roland alden : resume

Introduction

Proven technology manager with responsibility for substantial budgets and system architectures at both startups and large companies.

Able to work effectively across time and distance barriers, and within diverse business, cultural, and technical environments.

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Short Bio

Since 1976 Roland Alden has been the founder or co-founder of three technology startups; he has over 20 years experience in telecommunications and software engineering, project management, and business and venture development, strategy and finance. He has hands-on experience in software development (operating systems and programming environments), telecommunications protocols, standards development, and is a gifted manager of engineering teams. His experience includes large technology companies (MAI, Data General, AT&T) and classic Silicon Valley startups (Forethought, Go and Eo). Roland was the original developer of vCard, the “electronic business card” exchange format, is the author of several computer textbooks, and developed Internet services in Nigeria, Micronesia and Guam.

Education

University of Iowa, Fiber Optics Training
Network Architecture, MIT (corporate sponsored)
Microprocessor System Design, UC Irvine
Bachelor of Fine Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts
Memphis University School, Memphis, Tennessee

Bombay (now Mumbai)

Cafe Leopold, 1992. Judith took the picture. I chased her all the way to Goa.

Maui, Hawaii

I bought a Mac in the 1985 "first hundred days" promotion and went to Maui to write some code. I switched to the PC in '87 or so because I refused to pay an outlandish price for a hard disk drive.

Osapa Earth Station

For two months in 2003 I worked at Intercellular Nigeria and spent a lot of time in a little suburb of Lagos called Osapa.

Zanzibar

In 1991 I visited Zanzibar. Probably the coolest place on earth.

Seychelles

The BBC Indian Ocean Relay Station, Seychelles Islands, 1991. I actually took some of the blue out with Photoshop. The sky is so blue there it looks artificial in a photo.

Photo circa 1981

Taken about 1981 at a computer trade show. The exhibit was sixteen or so machines in kiosks (see tower in background) connected via a Corvus Omninet LAN (Ethernet cards were not yet on the market for PCs). The applications were LAN email, "videotext" for show and area restaurant/hotel information, and a audience "survey" with the results continuously tabulated in real time.

My Contact Information

This vCard file contains my contact information, including a digital certificate that can be used to send me confidential email and verify my digital signature on documents of interest (such as NDA forms).

Without question, the best way to reach me is via email.