Dennis brings more than a decade of experience in establishing, capitalizing, and leading businesses that pioneer technology. Becker founded CommerceTel with the vision of a cloud-based solution that relieves brands and enterprises from the complexities of the emerging mobile economy.
Prior to CommerceTel, Becker founded Frontieric Corporation, a pioneer in providing complex call routing and merchant processing applications. Frontieric became an award-winning technology company and was twice awarded recognition by The San Diego Software and Internet Council's annual startup competition. Becker was also CEO of Bexel Technologies, which served solutions to large enterprise such as NASA, and held key management and consulting positions for a variety of manufacturing and industrial companies in the Pacific Northwest. During this time, he designed, developed, and installed a number of innovative solutions, ranging from real-time sales order processing and project control systems to a subjective experience analysis engine for various fields of academic research. Becker also holds the fastest telecom patent ever issued by the USPTO having achieved a fully published patent in just 79 days (patent # 7,746,987).
Becker studied Computer Science at the University of Oregon and served in the United States Air Force.
Alex Shah brings 20 years of deep experience in software development, systems design, and innovation to the CommerceTel team. Alex recently pioneered image search applications, where he was awarded over 8 patents for his inventions. Previously, Alex was the Senior Vice President of R&D at Blue Titan, a Draper Fisher funded venture, where he led the development of software tools to manage complex IT integration challenges. Blue Titan acquired VelociGen, a company Alex founded in 1997, whose technology accelerated dynamic web sites, and was a key component of large financial trading systems at Ameritrade, Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs, etc. Mr. Shah began his career as a visualization engineer for Warner Bros. Feature Animation (Space Jam, The Quest for Camelot, Iron Giant), and The Scripps Research Institute, where his work made the cover of Scientific American in 1992. Alex holds an MS in Biochemistry (emphasis computation biology) from UCLA, a BA in Computer Science and BS in Biochemistry from UCSD.
Brad brings over 15 years of digital media experience to CommerceTel. Brad joined our team after spending three years at the National Basketball Association in New York managing all NBA wireless products and services. He got his start in wireless while heading up product and business development for PayVision in New York. Prior to working in wireless, he spent his career in streaming media working for InterVU, Akamai Technologies and GlowPoint Networks. Brad holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
As the Director of Engineering at CommerceTel, Scott Martin brings 9 years of industry experience to CommerceTel's creative service environment. His responsibilities for the company focus on the management of the global software development teams in creating a scalable, high availability network presence. Scott has also been responsible for spearheading the major software release for the C4 2.0 and 3.0 program, and redesigning the entire SQL architecture from the ground up to be normalized and fully relational to the product.
Scott brings a strong technical background to his position. His past achievements include working as the Director of Engineering for Collateral Risk Solutions, implementing the architecture of a high availability web and SQL server presence. He also coordinated the design, development and testing of custom, company wide ASP.NET CRM applications, and implemented web services for B2B integration.
Scott has also worked as the Director of Software Engineering at Frontieric Corporation, where he designed and developed a virtual telecommunications system using XML, VOIP, SIP, and Cisco AS53xx platform technologies. As a Software Test Engineer at Microsoft Corporation, his responsibilities included testing the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Software Development Kit, and ActiveX control-based applications, CIM Studio and Object Browser.