JOHN BROOKS
Marriage and Family Therapists at Geary Blvd, San Francisco, CA

President/CTO at Blue Shift, Inc.

Computer Games

Blue Shift, Inc. - Sunnyvale, California since Jul 2002 - President/CTO Blue Shift, Inc. Jul 1995 - Jul 2002 - Founder/CTO Electronic Arts(San Mateo) Apr 1993 - Jul 1995 - Technical Director NovaLogic Jul 1989 - Apr 1993 - Manager, Special Projects Datasoft Jul 1987 - Jul 1989 - Lead Programmer

Inventions 2010 - 2012 2010 - 2012
Inventions 2005 - 2009 2005 - 2009
Inventions 2000 - 2004 2000 - 2004
Inventions 1995 - 1999 1995 - 1999
Inventions 1990 - 1994 1990 - 1994
Inventions 1982 - 1989 1982 - 1989
Self-taught 1979 - 1987

M&A and Financial Executive at Self-Employed

Financial Services

Self-Employed - Fairfax, CA since Apr 2009 - M&A and Financial Executive Wells Fargo Foothill - San Francisco, CA. 2006 - 2009 - Managing Director AIM Broadcasting, LLC - Tiburon, CA. 2004 - 2006 - Acting CFO Silicon Valley Bank - San Francisco, CA 1998 - 2003 - Division Manager Baycom Partners, L.P. - San Francisco, CA. 1994 - 1996 - Chief Financial Officer

Fordham University 1982 - 1983
Courses Toward MBA, Finance Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1974 - 1978
BA, Economics International School of Brussels 1973 - 1974
High School American School of Paris 1969 - 1973
High School

Prominent activist for a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge. Played a key roll in the near unanimous vote by the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation district board of directors in favor of a suicide barrier in October, 2008 with emphasis on: •Lobbying all San Francisco Bay Area U.S. Senate and Congressional representatives. •Media coverage including op-ed pieces in the San Francisco Chronicle and Marin Independent Journal, front page stories in San Francisco Magazine and the Marin Independent Journal, essays on local NPR affiliate KQED-FM, commentary on KCBS-AM and KTRB-AM, and news coverage in every major local radio, television and online news outlet, the Associated Press and an appearance on the nationally syndicated Dr. Phil Show. •Speaking engagements at Bay Area student groups and the annual conference for the American Psychiatric Association.

•Authored articles for major trade publications including SNL Kagan’s Broadcast Banker/Broker, Radio Business Report, Radio Ink, the Lund Letter and the Broadcast Cable Financial Journal. •Participated in media finance panels with SNL Kagan, the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Show, the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council and the American Cable Association. •Received first Excellence in Financial Services Award from the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council for efforts to promote media ownership diversity among women and minorities.

Software Quality Analyst, Defense Manpower Data Center Seaside, CA at Hewlett-Packard

Computer Software

Hewlett-Packard since Dec 2007 - Software Quality Analyst, Defense Manpower Data Center Seaside, CA Thuridion Oct 1995 - Aug 2007 - Software Engineer

San Jose State University 1989 - 1992
Bachelor of Science (BSc) San Jose State University 1989 - 1992
computer science

Test Automation, Software Development, C#, Software Quality Assurance, Testing, C++, Web Applications, Test Planning, Visual Studio, Manual Testing, Integration, Test Cases, Databases, XML, Software Engineering, Java, SQL, Agile Methodologies, C, Programming, Cloud Computing

Railroads, Train Simulator, Playing guitar, Painting electric guitars, Building guitar tube amplifier kits

iTunes Designer at Apple Inc.

Design

Otis College of Art and Design 2008 - 2010
BA, Digital Media School of Visual Arts 2006 - 2008

Civil Engineering

EDENS - Washington D.C. Metro Area May 2013 - Aug 2013 - MBA Intern Navigant Consulting Inc. (NYSE: NCI) Aug 2008 - Jul 2012 - Managing Consultant Stanford University - Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) Oct 2007 - Dec 2007 - Student Researcher Risk Management Solutions Jul 2007 - Sep 2007 - Engineering Intern

Yale School of Management 2012 - 2014
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Concentration in Strategy and Finance Stanford University 2003 - 2008
B.S / M.S, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Plant Controller at Sanmina-SCI

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Coach at DUC

Higher Education

President at Campbro

Architecture & Planning

Computer Software

Semiconductors

ASIC Arcitecture, Memory System Architecture, ASIC Design, RTL design, Semiconductors, ASIC, SoC, IC, EDA, CMOS, Verilog, Firmware, System Architecture, VLSI, FPGA, Mixed Signal

Quantum Inventor of the Year Nominee