Welcome to the web home of Alan K. Stebbens.
I am currently the CTO of Marketocracy. Essentially, I am a technology manager and developer of software solutions. Previously, I was a product manager for 724 Solutions and Openwave Systems, software vendors that sell mobile and wireline messaging software to the world's largest ISPs, Telco's, and mobile operators.
As part of the Openwave Systems work, I helped author and negotiate the specifications that enable mobile phones to interoperate with each other and with standard Internet email. This was done by attending 3GPP meetings once a month for almost two years, building relationships and understanding the mobile operators and handset manufacturers goals, and then negotiating technical solutions that allowed everyone to fulfill their business and product requirements. I also did this same activity within the 3GPP2, OpenMobileAlliance (WAP Forum), and IETF groups. I also co-authored an Internet Draft that describes the unique requirements of mobile messaging systems.
I have been a software developer, have worked on a variety of platforms (mainframe, mini, embedded micro), in a variety of environments (academic, government, commercial, financial), using many kinds of programming languages. My favored recent development (and personal) work being in Ruby and Perl. My favorite all-time programming language is probably PDP-11 Assembler.
My hobbies include flying airplanes, hiking, playing soccer and tennis, writing software, studying languages occasionally (Japanese, Spanish, & Russian), watching movies, riding my motorcycle, and reading science fiction books.
I have a digital photo collection of some of my travels; these photos are available in the Photo Album, many of them are available only to family & friends.
Feel free to send me email at aks@stebbens.org