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Executive Bios
Jim Raab - Principal Consultant
Jim has been involved in wireless and networking standards and applications for over 15 years. In 2003 he founded OakTree Wireless as an answer to the wireless networking industry’s call for pinpoint technology expertise. He has had previous experience at Wayport, Tivoli Systems, Lincom Wireless, and Musenki. After completing his Masters from Utah State University, he worked out of Laramie, Wyoming managing technology accounts for a custom business systems consultancy. His accounts included Motorola, AOL, Intuit, and others. The four years between his Masters and his undergraduate from Colorado State University, Jim worked in the Virgin Islands with the Rockresorts Corporation in program development for a chain of luxury resorts like Caneel Bay and Little Dix Bay. The first applications of wireless to span communications in a remote island environment influenced him in his graduate program choices and career path to understand the networking and wireless industry.
Jim lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters. When he is not talking with regulators, scanning the technology horizon or guiding companies on a winning product development path, he enjoys boating, fishing, ranching and the live music scene.
Rich Kennedy - Principal Consultant
Rich joined OakTree Wireless Consulting in January 2006 as Principal Consultant. Prior to OakTree, he was with Bandspeed, Inc. from June 2003 in applications and technical market engineering, and was Director of Product Marketing with Gemtek Systems USA, Inc. from June 2002 until June 2003. For six years (1995 – 2001) Rich was a Communications Architect SMTS for the Consumer Products division of Compaq Computer, a culmination of 27 years of product design engineering, 24 of which were dedicated to voice and data communications products.
Rich lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and son. He exhausts his free time reading, attempting to become a good photographer and "playing" acoustic guitar.
Katie Moran - Executive Consultant
Katie joined OakTree Wireless Consulting as an Associate Consultant in November 2003, bringing 8 years of experience to the company. Following her graduation from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Katie returned to her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee where she joined the Human Resources department of Baptist Health Systems. After two years and a big need for change, Katie picked up and moved to Austin, Texas where she joined Tivoli Software/IBM. For four years, she worked with the IBM Software Executive Briefing Center in meeting/event management handling worldwide sales, customer, and partner based meetings and events.
Katie lives in Austin, Texas. In her free time, she runs a jewelry and sewn goods business, Stars n' Rockets, enjoys reading, traveling, and spending quality time with her boyfriend, friends and family.
Associate Consultants
Phil Belanger
Phil is a pioneer in the wireless industry and has been instrumental in creating and promoting the 802.11 standard for wireless LANs. He was active in the IEEE 802.11 committee during the development of the original Medium Access Control and Physical layer standards. Phil is a co-author of the DFWMAC protocol, which was selected as the foundation for the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol standard and is still used with Wi-Fi today. He was one of the founders of the Wi-Fi Alliance, and served as Chairman of the organization leading the early efforts to driver interoperability and build awareness for the Wi-Fi brand.
Phil has a broad range of experience over 25 years in the networking industry, with the last 15 years focused on wireless. Phil has served in executive level positions at companies such as Zilog, Corvus Systems, Adaptec, Xircom, Aironet, Wayport, Vivato and most recently BelAir Networks. Phil is now lending his experience, vision and expertise to OakTree Consulting and Novarum as a technical and strategy consultant.
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