About

Welcome. My name is C. Enrique Ortiz, a passionate mobile technologist, developer and evangelist who spends quite a bit of time thinking about mobile futures. I’m the founder of the Austin chapter of MobileMonday, an advisor on mobile for SXSW Interactive, an Austin Technology Incubator alumnus and am very active in the Austin mobile-technology scene. I enjoy helping startups get established in Austin and I author the About Mobility weblog. My areas of interest and research include the intersections between mobility and context-based mobile computing and augmented real-time interactions and their application to both consumer and business software. I currently work at Motive which now is part of Alcatel-Lucent.

I started working on mobile back in 1998 and it is great to finally see “the vision” being realized, in large part thanks to Apple and Google who helped shift control and focus into the ecosystem, open systems, the developers and applications. The result has been a tremendous amount of innovation in a relatively short amount of time.

The Web is NOT dead, it is evolving…

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I’m currently a product manager at Motive where I manage ServiceView for Mobile, a solution for operators for the maintenance and support of mobile devices. In the past I’ve worked on technical and management positions in areas that include avionics software (space shuttle), robotics, multimedia streaming, finance software, embedded, SCADA and of course mobile, both in startups and large companies that include eZee inc, IBM, AGEA & Aligo. I also helped define the Java platform (JavaME) that powers millions of mobile handsets today. I run Artemis Wireless Werks which have helped dozens of technology companies with their mobile strategy and product development.

As a technologist my main areas of interest and research are mobile futures and the intersection between mobility and pervasive computing, context, user experience, augmented real-time interactions, digital-to-physical connections and domain ontologies, and their application to both consumer and businesses.

I am affiliated to the following: MobileMonday Austin (founder/organizer), Android Dev Austin (founder/organizer), Austin Wireless Alliance (founding member and advisor), SXSW Interactive Festival (advisor on mobile), JavaOne (advisor on mobile), Carnival of the Mobilists (founder member and contributor). Association for Computing Machinery (member). Austin Technology Incubator (alumni). I help students & startups in the need of advice.

I can be reached at my mobile at +1.512-410-0236 and via email at enrique.ortiz[at]gmail[dot]com. My Twitter is @eortiz.

Specialties: Mobile technologist, developer, author, evangelist, standards and blogger, for fun & profit.