Mr. Sands led the development of the Strategies, Architectures, and Plans for InvestStar’s technology. He defined in detail all of InvestStar’s key technology and data base structures, and tested the selected implementations approaches on its web site.

From 1994-2004 Mr. Sands worked for several of Charles Schwab & Co.’s Information Technology groups. He was an Architect/Director and in that role was responsible for the architecture, analysis, and design of several business critical systems, including: Schwab Equity Ratings (SER); MIDAS (Fixed Income/Money Market Mutual Funds Portfolio Management System); and Matrix (Equity-based Mutual Funds Portfolio Management System). Also, while at Schwab, he served on the Architecture team for its Grid Computing Pilot, was active in the implementation of its Unified Software Development Process, and helped to introduce OO, UML, XML, .Net, SOA technologies.

Prior to joining Schwab, Mr. Sands worked with Castle Rock Consulting Group, Xoma Corporation, and Lutech, Inc., in a variety of information technology related positions.

Mr. Sands received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley.