M. Coté Jr.

M. Coté Jr.

Industry Analyst, RedMonk

Austin, Texas Area

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Education
  • The University of Texas at Austin
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M. Coté Jr.’s Summary

I'm an industry analyst at RedMonk covering primarily enterprise software, specializing in open source, IT management, cloud computing, Web 2.0, software development, collaborative, the web, and social/collaborative software. Previous to RedMonk, I was a software developer for many years and several companies.

M. Coté Jr.’s Specialties:

enterprise software, systems management, application development, collaborative software,
social software, Web 2.0, open source, community, consumer technology, RIA, cloud computing

M. Coté Jr.’s Experience

  • Adobe MAX 2009 Awards Judge

    Adobe Systems

    (Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

    August 2009 — Present (4 months)

    I'm a judge for the 2009 Adobe MAX conference awards in the enterprise category.

  • Advisory Board Member

    TechTarget

    (Public Company; TTGT; Online Media industry)

    November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

    As part of the advisory board, I participate in monthly topics about IT Management.

  • Contributor

    TechTarget

    (Public Company; TTGT; Online Media industry)

    May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

    I write occasional columns for SearchDataCenter.com, typically on the topic of IT Management.

  • Analyst

    RedMonk

    (Market Research industry)

    February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

    Coté is analyst at RedMonk covering primarily enterprise software, specializing in open source, IT management, software development, collaborative, the web, and social/collaborative software. He is RedMonk’s IT Management Lead. His blog is available at http://www.PeopleOverProcess.com and he produces the RedMonk podcast as well as the video podcast RedMonkTV.

    Technobabble 2.0, a popular blog about analyst relations, ranked Coté’s blog #8 in its ranking of “Top 100 analyst blogs”. He was recently named the 3rd most regarded analyst in the U.S. and 5th globally by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations.

  • Azure Application Contest

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    June 2009 — June 2009 (1 month)

    I was a judge for the new CloudApp() Azure application contest, judging several submissions of applications that ran on and used Azure, Silverlight, and other Microsoft technologies. See http://www.newcloudapp.com/ for more.

  • Judge

    TechTarget

    (Public Company; TTGT; Online Media industry)

    January 2009 — January 2009 (1 month)

    Judge for Products of the Year 2008 in the Systems Management category.

  • Eclipse Community Awards Judge 2009

    Eclipse Foundation

    (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

    December 2008 — January 2009 (2 months)

  • Adobe MAX Awards Judge

    Adobe Systems

    (Public Company; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

    October 2008 — October 2008 (1 month)

    I was the industry judge (non-Adobe employee) for the Enterprise category of nominations.

  • Eclipse Community Awards Judge 2008

    Eclipse Foundation

    (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

    February 2008 — March 2008 (2 months)

    Judging the nominations for EclipseCon.

  • Senior Product Developer

    BMC Software

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

    April 2002 — February 2006 (3 years 11 months)

    I was part of part of a hand-picked team that's creating the next generation of systems management software, BMC Performance Manager Portal, from the success of PATROL Express and PATROL. See http://www.bmc.com/corporate/nr2005/052305_2.html for more.

    Previously, I helped create and grow BMC's popular, light-weight systems management application, PATROL Express.

    I spent my time mentoring others; working with our ever growing customer base; creating and maintaining requirements, functional, and architectural documents; specifying and improving our development process; working with other groups, running plenty of skunk-works projects (blogs, wikis, Google mini's, brown bags, etc.); and, of course, coding.

    I was certified as a Scrum Master while at BMC and practiced Agile software development daily.

  • JAAS in Action (Unpublished)

    Manning Publications

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 1 month)

    I wrote a book on JAAS (Java Authentication and Authorization Service). In the end, Manning decided not to publish it. So, that means you can read the book for free at http://www.jaasbook.com .

  • Programmer

    The Cobalt Group, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2001 — March 2002 (6 months)

    I worked on one of Cobalt's most widely deployed products, Lead Manager, a full customer life cycle CRM system for auto-dealers. I first worked on finishing the stalled development of the reporting component of Lead Manager, developing a J2EE based web application that seamlessly integrated with the rest of the hosted system. Before leaving Cobalt, I worked with the product's architect to specify and designing next version of Lead Manager.

    During my "spare time" I focused on improving the collaboration between development, QA, marketing, and others by installing, maintaining, and evangelising collaborative tools, in particular the internal Cobalt wiki that's still in use today.

  • Founder

    Acorro.com

    (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 2001 — October 2001 (7 months)

    Acorro.com was a B2C hosted web application helped consumers search for, and companies manage, customer service information. As the co-founder and sole developer, I designed, tested, and
    supported the web application from scratch using JSP, Struts and Servlets, Castor, plenty of XML, and many other web development software libraries and packages. I also used this project to experiment with Agile methodologies, and have used the lessons learned ever since.

    During this time I visited with several VC's and other investors, talking informally and formally with them about our company and attempting to raise cash. As the product matured, my partner and I began forming partnerships and collaborating with other companies.

  • Profesional Services Programmer

    Liaison Technologies, Inc

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    February 2001 — August 2001 (7 months)

    As a Professional Services programmer at Liaison, I developed many small custom projects to integrate Liaison's data mining software with client's software. Each projects involved heavy transformation and management of content formatted in XML, database storage and retrieval, web page scraping and other data acquisition, and design-fast, fail-safe products for off-site customers.

    Java was the primary language used, and projects often required integration with third-party software. I interacted extensively with customers through the life of projects, and found that thinning the middle-layer that often exists between programmer and customer always resulted in less design/requirements confusion and painful re-coding, while at the same time delivered what the customer wanted and would pay more money for.

  • Programmer

    Coral Technologies, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2000 — February 2001 (8 months)

    We developed a distributed computing environment in a pure Java using several Java technologies extensively such as JMS, JSP, Servlets, and other technologies such as XML, HTML/CSS, CORBA, and Unix development utilities. All the development was done on Linux.

    As one of the first employees I was immersed in Object Oriented design and development and responsible for architecting, implementing, and integration testing all parts of the system. My responsibility was to take my parts of the product through their full life cycle. In this role I worked extensively with all parts of the company and was forced to be extremely self-motivated and self-managed. Because of the lack of a System Administrator, my Unix knowledge from past jobs and personal experience was called on regularly to maintain and configure various
    maintenance and network resources.

  • Founding Programmer

    FundsXpress Financial Network

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 1995 — June 2000 (5 years 2 months)

    FundsXpress (www.fundsxpress.com) created, and now maintains, one of
    the first on-line banking system, secure e-finance solutions for
    banks, credit unions, and savings & loan instirution. As one of the
    first 5 employees I played a role in architecting, designing,
    developing, and maintaining all parts of the Object Oriented
    system. The software was developed and deployed on Unix and Linux
    platforms.

M. Coté Jr.’s Education

  • The University of Texas at Austin

    Liberal Arts , Philosophy , 1996 — 2000

    My background in philosophy and English (which I almost majored in) has been worth the time and effort 100's of times over in my software career. I'm able to empathetically understand, analyze, and work with people be it in person, over the phone, or through documents. While I was at school, I worked at FundsXpress, and in that way, received a dual "degree" in Philosophy and real-world programming.

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M. Coté Jr.’s Groups:

Certified Scrum Master (Aug. 2004)

  •    BMC Alumni
  •    Agile Alliance
  •    Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
  •    Owning ITIL®

M. Coté Jr.’s Honors:

Ranked 3rd most regarded analyst in the U.S. and 5th globally by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations.

Ranked #8 of top 100 analyst blogs by Technobabble2

R&D Innovation Award (BMC Software, Inc.).

Peer Award (BMC Software, Inc.).

Star Award (BMC Software, Inc.).

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