Michael Slavitch

Current

• Senior Systems Architect at Research In Motion

Past

• Lead, Technology Initiatives at Objectworld Communications
• Technology Evangelist at Loran
• Technology Evangelist at Peregrine Systems

• Senior Developer at Plaintree Systems
• Developer at Mitel Corporation

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Michael Slavitch’s Summary

I combine technology research, economics, and business planning. I look two years down the road and work through the smoke to see what is real and what isn't. My goal is to minimize risk of failure by optimizing development steps into smaller solvable problems so that we can turn on a dime if need be. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

Michael Slavitch’s Specialties:

VOIP, SIP, Active Directory, SOA, XML, SOAP, Distributed Systems, Distributed Databases, Complex Systems, Failure Analysis, Risk Analysis, Market Analysis, P2P SIP.

Michael Slavitch’s Experience

• Senior Systems Architect

  Research In Motion

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RIMM; Wireless industry)

  March 2008 — Present (7 months)

  Senior Systems Architect in the Blackberry architecture team, focused on distributed computing.

• Lead, Technology Initiatives

  Objectworld Communications

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 11 months)

  I proposed what became Objectworld Unified Communications Server in March of 2004, and it won best of show 15 months later at its first trade show. I'm the inventor or co-inventor of all of Objectworld's currently filed intellectual properties.

• Technology Evangelist

  Loran

  (Telecommunications industry)

  1995 — 2002 (7 years)

• Technology Evangelist

  Peregrine Systems

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Peregrine acquired Loran for $130M in 2000.
  
  A few years later Peregrine was cited for financial fraud.
  
  In 2005 Peregrine was bought by HP, a key value proposition was the autodiscovery patents in the former Loran product which will now become a part of HP Openview.

• Senior Developer

  Plaintree Systems

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 1990 — May 1992 (2 years 5 months)

  Helped developed 1st 10/100 ethernet switch.
  
  Met current management team at Objectworld, built our careers together over time.

• Developer

  Mitel Corporation

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

  August 1988 — January 1990 (1 year 6 months)

  Entry level developer.
  
  Developed TCP/IP layer for the SX-2000 in 1988.

Additional Information

Michael Slavitch’s Groups:

The Well

•    Peregrine Systems Alumni
•    WELL community
•    Unified Communications
•    Wireless Internet Industry Executives (WIIE)...3200 members & growing!

Michael Slavitch’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• getting back in touch