Welcome to SanfordDickert.com

Cutting-Edge Technologist. Product Strategy Evangelist. Social Media Marketeer. Democratic Consultant. Systems Engineering and (former) Dance Instructor.

An NYU MBA student gave my thirty-second pitch as "online product and customer engagement strategist applying engineering design principles and a strong network of experts to solve challenging market problems that need an innovative implementation."

Quite a mouthful. A simpler way of explaining it is calling me a "general contractor for Internet efforts". When you build a house, you get a GC to hire out the best architect, plumber, et cetera. My experiences has helped companies and campaigns deliver best-of-breed solutions, improved business processes and measurable returns.

Industries worked in include telecoms (IP and VoIP), mobile services, web applications, software development, social media marketing and production, online community management, infrastructure consulting, and various aspects in Democratic politics.

The underlying principle: solve the business problem and execute a cost-effective solution successfully.

Recent Efforts

Contagious Conversations - consulting venture providing social media marketing strategy, tactics and technical delivery. Projects include Greg Warren, tripSync, The Improv, SuperNova 2008, HealthPointPA, and Goodnight Burbank.

Coworking - working with Tony Bacigalupo on running cooperBricolage, a coworking space located in a cafe in the East Village and New Work City, an up-and-coming coworking space in New York City.

Red Hen Spectra - development of a collaborative curation platform for managing a diverse set of data provided by a scientific community. Using Web 2.0 concepts and a healthy dollop of lessons from Wikipedia, the RHS Project focuses on building a database of chemical "fingerprints" which will identify the chemical makeup of compounds through handheld spectrometers. A potential idea for the use of this database can be found here or a recent "Artifacts from the Future" in WIRED Magazine.

Cooper Union and Polytechnic - adjunct instructor for courses including Emerging Development Paradigms (curriculum for engineers/entrepreneurs on implementing new technology concepts), Engineering in Design (teaching New Product Development) and Systems Engineering.