Rob Bearman
As President of Hyperfine Software, Rob Bearman offers over 20 years of professional software development experience to clients requiring his expertise, insight and commitment to fail-safe quality.
Like many, Rob entered the software field as consequence of using computers in his chosen field. As a UC Berkeley Astronomy graduate, Rob's knack for building software led to custom projects for Lawrence Labs and the Supernova Search group.
Rob joined IBM to begin his commercial software career, and rose the engineering ranks at Software Publishing before starting his eight-year career at Microsoft. Rob has built software used today in hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide.
After joining with Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, leaving to form his first post-Microsoft start-up, architect Rob led a team of ten to build distributed application tools, and developed his current passion for networked architectures. Rob is highly skilled in developing fast, scalable and reliable data-backed web services using Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.NET, XHTML/CSS and native code.
Rob has considerable development management experience, leading individuals and teams, and driving core architectures for client applications and business-critical services.
Steve Falcon
Steve's 20 year high-tech career ranges from producing television for Hewlett Packard to building product teams and software products at Microsoft and his own ventures.
Steve focuses on product definition and determining compelling features that carry a product through a series of increasingly valuable releases. He has varied and deep design experience including hardware, firmware and software graphical user-interfaces. His designs are featured in hundreds of millions of systems worldwide.
Steve has considerable experience driving product design within the context of an organization. His management style is versatile, accommodating rapid-prototyping by individuals, through formal collaboration including contextual inquiry, human factors analysis, design, and usability studies. In all cases Steve stresses producing build-to specifications suitable for winning buy-in and enabling end-to-end product development.
Steve is a prolific innovator, with over 20 patents awarded and pending, and a long history of successful entrepreneurial efforts, in and outside the corporate setting.