Erick Rivas

Current

CTO, VP of Product Development at Limeade, Inc.

Past

Chief Experience Officer at Jinni Communications, LLC.
President and CTO at Atlantis One Technologies (now AtLink)
Co-founder and CEO at Mongoose Technology, Inc.

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).

Erick Rivas’s 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; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 10 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/startnow.aspx
Chief Experience Officer

Jinni Communications, LLC.

(Internet industry)

May 2005 — April 2006 (1 year )

Jinni Communications, LLC is a Web 2.0 Labs Design, Development and Consulting firm. For more information, visit on the web at:

www.jinnicom.com www.webjinni.com www.web20labs.com
President and CTO

Atlantis One Technologies (now AtLink)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications 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.

(Internet industry)

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; 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.

(Computer Software industry)

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 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

Additional Information

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Erick Rivas’s Interests:

100% Fluent in English and Spanish

Erick Rivas’s Groups:

Platinum Alumni Network
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Information Security Community
Healthcare Analytics and Informatics, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Informatics
University of Houston Clear Lake
Porsche People: Owners, Global Employees & Admirers
NWEN - Northwest Entrepreneur Network
Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
jQuery
Limeade
Wellness 2.0
UML Lovers
Lean Agile Software Development Community
UML Professionals
MobiHealthNews
Cloud Security Alliance
Well-Being
Employee Total Well-Being