10 Years and Counting!
Established in 1995, we have proudly served our clients and partners for more
than a decade!
About Us
Originally formed as a means to support his hobbies, DreamFire Enterprises has
since grown beyond Bruce's wildest expectations, allowing him to leave the
corporate world to work for himself.
With clients ranging from a former VP of Coke, to the president of a public
relations company in New York City, to an Emmy award-winning producer from
Good Morning America,
as well as still taking good care of their neighbors' computers,
Bruce and Brooke enjoy problem solving, and enjoy the fact that they
can actually get paid to do something they enjoy.
Bruce Caruthers
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Founder, President, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.
With nearly 20 years of experience in the high-end computing field, Bruce
has worked as programmer, project lead, manager, and executive at companies
large, medium, small, and startup.
He, unlike so many of those in the field today, has experience with business
before the web boom years, as well as with non-internet uses of computers.
Bruce brings to DreamFire Enterprises his experience as a key member of the
My Yahoo team, including extensive involvement in the internationalization of
the My Yahoo properties.
Prior to his time at Yahoo, he worked briefly at a financial services web
company (which shall remain nameless), where he observed how not to
run a startup company.
He also brings with him several years of engineering and process management
experience at Oracle, where he worked as the Project Lead for Integration and
Abstraction, as well as bringing experience from Silicon Graphics (SGI), and
from Princeton University's Interactive Computer Graphics Laboratory
(ICGL).
An alumnus of Princeton University, Bruce initially put his efforts into
astrophysics and comparative religion, before finishing with his degree in
Computer Science, focusing on real-time interactive graphics and animation
systems.
His thesis centered around Computer-Human Interactions (CHI), studying the
psychology of network latency on user perceptions and behavior in a graphical
environment.
Currently located in the Pacific Northwest, Bruce spends his spare time
experimenting with recycling fryer oil into biodiesel, renovating his house,
or playing Dungeons & Dragons©.
He married his lovely and talented wife, Brooke, in 2001.
Brooke Yool
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Vice President, Chemist, Cook, Musician
With degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from UC San Francisco and
Biology from UC Irvine, Brooke brings a passion and talent for teaching to
DreamFire Enterprises.
In addition, she provides a more artistic grounding, with her current
involvement in multiple jazz and big band groups, performing on piano,
saxophone (alto, tenor, and bari), and vocals.
She also has been gaining experience arranging and writing music both for her
bands and for her solo interests.
Currently teaching various chemistry courses at a local college, Brooke has
taught for years (with a brief detour into internet startups during the boom,
such as Quote.com and Lycos), including courses such as bioinformatics and
organic chemistry, as well as helping develop curricula for a biotech
program at a Silicon Valley college.
Located with her husband, Bruce, in the Pacific Northwest, her spare time
generally finds her being creative in the kitchen, decorating her house,
gardening, or working on better ways to process fryer oil into biodiesel.
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