T.
Todd Elvins
May
2001: Ten
Steps to a Commercial-Grade VoiceXML Application
T. Todd Elvins, PhD, is Chief Technology Officer
with Indicast. Todd founded Indicast with his
partner Rob Fassett. Todd has 14 years of experience
in gathering system requirements, developing software
specifications, directing research and development,
and Web application implementation. His previous
job was Principal Scientist at the NSF-backed
San Diego Supercomputer Center for the past 11
years.
back
to the top
|
Jeff
Kunins
January
2001: Speak
& Listen
February
2001: Speak
& Listen
March 2001: Speak
& Listen
March 2001: Speak
& Listen
May 2001: Speak
& Listen
Jeff
is a respected industry leader in the fields of
voice application networks and VoiceXML technology.
He is a frequently invited speaker at leading
trade conferences, and is often quoted in press
articles focusing on
voice technology. Jeff regularly contributes articles
to publications including VoiceXML Review and
WirelessDevNet.com, and is currently co-authoring
one of the first books on VoiceXML development.
Upon joining Tellme in early 2000, Jeff co-conceived,
built, and managed the debut of Tellme Studio.
Tellme Studio is the world's first and most popular
VoiceXML resource suite that now supports a community
of over 10,000 developers and 1,000 publicly deployed
appliations. Currently, Jeff's team helps define
and articulate Tellme's strategic direction for
meeting the needs of Enterprise customers, and
is responsible for all technical marketing, sales
tools, and enterprise pricing structure. Previously
during a four year tenure at Microsoft, Jeff led
a diverse set of platform and consumer efforts
including Microsoft Passport, Microsoft SILK advanced
Web server technology, and Microsoft Cinemania.
He is a co-inventor of patent pending technologies
for distributed Web authentication and key management,
and helped drive Microsoft's acquisitions of Hotmail
and Firefly Networks. Outside of work, Jeff is
a critically acclaimed composer and sound designer
for live theatre..
back
to the top
Rob
Marchand
January
2001: First
Words
February
2001: First
Words
March 2001: First
Words
April 2001: First
Words
Rob
Marchand is Director of Products and Services
Development for VoiceGenie Technologies Inc. Rob
has been with VoiceGenie Technologies since 1999,
and has worked in advanced computing and telecommunications
since 1985. At VoiceGenie, Rob is responsible
for the VoiceGenie Developer Workshop (http://developer.voicegenie.com),
and new products and services development. Rob
is a member of the VoiceXML Education Committee,
and of USENIX and SAGE, and a regular contributor
to SANS. VoiceGenie is a Promoter Member of the
VoiceXML Forum.
back
to the top
|
Rachel
McConnell
May
2001: City
CarShare Reservation System: A VoiceXML Case Study
Rachel McConnell is Co-founder and Principal of
indigo egg, inc., a San Francisco-based Voice
professional services firm. She has extensive
experience with VoiceXML and other Voice languages,
having developed and
deployed numerous Voice applications on the BeVocal,
Tellme, Telera, VoiceGenie, and Voxeo platforms.
Rachel has won industry awards for her Voice applications
including a top placement in VoiceGenie's Developer's
Challenge.
back
to the top
|
Bryan
Michael
May
2001: City
CarShare Reservation System: A VoiceXML Case Study
As Director of Enterprise Solutions, Bryan leads
the strategic development of BeVocal's enterprise
offering, which includes the BeVocal Cafe and
voice hosting solutions. Bryan was the original
product manager for the BeVocal Cafe, the award
winning VoiceXML development environment (http://cafe.bevocal.com).
He joined BeVocal with six years of software engineering
and program management experience with Motorola-
both in the US and as an expatriate in Japan.
He has extensive technical and marketing experience
in building wireless information systems and software
development tools. Bryan led the successful launch
of the BeVocal Cafe, a program that provides speech
application developers a web-based environment
for building complex, large scale speech applications
using sophisticated tools and reusable components
developed by BeVocal. Bryan has a bachelor's degree
in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute
of Technology and an MBA from the Harvard Business
School. Bryan is also fluent in Japanese.
.
back
to the top
|