Lowell Tuttman

Hi, I'm Lowell Tuttman, CEO of Universal Consulting Inc, out here in Woodinville wine country near Seattle, Wa. Im a Microsoft alum, a > 10 year veteran and have done everything from Program Management, API marketing, Interactive TV, and Social Networking. I rolled out PC Excel, ODBC, and initiated the first Product Planning Position at Microsoft. Now I concentrate on interesting intellectual problems that need orthogonal points of view.

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After spending 27 years in the software industry, running my own businesses, working at Microsoft for 10 years in the mid 80's to mid 90's, and then serving as either directors or advisors to startups, my broad and varied experiences have left me with a unique approach to thinking about software and products. I like to work with nascent technologies and companies, so I can effect the building and guiding of both, and I consider myself a people person, so I also like the human aspect to engineering. I am an orthogonal thinker, and am able to consider many factors all at once leading to a different kind of thought process than most people use. I look forward to difficult problems and challenges and have the track record to prove I can deal with them. Whether I am getting paid for it or not, technology is my true passion and I spend my time thinking and philosophising, and sometimes pontificating about it.

Owner at Universal Consulting

February 2003 - Present | Woodinville, Wa

Software Product Planning and Design

Advisor at Smartstarters Inc.

March 2000 - May 2002

Member of Board of Advisors of Smartstarters Inc, an incubator, consulting and investment finder company. Provided technical assesments, product advice and general opinions on viabilities of various deals.

Director at Unisite Inc.

December 1999 - May 2002

Board of Director position for Unisite, focused mostly on product and technology, also acted as VP of Engineering for a short period of time.

Group Product Manager at Microsoft Corp

February 1993 - July 1996

Was Group Product Manager for Windows API marketing and Interactive Television projects as well as the Social Interface Group

Director at SQL Access Group

April 1990 - July 1992

One of the Directors of the SQL Access Group which was charged with developing standards for Database Access. Represented Microsoft at this group and helped them adopt ODBC as the database access standard.

SR. Product Manager at Microsoft Corp

January 1990 - March 1992

Product Manager responsible for marketing and relationships for ODBC and then all Windows API Marketing

Program Manager at Microsoft Corp

October 1987 - May 1990

Responsible for the rollout of PC Excel v1.0, worked on database access for Excel which lead to the development of ODBC

Grinnell College

1972 – 1977

B.A.

Concentration: Existential Philosophy and Psychology

Astronomy, Quantum Physics, Antiquarian Book Collecting, Winston S. Churchill Historian, Cooking, and Anything Gadget Related.