Sanford Dickert:
Dr. Sanford Dickert is the Product Director for the Texai Remote Presence Product at Willow Garage.
For the past fifteen years, Sanford has worked with Fortune 500 firms, leading venture funds and promising start-ups through product marketing and development strategies to help teams better understand and execute on customer-focused solutions through the effective use of technology and product development.
In other roles, Sanford has been an Adjunct Professor at Cooper Union and Polytechnic, teaching on Web 2.0 concepts and product development, been involved in various Democratic campaigns in roles such as Chief Technology Officer for the John Kerry for President Campaign, and been part of numerous startup companies focused on social software and online community services including eGroups (acquired by Yahoo!), gigabeat (acquired by Napster), hotrecruit (acquired by Trinity Mirror Group in London) and Interoute (largest telecoms provider in Western Europe).
Sanford is a 24 year member of the IEEE and has a BS in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University; a MS in Electrical Engineering, an EngrE in Electrical Engineering and was ABD in a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His graduate research was on high-speed, adaptive control of robotic manipulators.
