About Mobility

My name is C. Enrique Ortiz and I’m a long time (mobile) technologist and blogger with many years of experience creating software products and end-to-end mobile computing.

I spend quite a bit of time working on mobile things, for fun and profit, thinking about mobile futures, and the development mobile of products.

I can be reached at enrique.ortiz[at]gmail[dot]com. Both my Twitter and Jaiku IDs are eortiz.

BTW, I am looking for my next big thing to do; if your company is looking for an experienced technologist and implementer, give me a buzz…

I am founder and principal of Artemis Wireless Werks, a mobile strategy and services consulting company that has helped dozens of companies deliver their mobile strategy. I also serve on the Board of Advisors of edioma. Most recently I was co-founder and CTO of eZee inc (now I’m adviser for them), a mobile solutions company that focuses on advanced context-based mobile marketing platforms and applications, where I oversee the technology and products groups.

I’ve worked in engineering and management positions in companies that include IBM, Pervasive Software, AGEA, and Aligo, in areas that include avionics software (Space Shuttle OS), embedded, robotics and image processing, multimedia streaming, large financial systems, and of course, end-to-end mobility systems.

I’ve been the author or co-author of many publications, patent disclosures, and of the first book exclusively devoted to Java programming with the J2ME Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) published by John Wiley and Sons. I also co-designed Sun Microsystems’ Mobile Java Developer Certification Exam.

Many of my writings are technical articles on mobile technologies and software development that can be found all over the Web. I also have a weblog where I write about mobility and other things.

I have been an active participant in the Java mobility community, where I have evangelized the Java ME technologies for many years now, and where I have had the privilege of serving as a member in various Java Specification Requests (JSRs) expert groups including the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0, MIDP 3.0, the Web Services API for Java ME, the Information Module Profile (IMP), the Content Handling API (CHAPI), The Java Language & XML User Interface Markup Integration, and others, and have been a contributor to other JSRs such as the Payment API, the Device Management API and the Mobile Service Architecture.

I was a founding member of Mobile Monday Austin, the Austin Wireless Alliance, and the Carnival of the Mobilists, and I lead the Austin Bootstrap Network’s Mobile Subgroup. I also, as time permits, volunteer my time as a mentor of Software Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, helping CS students on their senior year get ready for the “real” world.

I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Puerto Rico, and if I count my pre-college days I have close to 20 years of software development experience — other experience are in product development and management. I currently live north of the beautiful Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

Affiliations:

• Association for Computing Machinery
• Austin Technology Incubator
• Austin Technology Council
• Austin Wireless Alliance
• Bootstrap Austin
• Carnival of the Mobilists
• Digital Convergence Initiative
• Java Community Process
• Wireless Future
• MobileMonday