Barbara Nelson

Barbara Nelson

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Vice President, Engineering
San Mateo, California, United States

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  • InfluxData
    Vice President, Engineering
    InfluxData
    Oct 2019 - Current (7 years 1 month)
  • Portfolia
    Investor - FemTech Fund
    Portfolia
    Oct 2018 - Current (8 years 1 month)
  • BlastWave
    Board Member
    BlastWave
    Jul 2018 - Current (8 years 4 months)
    Member of the Board of an exciting new security startup.
  • ebay
    Principal Architect, Structured Data
    ebay
    Mar 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 8 months)
  • Cirrent
    Chief Technology Officer
    Cirrent
    Jul 2015 - Mar 2018 (2 years 9 months)
  • Ipass
    Senior Vice President, Product Development and Operations
    Ipass
    Apr 2012 - May 2015 (3 years 2 months)
    Responsible for all aspects of product development, from product definition to prioritization, to development, to QA, to build/release, to deployment, across seven different client platforms and a cloud-based services platform. I unified the product management and engineering organizations, resulting in a high-performing global team that efficiently and economically delivered top quality products and services. Through my leadership of the operations team, I strengthened the partnership between product development and operations, enabling us to trouble-shoot and resolve production issues in a very timely manner. It also enabled us to do just-in-time scaling of the production network as new services drove new demands in support of our rapidl
  • Ipass
    Vice President, Engineering
    Ipass
    Feb 2008 - Apr 2012 (4 years 3 months)
    As Vice President, Engineering, I was responsible for the global iPass development team (approx. 150 engineers in California and India). We delivered the Open Mobile platform for business travelers on laptops, smartphones and tablets. I led a complete overhaul of our engineering practices and culture, transitioning from an inefficient waterfall development methodology to an agile methodology that we adapted to cater to the complexities of a globally distributed team. I aligned the two engineering teams into an effective organization, capable of rapidly delivering hiqh quality products and services, as if no geographic boundary existed.
  • Ipass
    CTO
    Ipass
    Dec 2007 - May 2015 (7 years 6 months)
    In my CTO role at iPass, I led a small team researching technologies to enhance the iPass product portfolio. I led a significant cross-team project to introduce Big Data technologies to iPass, that enabled us to derive business value from the myriad of Wi-Fi network data that we got from our users. I established technology partnerships with leading mobile platform providers, which resulted in iPass being the first mobile application developer to gain access to private captive portal APIs. By leveraging these APIs we delivered a richer, more seamless Wi-Fi experience on mobile devices. I also authored numerous patents and managed the iPass patent portfolio, in addition to being responsible for IT Security and Compliance. As the technical v
  • Ipass
    Vice-President, Architecture and Design
    Ipass
    Jul 2006 - Jan 2008 (1 year 7 months)
    After iPass acquired GoRemote, and gained a substantial development team in Bangalore, India, my primary role was to ensure the successful delivery of products and services from our globally distributed development team. I provided technical leadership and architectural oversight, and also focused on best practices to ensure that the two teams (in California and India) were aligned and able to deliver on the iPass vision.
  • Ipass
    Client Architect, then Director of Advanced Technology
    Ipass
    Sep 2002 - Jul 2006 (3 years 11 months)
    My first role at iPass was to architect the iPassConnect 3.0 connection manager, which enabled business travelers to connect to the Internet over local Dial, Wi-Fi or Ethernet connections. Upon delivery of iPassConnect 3.0, my next role was to research additional technologies that would add value to the iPass product portfolio. I represented iPass at, and was an editor for, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Trusted Network Connect (TNC) working group, defining industry standards for endpoint integrity.
  • P
    Director of Product Architecture
    Peregrine Systems
    Apr 2001 - Sep 2002 (1 year 6 months)
    Peregrine acquired Extricity in April 2001. After the acquisition, the Extricity team was chartered with building a next-generation application development platform for Peregrine. My role was to design the platform and provide oversight to the development team, and support key 3rd party partners in their technical integration projects.
  • E
    Director of Product Architecture
    Extricity
    Sep 1999 - Apr 2001 (1 year 8 months)
    Responsible for the technical direction for the Extricity B2B product line. My role was technical (authoring product specifications and reviewing developer designs and implementations), managerial (managed team of developers, drove the successful transition from a waterfall to an Extreme development methodology, promoted best practices, arranged regular brown-bag presentations), and cross-functional (liaison to sales and customers, managed support escalations, trained bootcamp participants).
  • GENERAL MAGIC
    Senior Engineer, then Technical Director
    GENERAL MAGIC
    Nov 1992 - Aug 1999 (6 years 10 months)
    Core member of Telescript development team, delivering innovative mobile agent technology. My initial focus area at General Magic was to build a scalable two-way Telescript email gateway that enabled mobile agents to communicate with traditional Internet email servers. While Telescript was a technological success, it was a business failure. General Magic then changed its focus to building a network service that provided subscriber access to email, calendar, contacts, news and stock portfolio through a patented state-of-the-art voice interface. I ramped up quickly on voice technologies, and delivered core service elements for the Portico Virtual Assistant (these elements were later deployed in the GM OnStar voice recognition system).
  • R
    Senior System Architect
    Retix
    Jan 1986 - Oct 1992 (6 years 10 months)
    Responsible for X.400 (email) product development. Chaired X.400 Special Interest Working Group at NIST. Developed and presented two day X.400 tutorial at industry conferences.
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • University College Dublin
    B. Sc, Computer Science
    University College Dublin
  • New York University
    B. S, Computer Science
    New York University
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    • M
      A Carrier Roadmap for Monetizing Next Generation Wi-Fi Hotspots
      May
      TABLE OF CONTENTS:

      Wi-Fi Roaming Use Cases:
      1. Mitigating fear of bill shock
      2. Expanding data roaming options for non-GSM/UMTS network operators
      3. Making international data roaming affordable
      4. Responding to changing European regulations

      - A renewed carrier interest in Wi-Fi
      - The importance of having a Wi-Fi strategy
      - Industry groups seek to meet the needs of network operators
      - The transition to next generation hotspots
      - iPass infrastructure to support Wi-Fi Roaming
      - iPass services fabric enables 802.1x authentication
      - iPass directory updates enable coexistence of disparate Wi-Fi networks
      - iPass portal facilitates delivery of access policies
      - A phas
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