The Nozzl Team
Steve Woodward, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Woodward co-founded Nozzl Real-Time Technologies Inc. after three decades in the news industry as a general manager, editor and reporter. In the 1980s, he was a senior member of the team that founded American City Business Journals Inc., the nation’s largest publisher of local business weekly newspapers, and edited three of ACBJ’s startup papers. He has been business editor of two major metropolitan dailies, The Oregonian and the Hartford Courant. He began his career at The Kansas City Star, where he shared in the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the deadly collapse of a downtown hotel’s skywalks.
Woodward has written on topics as diverse as the dot-com boom and bust, the Catholic priest sex scandal, the Enron debacle and the early days of the Twitter phenomenon. He is an avid social-media user and blogger.
Woodward graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English from Wright State University, where he was the school’s first Presidential Scholar. He received a master’s degree from the prestigious University of Missouri School of Journalism.
John Hamlin, Founder and Vice President of Operations
John Hamlin co-founded Nozzl Real-Time Technologies Inc. after 34 years in supervisory and managerial roles at The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon, both in news and technology.
He has worked with words, images and all forms of technology, in each case holding leadership positions that required knowledge of specialized technical fields and the ability to resolve conflicts among them.
Hamlin is a graduate of Fordham University College of Philosophy and Letters and holds a master’s degree in American literature from New York University. In his undergraduate college years, he was a Jesuit scholastic majoring in English and philosophy. He also wrote and arranged music for a 44-member glee club, which he directed, and he played intramural handball and baseball.
Before joining The Oregonian, he taught English and Latin at Regis High School and Horace Mann School in New York City, and he worked four years as a staff writer/researcher at Time Inc.
Brian Hendrickson, Founder and Vice President of Technology
Brian Hendrickson co-founded Nozzl Real-Time Technologies Inc. after leading successful programming projects for The Oregonian newspaper and Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He has built and modified more than 75 proprietary and open-source applications.
Hendrickson has been a consultant and product developer on a variety of programming and social-media projects. With a background in databases and Web development, he has designed and built numerous multi-user Web and desktop applications, and created and modified open-source applications for business and higher-education. In 2005, he developed a code-generation toolset and used it to win an IBM-sponsored programming race against 200 other developers worldwide.
Hendrickson’s specialties are application architecture, Web services, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Erlang. He has used his own programming framework to create a microblogging tool, a URL-shortener, a Wiki and a content-management system.
Hendrickson, an avid tennis player, coached the Grant High School tennis team in Portland, beginning in 2004. Hendrickson also worked as a freelance photojournalist. From 1996 to 2004, he shot photos for National Geographic, Conde Nast, USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, the Spokane Spokesman-Review and The Oregonian.
