DigitalSmarties

Curriculum vitae

Steve Landers

Experienced systems architect, software designer, computing and data scientist, consultant and tech leader helping diverse organisations on the road to commercialisation.

  • a catalyst to assist teams reach their potential
  • practical application of new ideas
  • applying innovative technology to automate business processes
  • combining the best of Open Source and proprietary solutions
Download CV (PDF) steve@digitalsmarties.com

Experience

Roles

  • Senior Vice President Software Design and Development at US startup 6MC Health
  • Co-founder of Fideliq Audio, an Australian HiFi company designing and producing high-end music server and streamer devices for audiophiles
  • Consulting and technology strategy with businesses in mining / IoT technology
  • Consulting and technology strategy with a USA medical device business
  • Member of the Tcl Core Team (governance board) for the Tcl programming language
  • Principal of Digital Smarties, a specialist IT design studio serving diverse industries in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia
  • Consultant researcher with Chicago based Iomas Research, collaborating on a series of R&D projects involving online educational technologies, informatics and cloud systems
  • Research consultant to the USA National Museum of Health and Medicine, tech lead on the Einstein Brain Atlas and AnatLab Virtual Anatomy Laboratory projects
  • CTO of Chicago based startup Keepsayk, which produces apps for photo and memory sharing via mobile devices
  • CTO of Chicago based startup Iconicast, inventor of the world’s first continuous matrix of human emotion iconography
  • Co-founder Functional Software, an Australian tech company that pioneered automated management of Unix systems in the 90s
  • Systems consultant to the R&I Gold Bank
  • Systems consultant to the Fremantle Port Authority
  • Senior Research Fellow at Murdoch University
  • R&D Manager at Olivetti Technology Park
  • Senior Computing Specialist at Esso Australia

Achievements

Selected achievements

  • Board member and SVP of 6MC Health, a US healthcare startup designing and developing an automated platform to perform comparative hospital performance analysis using data-mined US public health records
  • Tech lead of the Einstein Brain Atlas team that developed a cloud-based streaming virtual microscope system to allow viewing of Einstein’s neuroanatomy
  • Tech lead of the AnatLab online Virtual Anatomy Laboratory project
  • Invented a technique to generate photorealistic structure-specific interactive anatomical reconstructions from anatomical sections
  • Member of the Visible Embryo Project, a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research project for the development of distributed biostructural databases
  • Holder of multiple patents covering a broad range of technologies
  • Speaker at international tech conferences, including the Tcl and SQLite conferences
  • Maintainer of the Tcler’s Wiki — the world’s second longest running wiki
  • Co-developer of an automated 911 telephone exchange test system for Southern California in the 2000s
  • Past Vice President of the Australian Unix Users Group
  • Co-developer of cross-platform system management software products in the 90s
  • Installed and managed the first commercial Unix + Oracle installation in Australia (and one of the first in the world) at Esso Australia
  • Installed the first general purpose networked computing terminals offshore on Bass Strait oil and gas production platforms

Skills

Areas of expertise

  • Software architecture
  • AI-assisted software design and development
  • Data science and analysis
  • Interface and interaction design (UI/UX)
  • Translating non-technical requirements into functional software
  • Technology and business process evaluation
  • Software project definition and management
  • Graphical cross-platform applications
  • Desktop, server, mobile and embedded development
  • Systems, networking, security and database technology

Presentations and publications

Papers and talks

Authored or co-authored over 20 papers covering augmented reality, medical visualisations, automated responses, cryptography and more. Presented at numerous local and international conferences.

News articles

In the press

Patents

Granted and published patents

  • Automated communications response system

    US 12,301,765 B2 · Issued 13 May 2025

    The Skybot system pioneered the exciting world of mobile intelligent assistant technology (family of four patents).

  • Mobile supercloud computing system and method

    US 2021/0377182 A1 · Published 2 December 2021

    The mobile supercloud system improves upon synchronization and sharing of data over the cloud, using resources of multiple cloud services together with the computational and storage resources resident on mobile devices.

  • Method and system for emotion tracking, tagging, rating and communication

    US 9,207,755 B2 · Issued 8 December 2015

    The first continuous matrix of images representing human emotion, allowing users to share and track emotional states, or an aggregator to calculate the emotional temperature of a location or group of people.

Education

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Computing Science and Applied Mathematics
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1977–1980

Contact details

Get in touch

Email
steve@digitalsmarties.com
Australia
+61 417 831 638
USA
+1 312 680 2388
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/steven-c-landers