Jeffrey Ricker is an experienced technology development executive with 15 years of leadership in defense and the private sector. He is the principal of Jeffrey Ricker LLC, providing expertise in Eclipse, RCP and OSGi to Fortune 500 and start-up clients.
He was the CEO and founder of Distributed Instruments, a company dedicated to solving the challenges of sensor data fusion. Distributed Instruments was closely involved in the development of Transducer Markup Language and Service Oriented Device Architecture (SODA).
Prior to co-founding Distributed Instruments, Jeffrey was the founder, director and executive vice president of XMLSolutions Corporation, the first company dedicated to extensible markup language (XML) technology. XMLSolutions had 160 employees, raised $25 million in venture capital and provided electronic commerce solutions for Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, Boeing, JP Morgan, Sears, Ethyl, Lockheed Martin and Ingersoll Rand. Jeffrey assisted in the design of the world’s largest business-to-business electronic commerce engines, including Covisint (automotive), Envera (petrochemicals), Exostar (aerospace) and GlobalNet (retail). Vitria Corp [NASD:VITR] acquired XMLSolutions in April 2001.
Prior to XMLSolutions, Jeffrey was director of consulting for Wallop Software, acquired by IBM in 1998. At Wallop and as an independent consultant, he built large-scale web-based applications for companies such as Chase, Hartford, AT&T, Nissan, Kellogg’s, Bank of America and Federal Express.
Jeffrey began his career in defense research. He was director of marketing at US Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) when it won the President’s Award for Quality. He served in the Office of the Deputy Commanding General for Research and Development, US Army Materiel Command. He represented the Assistant Secretary of the Army in the $3 billion defense supercomputing modernization program. He was one of twelve men in the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Future Battle Directorate responsible for writing Force XXI Operations. He was also managing editor for National Security Studies Quarterly.
As a technologist, Jeffrey is co-inventor on five patent applications and author of multiple industry technology standards, including Asynchronous Service Access Protocol and Transducer Markup Language.
Jeffrey received his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Tulane University. He attended the National Securities Studies graduate program at Georgetown University and executive training at Harvard Business School and Michigan Business School. He was an armor officer in the US Army Reserve.
Jeffrey and his wife Linda live with their children Olivia, Alfred and Scarlett on Lake Oscawana in New York.
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