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Nigel Beck is the founder and principal at Nigel Beck LLC.  He has been involved in the high tech industry since he first started programming at the age of 9.  He has subsequently
  • developed interfaces to devices, back in the days when programmers used oscilloscopes
  • competed in the Canadian Cycling National Championships
  • written a Lisp interpreter
  • translated The Medea from ancient Greek into verse and produced it in full tragic mask
  • built a team from two to two hundred developers in two years to build one of the largest object oriented systems in the world
  • sold a company to IBM
  • launched the Websphere product line at IBM as the founding product line manager, taking the product from 41st in the market to top three in two years
  • run IBM's Speech Systems marketing, creating the VoiceXML consortium
  • run marketing for IBM's embedded hardware, creating the first open microprocessor organization, Power.Org
  • built a micronational startup, working between US, Canada, Russia, and India, to develop artificial intelligence and semantic web software using social networking, natural language, and recommendation engines
  • created the mail2.im message relay
  • contributed to various open source projects
  • joined the board of TheOpenSea.com, a social network for boaters
  • delivered sailboats up and down the US East Coast
  • patented inventions
  • helped startups, consortia, and established companies work through issues of product design, positioning, sourcing, and branding