Zvents Appoints Robert Krohn as Vice President of Engineering.Former Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. Executive and Entrepreneur to Lead Engineering Team SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Zvents, the local search engine for things to do, today announced the expansion of its executive team with the appointment of Robert Krohn as Vice President of Engineering. Krohn, who has over 15 years of systems engineering and management experience, will oversee the engineering development, quality assurance, and operations of Zvents' local search web service, as well as provide technical vision to the company. "Robert's extensive leadership experience and expertise in building world-class engineering teams and market-leading products in both start-ups and public companies is an invaluable asset to Zvents," said Ethan Stock, Zvents CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder. "He will play a pivotal role in helping Zvents scale our services and lead our engineering organization to reach its fullest potential." "I am very pleased to join Zvents because of the quality of the team and the enormous opportunity in local search, one of the last franchises still open in the search space," said Krohn. "Zvents' technology meets the demands of providing relevant local search, media targeting, and analytics to provide a quality search experience." Most recently, Krohn founded and led My Life Digital (MDL MDL - (Originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. ), a software startup company The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. uniting the worlds of smartphones, consumer electronics, and online services. Prior to MDL, Krohn held various positions ranging from business development, platform engineering, and software engineering management at top tier Silicon Valley companies. He was a senior director at Juniper Networks and has held management and individual contributor roles at Nexsi Systems, Electronics for Imaging, Xerox AODS AODS Alcohol and Other Drug Services AODS Air Operations Decision Support (US D0D) AODS Alton Operatic and Dramatic Society (UK) AODS Area-Oriented Depot Standardization , and Hewlett Packard. Robert Krohn earned a Bachelor of Engineering Bachelor of Engineering (commonly abbreviated as BE or BEng) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at an accredited university in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Korea, Degree in Digital Systems and Computer Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Royal Melbourne, a high class neighborhood in Chicago's North Shore, is both a residential community and Greg Norman designed golf course. The neighborhood houses some of Chicago's elite professionals, including world-renowned lawyers, doctors, and athletes. Institute of Technology University in Australia. About Zvents Zvents is the leading local search company featuring things to do. With Zvents' Media Platform, Zvent's local index and search engine powers media partners and publishers with dynamic local event content and a reverse publishing platform which streamlines publishing resources. Zvents provides a complete and compelling user experience, enabling users to find, contribute, share and promote events, venues, and performers. The company aggregates rich event information from the open web, user-contributed content, and links high-quality editorial content from partners with its local event index. Visit www.zvents.com |
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