Kevin Ready

Current

• Chief Technical Architect and Strategist at Capitol Media Group

Past

• Senior Software Development Engineer at Toshiba America Electronic Components
• Founding Partner at Meridian Internet Services, Inc. (Sold assets to private equity group)
• Software Engineer at Dell Computer Corporation

• Programmer / Technology Consultant at Austin, Texas Area Companies

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• Texas State University-San Marcos
• The University of Texas at Austin

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Industry

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Kevin Ready’s Summary

Software development, and application architecture.
Distributed and international team management.
Knowledge management and engineering culture.

Exceeding organizational goals by a mile, while keeping team members happy and productive: building a culture that works.

Kevin Ready’s Specialties:

Marketing and product design
Balancing 'speed to market' / quality / cost / features in software products
Team management
Knowledge management through collaborative tools
Networked application development
Software requirements analysis
International teams
Japanese language
Systems for social networks
Semiconductor simulation and test environments.

Kevin Ready’s Experience

• Chief Technical Architect and Strategist

  Capitol Media Group

  (Internet industry)

  December 2007 — Present (11 months)

  Management of Engineering and IT teams.
  Focus on company strategy, marketing, and application of technology to increase revenue.
  
  Project: www.ApartmentHomeLiving.com

• Senior Software Development Engineer

  Toshiba America Electronic Components

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TOSBF; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 2001 — December 2007 (6 years 3 months)

  Member of multi-national STI Design Center based in Austin, Texas, developing the Playstation III "Cell" Processor.
  
  Responsible for design / infrastructure management / tools development for multi-million dollar semiconductor simulation lab.
  
  Technical leader for development of software for Cell's post-production testing environment.
  
  Developed numerous tools and systems used in the chip engineering process at STI.

• Founding Partner

  Meridian Internet Services, Inc. (Sold assets to private equity group)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1997 — October 2001 (4 years 3 months)

  Created a social networking business with nearly 1 million registered users.
  
  Spun off software from social networking venture into independent business. Customers included Microsoft, the United Nations, PeopleSoft, numerous government agencies, universities, and Fortune 500 companies.
  
  I am still a board member of MIS.

• Software Engineer

  Dell Computer Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  Analyst and developer for workflow management applications used to control planning, testing and factory rollout of new products at Dell.
  
  Extensive requirements gathering, process analysis, and stakeholder negotiation.

• Programmer / Technology Consultant

  Austin, Texas Area Companies

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1995 — November 1997 (2 years 11 months)

  Database programming and consulting for local companies including Integrated Software Systems, Foundation Software, and Origin Systems, Inc. and the City of Austin.

Kevin Ready’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  M.S., Engineering Management, 2005 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Master's research on 'management of international projects.' Conducting interviews with managers and engineers from numerous international organizations.

• Texas State University-San Marcos

  B.A., Computer Science, 1998 — 1998

  Interest in artificial intelligence, and data structures.

  Activities and Societies:

  Deans List for Academic Achievement

• The University of Texas at Austin

  B.A., Asian Studies / Japanese, 1989 — 1994

  Focused on chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and foreign languages. Studied Russian, German, and Japanese.

  Activities and Societies:

  Theta Chi

Additional Information

Kevin Ready’s Groups:

IEEE,
IEEE Computing Society,
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
University of Texas at Austin Alumni (Texas Exes)
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Austin Ruby on Rails

•    Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
•    Austin High-Tech
•    Austin On Rails
•    Ginac Group Career Network
•    Apartment Professionals Network

Kevin Ready’s Honors:

IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, 2007 -Presentation on "International Project Management"


Lone Star Ruby Conference (Ruby programming language), 2007 -Presentation on "Ruby in the Enterprise: Bringing the Cell Broadband Engine to Life"

Kevin Ready’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch