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.

I’m a Mobility technologist and product manager at Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Product Division, where I’m responsible for a number of mobile products with global reach that are targeted at Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) — Mobile Broadband, Device Management and Customer Support tools.

In the past I’ve helped companies with their mobile strategy and products; see Artemis Wireless Werks, and before Motive I was co-founder and CTO of eZee inc. I also serve as Advisor for a couple of startups in Austin Texas. 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’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-designe 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, the Internet of Things, 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 and 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. I’m also in the governance board of the Mobile & Embedded Community, I help in the selection of Mobile sessions for JavaOne, and 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 Incubator
• Austin Technology Council
• Austin Wireless Alliance
• Bootstrap Austin
• Carnival of the Mobilists
• Digital Convergence Initiative
• Java Community Process
• Wireless Future
• MobileMonday