Meet The Team
Steven Kramer
Chief Connection Officer
So how is it 35 years after connecting my first systems we have created “The Bridge”? I am convinced it all started as a boy, when asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?” the answer was ‘Bridge Builder’. Be careful what you ask for in this life, it’s most likely to come true. I graduated from College and went to work, for ten years, at T. J. Watson Research Labs, Famous for ‘Deep Blue’ Chess Machine and ‘Watson’ the computer Jeopardy Champion, where I filed 22 patents, here is one: Polystyrene-tetrathiafulvalene polymers as deep-ultraviolet mask material US 4543319 A. It was in this role as Research Assistant, 1978, I connected my first two systems, a Lab Instrument to the MVS Mainframe Computer using an IBM Research ‘Data Coupler’. For the following five years I worked in a Blue Suit as a Marketing Representative for IBM, attaining ‘Rookie of the Year’ and ‘Hundred Percent Club’ the next three years.
The next 20 years (see we are at 35 years now) I was full time creating fully integrated systems for corporations. Many of these systems were ‘Connected’ to other systems though EDI, Web Services or File Upload. That leads us to today where we can connect mobile devices to business systems for competitive advantage, 35 years after connecting that first Lab system.
Oh, and I do have some stories to tell you about the Fortran Programs I wrote and the AS/400’s I connected using some of the earliest APIs, however those are stories for another day!
Guillermo Cotton
Board Member
Founder partner and data scientist. Working in systems Integration since 2002, he has integrated multiple electronic devices for industrial and medical corporates since the early M2M era into OLTP or OLAP Systems. With a lot of experience connecting data between systems and machines, he is one of this guys that can query an amount of data and can tell you in which direction you should point your efforts, no matter if it is industrial or medical equipment, financial or operational and management systems. Also he has a vast knowing on new technologies and he is leading the team on research and development.
Guillermo is well known for writing jokes for local ‘drive time radio’…..
Edgar Von Quednow
Board Member
Communications Expert Engineer with many years of experience developing WAN and MAN Solutions, Custom Wireless communications and devices.
Marco Castejon
Board Member
Assistant to the organization. Marco is a ‘Can Do’ person. His background in Electrical and Industrial Engineering drive to always learn about new technologies. From creating Mobile Applications to creating beautiful printed templates. Marco makes our work LOOK great. With his background in running large pharmaceutical organizations, he provides industrial experience, making a positive difference in terms of developing solutions. Marco is always presenting to our customers the best results that accommodate the business process.
Oh and ask anyone they will tell you, he is very easy to work with …
Ricardo Uribio
Board Member
Our Master Mind of Software development; he joined the team in 2005. He is the kind of person that can convert a huge problem into a five line of code solution. No data challenge is too difficult for Ricardo. When others say, there is no way to ‘get to the data’, he shows them how. When there is ‘truly’ no way, he ‘makes a way’ by building a tool. Ricardo’s tools allows Simply Connected Systems to complete jobs faster, and more accurately than anyone else ‘in the business’. This allows Simply Connected Systems to deliver solutions that are ‘better for the customer’ for less money in less time.
Ricardo is ‘kinda bat’ like and so there is no known daytime picture of him.
