Cameo Wood

Current

• Product Manager at Zivity

Past

• Product Manager at LiveOps
• Usability Researcher at Six Apart
• Technical Editor at Wiley Publishing

• Consultant at Neoteny
• Chief Technology Officer at Free World Dialup
• Director of Operations at eDial, Inc.
• Senior Network Engineering Consultant at Lucent
• Senior Design Engineer at Alphanet Telecom
• Research Engineer at Sprint
• Director of Network Operations at IDT

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Education

• Bard College at Simon's Rock
• Bennington College

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Industry

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Cameo Wood’s Summary

I like to help diverse people, projects, ideas, attitudes, and values find consensus and hopefully create something artfully by that action.

I’ve worked for a slew of organizations in a fairly diverse set of roles: User Research for SixApart, Researcher at the Neuroscience Institute and GTE Labs, CTO at Freeworld Dialup, Director of Operations at eDial (now Alcatel), and even a technical editor of documents for the Japanese government as well as a Dummies book about BitTorrent. I’ve done a lot of things, but mainly, I just try to do good work, help people, and form a sort of artistic midwifery that comes from just joining things together and helping the right person at the right time do the right thing.

Cameo Wood’s Specialties:

web 2.0, web standards, social media, community, project management, product management, creative development, optimisation, heuristic walkthroughs, laughing, smiling, having fun, VoIP, security, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, SIP, bioinformatics, cognitive science, user-centered design, artistic midwifery

Cameo Wood’s Experience

• Product Manager

  Zivity

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

  April 2008 — Present (7 months)

  I manage projects! Yay!

• Product Manager

  LiveOps

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  • Provide motivation and direction to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are achieved in a timely manner.
  • Worked on social network and community for large agent community
  • Product and project managed the creation of a golden master reference stack and the development and implementation of our code release and rollback system
  • Lead and drive project status meetings.
  • Develop and review complex technical project plans.
  • Regular reporting of capacity and project status to upper management.
  • Work with department leads to determine resources necessary to see projects through to completion
  • Contribute to a positive work environment - Lead the creation of quarterly and yearly award programs, new hire orientation, and other community wellness activities
  • Define scope and solutions to complicated and ambiguous operational problems

• Usability Researcher

  Six Apart

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

  June 2006 — October 2006 (5 months)

  • Designed and conducted usability tests for all Six Apart products: Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal.
  • Wrote scripts, screeners, questionnaires, and final usability reports.

• Technical Editor

  Wiley Publishing

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; JWa; Research industry)

  April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)

  Reviewed and made technical edits to "BitTorrent for Dummies".

• Consultant

  Neoteny

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2002 — February 2003 (3 months)

  I researched and presented Japanese VoIP solutions for a free VoIP network for the Nagano Prefecture. In another project,I developed recommendations and wrote a proposal publication to the government of Japan on Biometrics, evoting, and PKI systems.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Free World Dialup

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  • Designed and managed SIPop!, a general availability interoperability event with full marketing and technical support.
  • Managed technical relationships with hardware vendors and software integrators.
  • Built technical relationships amongst integration partners, representing Pulver.com/Free World Dialup, Inc. from a technical perspective.

• Director of Operations

  eDial, Inc.

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

  November 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  • Managed the design of a network capable of supporting five million users with a 99.99% uptime.
  • Evaluated and made budgetary recommendations to ensure continued profitability.
  • Negotiated contracts to obtain all assets needed to acquire capital purchases.

• Senior Network Engineering Consultant

  Lucent

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

  February 1999 — November 1999 (10 months)

  • Deployed DWDM equipment and configured NSAP, IP and network configurations for Qwest's Fibre Repeater Sites
  • Researched and Developed a VoIP network design for GTE Laboratories
  • Performed research and development with Cisco, Nortel, and Telcordia on VoIP solutions as an alternative to H.323, i.e. MGCP, SIP, GLP
  • Engineered a beta network using Cisco VoIP SS7 equipment for CTC Inc
  • Researched and developed VoIP SS7 solutions for CTC Inc

• Senior Design Engineer

  Alphanet Telecom

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

  January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  • Directed a team of two in developing a VoIP Class 5 switch
  • Responsible for SS7 ITU-T and ANSI conformance testing
  • Redesigned network strategy with senior management for sustainability

• Research Engineer

  Sprint

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

  January 1997 — January 1998 (1 year 1 month)

  • Designed and implemented Sprint's Distributed Sniffer System
  • Worked with CAIDA, Cisco, UMICH and UUNet on new network security and network monitoring tools
  • Designed network diagnostics for Sprint's entire IP Services Division

• Director of Network Operations

  IDT

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; IDT; Telecommunications industry)

  November 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 3 months)

  • Responsible for all aspects of operations and data engineering
  • Reported directly to the CTO as director of 22 personnel
  • Negotiated partnerships with tier 1 carriers for IP connectivity
  • Developed ticketing and network management tools
  • Constructed a national DS3 backbone using Nortel Passport Switches and Cisco routers

Additional Information

Cameo Wood’s Interests:

Dressage, cinema, travel

Cameo Wood’s Groups:

•    LiveOps
•    Bennington College Alumni

Cameo Wood’s Contact Settings

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