Ed McNierney is the Director Prize Operations at XPRIZE.
Ed is responsible for the technical design, development, and implementation of XPRIZE's first open source software competition. He has served as a Chief Technology Officer and senior technology leader at a variety of software and hardware companies. Early in his career he developed educational games for children and high-end graphics display equipment, and led Lotus Development's first Windows spreadsheet project.
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