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Michael Carroll - CEO

Michael L. Carroll is CEO and President of CyberStrategies, Inc. He assumed the primary role in the design and implementation of the original iBO$ business-to-business RFQ/Bidding engine driving the hotelsupplies.com and medibuy.com.

Mr. Carroll is a pioneer in commercial use of the Internet and is author of the book CyberStrategies: How to Build an Internet-Based Information System, one of the first books on the subject of intranets. This book was based on Mr. Carroll's first hand experience in managing the development of a large corporate intranet for the Lockheed Corporation in the early 1990s, where Mr. Carroll served as Manager of Advanced Computers and Software Applications.

His work at CyberStrategies, Inc. has focused primarily on business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce. He is a widely recognized expert on Internet technology and has consulted to leaders in the e-commerce field such as Netscape Communications Corporation and GTE. He also teaches courses on Internet technology at the University of California. Mr. Carroll holds a M.A., B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Miles Kurland - Graphic Design Specialist

Miles Kurland is the site design specialist and strategic partner for CyberStrategies. He has over 14 years of experience in the communications and graphics technologies that form the foundation of the World Wide Web. His experience with graphical user interfaces and network communications dates all the way back to 1983, when he designed and developed the prototype software destined to become the basis of America Online while working at PlayNET Inc. The PlayNET software was also the foundation for one of the earliest VR products: LucasArts' Habitat.

In 1986 he came to Time Arts, Inc. and became senior designer of the pioneering Lumena computer paint and animation system. Lumena served as the model for subsequent generations of computer graphics applications, such as Adobe Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter.

As Senior Software Architect at Macromedia, he held the highest software development position in the design and creation of their flagship multimedia authoring product, Director. At Macromedia he was charged with the planning, design and implementation of the imaging module of Shockwave. Today Shockwave is the leading technology for bringing interactive multimedia to the WWW.

In addition to these technical credentials, he has an academic background in art and design, and has been recognized as an accomplished computer graphics artist for many years. This is a rare combination of skills and experiences are ideally suited to the creation and deployment of rich and compelling 3rd Generation web sites.

 

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