Lukman Ramsey

Current

• CTO at Talk2Us

Past

• Technical Manager, Speech Engineering at Viecore Inc
• Senior Speech Recognition Engineer at General Magic
• Software Engineer at Indicast

• Senior Staff Engineer at Radius

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Lukman Ramsey’s Summary

Lukman Ramsey’s Specialties:

Technical Architecture and Vision, Engineering Management, Speech Recognition, IVR Development, Java Development, iPhone Development, J2EE, J2ME, VXML, CCXML, SQL

Lukman Ramsey’s Experience

• CTO

  Talk2Us

  (Telecommunications industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

  Co-Founder of a voice technology startup. Talk2Us is building a next-generation communications service.

• Technical Manager, Speech Engineering

  Viecore Inc

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  October 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 4 months)

  Founded and led the Speech Engineering team at Viecore, the leading professional services company in the speech recognition / call center industry. Built a $3m / yr services business unit in speech application analysis and tuning from the ground up, including designing and developing the technology, selling the need internally and externally, and building and managing a team of speech scientists, engineers and transcriptionists.
  
  Also co-founded the Voice User Interface team.
  
  Inventor and architect of the Viecore Framework, the technical foundation for dozens of enterprise-level speech recognition applications, including 6 of 10 of the largest VXML deployments worldwide. Customers include GE Consumer Finance (live deployments in 8 countries), Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, AIG and Prudential Insurance.

• Senior Speech Recognition Engineer

  General Magic

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2001 — July 2002 (11 months)

• Software Engineer

  Indicast

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

  October 2000 — August 2001 (11 months)

  Software Engineer at a voice portal startup.

• Senior Staff Engineer

  Radius

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; RDUS; Computer Hardware industry)

  September 1992 — August 1996 (4 years)

  Lead engineer for several lines of graphics acceleration cards. Wrote firmware and system software patches.
  
  Acted as engineering liason between Apple and Radius for Apple OEM board.

Lukman Ramsey’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  C. Phil , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  B.S. , Cognitive Science , 1986 — 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Sigma Phi Epsilon

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