About Mobility

I haven’t blogged for a whole week… My team and I have been extremely busy, heads-down, with no time to blog.

I’ve lots good stuff to blog about, thoughts and technical stuff, and my apologies for my slow blogging, but let’s not forget Blogging Conjecture #1…

But it’s all good… lot’s of great stuff coming from eZee. Beta has been great, and our customers love our offerings, and the platform has been solid. Our next generation offerings are being developed; our robust mobile platform, our services on the web, our mobile marketing tools, the Open APIs, our context-based/people-centric secret sauce, oh, and our new web-site will be up soon. We also were recognized as one of Austin’s top emerging companies.

And none of the above means a thing, unless our customer-base continues to grow and we generate revenue, so it is great that we are signing more customers; Jim, my head of sales is awesome and rocks – that guy can sell ice to an Eskimo in the Arctic circle in the middle of winter. Can you do that? Neither do I.

Our new CEO, Ron, is rock solid. Our new advisory board is just kick-ass, the best. Having these folks joining us is all on itself a great validation of our vision and execution; these folks wouldn’t be joining us if we were BS’ing here. And I can’t be any happier with this. More on this later.

BTW, I’m looking for a strong Web UI designer and graphic artist, Web UI developer, and Product Manager. For more information text the word jobs to 23933 (2eZee).

To learn how to reach me, text my name, enrique, to 23933 (2eZee).

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JavaOne 2008 begins today. But I am not attending JavaOne this year; it would have been fun. But there is a good reason why I didn’t go. Instead I re-assigned eZee’s J1 budget so that Michael Yuan could attend instead. Michael will be speaking on two sessions:

• BOF-4940 — JBoss Seam: A Deep-Integration Framework for Web Applications
• TS-5584 — Building Interactive Mobile Messaging (Short Message Service) Applications

See more of Michael’s J1 sessions at the Content Catalog.

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Dial jobs to 23933 (2eZee) to learn about current job openings at eZee inc. It is simple and fast. (Other rates may apply; LOL)

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The jobs @ eZee page has been updated…

We are creating something very exciting. If you have passion for mobile technologies, you’ll want to work here. At eZee you will literally help define, implement and deliver the future of mobile handsets and mobile commerce.

We offer competitive pay and benefits. eZee inc is an equal employment opportunity employer. For more information please send your CVs and a cover letter to jobs@ezee.com, and/or visit http://www.ezee.com/jobs.

Principals only; no agencies please.

Product Manager

Bachelor’s degree is required, with good technology understanding/background, with 3-5 years professional experience. Product management role is a very critical role, responsible for eZee’s product planning, defining new products. More Info

Web Developer

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline is required, with 3-5 years of experience. Must be strong working with HTML, JavaScript and AJAX, and web design, and who knows how to create unique, dynamic and beautiful Web-based user interfaces. More info

Server Developer

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline is required, with 3-5 years of experience. Experience must include server-side Java development, distributed and asynchronous computing, web and relational object mapping frameworks, Web and AJAX, and messaging (SMS, MMS). More info

Quality Engineers

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline is required, with 3-5 years of experience. Quality Engineers must be comfortable working with developers, writing test plans and scripts, test harnesses, and ensuring the overall quality of our products. More info

About eZee, inc.
eZee turns mobile interactions into transactions by combining our unique approach to mobile marketing with existing supply chain information and advertising campaigns. Rather than focusing solely on the consumer side of the mobile marketing equation, eZee delivers the technology and expertise to enterprise customers to help them optimize the probability and profitability of every mobile interaction with consumers. eZee’s Mobile Optimization Suite (MOS), which includes our proprietary Prime (TM) mobility context and interaction server and Reach (TM) mobile campaign management module, delivers the most robust end-to-end mobile marketing technology available for the new demand-driven economy. We call it 3D Mobile (TM) – Data, Domain, and Demand. To learn more about how 3D Mobile can increase your profits and create sustainable competitive advantage, please contact me at (512) 635-4225, email me to enrique[at]ezee[dot]com, or visit www.ezee.com.

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Austin, Texas-based eZee inc. is looking to fill permanent positions with experienced developers, and quality assurance engineers, to help create the next generation of mobile commerce and marketing products and services.

If you have passion for mobile technologies, you’ll want to work here. At eZee you will literally help define and implement the future of mobile handsets and mobile commerce. But you need to be comfortable working on a startup environment, be an individual contributor, and work great with the team.

We are looking for developers with skills in Java, distributed and asynchronous computing, Web and relational object mapping frameworks, Web standards and AJAX, and messaging technologies (SMS, MMS). Quality Engineers must be comfortable working with developers, writing test plans, test harnesses, and ensuring the overall quality of our products.

We offer competitive pay and benefits. eZee inc is an equal employment opportunity employer. For more information please send your CVs and a cover letter to jobs@ezee.com, and/or visit http://www.ezee.com/jobs

**Principals only. No agencies please. No Contracting shops please. Only folks looking for a permanent position.**

Quality Engineer

* 4+ years of industry experience in QA and related tools
* Experience with automated regression testing concepts and tools
* Knowledge of testing and performance metrics and related reporting
* Experience writing test plans, test harnesses, documenting
* Know how to implement white, black box and performance testing
* Experience with Web-based applications and SQL databases
* Familiarity with scalable and high-availability environments is a plus
* Experience with mobile environments is a plus

Web Server Developer

* 5+ years professional experience designing and developing software
* Strong with Java, and server-based Java software, web services, XML, and Web frameworks including Struts or Seam
* Very strong at Web technologies and standards
* Comfortable working on Linux OS
* Experience with multi-tiered architectures, high-availability, clustering, fault-tolerance, highly-transactional and concurrent systems
* Understanding of mobility, mobile web and related issues

Other must haves:
* Great coding practices, including documenting your own code
* Experience with formal software development methodologies including Agile, coding practices, metrics
* Knowledge of design patterns and OO design & development
* Ant and Maven experience and related build and source control experience
* Testing using JUnit
* Experience with Apache, Tomcat. Experience with JBoss is a plus

Other Preferred Skills:
* Object Relational Mapping (Hibernate is a plus). JDBC/SQL and general Database experience
* Java Messaging Service (JMS)
* Java based rules systems, Spring, Ruby on Rails
* Passionate about technology and the future of mobile

As we continue our journey in the evolution of our startup eZee inc., important strategic decisions are being made… I am very excited to announce that we have decided to consolidate headquarters in Austin, Texas. This is huge…

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Tomorrow we announce to the world what eZee is all about. We are doing this at the Under the Radar Mobility event. Very exciting.

While I won’t be attending the event, as we are preparing for an important milestone, John Sullivan (CEO) will be presenting. Gary Mendel (marketing) and Jim Wheaton (business development) are also attending as well. If you are attending, feel free to say hi to my team. My friend Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org will be attending as a judge for the social networking category. Also attending is Mika Li, creator of the kick ass TWUIK UI framework for Java ME, and who also is presenting at the same category as eZee.

INFRASTRUCTURE CATEGORY

Judges:

Vineet Buch, Principal | BlueRun Ventures
Gary Little, General Partner | Morgenthaler Ventures
Tim Chang, Principal | Norwest Venture Partners

Companies Presenting under the Infrastructure category:

eZee, Inc.
Mobile Distillery
Mocapay
Tricastmedia

As a side-note, eZee really is between infrastructure and media categories.

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So I got nominated for another award, the Tech Innovation Awards. Awesome. Thanks.

If you get a minute, check the above link, and perhaps vote for my company for this award… you can read all 4 pages of the QA if you want or skip to the voting.

Vote for eZee!

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Just got the word from Gary my CMO, that eZee was selected to participate at Under The Radar | Mobility Conference on November 15, 2007… Neat!

42 Startups, 20 Panelists, 400 attendees – 1 Day.

…six minutes to tell our story, introduce our team and knock some socks off, where we (well, John my partner and CEO) will be presenting our story to venture capitalists, company executives, industry players, partners and maybe even some competitors.

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What is the the best part of the hiring process?

Well, to actually finish the hiring process, especially when the end-result is a team of great software folks…

It took a lot of work, and time, and negotiations, and support from my peers. Now the Austin Lab is fully staffed, and it is time to kick some ass, and deliver…

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No, not me, but Michael Yuan of mobile, J2ME, Nokia development, and JBoss Seam fame, is leaving Red Hat (JBoss group) to join eZee inc.

I’m obviously extremely happy about this announcement…

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P.S. We are still looking for Java server developers. For more information see the eZee in Jobs page.

We have moved into our new Austin Lab offices at the University of Texas Austin Technology Incubator located at the MCC building.

…and have hired our first group of developers.

The MCC building

Welcome

eZee inc.

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