Chief Open Source Officer and Director of Open Technologies Practice at Sun Microsystems
United Kingdom
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- Chief Open Source Officer and Director of Open Technologies Practice at Sun Microsystems
- Advisory Board Member at GNOME Foundation
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- Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems
- Member of Advisory Board at Propylon Ltd
- Director and Chief Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems
- Director at Open Mobile Alliance Ltd
- Chief Java & XML Evangelist at IBM Corporation
- Conferencing Evangelist at IBM Corporation
- Software Assurer at IBM Corporation
- Senior Field Software Engineer at Unisys
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Simon Phipps’s Experience
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Chief Open Source Officer and Director of Open Technologies Practice
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
I direct Sun's Open Technologies Practice and I'm responsible for globally co-ordinating Sun's activities involving open standards, open IPR and open source software, including promoting consistency and best practice, and advising Sun's executive management on global open technology issues. See our work at sun.com/opensource and sun.com/standards. I also operate Sun's Open Source Ombudsman Service, reachable at ombudsman [at] sun [dot] com
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Advisory Board Member
GNOME Foundation
(Computer Software industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Representing Sun Microsystems on this purely advisory group guiding the GNOME Foundation.
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Chief Open Source Officer
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
September 2005 — July 2008 (2 years 11 months)
I'm responsible for co-ordinating Sun's activities involving open source software, promoting consistency and best practice, liaising with free and open source software communities and advising Sun's executive management on open source issues. I also operate Sun's Open Source Ombudsman Service, reachable at ombudsman [at] sun [dot] com
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Member of Advisory Board
Propylon Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2002 — March 2006 (3 years 5 months)
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Director and Chief Technology Evangelist
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — September 2005 (5 years 4 months)
In this position I acted as the "catcher" for all new activity in Sun's markets, and promoted Sun's overall technology vision. I also took an extensive interest in open source software.
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Director
Open Mobile Alliance Ltd
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)
August 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Representing Sun Microsystems, I helped found the Open Mobile Alliance and then acted as one of the 25 or so initial Directors of the Board.
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Chief Java & XML Evangelist
IBM Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1995 — June 2000 (5 years 1 month)
Helped get Java started at IBM, first as one of the founding managers of the IBM Hursley Java Technology Centre (responsible for outward-facing activities) and then as lead spokesperson. Went on to be involved in the genesis of XML and the e-business marketing activities at IBM, speaking and writing globally.
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Conferencing Evangelist
IBM Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
September 1992 — June 1995 (2 years 10 months)
Handling the outbound aspects of IBM's Person to Person collaborative conferencing product line.
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Software Assurer
IBM Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1990 — November 1992 (2 years 6 months)
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Senior Field Software Engineer
Unisys
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1982 — June 1990 (7 years 10 months)
