bill

History

Personal Info

Bill is a father, an artist, a bit mechanic and a student of life. A few of his gigs:

Manages the engineering, operations and service teams at Habeas, the world's premier email reputation company.
Built and managed engineering, support and manufacturing teams at Internet Devices (world's first firewall appliance company; acquired by Alcatel for $180m).
Built and managed software engineering team and architected company product at VPNet Technologies (world's first virtual private network company; acquired by Avaya for $180m).
Built and managed engineering and sales teams at Akaba (world's first security scanning service and appliance).
Built and managed the operations and service teams at Clear App, (company provides the world's first self-discovering enterprise software management tools).
Wrote Pildis, a disassembler for the first model of the Palm Pilot. At the time, there were no applications or even published APIs for the Pilot, which was the first PDA. Bill and several others published the first environment for producing PDA apps.
Member of the budget committee for the Saratoga Union School District
Old chums with Cecil Adams (world's smartest human being), as evidenced by this column.
Holds a dozen patents in various areas, including some of the original patents on virtual private networks. Occasional publications and appearances on panels.