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Mr. Parsons has over twenty years of experience building system software for numerous markets. He has built many high performance teams using his knowledge of processes and project management. He has developed many large scale systems quickly, while also improving quality through the use of automated testing processes. This resulted in significantly reduced support and maintenance costs for many products. Mr. Parsons worked with Mr. Blount at both Raindance Corporation, where he designed and architected a new collaboration solution, and later at Dynix Corporation. Mr. Parson’s first software architect role was at Martin Marietta, where he won the Excalibur award for technical achievement for work with the GAPP, a massively parallel processor. He also worked for the U.S. Army and Navy on several high up-time and secure communications systems. He was the chief architect of a Small Office Home Office (SOHO) joint venture between Signet Bank and United Video Satellite Group (UVSG). He was a senior software architect at Integram International, which developed a worldwide distributed system for unified messaging and faxing. Mr. Parsons has consulted for Sun Microsystems, Storage Tek, US West (Qwest), @Home, HP, Digital Instruments, Delta Airlines, and other major companies on near real-time and large scale systems. Mr. Parsons has a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Florida State University. He has taught Lisp, Prolog, Smalltalk, and Java programming for several large companies and at Seybold conferences. He has taken many post-graduate classes in artificial intelligence, parallel and distributed systems, and languages systems. | 