Overview

Gender

female

Barbara is a seasoned software engineer, web entrepreneur, and tech innovator. She has focused her career on creating highly scalable media and data-driven platforms designed to make content and information more accessible and usable.

In 2003, Barbara co-founded BiggerBoat, the Internet's first vertical search and ad network for entertainment. There she led the development of a massively scalable semantic search engine, digital and physical product comparison shopping engine, contextual and behavioral ad network and data analytics platform (try saying that three times fast).

Throughout her career Barbara has spearheaded the development and successful launch of foundational technologies and core systems for organizations like the United States Library of Congress, Universal Music Group, Virgin Megastores, Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Sega GameWorks, and early internet startup the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Barbara holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola Marymount University.