The ventures I've worked on over the years. While all have provided lots of learning, some went big, some didn't!
Distribution of short video segments from stars to their fans. Technologically this requires a catalogue, a booking front-end, a payment gateway, an order fulfillment backend, and messaging connectivity for notifications and product deliveries.
Read moreDevelopment of distributed energy systems for communities, with a strong emphasis on circular econonmy concepts.
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Automatisation of the operations of solar PV power plants from the integration of all on-site sensors information into a centralised collection system, with real-time analysis and then control decisions and preventive maintenance planning.
Read moreElectric generation from waste effluents on food processing facilities through anaerobic biogas generation.
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Development of small scale gas power plants on floating platform for the mining industry in South East Asia.
Read moreIndonesia country-wide platform to convert agricultural and forestry waste into energy. It includes power assets deployment strategy, feedstock supply to the processing sites, and operational monitoring and control of power assets.
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Agricultural and forestry feedstock collection, processing and transport to 10GW worth of biomass-fired power plants located througout China.
Read moreSourcing, development, funding, construction and operation of solar PV power plants in South East Asia.
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Thailand-based rice husk waste-to-energy processing, distressed biomass-fired power plant recovery, feedstock collection logistics, monitoring and operation automatisation.
Read moreEnergy crops growth, bio-gasification and power generation on idle military sites in Thailand.
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Providing pipeline origination and filtering. seed investment, entrepreneur mentorship, operational resources, debt and private equity fund raising and M&A negotiations to startups in the energy sector emerging markets. The priority is not green and clean, it's lean and mean... efficiency eliminates waste and cleans up everything, the planet included.
Read moreOnline retailer taking advantage of the long-tail bias in the interior decoration and renovation sector.
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Platform and devices for audio streaming on Orange internet service (France).
Read moreProvides an aggregation and social network support service that enables a group of shoppers to share in real-time their respective online experience, create multi-store wishlists and carts, annotate items, do price comparisons and set price drop alerts.
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Generation and distribution of ringtones, screen shavers, games and other kind of personalisation content to mobile devices in the Americas, under the Zingy brand or as operator for large companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, AT&T, etc.
Read moreDevelopment tools and backend infrastructure to build mobile applications and blend them into other online channels, such as web sites and interactive voice response (IVR).
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Development of force feedback devices and integration into software tools to build and operate Virtual Reality applications (VR) in the field of automotive, medicine and engineering.
Read moreDigital and Internet-ready system to increase the efficiency and reduce the error and fraud rate in the sector of home disaster recovery. Provides a continuously updated database to adjusters and appraisers of home item values, reconstruction costs and insurance coverage policies, and supports on-site documentation of damages, planning of recovery procedures and immediate insurer authorisation of settlements for damages.
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Development of a development environment for actor-based definition of animations for the SoftImage 3D tools.
Read moreDevelopment of a Java-compatible development toolchain, runtime libraries and support tools for the Caldera mobile devices.
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Design and development of an interactive appliation infrastructure that runs web and voice services from the same application definition. COMunity is using Unisys' OSMOS object-oriented RDBMS as its universal document repository. The backend runs on both Unisys' mainframe technology and Windows NT.
Read moreDesign and development of a call centre together with an ordering, fulfillment and delivery system for the Kuwaiti market. Front-end application is using the NeXTSTEP operating system, backend is based on MediaSoft IVS and Sybase RDBMS. To solve the lack of maps and addresses in Kuwait, annotation of satellite images is used.
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Design and development of all modules required to operate a medium-scale hospital. The core concept was an operational adaptation of the Hl-7 data model, coupled with all the multi-media capabilities of the NeXTSTEP operating system.
Read moreDesign and development of a paperless system to manage the consumer loan business of a Gulf bank. The front-end application is using the highly graphical capabilities of the NeXTSTEP operating system to help loan officers quickly debrief new customers, migrate paper-based information into digital mode, push offers to potential customers, execute the workflow for loan approval, print checks and related documents for customers to carry to other institutions, and track customer situations after a drawdown. The backend, running on Oracle RDBMS, is networked and can serve multiple branches / brands simultaneously. All interfaces and databases handle simultaneously Arabic and English, while customers receive information in their preferred language.
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Development of a remotely managed voice and data telecommunication infrastructure able to sustain operations for all of Saudi Arabia needs. This was the first of many projects planned by AT&T using their 'Top One' concept for the deployment of a very large scale networking system with automatised management and remote operations.
Read moreDevelopment of tools and an operational system for the definition and execution of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) applications in complex data driven environments under very large scale traffic.
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Development of a multi-layer geographical information system integrating economics, civil engineering, transport and scientific data over a 3D visualisation core for mapping and satellite imagery. Running on the Microsoft Windows platform, it is a commercial extension of Synoptech contribution to the Volvox R&D project, an expert system for environmental issues integrating the latest technologies in virtual reality, remote sensing and AI.
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