Bill Day

Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc., Brentwood, TN (06/2006-present) Director of Developer Products

Drive the adoption of DRSI's innovative approach to finding meaning inherent in human language. Enable developers to succeed with the Synthesys Platform. Responsible for market definition, customer needs assessment, and evangelism of DRSI products and developer tools.

Day Web Development (09/1995-present) Founder & Technical Guru

Publish the Java ME Archive and BillDay.com development forums, speak widely, and blog on software development and technology. Consult and write for various outlets. Have taught Java and Wireless development as an extension instructor for the University of California Berkeley.

Nokia, Mountain View, CA (05/2004-12/2004) Head of Technical Services & Consultancy, Forum Nokia Americas

Managed a distributed team of engineers supporting and evangelizing Nokia Developer Platforms, roadmaps, and strategies to partners including ISVs, network operators, third party device manufacturers, and independent software developers. Led C-level and senior business and engineering meetings within Nokia and with partners to drive adoption of key Nokia technologies. Empowered partners to design, create, and deploy successful C++, Java, and script based applications by driving technical issues and feedback to solution. Developed and delivered technical sessions at key developer and decision maker events while orchestrating Nokia Developer Platforms technical articles and demo coverage worldwide.

Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA (03/1999-05/2004) Technology Evangelist

Delivered keynotes and technical sessions worldwide, published widely, and maintained the Java ME Archive to drive Java ME adoption (hundreds of millions of devices and counting). Communicated Sun's wireless, grid computing, and security strategies to developers, network operators, and manufacturers empowering tens of thousands to write wireless Java applications and better manage their mobile and fixed computing resources. Led architect-to-architect engineering meetings within Sun and externally to drive adoption of key open software technologies including Java technology, XML, and grid computing.

Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA (07/1996-03/1999) Software Engineer

Designed and implemented next generation Java interfaces for the MediaBase streaming media server product (now owned by Kasenna). Set corporate strategy as a member of the SGI Java business team. Designed and executed test suites for SGI's version of the Java Media Framework and the Cosmo Code Java IDE (one of the "Top Ten Software Products of 1996" according to IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine).

Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN (01/1996-03/1996) Student Aide, Real Time Execution Environments/System Engineering and Integration

Tuned performance of C simulation code for customer delivery. Integrated code into Real-Time high performance computing parallel application benchmarks.

Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, Edinburgh, UK (07/1995-09/1995) Summer Scholar

Selected as one of fifteen students worldwide to participate in the summer high performance computing program in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ported EM3D Fortran geophysics code to use taskfarming parallelism with the MPI message passing system. Designed application for heterogeneous Unix environment including Sun workstation clusters and a Cray T3D.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA (06/1994-08/1994, 06/1993-08/1993) Summer Research Fellow

Created Compact Torus Computerized Tomography analysis routines for the Davis Diverted Torus fusion research project. Programmed simulations to determine optimum image reconstruction algorithms.

Honors, Activities, and Education

• Creator of the #1 independent J2ME site on the Web, the Java ME Archive
• Contributor to Wired's Geekdad.com blog
• Served several years as an Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Lecturer, speaking to ACM chapters on a variety of topics
• Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris Operating System (June 2002)
• Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform (June 2001)
• Graduate studies in Scientific Computation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (June 1996, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow)
• Bachelor of Science Aerospace Engineering (BSAE) with French minor, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (May 1995, Summa Cum Laude, National Merit Scholar, Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society)