William A. Saunders

William A. Saunders

A quality oriented Ruby on Rails Engineer focused on Agile Software Development leading all development teams at Kanga. Led Engineering at companies such as Ericsson, PRIMEDIA, Wave7Optics, and Nortel.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-saunders/2/1a6/10b
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Member since September 10, 2015
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A quality oriented Ruby on Rails Engineer focused on Agile Software Development leading all development teams at Kanga. Quote_down
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Education
1982 Queens University , BS , Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing and Information Sciences

I am a(n):

Developer

Companies I work or worked for:
Kanga Technology, Nortel, Alidian Networking, Wave7 Optics, Enablence, Primedia, Ericsson
Achievements (products built, personal awards won):

Ericsson Innovation Award

If you're an entrepreneur or corporate innovator, why?

Serendipitously fell into it...

My favorite startups:

Kanga, ZTailors, MicroBreweries

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Leading offshore resources

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Miss the planning stage

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1. Be able to re-vector and accommodate change
2. Get the customer what they want
3. Be tight with the money