About Max
Specializing in working with leaders in transition, Harry excels with executives, UX management, software / Internet technologists, start-up founders / CEO’s, and visionaries. Current clients include Adobe, Google, PayPal, Powell’s Books, SAP, Symantec, Twist and others.
Prior to all of this, he was on the forefront of Internet-based application design and development. In 1994, as a co-founder of Virtual Vineyards (wine.com), Harry designed all of the user interaction concepts behind the first secure Web shopping cart.
Subsequent to that, he was the founder and CEO of Public Mind, Inc., an Internet-based software company featured at Esther Dyson’s PC Forum 2004.
He considers himself fortunate to have worked with some of the finest companies in Silicon Valley, including: Apple Computer, DreamWorks Animation, Hewlett-Packard, O’Reilly and Associates, and Rubicon Consulting.
Harry is also the co-author of “Skype: The Definitive Guide” published by Addison Wesley Professional, and the author of DreamWorks Animation’s Art-directed Technology: Anatomy of a Shrek 2 Sequence, an introduction to the software development process behind the making of a feature-length, animated CG feature film in a fast-paced, creative environment.
Professional Societies, Associations, and Certifications include:
- Member of the Center for Creative Leadership
- Member of the International Coaching Federation
- Member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- NLP Practitioner Certification, NLP and Coaching Institute of California
- NLP Master Practitioner Certification, NLP and Coaching Institute of California
- Advanced Language Certification, NLP and Coaching Institute of California
- Instructional Module Development (IMD), Robert Mager Center for Effective Performance
- Training Consultant Vervago: Cultivating Sharper Minds