About Mobility

A Technology & products guy, with focus on Mobility, for fun & profit. Experience include Mobile, Java, Android, Web, Internet of Things, NFC/RFID, PHP, client, server, People-centric Computing, Social-Computing, Cloud-Computing, market research, business cases, product & technology (IP) development, R&D, raising capital, products and team management, speaker and writer.

Welcome. My name is C. Enrique Ortiz (CEO) and I’m a long time (mobile) technologist and blogger with many years of experience creating software-based products with focus on 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 writing about it.

I can be reached at my mobile at +1.512-410-0236 and via email at enrique.ortiz[at]gmail[dot]com. Both my Twitter and Jaiku IDs are eortiz.

Currently I’m a products guy working at Motive (Austin, Texas) which was recently acquired by Alcatel-Lucent and where I’m responsible for a number of products for mobile network operators around the globe with products in the areas of mobile broadband activation and support, standards and proprietary-based device management, mobile applications and Call Center tools.

In the past I’ve been more of a tech guy; before Motive I was co-founder and CTO of eZee inc. I also serve as Advisor for a couple of startups in Austin Texas and I’m at the steering committee of the Austin Wireless Alliance and the SXSW Interactive Festival. I’ve worked in engineering and management positions in companies that include eZee inc., 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 also own a small development shop that has helped dozens of companies with their mobile strategy and products; see Artemis Wireless Werks.

I’ve been the author or co-author of a number of 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 helped co-design 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.

I have been an active participant in the Java mobility community, where I’ve helped evangelize the Java ME technologies for many years now, and where I have had the privilege of serving as an expert member or as observant on a number of 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, the SIP for J2ME, the J2EE Client Provisioning API, the Mobile Service Architecture (MSA), the Payment API, the Device Management API and the Mobile Service Architecture, and the Java ME Executive Committee itself. I’m also in the governance board of the Mobile & Embedded Community and I help in the selection of Mobile sessions for JavaOne. In 2009 I was nominated for the 2009 JCP Program Participant of the Year.

I was a founding member of the Austin chapter of Mobile Monday, the Austin Wireless Alliance, and the Carnival of the Mobilists. I led the Austin Bootstrap Network’s Mobile Subgroup. As time permits, I’ve volunteered my time as a mentor of Software Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, helping senior CS students 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 Council
• Austin Technology Incubator
• Austin Wireless Alliance
• Bootstrap Austin
• Carnival of the Mobilists
• Digital Convergence Initiative of Central Texas
• Java Community Process
• Mobile & Embedded Community
• MobileMonday
• SXSW Interactive
• Wireless Future

Awards

Various, but the one that I’m the proudest of in part due to its impact and personal significance is…

…the Silver Snoopy.

My Silver Snoopy flew on mission STS-58 on-board the Space Shuttle OV-102 or Columbia, the first of NASA’s orbiter fleet which 1st flew on 1981 and which was destroyed during STS-107, sadly with its crew. I got to see OV-102 in person passing within 2 feet from me while being transfered from the Orbiter Processing Facility OPF to the Vehicle Assembly Building VAB; that was a sight. Click here to see why I received it. See the Silver Snoopy in Wikipedia.