Bandwidth Arbitrator

Our Charter

We will make the best traffic shaping product available. Our core traffic shaping software will always remain open under the Gnu Public license. The shaping tools we produce will make traffic shaping, a low cost commodity; thus allowing home users and service providers alike to re-allocate resources elsewhere. We will sell some pieces of technology that compliment the open source arbitrator software, however never under any circumstance will we create any feature that locks a user into proprietary release incompatible with the open source version of the Arbitrator.

The team

(Co Founder) - Art Reisman general visionary.

Art has BS in computer Science from the University of California Riverside; he also has done graduate work at the Florida Institute of Technology in the field of Computer Science. He has developed from conception to market several products including the Vibration Analyzer, a tool that balanced automobile drive shafts for General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. (Over 4 million in sales) He was written up in the front page of the Pioneer Press Dispatch (St Paul Minnesota) 1992 for this invention. He also served as director of technology for eworldtrack, (www.eworldtrack.com) a company that specializes in child location devices. He crafted their plan for scaling up their technology, and also helped them attract a new CEO by speaking on be-half of eWorldTack at the spring Net Wireless World trade show in the Javitz center New York in 2001. Art Served as the lead architect and visionary for Lucent's (now Avaya's) interactive voice product line. He championed and help execute the technical strategy for the next generation product line entering the Voice over IP market in late 2002.

(Co Founder) - Steve Wagor Network Specialist

Steve Wagor has a wide range of Business experience, most recent business experience was owning and running a highly successful Locksmith business for several years. He also currently runs all the networking services for a network access reseller with customers in Arizona. Steve is fluent in all forms of network management solutions. As part of the services he provides for real estate developers in Arizona, he has produced complete web front end back end solutions, internet domain services, and yes of course traffic shaping solutions. In fact Steve joined APconnections as a former customer (turned partner)

(Partner) - Prachi Gondi

Prachi specializes in Java, Web , and Unix development.

Prachi has an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Duke University in Raleigh, NC and a B.S. in Computer Science from a reputed University in India. She is also a SUN certified Java programmer. She has worked on various projects in Lucent Technologies and I.B.M. and has experience working on various UNIX platforms. She currently spends her time volunteering for various activities in the society and helping out open-source software projects. Her interest in Linux and network management and the excitement of growing popularity of the Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator enticed her join APConnections team.

(Sales) - Jerry Presley
Jerry Presley’s business career started in the cable TV industry with Daniels & Associates, where he was involved in a wide range of corporate development activities including acquisitions, franchising, cellular telephony, Low Power TV and MMDS. He later became Vice President of Operations and Customer Service of the cable operating division and helped assemble a major group of cable systems through a series of public limited partnerships. In the 1990’s, Jerry was involved in the managed health care business serving as Vice President of the largest health plan in Colorado, with responsibilities at various times for Operations, Customer Service, Marketing and Sales. His experience with the Internet industry began in 1997 as President of XSspeed!, a broadband wireless Internet provider offering high-speed Internet services using FCC-licensed MMDS frequencies. That company was sold to Sprint and is now part of Sprint’s Wireless Broadband Group. In 2000 Jerry formed AirBlaster Wireless Networks, which provides networking and Internet services using unlicensed frequencies. Jerry is working with APconnections to help sell and market the Bandwidth Arbitrator. He has a BS in Radio/TV/Film and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

(Board of Advisors) - Lucinda Sanders, Executive in Residence, University of Colorado at Boulder

Lucinda received her BS and MS in Computer Science from Louisiana State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, respectively. She worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Bell Labs and Avaya Labs for over 20 years, where she specialized in systems level software (operating systems, data base systems, etc.) and solutions (multi-media communication and customer relationship management). In 1996, Lucinda was awarded the Bell Labs Fellow Award, the highest technical accomplishment bestowed in Bell Labs. She also has three patents in the communications technology area.

In 2001, Lucinda retired from her position as Avaya’s Vice President of R&D and CTO for Customer Relationship Management and began a new career at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is currently an Executive in Residence for ATLAS (the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society). She also serves on the Department of Computer Science Advisory Board at CU Boulder, the Denver Public Schools Computer Magnet Advisory Board and the Advisory Board for the Women’s College Applied Computing Program at the University of Denver. Lucinda sits on several industry boards and remains active as a consultant in the customer service industry.

(Board of Advisors) - Terry Gold is the co-founder, CEO and President of Gold Systems, www.goldsys.com an independent software development company that creates self-service solutions powered by voice.

Terry came to Colorado in 1985 and worked as a contract software developer with AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he worked on AT&T's first computer telephony product, the ISDN Gateway which facilitated the 'screen pop' concept, now known as Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). He has over twenty years experience in business and software and serves on the Board of advisors for several local technology companies. He was a founding member of the Colorado chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and is currently a member of the Young President's Organization. In 2000 he and his co-founder were recognized with the 'Esprit Entrepreneur of Distinction' award, and in 2003 Terry was recognized as a finalist at the Rocky Mountain Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. He has a B.S. in Business Administration and an. A.S. in Applied Computer Studies from Brescia College.

Gold Systems was named to the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in 1998. The company has also been named to the Deloitte & Touche Colorado Fast 50 every year for the last five years. In September 2000, Gold Systems received 'Best Local Employer' by Readers Choice Awards in Boulder County.

(Board of Advisors) - Robert Nagler is President of bivio Software Artisans, a software consultancy specializing in web applications. Rob was founder and CTO of two successful web startups Assurance Systems and bivio Inc. He also led numerous development efforts at Tandem Computers High Performance Research Center, Olsen and Associates, and Sun Microsystems. Rob holds a BS in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and MS in Computer Engineering from Stanford University.