Who We Are

Lumeria Inc.

• Fred Davis, Founder, President/CEO

  Fred has been hailed as a visionary by a number of publications, and has over 30 years of pioneering computer experience. The son of an IBM fellow, Fred started programming in 1966 at the age of 11, as one of the early users of the BASIC computer language. During the 1970's Fred became involved in the microcomputer revolution as an early adopter of the Apple II and CP/M. In the 80's Fred started a long career at Ziff-Davis where he served as editor of A+, MacUser, PC Magazine, and PC Week, and was a key player at ZD's various product-testing labs, several of which he founded. During the 90's Fred was involved in the earliest startup phases of Wired, CNET, and Ask Jeeves. Fred has also authored thirteen computer books, including The Complete IBM Personal Computer -- the first hardware expansion guide to the IBM PC published in the early 1980's. His 1985 book, Desktop Publishing, helped popularize the term and received an award from the Computer Press Association. The New York Times hailed Fred's Windows 3.1 Bible as "the best" book on the topic. Fred also authored the Windows 95 Bible and Windows 98 Bible, and developed the Windows Bible CD-ROM. Fred has been widely quoted in publications such as Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and the Atlantic Monthly. Fred has also appeared on many radio and television programs, including NPR's "All Things Considered," "CBS Evening News," and "ABC News."

   

• Patrick Slaney, VP Engineering 

  -- Main architect and developer of Lumeria's ODX system

  Patrick has over 20 years experience in software development. At Software Arts, he worked on the tools used to produce VisiCalc and on the Spotlight desk accessory product. As an Interleaf Fellow, he was responsible for pagination and much of the graphics. At Intuit, he worked on the original proprietary online banking system, was responsible for client security in Open Financial Exchange (OFX), wrote other security features such as the pin vault and the client certificate management code shared by Quickbooks and Quicken, and served as a security consultant to other groups within the company. On the side, he wrote the software for the Montalvo digital tension controller, an embedded system, and developed numerous other industrial control products. Patrick is a graduate of Cornell University, and has taught computer science at Northeastern University's night school, and spoken frequently about cryptography and computer security.

   

• Joanna Liang, Chief Engineer 

  -- Main architect and developer of Lumeria's SuperProxy system

  Joanna brings her rigid academic training in computer-based natural language processing, modern information retrieval, and knowledge management to her position as Chief Engineer at Lumeria. In 1994, she received her Masters degree in English Linguistics from Peking University. In 1999, she obtained her Masters degree in Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. While in school, she developed MetaKM -- a meta-search engine for the knowledge management domain, and she was the key player in the Berkeley Ad Blocker project. Joanna joined Lumeria in July of 1999 and has been instrumental in the architecture and development of Lumeria's technology platform. She has also made unique contributions to the efficient storage, interchange, processing and generation of XML documents. She was the lead engineer of the DTDFactory project, responsible for the development of its whole back-end as well as parts of its Web-based GUI, and she has also been centrally involved in the Lumeria Ad Network project.

   

• Pam Lenz, Office Manager

Other Lumerians

Creating the Lumeria vision and developing our groundbreaking new technologies has taken a lot of people a lot of time. We are reminded that software development is as much of an art as it is a science -- especially when we were constantly forced to think outside the box in our quest to create iconoclastic new technology and business paradigms. Here are the Lumerians that have powered our technology vision and platform over the past three years with their creativity, intellect, talents, and passion:

Lumeria's Board of Directors

• Fred Davis  

• E. David Ellington  

• Richard Levandov