SteelEye Technology, Venrock (Tony Sun, Ray Rothrock, Eric Copeland, Cathy Brewer, Kathleen Byrnes, et. al.), David Hook/BayMark Partners, Bill Earthman/Massey Burch - Thugs, Frauds, Creeps and Nightmares

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$460,000.00++ lost, with $100,000.00 lost in first year alone. but buy their products so that a convicted securities fraud can live comfortably for his fraud and deception!

amazing how a company which specializes in disaster recovery can't even clean up its own self-created disasters! SteelEye, nor Venrock/Rockefeller, can't deny any of the following statements which have been well documented within and outside of their organization and for the past seven years.

Well...In the year 2000, I accepted a position with SteelEye Technology, a Venrock (Laurance & John D. Rockefeller family corporation), Massey Burch and Dali-Hook Partners/BayMark Partners invested corporation. Other investors/partners include CrossBridge Partners, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP Ventues, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel64, RedHat, MySQL, and Novell/SuSE, however, these additional investors/companies are named by SteelEye, and given their management engages in deceptive practices on a regular basis, have to take this with a grain of salt until it can be verified. The company was to be run by solid people with integrity: Sue Ellery, Tom Hunter and Jim Mason, with me being the consumer watchdog for the software process as QA Manager and establishing a company-wide software process release. Channler Drawdy, the fraud, "tailgated" into the picture after the deal had begun. A mistake several regretted, because those who didn't want to stand by and watch a daily sham opted out or were booted out by Drawdy going for the cash daily.

Venrock, their primary investor, under the direction of Eric Copeland, who still takes credit for this investment which doesn't meet their basic investment requirements, proceeded to hand over $22 million to SteelEye Technology, which was at the complete disposal and discretion of Channler Drawdy, the soon to be convicted securities fraud swindler. Perhaps the Drawdy/Venrock matchup wasn't a random thing. Perhaps shady birds always flock together: John P. Kennedy vs. Venrock (PDF). Drawdy even used money provided by Venrock/Rockefeller family to pay for his fines and penalties.

Without EVER doing due diligence on Drawdy, it was quickly discovered (AFTER providing $22 million) that Drawdy had a very poor credit report and IRS liens against him from previously defrauding others. He couldn't even get an apartment in his name. One of the other founders had to help him out. (Drawdy made up a lie to get their assistance.) The most common statement about Drawdy was he looked and acted like a guy you could trust. Yeah, that's why they're called "hustlers". Within seven months, SteelEye was broke because Drawdy spent money like water! Shouldn't we all get $22 million to play around with?


Meanwhile, here I come with a 17-year history of flawless credit, including the top echelon of creditors that would spit in Drawdy's face if he applied for credit with any of them. I accepted the job for 3 reasons: Jim Mason (worked with before), because it was an opportunity to get out of the "pricy-homes and always driving 45 minutes to get 5 miles" California, and the third and most important reason: should anything go wrong, the company would pay me to move back to California or wherever I needed to move to (AGREED VERBALLY AND IN WRITING).

I was informed that 11 of the original employees were sold with the product to SteelEye, as in "leave NCR and work for SteelEye because you no longer work here". Several were so problematic including managers with a history of unethical behavior for more than 10 years, but were at SteelEye's disposal. Because of Drawdy, the founders and those with integrity who didn't cheat employees and companies (Sue Ellery, Tom Hunter, Jim Mason and myself) became prey for these same NCR problem managers later while draining Venrock's $22 million, and they're still committing fraud and deception daily while begging for more money from unsuspecting folks.

Ironically, Bob Williamson was the biggest seller of SteelEye and working for the company. However, the welcome dinner included a lengthy conversation about his gay partner, Jim Sears, a Harvard professor, who published a book called "Growing Up Gay In The South" with an image of the confederate flag on it to attract more white consumers. He even had to take me to a book store to show me a copy. (I'd later learn that Williamson wasn't just gay, but hated and loathed women and had a history of terrorizing them in the office at NCR. He was known as the biggest viper you never see coming because he's able to weasel his small self out of situations as they're hitting the fan. Williamson was at the top of the list to be sold.)

Originally, after meeting some of the folks in Columbia and realizing that I was close to other areas (Atlanta, Charlotte, D.C., and Florida) so I wouldn't be bored to death in the deep south, I decided to take a chance. And figured with reputable backing from Venrock, it wasn't a shaky deal. I assumed Venrock had done its homework. Boy was I wrong. However, my best friend that I'd known since the age of 7 also wanted me to move to Seattle. I hated the weather there. Knowing what I know now, I'd rather have sat in the rain daily with him than lose it all over shady folks like Drawdy.

Seven months after moving, Drawdy, a married man, got involved in a hot and heated love situation with Maria Scott, one of the 15 $100K++ salaried managers Drawdy insisted upon hiring for a 30 team staff. They were literally in shock that they were broke after hiring 15 managers making over $100K for 30 people. Drawdy lied and stated the investors wanted him to spend on hiring, but told the investors a different story (who stupidly just nodded away).

Ok, so I'm no Venrock executive, but I thought the idea with a startup company was to get your first friggin' product together for a solid consumer release based upon the original business plan, and then build your team around the product's needs ONCE the product has been reviewed, tested and understood by sales and marketing and consumer needs. The response from the NCR newbies to venture capitalism and startup companies was: we don't have time for that (but they sure had time to waste $22 million and play games with people's lives). Or my favorite response, "This isn't California/Silicon Valley"! Companies in Silicon Valley, including their source of funding, were considered lower than them, a waste of their time (even stated openly in staff meetings), and ineffective and disruptive to what they wanted to accomplish. Which was WHAT?! Hmm... so Palm, Apple, IBM and others being targeted as customers or partners in Silicon Valley should leave their money and nothing else. Because the NCR newbies settled into SteelEye as if SteelEye was an established company with customers-a-flowing and ample time for office politics. Now, tell me again why the south lost the Civil War?!

Now, Drawdy who was no stranger to startups, but was a pro at stealing and deception, changed the original business plan daily by playing one against the other like a crackhead's military offense. He often called many of the managers, including myself, drunk and high out of his mind to divulge who he was planning on going after next. Bob Williamson, or Little Bobby as Drawdy referred to him and who ironically replaced Drawdy, was the primary source of his paranoia. Yet, Drawdy should have been fearing James Bottomley who was investigating Drawdy daily! Drawdy back-stabbed Tom Hunter, Sue Ellery, Jim Mason and myself (because Julia Cervenka didn't want a consumer product software process for a consumer product (go figure!), and since he was having an affair with Maria Scott, and Maria and Julia were "buddies", whatever Maria decided was best, including hiring some of the most overpaid, outrageous, serve absolutely no purpose other than drain money persons Scott and Rindy Abdelnour recommended including by lying to ensure a friend was hired. Drawdy, a paranoid schizophrenic who had access to employees personal data, which he used for his financial gain, also wanted to finally be president of a company to show his con artist buddies, "see I made it". Shortly after being given access to personal data, a mysterious computer was ordered online in my name, with the feds being alerted of the address it was to be shipped to.

There was also the issue of being in an "we haven't surrendered yet" confederate state and being deemed as having too much power for a black person. I was constantly reminded of this. Forget about the experience of working directly with top leaders in technology who changed the tech world we live in today and working at companies that ARE STILL sustaining and became major contributors to the technology we're using today (Palm, Global Village, Apple, IBM, Cisco, etc.) and WITH the same software and company processes we were trying to put into place. Julia Cervenka just didn't want sales, marketing or quality assurance involved in the software release process. Only she and "her buddies" would decide what would be released and the customer in the end would be the guinea pig. And sales was supposed to stand around and wait for a product they don't know about, but at the same time attempt to sell it. And they were getting broker and broker by the minute. Now all of this was going on under Venrock's $22 million with Drawdy in charge and Venrock, David Hook and Massey Burch just nodding away. Hmmmmm...

After the company fell completely apart under the destruction of Drawdy, the natural thing to do was file for unemployment to keep income coming in as I had creditors to worry about. However, Drawdy, who was on suspension himself, contests the claim, claiming I just quit without reason. Kevin Berry, SteelEye's CFO and Human Resources person who has secretly departed the company, ignored the situation completely. Drawdy claimed that I simply quit my job without warning. However, I have and STILL have an audio voice mail left by Drawdy which proves otherwise. Not to mention, Drawdy was fired the following day after the hearing, which spoke directly to his credibility. However, the damage to me was already done, as in decision irreversible (thanks!). My life was turned upside down while the con artist, Drawdy, was rewarded with millions for being a slick hustler!

And even more devastating, just prior to this, my best friend who asked me to move to Seattle was murdered by someone shady who had entered his life SOLELY for financial gain. If I could be given one do-over in life, I would surely go back to the end of 1999 and choose a friend and love over a career which is never a guarantee. Love is always the better choice.

Even more sickening is I keep receiving a bill from the year 2000 as a result of Drawdy's fraud and deceit. SteelEye keeps referring the matter to their fake HR person, Rindy Abdelnour, but since October, 2000, she claims she can't discuss anything because there is a lawsuit involved (what she openly stated in writing to all employees to cover up what was done to founders and with Drawdy, but just threw my name in the mix for convenience). However, Rindy, Miss Maurice's BBQ's favorite spokesperson, has yet to produce a copy of the lawsuit, and it's now 7 years since her claim of a lawsuit. (Maurice's is owned by a former Ku Klux Klansman and known South Carolina separatist. When the confederate flag flying over the state house was removed under protests, Maurice himself ensured that the confederate flag flew proudly over all of his restaurants.)

Rindy was outright dumped by NCR onto SteelEye because she was more problematic than worth it. She served absolutely no purpose for SteelEye because she not only didn't know the product, but couldn't relate to individuals. She represented every definition of the word "exclusive", and ironically in a real corporate environment would be a lawsuit waiting to happen because of her open separatist practices. And Rindy made sure, even by means of lying, that funds from SteelEye went towards her "exclusive" friends and businesses, including Maurice's.

In fact, within a few months of establishing SteelEye, Rindy's "exclusive" hiring practices led to a letter of complaint from NCR, the hand that fed her for years but also sold her because of common sense. Rindy's version of hiring, while boasting that she was the "Human Resources Manager", was to place the confidential NCR employee phone list outside her cubicle wall, then every other week, pick a white employee only from the list and make them an overpriced offer. All of the 15 100K++ managers came from NCR through this hiring method. When busted, Rindy gathers the employees together to "get their stories straight", i.e., "prepare one of her infamous lies", which was priceless because one of the employees stated, "but we did do exactly what the letter of complaint stated". To ensure the final unqualified candidate Rindy recruited by means of deception was placed at SteelEye, Rindy created a phony employment advertisement in the local Columbia, So. Carolina newspaper and then claimed the NCR employee's resume was submitted in response to the newspaper advertisement. Jim Fitzgerald, SteelEye's then CEO, was well aware of this process. He was demoted within the first year of establishing SteelEye.

So after the demolition of SteelEye by Drawdy and his overpriced 15 managers for 30 people, because I had just purchased a home, I had to start using savings to pay for expenses. I looked for work in Atlanta (process too slow and tedious and running out of money). I submitted resumes all over the United States. The first three companies to respond and make an offer were in New York. I also had a product plan I was working on and thought New York would be the best place given the television networks included in product plans.

To add to the nightmare, I moved to New York just before Sept. 11, 2001, and unfortunately had a bird's eye view of the second plane hitting the WTC and everything thereafter. If someone had told me of the events that day, I still wouldn't have believed it. Several months later with the last remaining money I had left, and while paying for both a mortgage and apartment, a car and cost of commuting, I was robbed, as in last of what I had was taken from me. My pending-approval small business loan was no longer an option. But millions can be given to a convicted securities fraud with no questions asked.

Devastated, I literally gave up. One by one, I lost every decent amount of credit I had including sources that would have allowed me to survive in case of emergencies. And to make matters worse, the organized crime persons who robbed me tried to intimidate me using all sorts of clever methods, including by claiming I was one of their domestic partners 7 MONTHS AFTER ROBBING ME to literally obstruct justice and commit legal murder, which didn't work, but only made their situation worse. A child was even groomed for their latest hustle. That child is obviously damaged goods as the hustle and crime is now in her system. The idea was to put fear in me AFTER I'd lost everything I'd worked for. Should have tried that before I lost: my home, my car, savings, financial independence, apartment, and eventually health from not eating. But instead they should have been afraid, and should have checked out that I'm crazy and am not the one to try and play games with, ESPECIALLY AFTER you've robbed or conned me.

And even more sickening is they're african-americans who spend day after day commiting crimes, but hate the police and think "the man" is the cause of the problems and the reason they have to commit crimes, and glamorize other criminals like them. Yeah, well try hustling that excuse and nonsense to my mother, my grandfathers, my grandmothers, my uncles and aunts (20+ year law enforcement officers), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Joe Louis, Medgar Evers, and countless others who didn't have to take the low road when faced with oppressive situations. And praising many members of the New York City Police Department (who have been some of the most respectful, honest and nicest people you could ever meet), New York State Corrections ("saints in disguise" babysitting a notorious degenerate), New York State's Inspector General's Office, Manhattan District Attorney's office, New Jersey FBI, Bergen County Prosecutor's Office and Edgewater Police Department, because I would surely be dead if not for any of them doing their job, even when taken for a wild ride by organized criminals. Seeing this type of animalistic world for the first time confirms these civil servants are NEVER paid enough.

I spent months starving (living off 1 meal a week), sometimes just too devastated to eat. I had to move into a literal ghetto until I could afford a better place. But through it all, I became closer to God, and for first time literally read and understood the first five books of the bible, which I tell you, is so important for so many reasons. I've met both disturbing and good people in the process, but disturbing people are now easier than ever to step away from because you can easily see where their priorities are and what their focus is.

I didn't become grimy and resort to hustling people. But funniest thing is I did get hustled by a woman who called herself a "humble servant of God" who cursed worse than hockey players in the middle of a fight. All I can say is it must have been important for me to see people like this as again, I never thought after all the struggles and valuable lives lost, people were living like wolves with excuses. And for whatever plan God has for me, he certainly has my undivided attention now.

What I regret most was not moving to be with my friend. I truly believe together we could have protected each other from the Channler Drawdy's and street hustlers of the world. Apart, we were vulnerable and assumed people were like us or wouldn't come at you with a twisted plan if you were sincere with them. Someone suggested that since I had never met animals like this before that I needed to learn and recognize con artists like this in the future because I was about to be blessed in a much bigger way and need to be careful about those who enter my life. I don't know about that, but what I do know is that the further up you go, the more it stinks and wreaks of frauds and cheats who truly believe they are above the law.

All in all, I lost approximately $460,000.00 in property and assets. All that I had worked for since the age of 17-years old, 15-years old if you count summer jobs. But I learned who friends were, who'd be there for me no matter what, who'd just stand by and judge, and who the real heroes of this world are.

Oh and Venrock, "has no comment", but had lots of cash to pay to Drawdy to leave the company after it was discovered a fraud was hired, the same excessive amount of cash and options used to pay his fines for securities fraud. And Drawdy still gets to profit from the SteelEye Technology venture. But Tamra, well, oh well...not our problem as she struggles daily to overcome her losses Venrock helped to create and as the champagne glasses clink to Venrock's new investments. SteelEye is hanging on after employees took paycuts, left the company, and many mortgaging their personal assets (good! because when it folds, substantially more than I lost will be lost!). And SteelEye supposedly is doing well in European markets where that market doesn't have easy access to their local shady business practices within the U.S. But has no money to pay for their unethical and immoral treatment of several employees, but expects success by asking customers to buy something that involves trust and integrity.

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