Nokia Research Center

Professional Activities

Industry Expertise

• Writer of a respected weblog focused on mobile and web technologies

Conferences

• Panelist at the first O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference, speaker at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology and Where 2.0 conferences, and participant in the prestigious Foo Camp in Sebastopol, California
• Founder of Silicon Valley Mobile Monday meetups, reviving the organization and serving as a model for over 50 chapters around the world
• Attended 3GSM, DEMO, Symbian Expo, Mobile Monday Global Summit in Helsinki and other industry conferences

Personal Information

International Experience

Lived and worked in Spain from 2000 to 2004 (becoming fluent in Spanish), travelled extensively throughout Europe - including London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Helsinki - and visited Egypt, Mexico and the Carribean.

Other Information

Strategist
Worked for Yahoo!'s Corporate Development and Strategy office to help educate Yahoo! C-level executives on mobile technologies as well as writing up recommendations for longer-term mobile strategy decisions.

Worked as Yahoo! Mobile's evangelist and strategist, creating new ideas for mobile products and services, prototyping new applications, helping with global mobile strategy and research, and was first contact for external companies meeting with mobile group.
 

Developer
Worked as a full time and independent technical consultant and developer for over 10 years, both in the US and Spain for some of the leading web and Fortune 500 companies, including Lotus/IBM, Xerox, Telefonica, Vodafone Spain (Airtel) and TerraLycos.

Entrepreneur
Founder and president of Mowser, Inc. a startup focused on content adaption for mobile web browsers. Developed the server technology, launched and promoted the site which reached over 3MM mobile page views and over $5k revenues per month. Assets sold to Ireland's dotMobi in May 2008.