CENTRI Technology

Provides comprehensive mobile network management and optimization solutions - to deliver smarter, more efficient data networks.

CENTRI Technology provides mobile network management and optimization solutions to create smarter, more efficient data networks. With its patented technology, CENTRI's Connected Experience Platform significantly increases the performance and speed of data networks, securely passes information and applies policies to premium services, and provides a holistic view of the data from any device, across any network. Learn More

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Centri Solutions

Mobile Operators

Optimize network performance and provide visibility in to the end-to-end data traffic across mobile, Wi-Fi and broadband networks.

In the highly competitive mobile network market, operators are constantly seeking new ways to accelerate data delivery, mine usage analytics, and expand consumer offerings. Achieve the right level of protection, control, and revenue-generating potential to meet customer demand and protect your network.

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Enterprise – BYOD

Enable companies to enforce policy controls and manage bandwidth across their corporate networks.

Bring your own device (BYOD) as a business practice creates new opportunities—and challenges—for the enterprise. Equip employees with the resources they need to improve business performance while containing costs, maintaining visibility into data usage, and keeping your system secure.

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Solutions

Connected Experience Platform (CXP)

CENTRI Technology provides intelligent mobile network management and optimization solutions. Through its Connected Experience Platform (CXP), CENTRI enables operators to securely and efficiently manage their networks, as well as apply advanced premium services. CENTRI delivers the only end-to-end solution that retains full visibility across the data stream giving operators detailed reporting and analytics to tailor the user experience on any connected device, whether those users are on the operator’s own network, roaming, Wi-Fi (private/public) or broadband networks.

Solutions

Mobile Operators

Mobile bandwidth has become a precious commodity. Operators now need to find ways to optimize bandwidth, while finding innovative ways to monetize new premium services – all without having to invest significantly in their infrastructure. A delicate balancing act is required to manage network expenditures, while also delivering the user experiences and service innovations necessary to increase market share.

CENTRI recommends the following solution capabilities:

Network efficiency by managing and prioritizing bandwidth across the networks, as well as proactively offloading network-intensive downloads from mobile to Wi-Fi networks.
Encryption technology and security-based policies that minimize the fear of unwanted content or malware attacks on the device.
The ability to generate operator revenue by providing flexible usage plans based on subscribers’ needs, reducing churn and increasing customer satisfaction.
Parental and corporate policies for easily managing devices across all networks.
Reporting and analytics that include actionable insight into the content and services accessed across the network.

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Healthcare

Healthcare’s infrastructure is becoming increasingly more complex, with a common challenge around network security and data access: Specifically the need to ensure high security and patient privacy, while enabling fast, role-appropriate clinical data access for providers, with seamless connectivity across a diverse array of networks and connected devices. Demand is also being driven by preferences for their own personalized hardware over standardized, workplace-issued devices, combined with the inherent need by medical professionals for anytime, anywhere connectivity. Healthcare organizations need to be able to set up and administer secure, unified, any-device access across the entire network – including Wi-Fi, mobile and broadband – from a single, comprehensive solution.

CENTRI recommends the following solution capabilities:

Applies and manages role-based policies to all connected devices.
Allows IT to configure policies locally, and then push them out to all devices, across many locations.
Provides a high level of security to all users who access the network.

Solutions

Enterprise – BYOD

It is clear that the proliferation of smartphones and tablets is making its mark within the enterprise, providing employees with more device choices and flexibility for where they work. But it’s also taking away control from IT departments. Unfortunately for IT, the BYOD train has left the station without regard for IT’s role, causing a fracture in IT security policy and network costs. The enterprise needs to find a way to deliver unified security policies across the entire organization, which requires a comprehensive enterprise mobility strategy capable of managing policies across all networks and minimizing impact on the enterprise network.

CENTRI recommends the following solution capabilities:

Applies and manages security policies across multiple access points and locations, as well as the specific end point devices.
Enables IT administrators to configure these policies from a central location, and push them out to the devices accessing their networks.
Manages policies across all networks to ensure a consistent user experience to work-related content.
Ensures proprietary information does not leave the corporate network via the connected device.

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Education

The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted to ensure the Internet safety of children in schools and libraries. CIPA blocks access to dangerous, offensive or inappropriate content in order to protect children in environments where Web access is allowed. Unfortunately the school network is not as cut and dry as other networks. To receive federal funding, schools and libraries need to meet CIPA requirements, monitor network access and ensure the safety and security of online users.

CENTRI recommends the following solution capabilities:

Policy-based controls to manage the type of content and sites that can be accessed on the network
Extensive and fresh block lists for phishing, compromised and virus/spyware.
Secure authentication and appropriate policies that can be applied to any connected device.

Products

The Connected Experience Platform (CXP) provides the foundation for the solutions that are being used to transform how people, connected devices, and premium services interact with mobile networks to drive an enhanced mobile experience. The Connected Experience Platform, a client/server software architecture, is comprised of three products - BitSmart CX, Premium CX, and Insights CX - focused on data optimization and bandwidth management, the monetization of new services, and real-time reporting and analytics. Download the Connected Experience Platform data sheet here.

Deliver patented mobile data optimization

CENTRI’s BitSmart CX achieves unmatched end-to-end network data efficiency through advanced optimization, encryption and compression of all data traffic, to significantly improve the user experience. BitSmart CX drives network efficiency by managing and prioritizing bandwidth across all networks, as well as intelligently offloading network-intensive activities to available Wi-Fi networks.

Generate New Revenue Opportunities

Premium CX enables operators to deliver innovative and personalized services that enhance the user experience. For example, flat-rate data plans can be replaced with service plans that offer different tiers of speed and usage, as well as prioritize specific content to deliver a tailored mobile experience.

Real-time Reporting and Analytics

Insights CX retains full visibility across the data stream giving operators detailed reporting and analytics to tailor the user experience on any connected device, across any network.

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BitSmart CX

CENTRI’s BitSmart CX is based on its industry leading optimization and patented compression technology to encrypt and cache data to reduce overall data traffic and improve network efficiency, performance and security through data intelligence and universal awareness across all networks. Download the CENTRI Connected Experience Platform data sheet to learn more.

BitSmart CX consists of the following:

Industry Leading Optimization: drives network efficiency by managing and prioritizing bandwidth across the networks, as well as proactively offloading network-intensive downloads from data to Wi-Fi networks.
End-to-End Data Protection: proprietary encryption technology and security-based policies minimize the fear of unwanted content or malware attacks on the device.
Patented Compression: achieves optimal compression and secured encryption of the data stream in a single-pass resulting in an accelerated end-to-end experience.

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Premium CX

Premium CX enables mobile operators to deliver personalized services to enhance the mobile user experience. Mobile operators can make real-time decisions over subscriber access to network resources based on volume, speed, application type, and/or priority. Regardless if you are an enterprise managing BYOD, a school adhering to CIPA, or a hospital aligning with HIPAA guidelines, Premium CX can help securely manage the data connection across any network, on any connected device. Download the CENTRI Connected Experience Platform data sheet to learn more.

Premium CX provides the following:

Provides a tailored user experience: provides flexible usage plans based on the subscribers’ needs, reducing churn and increasing customer satisfaction.
Applies parental and enterprise policies: set parental and corporate policies to easily manage devices and data that is being accessed across all networks, whether that is an operator's mobile network, Wi-Fi (public or private), and broadband.
Retains policies across all networks: settings and policies are retained across all connected devices and networks.

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Insights CX

CENTRI’s Insights CX provides operators with comprehensive reporting into content types, data rates, network congestion, application traffic patterns and other critical factors in measuring, managing and profiting from data traffic. What is unique about Insights CX is it retains visibility of the data stream across all networks – whether that is the operator’s own network, or third party Wi-Fi or broadband networks. Download the CENTRI Connected Experience Platform data sheet to learn more.

Insights CX provides:

Full data visibility: provide operators with actionable insight into what content and services are being accessed across the network for both BitSmart CX and Premium CX.
Real-time reporting: tracks network usage, performance, optimization and malware attacks.

About CENTRI Technology

Our Company

CENTRI Technology provides intelligent mobile network management and optimization solutions. Through its Connected Experience Platform (CXP), CENTRI enables operators to securely manage and apply advanced premium services to the network. CENTRI delivers the only end-to-end solution to retain full visibility across the data stream giving operators detailed reporting and analytics to tailor the user experience on any connected device.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, CENTRI is a privately-held company started in 2009 by industry veterans in mobile and network security. With the proliferation of connected devices and exponential growth of data use, CENTRI saw an opportunity to significantly improve the delivery and increase the use of premium services without sacrificing security or the user experience.

About CENTRI Technology

Management Team

Vaughan Emery

Chief Executive Officer & President

Bio

Mr. Emery is the founder and CEO. He works closely with technology partners to deliver the company’s mobile solutions to its customers. Throughout his career, Mr. Emery has developed key business relationships with mobile operators, phone manufacturers and technology partners within the US, Asia and Europe. Previously, he founded a mobile security technology company, which developed an advanced malware security solution for mobile phones and embedded devices. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in commercial product development, technology services and business development.

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Mike Mackey

Vice President, Engineering

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Mr. Mackey has extensive experience leading highly productive software engineering teams in the mobile and web services space. Previously he was Director of Engineering & Architecture for Nuance Communications in their Mobile Care division (formerly SNAPin) building and deploying mobile self-service applications. Prior to Nuance, Mr. Mackey managed development and quality assurance efforts at Amdocs (formerly Qpass) and Cobalt.

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Joe Ferry

Vice President, Worldwide Sales

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Joe is the Vice President of Worldwide Sales, responsible for leading CENTRI’s commercial initiatives, including sales leadership and business development. As an experienced executive in the telecommunications industry, Joe focuses on the development of strategic technology-based solutions with CENTRI’s largest customers and partners. Before joining CENTRI, Joe was at Amdocs where he focused on growing the managed services business in the mobile and broadband network operators segment for leading carriers in North America. Prior to joining Amdocs, Joe was the vice president of global sales for mPortal where he built relationships with mobile operators, cable operators, handset manufacturers and VARs. He has held a number of executive leadership positions at industry leaders like Ericsson where he led the satellite & wireless business unit and Vodafone UK where he was responsible for mobile operations for SW England.

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Dr. Paris is the main inventor of the patented technology used in the company's data acceleration solution. He is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Paris brings more than 10 years of insight and knowledge from both the software and hardware industries. He has worked as an electronics engineer and software developer for a variety of projects ranging from insect detection software for the Pocket PC to antivirus software for DOS and Windows.

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Luis Paris

Chief Scientist

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Ms. Russell brings 14+ years of experience in the mobile industry encompassing program management, solution delivery and professional services to wireless carriers and OEMs globally. Previously, she was Director of Carrier Solutions for Cequint delivering Mobile ID solutions to Network Operators in the US. Prior to Cequint, she was Director of Professional Services at Nuance Communications in their Mobile Care division managing commercial deployment of their mobile applications worldwide.

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Carolyn Russell

Vice President, Product Management & Services

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Mr. Winslow is a consulting CFO to a range of companies in the Seattle area. He was previously the CFO for SeaMobile, a global VSAT satellite communications company. Prior to SeaMobile he spent ten years in various roles with Western Wireless Corporation, which was acquired by Alltel in 2005. Mr. Winslow started his career at Arthur Andersen.

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Steve Winslow

Chief Financial Officer

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About CENTRI Technology

Board of Directors

Merrill Dean

Bio

Mr. Dean has broad worldwide business experience as a key executive at companies such as: The Walt Disney Company, where he served as President of the Music Division and Global Publishing; Televisa International Marketing Group Inc. as the President and CEO; and most recently, dMarc Broadcasting Inc. (purchased by Google Inc. in January 2006 for a value of approximately $1.2 Billion), as President/International.

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Vaughan Emery

Bio

Mr. Emery is the founder and CEO. He works closely with technology partners to deliver the company’s mobile solutions to its customers. Throughout his career, he has developed key business relationships with mobile operators, phone manufacturers and technology partners within the US, Asia and Europe. Previously, he founded a mobile security technology company, which developed an advanced malware security solution for mobile phones and embedded devices.

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Eric Kolstad

Bio

Mr. Kolstad works closely with select growth-stage companies, and is currently the Managing Director of an import/export company with headquarters in the US and China. He has been an active angel and institutional investor for the past 10 years, and has been responsible for securing seed capital for numerous high tech companies including dMarc Broadcasting (purchased by Google Inc. in January 2006); 2Can Media, which merged with AdSmart Inc., a CMGI company in March of 1999, Adforce Inc. IPO 1999.

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Christopher (CJ) Oates

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Mr. Oates is the Managing Director of RimLight, LLC, a privately held investment fund with specialized expertise across a variety of investment strategies. He serves as the Chairman of O2K Worldwide Management Group and a Director and a Board Member for a variety of companies in the media, mobile and energy sectors. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the John G. Shedd Aquarium and serves on the advisory board of the Rand Corporation's Center for Middle East public policy.

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Mr. Stojkovich is a Principal with the Matthew Pritzker Company and has more than 20 years of experience in private equity investing and capital markets. Prior to joining the Matthew Pritzker Company, he was a Partner at William Blair Capital Partners. Before joining William Blair Capital Partners, he was a Principal with PRTM, a high-tech management consulting firm where he worked with companies across the technology industry to improve technology strategy, product development, strategic marketing and operational capabilities.

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Mio Stojkovich

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Mr. Strickland has nearly 30 years of business and technology experience as well as extensive operational expertise in the wireless and communications industry. He is the Executive Vice President and CTO for Leap Wireless where he is responsible for all technology and network operations. He was previously Senior Vice President and CIO at T-Mobile USA, the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG. Mr. Strickland has held senior management roles at EchoStar Communications, Silas Technologies, Xperts and Landmark Communications.

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Rob Strickland

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Mr. Wisehart has more than 30 years of experience in finance and operations, with more than 15 years in the telecommunications industry. He most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of aQuantive, Inc., a global digital marketing services company, which was acquired by Microsoft in July 2007. Prior to aQuantive, he served as CFO of Western Wireless Corporation, a cellular phone service provider, acquired by Alltel in August 2005. Mr. Wisehart also served as the CFO of iNNERHOST, Inc., a Web hosting services company.

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M. Wayne Wisehart

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Careers

CENTRI Technology is a Seattle-based start-up with big ambitions to provide mobile operators with comprehensive mobile network management and optimization solutions. The proliferation of connected devices has driven significant growth in mobile data usage requiring intelligent solutions to provide smarter, more efficient data networks. CENTRI is the perfect place for individuals who want to come in and make an immediate impact. The team is energetic, with a laser-focus on one thing - delivering innovative solutions that will impact the connected world in a BIG way. Come join us!

Careers

Principal Server Software Engineer

Working with our Product Engineering team in our Seattle headquarters, the Principal Server Software Engineer (PS SWE) will help to produce upcoming versions of the core CENTRI products. You will use technical knowledge and skills, especially those pertaining to Linux-based, server-side software, to help build an industry leading solution for optimizing networks (wireless, fixed and broadband). This role will own some of the server-side components of our products. You will contribute to projects involving compression, caching, encryption, scaling, policy management and TCP/sockets, among others. CENTRI is driving the solution for network optimization.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

You will perform server-side software development related tasks involving a wide variety of mobile software and mobile network related projects.
You will participate in team design and troubleshooting discussions. Working closely as part of a small but growing staff of engineers is critical. You must be a strong communicator.
You will be responsible for managing projects from start to finish and provide regular updates of project status and escalation to management, as appropriate. This role is about more than software development; you are an engineer! The Principal Server SWE is always looking at ways to improve the product, technology used, etc.

Desired Education, Experience & Qualities:

You have been doing this for a long time, 8+ years professional experience is what we are hoping for. You have a strong background in developing server-side software within a technology company, preferably as it relates to telecom (wireless, fixed, broadband).
You must have a B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, MIS, EE or equivalent, because you will need a strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals.
You must be comfortable in a fast-paced, small, start-up environment. You love start-ups – all of us here do! You like that you get to wear many hats, you like that no day is like the last (some call that ambiguity) and you like that change is inevitable. We like to think that the fast-pace of our company is what gives us the edge.
You must have experience in the telecommunications (fixed, wireless or broadband) industry, because you need to know what problems we are trying to solve for.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

You are a strong OO designer/programmer. We prefer to use C and C++, as this is what our core compression and encryption is written in. Without strong C experience, you can’t do this job.
You must have experience with Node.js as 90% of our server is based on this technology.
You have deep knowledge of the inner workings of Linux. You are THE guru in this space. If you aren’t, this role isn’t for you.
We use Python and Perl to do smaller “odds and ends” component development, so if you have experience here, even better.
Experience with XML and JSON used to integrate with the clients
You have deep knowledge of server technologies, specifically Node.js, REST API’s, and web proxy. We bet you know why these are important.
Experience in SQL and at least one RDBMS would be nice, but not required. We use My SQL.
Knowledge of mobile networks and typical mobile network infrastructure required.

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Mobile Software Engineer

The Mobile Software Engineer will participate as part of the Product Engineering team and help produce upcoming versions of the core CENTRI products. This position will have you working on mobile applications, focusing on the Android, Windows Mobile and iOS platforms. You should have a good sense of product design, have solid development habits (e.g., unit testing, technical design documentation, etc.), and have good experience with backend server technologies. Mobile programming experience is required.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Perform mobile client side software development tasks involving a wide variety of mobile software projects
Participate in team design and troubleshooting discussions related to current projects
Manage development tasks from start to finish and provide regular updates on status
Produce documentation to support development projects, including design specifications

Desired Education, Experience & Qualities:

Must have a B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, MIS, EE or equivalent
Comfortable in a fast-paced, small start-up environment
Experience in telecommunications/wireless industry required
Experience with standard software development methodologies
5+ years of software development experience for Mobile devices

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
Development experience with two or more of the following platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Windows PC, Mac OS
Experience with network programming and internet protocols.
Understanding and experience in developing multi-threaded applications.
Strong understanding of web and web-related technologies
Strong experience with object-oriented programming, e.g., Java, C#, Objective-C, Python, or Ruby.
Familiarity with XML and XML Schema.
Comfortable working in a Linux environment.

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Technical Sales Engineer (TSE)

The TSE is the key technical point-of-contact for all deals at CENTRI. The TSE researches new technologies, tools and methodologies as they emerge that may be applicable to our product or market space. The TSE provides presales support contributing towards the successful conversion of prospects to customers and engages customers to nurture ongoing relationships.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Work with the sales team to develop and execute key account development plans
Lead technical responses to RFXs by writing clear responses to address the requirements
Identifies current and future client requirements by establishing strong client relationships
Possess demonstrable skills in client-product selling and a proven track record using it to help drive revenue
Develops client staff by providing technical information, workshops and training
Be the customer advocate and liaison for Product Management and Engineering
Supports cost/pricing effort to build proposals

Desired Education, Experience & Qualities:

Must have Engineering or other Technical Bachelor Degree
Minimum 8-10 years in a professional position within the telecommunications industry – understands the architecture and technical aspects of Mobile, Fixed, Broadband & WiFi networks
Business process interpretation – understands client business needs and how to design business processes and methodologies and then map those to CENTRI’s solutions
Domain knowledge of network data optimization, data management policies, network data encryption, application management policies and network data analytics
A proven track record demonstrating good business judgment, an ability to make decisions, and a passion for excellence
Knowledge of supporting complex sales cycles by preparing and delivering value based solutions

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Have a thorough understanding of the balance between deadlines and accuracy of work
Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to multi-task, possess the willingness to learn and train, to be dependable and consistent with efforts
Must be willing to travel approximately 60% of the time

Requires broad experience in the telephony, IP, VoIP, and/or networking industries
Selling to large, medium and small enterprise customers as well as large enterprise systems integrators, VARS and distributors
Knowledge and demonstrated experience in the following areas is required: LAN/WAN data networking architectures and routing protocols, IP Telephony Architectures and VoIP protocols, security and QoS
Knowledge of mobile and connected device platforms and architecture, especially for Android, iOS, Windows

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Contact Us

CENTRI Technology
1809 7th Ave, Suite 700
Seattle, Washington 98101

Phone: +1 (206) 395-2793
Fax: +1 (206) 629-9540

Email: info@centritechnology.com
Sales: sales@centritechnology.com

Partnerships

CENTRI’s foundation is built on its patented optimization technology and the strength of its strategic partnerships. We are continuously evaluating strategic partnerships to ensure we are delivering solutions that help mobile operators deliver superior user experiences across any device, any network. Please contact us for more information about becoming a CENTRI partner.