Shawn Rhoads

Current

Board of Directors at Harpoon Technologies
CEO at ICOA Inc.

Past

CEO at Harpoon Technologies
Architect, Office of the CTO at Voxeo
Chief Architect at Z-Tel Communications, Inc.

CEO at Telemedia, Inc. (Software @ Work)

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Education

Auburn University

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

Shawn Rhoads’s Summary

Want to provide outstanding and innovative technology solutions that help people better work and live.

http://oggchat.com
http://oggsync.com
http://voiceclearly.com
http://icoa.com

Shawn Rhoads’s Specialties:

Telecommunications, mobile, massively multi-user applications.

Shawn Rhoads’s Experience

Board of Directors

Harpoon Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)
CEO

ICOA Inc.

(Telecommunications industry)

July 1995 — Present (14 years 5 months)

ICOA is an expert voice and web design and development group. We practice Agile and leverage Java and .NET technology to help your company deliver quality software quickly. Partner with us for outsourced custom application development from inception to design to release to ongoing maintenance.

http://icoa.com
CEO

Harpoon Technologies

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — April 2007 (3 years 4 months)

President, Chairman, co-founder of high end software development consulting company to fortune 100 companies.

Harpoon Technologies, Inc. is a consulting firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO, USA. We specialize in systems integration and software development, including Web 2.0, Seam, Hibernate, EJB3, J2EE, .NET, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related technologies. We are also a Certified JBoss partner.

web: http://harpoontech.com
Architect, Office of the CTO

Voxeo

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

December 2000 — May 2001 (6 months)

Participated in W3C's Call Control Subgroup (Part of the Voice Browser Working Group) working with call control technologies (CallXML and CCXML). Business development and network architecture for Voxeo voice platform.
Chief Architect

Z-Tel Communications, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ZTEL; Telecommunications industry)

March 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 10 months)

Directed initial release of Z-Tel's enhanced services. Provided Technology Roadmap. Business Development. Enterpise Systems and Software Architecture. Management. Microsoft and Unix, Java, C++, Oracle.
CEO

Telemedia, Inc. (Software @ Work)

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 1988 — June 1993 (5 years 6 months)

Founded, Developed and Marketed TurBoard bulletin board software, the first graphical BBS software.