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| Quiconnect Appoints Marc Rozier as Chief Technology Officer Quiconnect announces the appointment of Marc Rozier as its chief technology officer (CTO), effective immediately. An expert in systems software and distributed systems with a track record of innovation, Marc Rozier will be responsible for setting the overall technical direction of the company, leading and managing technical staff, acting as liaison between the executive, sales and engineering teams and organising technical collaboration with partner companies. Reporting directly to Quiconnect's chief executive officer, Troy Simoni, Marc Rozier will work closely with technical specialists within the business such as the recently appointed chief scientist, Alan DeKok, a world renowned authority on RADIUS and founder of FreeRADIUS, an open source RADIUS server with over 100,000 software deployments. Marc Rozier has over 20 years experience working in the IT industry and was co-founder and vice president of engineering at Chorus Systems, a French-based company established in 1986 which created microkernel technology to allow different operating systems to run concurrently on the same server hardware. A precursor to what is commonly known today as virtualisation technology, Chorus was the first company to offer the ability for a Java enabled real-time operating system to utilise servers also running UNIX and LINUX, thereby using IT resources to best effect. Also embedded into devices, Chorus was used by companies such as Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, Nokia and Nortel to build the main telecoms infrastructure to enable reliable 3G-based mobile phone services to be delivered to operators. Rozier was instrumental in growing Chorus to a company employing 45 engineers with revenues of $12 million which Sun Microsystems bought in 1997. This was to enable it to develop Java-based solutions for the embedded systems market, as well as capitalise on Chorus' presence in the telecoms infrastructure market to create sales opportunities for Sun products and solutions. Marc Rozier worked for Sun for nearly 10 years managing various product engineering departments, ranging from high availability clustering platforms for the telecoms industry, to data centre service management systems. Marc Rozier was in charge of large, cross functional teams with responsibility for the delivery of multiple software product releases, as well as defining product roll out and technical strategy, in close collaboration with Sun's marketing department and CTO. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |