Andy Dale

Andy Dale is the founder and president of ooTao, a software consulting and development company based in the San Francisco Bay Area; he has worked in software development for over 10 years as a company principal and team leader.

Andy spent the first years of his career working with a team of actuaries, building benefit tracking systems that were widely deployed by local governments and school districts. Andy then moved into the general custom development realm where he was involved in projects as diverse as a Procurement System for Gap Inc, to helping to develop and deploy parts of the Citibank On-line Banking System that continue to be used worldwide.

Andy has enjoyed working with large multinational organizations such as: Citibank, Bank of America, Monsanto, Gap and IBM as well as smaller technology innovators Identity Commons, SocialPhysics, Envoii and 2idi.

Andy serves as a Senior Architect to several organizations in the areas of Secure Distributed Data Management and Visualization including Identity Commons and Natural Logic.

Andy is an active member of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee and an Eclipse Committer, working to help advance the Eclipse Trust Framework.