Technology innovation
strategy & design
Ravi Pandya
(425) 688-9123
ravi@iecommerce.com
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MY STRENGTHS

Strategic planning
of innovative technology for business value
System architecture
to maximize flexibility, power, & usability
Engineering process
for high quality products with limited resources & time
Rapid development
of creative solutions to complex problems

MY OTHER SITES

Shop with Sherlock
Shopping agent for MacOS X.2 "Jaguar"

The Hyacinth Project
Multimedia collaborative dance project

MY BACKGROUND

ieCommerce
President 00-present
Consulting: Java/OpenGL molecular modeling; N-Tier .NET CRM; Flash/J2EE collaborative multimedia web services; network security; business plans.
What can I do for you?
EverythingOffice
CTO 97-00
A rich web procurement application. Java, Oracle Financials, wireless Palm.
Jango
VP Eng 96-97
Turned a prototype shopping agent into an award-winning product in less than a year. Bought by Excite.
NetManage
Dir Eng 93-96
Managed the award-winning Ecco Pro PIM through several solid commercial releases.
Xanadu
Architect 89-93
A pioneering hypermedia system that inspired the development of the world-wide web.
Hypercube
Eng Mgr 88-89
Molecular modeling on Windows 2.0 with parallel processing backend.
Xerox PARC
Intern 84, 85
Research projects in the Smalltalk group.

University of Toronto
B.Sc. Mathematics 89
George Brown College
Ballet program 86-87
Foresight Institute
Senior associate
Co-sponsor, student award
Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Senior Associate

Full resume in PDF format

Thursday, January 30, 2003
 

Freedom of Speech in Software

The discussion with Miguel about Microsoft's patents reminded me of this 1991 essay by Phil Salin. He wrote it in response to the PTO's request for comments about whether they should continue to accept patents on software inventions. Phil's cogent and impassioned plea to consider writing software as an exercise of our right of free speech is inspiring. Unfortunately, of course, it was unsuccessful, as were the many other letters that I'm sure were written at the time.

I helped him a little bit with the final editing and submission. My last memory of Phil is of him dictating some last-minute changes from his hospital bed in Stanford, where he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. I miss him.


7:07:29 AM    


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