Erick Rivas

Erick Rivas

VP of Development and CTO, Limeade, Inc. - TopLinked.com

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Erick Rivas's Overview

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  • Lab VP, VP of Product Integration (Application Lifecycle Solutions) at Platinum technology, inc.
  • Co-founder and VP of Development at ProtoSoft, Inc.

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Education
  • University of Houston-Clear Lake
  • San Jacinto College - South
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Erick Rivas's Summary

Co-founder and CTO, Limeade, Inc.:
(erick.rivas @ limeade.com)

Limeade™ builds happy, healthy, high-performance workforces. We do this by starting with what each person wants to achieve, and by helping them improve, step-by-step. Our evidence-based approach measures and improves all the key drivers of health, well-being and productivity. No one else does this.

It's an approach built and supported by global leaders in health and human capital. And now it's accessible to companies at a low monthly cost. It’s fun, it's social, and it's for the entire company. Most importantly, it delivers real value—giving unique insight into your workforce, and helping you use that knowledge to improve business performance.

Learn more at: limeade.com/about

My personal site: www.erickrivas.net

Former roles:

Co-founder and CEO, Mongoose Technology, Inc. (PortalStudio, RealCommunities product suite).

VP, Platinum Technology (acquired in '99 by Computer Associates).

Co-founder and VP of Development, ProtoSoft, Inc. (Paradigm Plus acquired in '95 by Platinum Technology).

Specialties

I am an Entrepreneur, CTO, and Enterprise 2.0 Architect.

Expert on AJAX, Virtual Assistants/Intelligent Agents, Voice & Web Portals; Enterprise Application & Data Integration; Social, KM & Collaboration Software; UML 2.x, VXML, VoIP, Application Lifecycle Management, Diagram Editors, Rules Engines, OO Implementation (C#, ASP.NET, Flash, PHP, J2EE, C++), RSS, Portlets / Gadgets, jQuery.

Erick Rivas's Experience

CTO, VP of Product Development

Limeade, Inc.

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry

May 2006 – Present (5 years 9 months)

Limeade™ builds happy, healthy, high-performance workforces. We do this by starting with what each person wants to achieve, and by helping them improve, step-by-step. Our evidence-based approach measures and improves all the key drivers of health, well-being and productivity.
It's an approach built and supported by global leaders in health and human capital. And now it's accessible to companies at a low monthly cost. It’s fun, it's social, and it's for the entire company. Most importantly, it delivers real value—giving unique insight into your workforce, and helping you use that knowledge to improve business performance.

Try Limeade at: limeade.com/user/createuser.aspx

Chief Experience Officer

Jini Communications, LLC.

May 2005 – April 2006 (1 year)

Jini Communications, LLC is a Web 2.0 Labs Design, Development and Consulting firm.

President and CTO

Atlantis One Technologies (now AtLink)

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

May 2004 – May 2005 (1 year 1 month)

AtLink Communications (formerly Atlantis One Technologies) solutions allow any sized company to easily and affordably automate their Voice Communication Processes. Visit on the web at: http://www.atlinkcom.com/

Co-founder and CEO

Mongoose Technology, Inc.

September 1999 – April 2004 (4 years 8 months)

Mongoose Technology created and sold PortalStudio® the enterprise and community portal product suite. Acquired and integrated RealCommunities®, a KM and collaboration product, and an implementation of the widely popular 12 Principles of Collaboration™, by Cynthia Typaldos, Anthony Christopher, et. al.

Lab VP, VP of Product Integration (Application Lifecycle Solutions)

Platinum technology, inc.

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PLAT; Computer Software industry

November 1995 – May 1999 (3 years 7 months)

While at Platinum Technology, Erick participated at the OMG, along with the "Three Amigos" at Rational Software, IBM, Microsoft, ICON Computing and other industry leaders in an effort to define and standardize on the UML (Unified Modeling Language) notation and underlying meta-model. In '97, Paradigm Plus 3.0 was the first modeling tool to support the UML 1.0 standard notation.

Platinum Technology was the first Enterprise Software company to offer integrated suites of products for Systems Management, Database Management, Application Lifecycle Management and Data Warehouse Management.

In mid 1999, Platinum Technology was acquired by Computer Associates. At the time, it was the largest software company acquisition in history.

Co-founder and VP of Development

ProtoSoft, Inc.

July 1987 – November 1995 (8 years 5 months)

While at ProtoSoft with founding partner and CEO Dr. Anthony Lekkos, Erick developed and then managed the on-going development of the first OOAD (Object-Oriented Analysis & Design) modeling and code generation tool on the market, called Paradigm Plus (P+). Before Paradigm Plus, we offered an early object modeling tool called Object Plus.

Leveraging Windows 3.0 (remember that?) and using Meta-Modeling technology, Paradigm Plus supported a wide variety of OOAD notations, including Rumbaugh/OMT, Booch, Jacobson, HP-Fusion, Coad/Yourdon, Shlaer/Mellor, Martin/Odell and others which together largely formed the basis for standardization of the UML notation proposed by the Three-Amigos that is used today by us architects and developers thoughout the world who create and maintain software blueprints.

In late 1995, when at the time Paradigm Plus had the largest market share for OOAD modeling tools, ProtoSoft was acquired by for ~$40M by Platinum Technology, one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in history.

Erick Rivas's Publications

  • Application Integration: Forms, Degrees,and Mechanisms

    • BEA Weblogic Journal
    • May 19, 2002
    Authors: Erick Rivas

    Application Integration: Forms, Degrees, and Mechanisms

    There are four basic forms of application integration:

    * Presentation
    * Workflow
    * Data
    * Component

    These integration forms are largely independent of each other and they address the layers in a traditional architecture stack. Each integration form can be taken to many degrees (based on ROI), which correspond to the complexity or depth of application integration. Integration mechanisms refer to the implementation technology used to accomplish the integration.

  • UML: the language of blueprints for software?

    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM Portal)
    • October 15, 1997
    Authors: Erick Rivas, Jim Rumbaugh, Derek Coleman, Viktor Ohnjec, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, John Artim

    The Unified Method was launched by Grady Booch and Jim Rumbaugh at an OOPSLA'95 Conference Fringe meeting organised by Rational Software Corporation. In 1996 the Unified Method was re-scoped to a notation, and renamed the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Earlier in 1997, UML was submitted to the Object Management Group for standardisation and was been endorsed by Microsoft, IBM, Platinum Technology, HP, ObjectTime and many other corporations. No wonder UML is the de-facto standard notation for object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD). The panel took a sanity check, and went beyond the hype and newsgroup flames and attempt to form an objective view of UML and its prospects. The members of the panel have been working closely with UML in many different roles, including that of UML language designer, end-user, consultant, CASE tool expert, and object-oriented methodologist. The panel discussion focused on how UML matches up in practice against one of its original raisons d'etre as "the language of blueprints for software". Specific issues addressed include: What is the advantage of UML over existing OOAD notations? Can UML be used on real projects today? Is the language sufficiently simple, and well-enough defined, to become the de-facto standard? Will UML lead to improved OOAD methods and CASE tools? What is the importance of the meta-model in UML?

Erick Rivas's Education

University of Houston-Clear Lake

B.S., Computer Science

1987 – 1990

Activities and Societies: Awarded 1st Place two years in a row at the UHCL inter-collegiate Software Programming competition.

San Jacinto College - South

C.S., Computer Science

July 1985 – July 1987

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