Founder & CEO @ Gigster does software development on demand. Get a quote in 10 minutes for any app or web project. MIT, Caltech, and Google engineering talent. Backed by Greylock and Bloomberg. Want to work together? Want a deal on a project? Ping me. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAdvisor @ From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaInvestor/Advisor in 50+ startups @ Investments: Docker, Addepar, Classdojo, OpenGov, Wanelo, Vulcun, iCracked, Facebook (2nd market) Mentor roles: Thiel Foundation, Disney Accelerator, Lemnos Labs, River VR Accelerator Advisory roles: Formation 8 VC, Nest Labs, OpenDoor, Identified See my angel.co profile for more: http://angel.co/rogerdickey. From June 2010 to Present (5 years 5 months) Co-Founder @ San Francisco based micro-VC & "idea lab" seeking $1B+ ideas. Invested in 10+ start-ups, some of them detailed here: http://angel.co/rogerdickey. Collaborated with domain experts to design 50 businesses in 16 verticals: SMB, Fashion, Social networking, Continuity, Local services, Gift-giving, Handset insurance, Groceries, Consumer data, Education, Travel, Legal, Weddings, Dating, Pets, Health & wellness. Shipped 2 products: a social net for self-improvement enthusiasts (superhumangoals.com), & a Pinterest meets Craigslist (pinslist.com). From August 2011 to June 2012 (11 months) Mafia Wars Founder & GM @ Mafia Wars founder & first GM. 100M users, pioneered crime gaming genre on Facebook. FishVille founder & GM. 40M users. Also founded or managed: Pirates, Heroes, Space wars, Football wars, Special forces, Dragon wars, Prison lockdown, Street racing. 10M+ users across games. Directed Zynga Beijing new games group, 70+ headcount. International product team advisor: India, Japan. Filed 6 patents, see below. From March 2008 to July 2011 (3 years 5 months) Co-Founder @ Launched 19 apps in 2007, ~1 week development time each. Largest app Dopewars had 300M monthly pageviews, $2M+/yr revenue. Sold to Zynga in early 2008. From October 2007 to March 2008 (6 months) Software Engineer @ Worked on LabVIEW FPGA compiler team. Ported Dance Dance Revolution & Wolfenstein 3D to VHDL. Founding member of prototyping team re-imagining LabVIEW's UI look & feel. Filed this patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US20090089715. From August 2005 to October 2007 (2 years 3 months) Co-Founder @ Airbnb for tutoring. Team of 3 built product & strategy for local marketplace, starting in Austin, TX. Failed :( From January 2007 to August 2007 (8 months) Software Engineer Intern @ Worked on LabVIEW Embedded compiler team. Filed this patent: http://www.google.com/patents?id=zaWnAAAAEBAJ. From January 2004 to July 2004 (7 months) Software Engineer Intern @ Worked on LabVIEW-based motion-control software for wafer fabrication machinery. Co-authored this paper: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1037774. From August 2000 to August 2001 (1 year 1 month)

BS, Computer Science @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign From 2001 to 2005 Roger Dickey is skilled in: Mobile Applications, iOS, Scalability, Mobile Devices, Start-ups, Python, User Experience, Product Management, Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Entrepreneurship, Agile Methodologies, Software Development, Git, Social Networking, JavaScript, Web Applications, Ruby, Venture Capital, Linux, Distributed Systems, Strategy, Big Data, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Video Games