Dennis Becker is a technology entrepreneur with extensive experience in telecommunications and Internet software development and has architected the platforms that have enabled CommerceTel to become the first commercially available, IP and software-centric "telecommerce" service provider moving rapidly into the mobile commerce space.
CommerceTel's flagship product, C4, is based on Becker's vision of a web-deployable application platform optimized to operate with both the Internet and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), allowing the creation of applications natively accessible by any user from any location, across all networks.
Prior to co-founding CommerceTel, Becker 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.
Earlier in his career, 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 Industry Council's annual business plan competition.
Shane is a 20 year veteran in the high tech arena; He has served various roles in technical sales and marketing operations for Motorola, General Electric Corp, and Altera Corp. He continually builds high impact teams that rapidly grow revenues from a few million dollars to approaching $100M, repeatedly. He is a Master Trainer of Team Development, Sales Mind Set, Process and Skills. Kading is a frequent lecturer and provides team development work shops at California State University San Marcos in San Diego County. Prior to joining CommerceTel, Kading co-founded RSF Partners in Rancho Santa Fe, CA., focused on private equity and business consultancy. Shane believes in community service and has been on multiple non-profit boards. Shane holds a B.S. Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of South Dakota.
Brad brings over 15 years of digital media experience to CommerceTel. He is currently responsible for all business development activities including generating new business and managing partner relationships. 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.