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Jim Culbert, CTO, MetraTech
Jim leads MetraTech's technology strategy, product innovation and standards initiatives. He joined the company in 1998, as vice president of engineering. His duties included strategic management, technology direction, business development and he led the launch of the first version of MetraTech's billing solution. Jim has nearly 20 years of experience delivering innovative solutions from Internet application development in the network layer through complex Web Services and has long served as the company's chief technical architect and evangelist. Prior to MetraTech, Jim was senior technical consultant at Internet Business Advantages and was responsible for implementing Web-based business solutions for Fortune 500 companies as well as all technical aspects of project delivery. Previously, Jim was a founding engineer and principal developer at NetCentric, where he managed the client software development team and was responsible for system interfaces for its IP telephony suite. While at AT&T Interchange, he developed new online services as well as the first TCP/IP based online service on the market. Jim holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also a guest lecturer on software engineering. |
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