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Jay Webster, the Founder of ActiveLab, brings a unique combination of skills, experience and perspective to the software industry.

During his career, Webster has worked and gained expertise in a variety of industries, ranging from clinical laboratories to networking software development.

 
With a proven history of designing and implementing major systems, Webster began as a QA engineer at the TOPS division of Sun Microsystems, during which time he coded automated test tools in C and C++ and eventually managed the QA effort for networking products developed for the IBM Thinkpad®.

During his career as a consultant, Mr. Webster has provided services for a vast number of companies in a wide variety of vertical industries. They include: TeleTV, Chiron Corporation, Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Active Software (now webMethods), American Airlines, Bristol Meyer Squibb, Inktomi, Diamond Multimedia, Softbook Press, DevX, Williams Sonoma, Industry to Industry, Informix, Kaiser Permanente, AllData, and Visa. Mr. Webster has served in the CTO role for several companies including iWear Corporation, Cybernautics, and Liquid Thinking. He has held the position of Managing Partner at USWeb/CKS and Liquid Thinking.

Mr. Webster serves on the advisory boards of Composite Software, Seriwon Networks, and Pivx Solutions. He also serves as a teacher and mentor to high school students in computer science, biology, physics, and music.

 
After earning a BS Degree in Neurobiology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Webster worked as a technician in the Bioorganic Chemistry department of SRI International. He later joined SRI's Toxicology department, where he focused on primary cell culture and comparative metabolism as part of establishing the first bank of primary human liver cells to be made available to researchers world wide.

In Receptor Pharmacology, Webster developed automated data collection and analysis applications, and began research using molecular biology techniques.

As a Molecular Biologist at the Blood Research Institute of South Eastern Wisconsin (BRI), Webster developed completed research to determine the coding sequence for the binding site for terminal complement protein, C9, on the RBC surface regulator protein, CD59.
 


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