Charles Piercey

Charles Piercey

Mountain View, California, United States
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About

As Product Management Lead at U.S. Digital Response, I support governments and nonprofits…

Articles by Charles

  • The Loss of Natural Treasures Reflects Our Global Catastrophe; It Requires a Full Throated Response #ClimateHarambee

    A Love Letter to Wilderness, A Cry for Global #ClimateHarambee The Loss of a Wilderness Treasure In early June last…

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  • TidalScale Releases System-Scaling HyperKernel

    TidalScale releases its memory-cliff-breaking HyperKernel: https://t.co/W3amdITOsB

  • What could you do with R if you had Unlimited Memory?

    If you run R, you might be used to seeing “out of memory” errors on your larger models. But did you know that you can…

  • IEEE Big Data 2015

    I am excited to be presenting at the IEEE Big Data 2015 Startup showcase this Sunday November 1st: Title of…

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  • On Success

    On Success An invention successfully created changes the dynamic. Once you've done a thing the idea becomes blindingly…

  • On Failure

    On Failure The act of invention is inherently vulnerable. It's like watering a seedling or caring for a baby bird chick.

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Activity

Experience

  • U.S. Digital Response Graphic
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    Silicon Valley, California, United States

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    San Jose, CA

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    San Jose, CA

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    Sunnyvale, CA

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    Paris, France

Education

  • Terra.do Graphic

    Terra.do

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    Activities and Societies: תיקון עולם (Tikun Olam, "Fix the World")

    12-week program that systematically explores climate change and climate solutions.

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Tuolumne River Trust Graphic

    Member of the Board of Advisors

    Tuolumne River Trust

    - Present 2 years 10 months

    Environment

    Advisor on technology and communications.

  • Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade Graphic

    Students Internships Program Manager, Float Builder, Board Member

    Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade

    - Present 11 years 7 months

    Arts and Culture

    - Manager of high school student internships team that builds floats to choreographed music, lights and animatronics using custom built computer controllers.
    - Parade logistics and transportation manager
    - Board member

  • Mountain View High School Graphic

    AVID Mentor

    Mountain View High School

    - Present 3 years 9 months

    Education

    High school student mentoring and coaching. See more at https://www.avid.org/what-avid-is#

  • Cosumnes River Preserve Graphic

    Habitat Restoration Volunteer

    Cosumnes River Preserve

    - Present 2 years 10 months

    Environment

  • Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley Graphic

    Wildlife Rehabilitation Volunteer

    Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley

    - Present 8 years 1 month

    Animal Welfare

    • Virginia opossum rehabilitation and soft release.

  • Software Consultant and Educator

    Economic Development, San Jose, Costa Rica, Central America

    - 2 years

    Science and Technology

    • Built forest sustainability database application for Portico Door Company.
    • Built foot and mouth disease tracking database application covering all of Central America for the International Institute for Cooperative Agriculture (IICA)

  • Community Volunteer

    Community Development Center, Nagarkot, Pokhara Region, Nepal

    - 1 year

    Health

    • Installed and educated about remote sanitation systems and "Lorena" smokeless stoves in Nagarkot, Nepal. The health and environmental advantages of these stoves have been documented at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5218039_The_Design_and_Diffusion_of_Improved_Cooking_Stoves.
    • Built demonstration pit toilets to alleviate the spread of Ascariasis
    • Supported weekly medical clinic and distributed vegetable seeds to the local population.

  • Land Development Project Manager

    Deer Creek Meadows LLC

    - 15 years

    Environment

    • Managed a private LLC in Nevada County, CA that aimed to preserve and improve 90 acres of open space in the California foothills.
    • Maintained and improved the forest cover. Removed beetle infested pines and scotch broom.
    • Developed plans for EPA mitigations of mining tailings leftover from the California gold rush.

  • Mountain View High School Graphic

    English Tutor

    Mountain View High School

    - Present 4 years

    Education

    High school student English tutoring

Publications

Patents

Courses

  • Agile Certified Product Owner

    www.scrumalliance.org

  • Computer Programming

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  • Entrepreneurial Operations

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  • Management Trainer at Apple University

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  • Managing Entrepreneurial Operations

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  • Pascal Teaching Assistant

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  • Sales Engineer at Trimax Controls, Inc

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  • Speaking Coach at Stanford GSB

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Projects

  • Festival of Lights Computer Controllers

    This public repository shares the software developed for the computer controllers that are used in the newer generation of computer-choreographed parade floats built by the high school student interns team and their coaches for the Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade (https://www.linkedin.com/company/los-altos-festival-of-lights-parade/).

    Other creators
    See project
  • Hyperkernel Design and Engineering

    - Present

    Implementation of coherent shared everything to provide an elastic "scale-up" solution for big data and the cloud.

    Other creators
    See project

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Professional working proficiency

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