uControl's Leadership
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James (Jim) Johnson, President and CEO Mr. Johnson co-founded uControl in 2005 and serves as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board. Most recently, he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Service Provider Business Unit of TippingPoint, which was acquired by 3Com in February 2005. Prior to TippingPoint, Mr. Johnson was Vice President of Sales at BroadJump, which was acquired by Motive Communications in February 2003. Prior to BroadJump, he served as National Sales Manager for Cisco Systems ADSL Portfolio. Before Cisco's acquisition of NetSpeed, he served as the Director of North American Telco Sales for NetSpeed. Prior to NetSpeed, Mr. Johnson held both domestic and international assignments with Alcatel Telecom in sales, product planning, product management and research and development. Mr. Johnson also serves on the Board of Directors for Boundless Network and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University. |
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Jim Kitchen, Vice President of Product Strategy Mr. Kitchen co-founded uControl and is responsible for product strategy. Most recently, he was at Motive and served in several capacities; Director of Product Marketing and Product Management responsible for Motive's premier next-generation products in IPTV and VoIP, and prior to that as Senior Director of Motive's Consulting Services Communications Practice running a team of about 60 consultants and supporting personnel. He was responsible for 200+ deployments to the largest service providers in the world. Prior to Motive, Mr. Kitchen was the President of a successful entertainment and marketing software consulting company in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Kitchen began his career by launching one of the first web-based services to offer real-time financial and news information where he served as Vice President of Software Development, Mr. Kitchen attended the University of Texas. |
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Jason Domangue, Vice President of Marketing Mr. Domangue brings over ten years of sales and marketing experience from the telecommunications industry to uControl. Most recently, Mr. Domangue served as the Director of Sales and Marketing for EATEL, a 70-year-old telecommunications company that provides voice, data and video services over a Fiber-To-The-Home network to both residential and business customers. Prior to his work at EATEL, Mr. Domangue founded EATELWEB, an interactive marketing firm that was one of the first in the country to offer a paid subscription streaming video service through a college athletic department's website - LSUsports.net. Mr. Domangue holds a Bachelors of Science in Marketing from Louisiana State University. |
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Wade Cohn, Vice President of Engineering Mr. Cohn co-founded uControl and is responsible for engineering. Prior to uControl, he was at Motive and served in several capacities; Director of Technology and Lead Architect for Motive's Consumer line of products and Senior Developer after originally joining Motive as the seventh employee. At Motive, Mr. Cohn was responsible for engineering highly scalable enterprise class server platfroms that supported up to 18 million end users in a single deployment. Prior to joining Motive, he was with Tivoli Systems as a lead developer for various components of the Tivoli product line. Before this tenure at Tivoli, Mr. Cohn was a software developer at Arrowsmith Technologies and IBM. Mr. Cohn has more that 18 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, distributed software systems. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. |
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Chuck Granberry, Manager of Internal Operations Mr. Granberry brings over 22 years of experience in the alarm monitoring industry to uControl. Most recently Mr. Granberry was Executive Vice President of Operations with A-Com Protection Services, a large regional installation and monitoring company that was also a member of SDM Magazine's Top 100 Security Providers. |
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J. Brent Ussery, Manager of Operations, Technical Services Mr.Ussery brings over 15 years of experience in the security alarm monitoring and home automation industry to uControl. Prior to joining uControl, Mr.Ussery served as the National Service Manager with Integrated Alarm Services Group (IASG), a security alarm company that provided alarm installation and monitoring services to over 150,000 retail subscribers and over 700,000 wholesale subscribers. In his role at IASG, he headed the retail installation, service, and training divisions and performed due diligence for account acquisitions, in this position he played a key role in their rapid growth. Prior to joining IASG, Mr. Ussery held executive positions with security alarm monitoring and security alarm consulting companies. |
