He's also been a professor of Computer Science at LMU since 1986. Prior to Friendbuy, he held consulting positions at various California tech companies, including Citysearch, CityGrid Media, M-GO, Handmade Mobile Entertainment and Medaxis Corporation. He's an expert on infrastructure, data-intensive applications and APIs, but enjoys doing full-stack development in any programming language, any time. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.