IBM 1401 circa 1960 - coolest panel ever

Very Inventive, LLC is my new production company (June 2010).

A little about my background... I wrote my first lines of Assembly code at eight. I started my first business while in high school. I dual-majored in Mechanical Engineering and Ethical/Political Philosophy at Brown University, though I dropped Engineering in the second year because its opportunity cost was too great - which is a fancy way of saying I didn't like it and I had better things to do. I still love to build things.

I started a career in information technology working for a then-famous chain of stores in NYC, whose iconic storefront you would not have noticed was on the set of Seinfeld unless you lived in Manhattan. Built and supported everything in the IT stack, from back-end warehousing to front-end point of sale system.

I then founded and ran an interactive agency in NYC's Silicon Alley from 1996-2001, part of the early WWW. We had a full size SmashTV arcade game and listened to music all day long. I didn't see daylight for a number of years during that period.

Over the years I've consulted in areas across the IT spectrum for a wide variety of companies from boutique to Fortune sized. Most recently I spent about seven years climbing one particular corporate ladder, but I'm back to entrepreneurial roots these days.

Conan, what is best in life? Family, music, dogs and food.

Some other ventures past and present (i.e. hands off my copyrights):

  • Very Inventive, LLC
  • Happy Capitalist Productions, inc
  • NYC-Retail
  • Pup Tale
  • Lose Like a Man / Win Like a Man
  • Byte Size Blog
  • Ice Cream for Kids
  • Weekly Wagger / The Daily Barker
  • Three Sentences
  • GeniPets
  • Total Immersion Learning Systems

What I'm thinking about these days:

  • Awards, Achievements and online Badges
  • Prediction Markets
  • Virtual Currency Markets
  • Massively Multiplayer
  • Educational Media and Technology
  • Philip Roth and Joe Frank
  • Visualization of Massive Data Sets
  • Prefab Micro Greenhouses
  • Heirloom vegetables
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Hackerspaces

Email me "human at ericputter dot com", or you can find me on LinkedIn or FaceBook

© 1996-2012, Eric R. Putter, aka Wagbott, All Rights Reserved ya cheatin varmint