Location Greater San Diego Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dan O’Neill is a business focused technologist who has spent 25 years in software and systems development concentrating in technologies that cross software, hardware, and networking disciplines. In addition, O’Neill specializes in product and team development for large scale Internet based businesses.
At Certona, in his role as VP Engineering,
Dan will oversee and lead the Software Development and SQA teams.
Previous to Certona, Dan co-founded and operated as CTO of Nettle, Inc., a La Jolla based company that built internet applications around the movie theater experience.
Before co-founding Nettle, Inc., Dan served as CTO and Exec. VP of Mood Media, a worldwide retail media services company. Mood Media purchased Trusonic, Inc. in 2007 where he was the co-founder, CTO, and Exec. VP. During his tenure the company reinvented digital delivery of preprogrammed audio to retailers and grew the business more than 30% year over year.
Prior to co-founding Trusonic, Dan was the CTO of VU Net USA, a division of Vivendi Universal responsible for the technical direction of MP3.com, MP4.com, Pressplay (now Roxio/Napster), Rollingstone.com, and eMusic.
From 1999 to 2003 Dan was the VP of Engineering at MP3.com where he assisted in a $370m IPO. Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, named him to its IPO Hall of Fame in 2000 and the School of Engineering named him the 2009 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus.
Dan holds both a BSME and an MSCS degree from Santa Clara University.







