Mitchell Ashley

Current

Co-Founder at Vozle LLC
Principal Consultant at Converging Network, LLC

Past

CTO, VP Engineering & VP Customer Experience at StillSecure
CIO & VP Network Engineering at Jato Communications
Founder & Executive Vice President at BoldTech Systems

Sr Director Broadband Product Development at USWest Advanced Technologies
Sr Engineer, Manager Advanced Technology Projects at Electronic Data Systems

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Education

University of Nebraska at Kearney

Recommended

25 people have recommended Mitchell

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

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Mitchell Ashley’s Summary

My passions are creating innovative products and businesses, while teaming up with talented people who have a passion for making a difference. My technology and market focus includes social media, collaboration, mobility, networking, security, virtualization, cloud services, SaaS, Microsoft and open source.

Many of who I've worked along side say I have a knack for effectively understanding customer and market needs, translating those into successfully delivered systems and products, and effectively simplifying complex topics and communicating them in a way a broad audience can understand.

I love to evangelize the work I am a part of with customers, analysts, and media. I am fortunate to have appeared in industry publications such as USAToday, NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, CRN and others.

I regularly blog about my activities and topics of interest at The Converging Network, http://theconvergingnetwork.com, the Network World Microsoft Subnet blog, http://www.networkworld.com/community/ashley, and the podcast I co-host, "StillSecure After All These Years", http://ashimmy.podomatic.com.

Mitchell Ashley’s Experience

Co-Founder

Vozle LLC

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Vozle is a context-aware collaboration software + services company that enables your vertical business to capture relevant information in the moment--and act on it--creating a whole new level of convenience, productivity, and business value for you and your customers.
Principal Consultant

Converging Network, LLC

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Converging Network LLC provides a synergistic blend of social media, product strategy, collaboration, networking and security services to product companies, emerging technology companies, and IT organizations.

Converging Network recently helped an IT services company significantly expand their Microsoft SharePoint collaboration consulting business leveraging a unique reusable software factory strategy. Converging Network also provided product and technical management services to bring to market an industry game changing supply chain business process product utilizing SOA, Microsoft .NET, WF, SQL Server and Amazon EC2/S3 cloud services. During 2008, we worked with a Software-as-a-Service ISV expand their offerings and strategic relationships, resulting in growing the business through partnerships with Opsource and Microsoft.

Leveraging our unique experiences evangelizing companies and products through social media, Converging Network has worked with multiple professionals and organizations to engage customers, media and analysts via social media, rapidly accelerating their learning curve, and extending the reach and effectiveness of their thought leadership.

Converging Network also provides blogging services to Network World on the topic of Microsoft, mobile platforms, collaboration software, virtualization and insights into industry events and trends. The Network World Converging on Microsoft blog can be found at http://www.nww.com/community/ashley.
CTO, VP Engineering & VP Customer Experience

StillSecure

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

October 2000 — October 2007 (7 years 1 month)

StillSecure is a business I've been with since the start of the company. As VP of engineering our team brought four innovative products to market while most companies our size would struggle to bring one product to market. Two of our products, Safe Access and Strata Guard, are "Best Of" winners in their category and VAM has numerous accolades as well. As CTO and VP customer experience I lead the company in our product strategy and product design as well as speaking at security industry events, with press and analysts and industry organizations such as Trusted Computing Group.

In addition to CTO, I served as General Manager of the Cobia Unified Network Platform, StillSecure's newest innovative and industry leading product. As GM I directly managed the product engineering responsibilities had P&L, product management, marketing and within the respective organizations of StillSecure. Check out Cobia at http://cobia.stillsecure.com.
CIO & VP Network Engineering

Jato Communications

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 10 months)

As the first employee of the company I started in the lab prototyping our network infrastructure and services to deploying a network of over 500 POPs in less that 14 months. With the added responsible of Customer Operations and IT I had the joy of managing a significant portion of the business. Jato helped build my reputation as someone who uniquely delivered projects on time, often exceeding our company goals. What a fun company to build and be a part of.
Founder & Executive Vice President

BoldTech Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 9 months)

Profitable from our first month of operations BoldTech Systems provided large scale systems integration services to telecommunications companies. Our first accounts were USWest, AOL, Jones Cable, and Qwest. I owe the success of this company to some very talented individuals that quickly joined after the company was started and helped build BoldTech. Thanks to my friends and collegues.
Sr Director Broadband Product Development

USWest Advanced Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 1990 — April 1996 (6 years 1 month)
Sr Engineer, Manager Advanced Technology Projects

Electronic Data Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1983 — April 1990 (7 years 4 months)