Lead Developer

Russell is a veteran of the Internet start-up industry with engineering experience developing a wide array of Internet-based applications. His enthusiasm and attitude are relentlessly positive, and highly contagious. His love of games runs deep and he considers himself a connoisseur of games both online and offline. A look at his gamerDNA gaming profile can attest to the many games he has “tasted.”

Russell started his Internet development while in college, as a co-founder of Humansearch Enterprises Inc., a human-based Internet search service. This first foray into Internet development was enough to lay the foundation of a career built on developing socially oriented Internet-based applications.

Once he graduated, Russell took lessons learned from Humansearch, and contacts he had forged with industry leaders, and joined another start-up: Abuzz Technologies. While at Abuzz Russell helped to develop several versions of their question and answer web-applications, and was able to take part in the acquisition of the company by the New York Times. After leaving Abuzz, Russell jumped into yet another start-up, joining Affinnova Inc. At Affinnova, Russell helped
to develop their advanced market research application, that uses evolutionary algorithms to evolve product design and packaging. After Affinnova, Russell developed electronic eTutorials for the pharmaceutical industry at Custom Learning Designs.

Throughout his career, Russell has mastered the mystical arts of Internet development from the back-end world of databases to the user interface implementation of rich Internet applications.

Favorite Computer Games: Half Life, Battlefield 2, World of Warcraft, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, World War II Online, Everquest, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, C&C Generals, Total Annihilation, Civilization 4, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2, Starcraft.

Favorite Writers: Neil Stephenson, Isaac Asimov, Tom Clancy, Orson Scott Card, Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, David Eddings, J.K. Rowling, Guy Murchie.

What he does when he’s not reading, gaming or engineering: biking, scuba diving, drinking beer and keeping his son out of trouble.