AM Stereo

I’m currently employed at Numerex, where we not only provide a simple and economical consumer/small fleet GPS tracking application, we also open up our platform and provide a full suite of services to allow web developers to use the tools they already know to build their own GPS tracking applications! We can provide any or all of the devices, network airtime, application, and hosting that you need — with an application that works on day one but is open for you to build on top of it. I work on designing and building our architecture when I’m not wearing one of my other hats (like field servicing tracking devices on construction equipment).

Before that, I spent a few months at Catalis, integrating the extremely rich graphical Electronic Medical Software (EMR) with various other third-party services. Previous to that, I was employed at SensorLogic, as a lead developer in the professional services group. They have an on-demand (i.e. hosted) platform that solves a lot of the common problems and so for an individual client or partner company we can just focus on the 10-20% of the overall effort that’s specific to their application. I helped build custom rules, custom interfaces (going against the platform web and data services) and in some cases also developed device software and consulted on hardware.

Born in Austin, TX (and probably named in a moment of panic) I’ve lived in Texas all my life. We moved around a lot when I was young, probably about once a year, but almost all the time I went to school in Bastrop (a beautiful town just 45 minutes southeast of Austin). As nice as Bastrop was, adventure called (plus I got bored around sophomore year), and so I left Bastrop High School to start my junior year at the Texas Academy of Math & Science… becoming a TAMSter (rhymes with hamster), as we call ourselves. It wasn’t fun to leave my friends from Bastrop behind, but it was a great experience and I wouldn’t give it up. After TAMS, I graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in Computer Science and went to work at Nortel. While at Nortel, some friends and I cofounded a game publishing house called Living Room Games. I coauthored 7 of the books that we published, mainly fantasy and cyberpunk writing but also contributing in design and mechanics. As for Nortel, it was a great place to start but I quickly decided I wanted more of a challenge, and started working for software startups. First was Iris Labs (folded after a year), then Xtera (which went from 200 employees to ~50, although they’re doing better lately), another startup, SensorLogic, and now Catalis.

In June of 2006, I got married to Natalie, a wonderful woman that I’m looking forward to spending the rest of my life with. Right after getting married, we went to Italy for two wonderful weeks — Venice, Tuscany, and Rome. Along the way we took a ton of great photos (which I later used for a pretty cool project) — check out the pics!