Stephen Walli

Current

• Independent Consultant at my own Consultancy (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• CTO and VP Engineering at an undercover start-up
• Vice-president, Open Source Development Strategy at Optaros, Inc.
• Business Development Mgr at Microsoft Corp

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Stephen Walli’s Summary

I have worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor. I currently consult on software business development and open source strategy, often working with partners like Initmarketing and InteropSystems. I organized the agenda, speakers and sponsors for the inaugural Beijing Open Source Software Forum as part of the 2007 Software Innovation Summit in Beijing. The development of the Chinese software market is an area of deep interest for me. I'm a board director at eBox, and an advisor at Bitrock, Continuent, Ohloh, and TargetSource (each of which represents unique opportunities in the FOSS world). I am also the open-source-strategist-in-residence for Open Tuesday in Finland.

I was Vice-president, Open Source Development Strategy at Optaros, Inc. through it's initial 19 months. Prior to that I was a business development manager in the Windows Platform team at Microsoft working on community development, standards, and intellectual property concerns. Before joining the platforms business team, I was a program manager on Rotor. I started at Microsoft as a Product Unit Manager for Interix.

I was executive staff (vice-president, R&D) and a founder at Softway Systems, Inc., a venture backed startup that developed the Interix environment to re-host UNIX applications on Windows NT. The Interix product juggled core Softway developed code, Microsoft licensed code, and a wealth of open source covered by a myriad of licenses. Softway was acquired by Microsoft in 1999.

Before starting Softway Systems, I worked as a consultant for X/Open, Sun, UNISYS (expert witness), and the Canadian government. Going back further, I've been a development manager at Mortice Kern Systems, a systems analyst at Electronic Data Systems and Sears, and a real-time programmer at Ferrco Engineering.

The bio and CV can be found on the blog "about" page, along with publications and papers: http://stephesblog.blogs.com/about.html

Stephen Walli’s Specialties:

Free software, open source software, software standards, software development management, software business, China

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