My Resume
Woody Boyd
2018
Holland and Knight
Expert Witness
2017
AccelNow business accelerator
Board Member
Holston Business Development Center
Mentor / Entrepreneur in residence
2016
Symbiotic Devices
founder of this start up
Symbiotic devices designs circuit boards, writes the firmware for them, designs and writes android based room control systems that all tie to the Amazon cloud Internet of Things service.
State of Tennessee Emergency Communications
Board of Directors
TN Governor Haslem asked me to represent him on this board.
2005 to Present
Kairos Technology Group
Principal
Kairos provides technology consulting services, including hardware and software design. We may also act as investors in high technology start ups. I will often act as a startup’s Chief Technology Officer.
2006-2010
Intelligent Transportation Video, LLC
Founder / Chief Technology Officer
I led the development of a very complex system for managing all aspects of a local transportation network, also known as a smart highway. Our hardware and software allows the traffic manager to correlate video cameras with real time sensors such as volume counters and vehicle tracking via our proprietary Bluetooth Travel Time system.
2007 - 2008
Expert Witness / Litigation Consultant
My clients were sued by a patent holder and I served as a defense expert witness evaluating the claims of the patents and providing litigation strategy to challenge the patents as well as to invalidate the economic damages claim.I was engaged as an expert witness in this billion dollar patent dispute which centered around telecommunications, especially Automated Voice Response, an area where I am a patent holder.
2009-2010
IDBIOMETRICS, LLC
As CTO oversaw the technology development of an integrated Facial Recognition technology into a Digital Video Recorder.
2005-2009
Kapturenet, LLC
I recruited and lead the development team for this startup targeting the police mobile video market, my team developed an embedded Linux mobile digital video recording system for the police car (including body cams) and networked it with multiple video cameras, real time GPS positioning, full sensor input (nuclear, biological, chemical) turning each police car into an intelligent, roaming sensor network with all live video and telemetry transmitted in real time to law enforcement headquarters.
1999 - 2005
PeerLinx, LLC
Founder / Chief Executive Officer
I conceived a company to use unlicensed public spectrum wireless frequencies as the last mile link. PeerLinx was the first integrated telecommunications provider offering telephone (VoIP) and Internet using unlicensed wireless networks. We created the intellectual property necessary to co-mingle voice and data simultaneously on an unmanaged, unlicensed wireless link.
1997-1999
IPAXS, LLC
Chairman
IPAXS was the first to deliver very large scale Voice over IP telephone softswitch on Unix (Solaris) platform with the power and reliability necessary for large telephone carriers. This company developed technology based my Patent 4,955,054 Integrated Telecommunications System with Improved Digital Voice Response.
1994-1997
Edix (now Spheris)
Chief Technology Officer
I recruited and lead the development team that designed a secure nationwide online real time distributed medical records system that collected over 50,000 transactions daily from hospitals and physician offices nationwide, remotely processed the information using over 3,000 home based employees, and then returned it to the appropriate healthcare facility.
1991 – 1994
retired doing philanthropic work
1987 – 1990
PSI a wholly owned subsidiary of the Home Shopping Network
President
My company, Precision Systems was purchased by HSN and became the subsidiary that did all the extreme technology work for Home Shopping Network. I managed 180 employees and a 12 million dollar budget. The systems I designed created the world’s largest call center and automated voice response system handling over 65 million calls annually in 1991. The first year my system went online, sales increased by over 400 million dollars. I received several US and international patents for this system.
1982 - 1987
Precision Software, Inc.
President
Early leader in Interactive Voice Response systems
1981-1982
Lawson Software
Manager of Education and Technical Support