
Co-Founder, CEO of Appcelerator, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area

Co-Founder, CEO of Appcelerator, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
Appcelerator is an open source software company that develops products and solutions to help enterprises rapidly develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) and SOA-based (service oriented architecture-based) Web services. The company’s Appcelerator Platform is an RIA and SOA-based services development platform that enables developers to create Ajax and DHTML RIAs by adding expressions to standard HTML – eliminating the need for Javascript. Using message-oriented architecture, developers and create and run any client applications against any SOA-based services and in any modern Web browsers. Developers can create services in any language, including Java, Ruby, .NET and PHP, and utilized pre-built developer widgets to rapidly assemble RIA components. The Appcelerator Platform SDK is currently available for download under the company’s open source license in its developer community at http://www.appcelerator.org
Previous Co-Founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software company focused on delivering open standards, speech and telephony based products on an OEM basis. Served on the W3C Voice Browser and Multimodal Working Groups and the IETF. Co-Author of SIP-VoiceXML Media Server IETF draft. Previous member of the VoiceXML Forum.
In the early days of JBoss I was a core contributor and co-author of JBoss Remoting. I also worked on JBoss JMX and JMX Remoting.
I am one of the key organizers for SoCon07 - a social media unconference in the Southeastern U.S. I was the organizer of Barcamp Atlanta.
Open source software
Social media, networking, search, content and transactions
New media marketing, product research and development
Software Development, Design and Architecture
Web, Search and Internet related technologies
Telephony and Speech expertise
Distributed programming
VoiceXML, SIP, MRCP, CCXML, SRGS, SSML voice/telephony standards
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Co-founder and CEO of an open source software company that develops products and solutions to help enterprises rapidly develop rich Internet applications (RIAs) and SOA-based (service oriented architecture-based) Web services.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Skribit was a startup company created at Startup Weekend Atlanta over a weekend at the ATDC incubator at Georgia Tech. Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear with Skribit. You can find more information about Skribit at http://www.skribit.com.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — July 2006 (5 years 4 months)
Co-Founder and CTO of Vocalocity. My job is chief visionary and primary architect of 4 main software product lines. Work with industry leaders and experts. Frequent speaker and evangelist for open standard, voice and telephony technologies.
(In July 2006, ZiVva acquired Vocalocity)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
June 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Member of the founding executive team of Internet Incubator in Atlanta, GA. Funded by UPS eVentures, idealab!, DLJ and numerous other investors. Responsible for assisting incubating companies in technology strategy, product development and software engineering. We provided in-house software development and hosting services for member companies .
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1995 — June 1999 (4 years 6 months)
High tech software consultancy to a number of small and large companies, including Oracle, MCI, CSX and RevelantKnowledge. Majority of engagements in software architecture, distributed programming, technology strategy and development, business development and new product development.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
October 1989 — June 1993 (3 years 9 months)
I enlisted in the U.S. Navy and attended boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois. After Great Lakes, I attended aviation training at Whidbey Island, Washington. After Washington, I was stationed at NAF Atsugi, Japan at VAQ-136 - a EA-6B Prowler squadron, deployed on the U.S.S. Midway (CV-41). I did 2 western pacific tours and spent a good bit of time in the Persian Gulf during the first Gulf War. I helped cross-desk the U.S.S. Midway to the U.S.S. Independence (CV-62) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and returned with it to Japan. I exited the U.S. Navy at Pensacola, Florida. While in the U.S. Navy, I achieved the rank of E-4 with special distinctions, medals, commendations and awards. I also received my Aviation Warfare Specialist Wings as an E-4. I was also the maintenance shift shop supervisor of my squadron and achieved QA certification status. I worked on the flight deck as a troubleshooter for my squadron.
snow skiing, new technology, open source, entrepreneurialism
W3C, IETF, VoiceXML Forum, Foocamp, Barcamp, Socon
100th Graduate of Ga Tech Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)
Money Tree Top 25 Venture Capital Member Company