Michelle Six

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• CTO at HearPlanet

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Michelle Six’s Summary

Scirocco Michelle Six has over 20 years of architecture, design, implementation, and operations experience from a variety of companies including: Microsoft, Dow Jones, and Napster.

Currently she is the CTO of HearPlanet a company that is bringing the world to your ears by producing the worlds first mobile audio travel guide which is currently availble from the iTunes app store.

Previously as Chief Architect at Mywaves, Inc she she was instrumental in the creation of the first global, carrier agnostic, and handset agnostic mobile video service; currently delivering videos, and advertisements, to millions of users all over the world.

Six, her preferred nickname, is a very hands on executive. During her tenure, in addition to leading the overall engineering strategy, she wrote code for every component of the product. Helping to create a large scale distributed video system and mobile applications capable of handling the millions of Mywaves users.

Her previous architectural roles have included the music startups Myplay and Napster, as well as the Search infrastructure for the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.

In her spare time she enjoys science fiction, playing video games, and writing small biographies in the third person.

Michelle Six’s Specialties:

User centric mobile development, Large scale distributed systems, Search systems, Information Architecture, Information categorization and Discovery, Digital Video and Music, Streaming media, Open source methodologies and development, Heterogynous server design and operations, Cross platform integration.