Metaverse Evangelist at IBM
Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Metaverse Evangelist at IBM
- Past
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- Emerging Technologies Specialist at IBM
- Software Engineer at IBM
- Education
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- University of Portsmouth
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Roo Reynolds’s Summary
Deeply technical geek who also finds he can talk and listen to people.
Roo Reynolds’s Specialties:
Emerging Technology, Web 2.0, internet, social networking, user generated content, metaverse, virtual worlds, Second Life, blogs, ambient technology, Java, J2EE, servlets, Eclipse, pervasive messaging, telemetry, middleware, publish/subscribe messaging, JMS
Roo Reynolds’s Experience
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Metaverse Evangelist
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
As a Metaverse Evangelist for IBM, I facilitate the use of Virtual Worlds both within IBM (for virtual meetings and innovative collaboration) as well as for client-facing events (conferences, client events, community building, etc).
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Emerging Technologies Specialist
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)
As an Emerging Technology Services specialist I have worked on a wide range of new and innovative solutions for customer problems. I have engaged directly with several customers, proposing and delivering solutions with a focus on Emerging Technolgy.
When a large news organisation wanted to deploy 'ambient' technology in their London headquarters, I integrated an Ambient Orb with their existing data feeds.
Wrote a pervasive messaging solution, complete with a mobile application, to help information exchange between different lines of business at a major bank.
Collaborated with students at Cardiff University to explore Rich Internet Application techniques and create a graphing application using OpenLazslo.
Internal enthusiast and evangelist for Virtual Worlds, giving presentations on the Second Life. Worked with a mobile telco in the UK to investigate marketing and commercial exploitations of Virtual Worlds. -
Software Engineer
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
August 1997 — January 2006 (8 years 6 months)
2003 - 2006, MicroBroker development, IBM Pervasive Messaging:
Lead developer in the Pervasive Messaging Technologies team. Acted as the technical point of contact for other software labs as well as key business partners. Technical representative for IBM on Floodnet project to help create an 'intelligent flooding sensor network'.
2001 - 2003, IBM Business Integration for Games:
Significant involvement with the design and architecture of IBM's Business Integration for Games solution, owning and designing the 'process broker' server component.
1998 - 2001, IBM WebSphere MQ Everyplace:
I contributed to the on-time delivery of WebSphere MQe 1.0 in a test role. Joined MQe level 3 service. In this role I also presented at several customer conferences on MQe and pervasive messaging, including the Solutions Developer Conference (San Francisco), WebSphere conference (Athens), Share (Nashville), Share, (Minneapolis), Inner Circle (San Francisco).
Roo Reynolds’s Education
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University of Portsmouth
BSc (1st class honours), Computer Science, 1997 — 2000
