CEO, TossableDigits.com
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- CEO at Telusion, Inc.
- Internet Group Chair, Operations Committee Member at Fairfax Public Access
- President at Angry Ox Industries
- Past
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- Customer at Mologogo
- Co-Founder, VP of Technology at 762 Wireless
- Chief Technology Officer at Opera Telecom USA
- CIO at North American Management
- Director of Internet Initiatives at North American Management
- Founder, CTO at AdCritic.com
- Director of Research & Development at CAIS Internet
- Solaris Web Team Lead at UUNET
- Programmer & Analyst at UUcom
- Education
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- Hope College
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Peter Beckman’s Summary
Visionary Entrepreneur with a strong technical background interested in integrating life and its services using human-friendly open source and web-based systems.
Peter Beckman’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurial Ventures, Dynamic Database-driven application development, network and information security, systems and process implementation
Peter Beckman’s Experience
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CEO
Telusion, Inc.
(Telecommunications industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
Founded TossableDigits.com, a Web 2.0 and VoIP 2.0 company providing VoIP telephony services without the need for broadband Internet or special hardware/software. The company was acquired by Telusion, Inc in 2007. Provides local US/Canada phone numbers everywhere that forward to existing phones, 2nd phone lines for cell phones, "Keep-your-Number" service for people who want to keep their cell or home number without the traditional phone bill.
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Internet Group Chair, Operations Committee Member
Fairfax Public Access
(Broadcast Media industry)
June 1996 — Present (13 years 2 months)
Held a variety of positions since 1996 at FPA: Internet Group Volunteer, Internet Group Chair, Operations Committee Member, Internet Advisor to the FPA Board. Assist in making purchasing decisions for FPA, coordinate Internet volunteers to help with day-to-day operations of Nova.org, respond to customer requests.
Nova.org is a non-profit ISP providing Dial-up, hosting, web, FTP and email services to Fairfax County residents at competitive prices. Working with a group of 10-15 other volunteer admins and network folk, we manage the network, systems and data center for about 250 members. -
President
Angry Ox Industries
(Internet industry)
April 1996 — Present (13 years 4 months)
Independent consulting firm, specializing in web application development; database design, management and optimization; and system/network security.
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Customer
Mologogo
(Internet industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Co-Founder, VP of Technology
762 Wireless
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)
July 2005 — February 2006 (8 months)
Built the entire technology platform from the ground up. Brought the self-funded company to profitability in under 9 months. Managed a team of 3 developers; served over 1 million ringtones to customers.
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Chief Technology Officer
Opera Telecom USA
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Built the technology platform for Opera and Katazo.com from the ground up. Helped grow the company from no revenue to profitability in under 1 year. Oversaw the day-to-day technology operations for the company. Built and planned new development projects, plan and implement for future growth, aided other groups on technical capabilities, and helped steer the company at a senior management level.
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CIO
North American Management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2003 — April 2004 (5 months)
Responsible for $1 million in new revenue, management of existing contracts, new development of possible resellable software packages, and management of the internal company IT.
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Director of Internet Initiatives
North American Management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2003 — December 2003 (10 months)
Responsible for all Internet-related application development, research, consulting and programming. Implemented a portion of the HUD Grant Management process in a web-based application in under 3 months, and decreased processing time from 9 months to 4.
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Founder, CTO
AdCritic.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 3 months)
Founded and built AdCritic.com. Provided full-length, full-frame TV advertisements to ad industry professionals and fans alike. In January 2001, AdCritic.com was the 2nd largest streaming video site on the Internet, second only to AOL. Successfully sold the business to Crain Communications, and is still running profitably today.
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Director of Research & Development
CAIS Internet
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CAIS; Internet industry)
August 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for designing the Cisco-switch network to be used in hotels and apartment buildings for the distribution of OverVoice -- high-speed broadband internet access to the hotel room and apartment. Worked with the systems administration group to build VLAN-secured networks to prevent room-to-room direct communication. Developed the software that allowed the switches to be automatically configured via TFTP when they were plugged in by the installers.
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Solaris Web Team Lead
UUNET
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MCI; Internet industry)
April 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 5 months)
Built the new Solaris Web Hosting platform group. Managed a small team to support multple clients running on our Solaris platform, including Disney.com. Duties included system administration, network management, backup automation, software installation, hardware maintenance and troubleshooting.
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Programmer & Analyst
UUcom
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 1996 — April 1997 (7 months)
Worked exclusively on Object Oriented Perl projects for a Denver-based company, Mercury Mail (now Sony's InfoBeat). Programmed a variety of customer service, user and maintenance tools that dealt with Oracle database interaction, Internet access, and statistical processing. Administered distributed backup system, upgraded machines with vendor patches, and installed applications on Sun Solaris, Linux (slackware) and FreeBSD operating systems.
Peter Beckman’s Education
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Hope College
Computer Science , 1992 — 1996
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