Ken Norbury
Manager at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications since Sep. 2007, CTO at Avantimobile (UK) Ltd from 2006-2007, Director at Sonaptic Limited from 2004-2006, Vice President and General Manager at Geoworks Corporation from 1997-2004.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Computing, Information Technology, Mobile |
| Skills: | Architecture, Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Copy Writing, Databases, Design, Editing, Embedded systems, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, PHP, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Sales, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development, Windows applications, Writing |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding team mates, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Starting a company |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications |
| Position: | Manager, Tactical Market-Driven Applications |
| Time period: | September 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Business, Business Development and Software application specialist
Remit - to create and execute on tactical opportunities to add market value increasing volume sales and securing ranging of handsets globally or within specific markets. Working with outside partners to produce strong mobile client applications Strategic vision of future mainstream integration opportunities Presentation (sell-in) of solutions to Global and Market Unit customers (Mobile Operators) to support ranging decisions |
| Employer: | Avantimobile (UK) Limited |
| Position: | CTO |
| Time period: | October 2006 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Avantimobile’s solutions provided Least Cost Routing solutions for Mobile Device telecommunications.
Re-defined the roadmap, product requirements and architecture to radically change Avantimobile from small business competing with major VoIP resellers to service provider for VoIP wholesalers, effectively putting Avantimobile into the “firehose” provided by wholesalers to their retail community. |
| Employer: | Sonaptic Limited |
| Position: | Director |
| Time period: | August 2004 - June 2006 |
| Description: | Sonaptic developed Immersive Audio technologies for Mobile Phones and other Mobile devices.
Remit was to create new business relationships and sales opportunities for these technologies, working with and developing an ecosystem enabling 3D Audio to develop and thrive into the mobile space. |
| Employer: | Geoworks Corporation |
| Position: | Vice President and General Manager, Software Development |
| Time period: | February 1997 - August 2004 |
| Description: | Geoworks was a significant developer of Operating System software for microprocessor-based systems with Graphical User Interfaces. |
| Employer: | Eden Ltd. |
| Position: | Manager, Partner and Customer Services |
| Time period: | March 1996 - February 1997 |
| Description: | Formed in 1989 Eden started life as a design company for small hand-held electronics. The company had success with a number of designs and a worldwide ‘first’ producing a Wireless PDA product, marketed in the UK as the Amstrad PDA600, the product beat the Apple Newton to market by a number of weeks as the first wireless PDA product.
In 1996, the company made a major change in its direction to focus entirely on the development of a world-leading portable RISC-based OS for small battery powered hand-held devices. EdenOS v2.0 was based on the μITRON specification. |
| Employer: | Enable Software Inc. |
| Position: | Director, International Operations |
| Time period: | January 1987 - December 1995 |
| Description: | Enable Software, based in Ballston Lake, near Albany NY, was founded in 1983 and became a major supplier of PC based office software rivalling Microsoft, Lotus and Ashton Tate for the desktop space in the late 1980s. |
