001 |
Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA
Vice President, Life, Media Properties
Led production and development for the health, living, local, education, and
Yahooligans properties at Yahoo. Responsible for ongoing product strategy and
business plans for those sites. |
| 1999-2000 |
Yahoo, Sunnyvale, CA
Vice President, Development, Media and Entertainment
Led the software development teams for the media and entertainment division at
Yahoo. This included the travel, sports, news, weather, music, tv, movies,
health, living, Yahooligans, games, and astrology properties. Evaluated new
technologies and led technical due diligence on acquisition candidates. |
| 1999 |
GeoCities Corporation, Marina Del Rey, CA
Vice President, Publishing Division
Futuretouch, Daniel’s company, was acquired by GeoCities while GeoCities was being acquired
by Yahoo. Development and site operations teams reported to Daniel during the
integration of the two companies’ web properties. |
| 1995-1999 |
Futuretouch Corporation, Fullerton, CA
President, CEO
A founder of Futuretouch, Daniel codeveloped WebDazzle, a web page design tool
written in Java. Futuretouch was sold in 1999 to GeoCities, the largest free
web page hosting and development company. |
| 1992-1995 |
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., Irvine, CA
Vice President, General Manager, PC Division
As a corporate officer at Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: PTEC), Daniel was responsible
for directing three system software product lines with 160 marketing and
development professionals in multiple locations worldwide. During the two and
one-half years he was General Manager, the PC Division's revenues grew from $20M
per year to $42M per year. Daniel and his team consolidated Quadtel’s
organization into Phoenix PC Division, moved the division from Boston to California,
and developed and introduced a new flagship product line, PhoenixBIOS 4.0. |
| 1984-1992 |
Quadtel Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA
President, CEO
Daniel was a founder and leader of Quadtel, a developer of PC system software
including BIOS, power management, and memory management. Customers included AST
Research, DEC, Gateway 2000, AMD, Texas Instruments, Western Digital, Hewlett
Packard, Sanyo, Canon, and Fujitsu. Quadtel was sold to Phoenix Technologies
Ltd. in 1992. |
| Personal |
Born 1959, married, three children (born 1985, 1988, 1992) |
| Education |
B.S. Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, 1982
Graduated Cum Laude, Regents Scholar |
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