John Martellaro Application 2011
About me
My name is John Martellaro. I am the CTO and founder of APX Labs.
My company blurb reads as follows (but is vague, so I shall elaborate in the paragraph after):
John directs technology development at APX Labs, aligning the company’s high tech vision with business strategy. After more than five years of high performance network computing research within the DOD and Intelligence communities, John joined BTS (Battlefield Telecommunication Systems) as their Director of Special Projects where he served as the original architect of their flagship product, Praefectus Mission Management Software. John’s vast experience and unique perspective on mobile technologies for the military, government, and private sectors position him as a key leader at APX Labs. John has also been recognized for his compassion and support of the military with an ESGR Patriot Award. John holds a M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Praefectus enabled the US Army to deploy the first tactical cellular nodes throughout Afghanistan. It has hardened security, higher channel allocation, built-in frequency deconfliction, and requires little knowledge on cellular infrastructure or provisioning of devices. It more or less simplified cell planning, and things that normally required an engineering degree for proper cellular operation. Prior all they had were expensive radios that could only perform voice communications. There was no concept of cellular data. As a result, the Army can now deploy smart phones, and other devices that can leverage a cellular modem. I have since moved my interests to next generation cellular devices. One of which is dual stereoscopic augmented reality glasses in a head worn form factor (think terminator vision) for the Army.
As a means to connect disparate systems to the augmented reality glasses and other devices, I have overseen the creation of new XMPP libraries that can be used in tactical deployments. From the libraries, APX Labs has created a system based on XMPP specs called Anchorpoint that allows for very quick integration to other devices, servers, systems, and cloud services that utilize our libraries. In the near future, Anchorpoint will serve as the backbone to Praefectus and facilitate as the gateway for multimedia messaging for military deployments, similar to iMessage on iPhones. The important thing about tactical deployments, is that the source code has to abide by ITAR restrictions, fault tolerance, and have passed security accreditation.
Among a few things, I spend my day to day directing the development of our tactical XMPP client/server libraries. Most of my employees receive a XMPP book on their first day. I'm hoping to become more involved with the XMPP Standards Foundation so I can help relay some of the needs of various branches of the government and military in terms of XMPP specifications.
Contacts
* JID: xmpp:martellaro@jabber.org * Email: john@apx-labs.com * Company: APX Labs
