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About me, Damien Stolarz

May 02nd 2006 Posted in general

I am an inventor, entrepreneur and writer who has spent most of my life making electronic devices talk to each other. I started my first company in 1994 and have played the role of CTO (Chief Technology Officer) throughout my career. I like public-facing roles as I enjoy company, and I do good work as a technology evangelist and I am competent at technology marketing. I have a computer science / engineering degree from UCLA, and plan to go back for a Ph.D. in a few years.

Professionally, I have founded or co-founded a number of hardware and software technology companies. Like many serial entrepreneurs, I have many things going on at once. The best common theme I have been able to come up with recently about my companies is “digital media convergence”.

I have worked on a lot of extremely fun technology including online video games, peer-to-peer audio and video, in-vehicle computers, stereoscopic (”3D”) televisions, and video commerce. I’m also pretty handy with intellectual property and I do a bit of work in the patent space. I also like writing, and for the last few years I have found publishing as an outlet for sharing my love of technology. I try in my writing to make complex subjects simple to understand since they are, stripped of their buzzwords, usually simple.

Some of the companies I’m currently helping are:

aiTV Corp, an Internet/TV convergence company.
Perceptive Development, a boutique software and intellectual property consultancy
Robotarmy Corp, which works on hardware technology and advanced concepts
StreetDeck, developers of in-car entertainment software

Historically, I have worked at:

The Walt Disney Corporation as a consultant in corporate New Technology & New Media.
MP3Car.com, and online retailer of car PC parts and accessories, which bought my company CarBot, Inc.
Long ago, in the mid-1990s, I co-founded Static.com which became Blue Falcon Networks around the turn of the century and which which eventually became Akimbo which was euthanized in early 2008.

Writing

I’m currently co-authoring iPhone Hacks (O’Reilly Media, as we speak)
I wrote Mastering Internet Video (Addison-Wesley, 2004)
and Car PC Hacks (O’Reilly Media, 2005)
and Hands-On Guide to Video Blogging and Podcasting (Focal Press, 2006).He also writes for the technology magazines Make:
and Streaming Media Magazine.
I even wrote an article on in-car computing for Popular Science.

Blog: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/179
Streaming Media Sourcebook (2006)
Make: Magazine
Volume 3 (2 articles)
Volume 6
Linux Journal: Reducing Boot Times for in-car computers (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)
MP3Car.com: CarBot
IEEE: P2P Streaming Media Delivery

Communicating with me

I love email and is pretty good about responding, eventually: me@damienstolarz.com

AIM: DamienStolarz | ICQ:7104553 | MSN Messenger: robotarmy@hotmail.com | Yahoo: robotarmy@yahoo.com

Speaking

I have had two long stints as a professional speaker, one during the rise of peer-to-peer technology, and then several years later during the rise of Internet video.