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About me: Damien Stolarz

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 some higher education in a couple years.

Professionally, I have founded or co-founded and sold or exited 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 working with are:

RPX Corporation, a defensive patent aggregator.
Perceptive Development, an iPhone/iPad/mobile software and accessory company
Robotarmy Corp, which works on hardware technology and advanced concepts
StreetDeck, developers of in-car entertainment software

Historically, I have worked at:

aiTV Corp, an Internet/TV convergence company.
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 co-authored iPhone Hacks (O’Reilly Media)
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.

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.

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