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Nick Shelness is an Independent Technology Consultant, who also serves as a Mentor at Stroma (stroma.eu), as a Senior Analyst at Ferris Research (ferris.com), and as an Associate Director of 2in10 (2in10.com). His interests spread across the entire IT and communications spectrum, with particular depth in the operating systems, data communication, messaging and collaboration field s . He has been professionally involved with these technologies since the 1970s .
From 1994-2001 , Nick held a number of technical positions at Lotus Development Corp. (post its acquisition in 1995 -- an IBM company), culminating (1998-2001) as VP and CTO . From 1984 through Lotus' acquisition of Soft · Switch in 1994, Nick held a number of technical and managerial positions at Soft · Switch Inc., culminating (1991-1994) as Chief Scientist. From 1980-1984, he held a number of technical and managerial positions at the British National Oil Corporation/BritOil plc, culminating as manager of systems integration. From 1970-1980 he held a number of research and teaching positions in the University of Edinburgh, culminating as a tenured Lecturer (US equivalent Associate Professor) in the Department of Computer Science.
In addition to his professional activities, Nick counts gardening as one of his major pastimes. He lives in Perthshire, Scotland with his wife Dr. Maggi Allan and a menagerie of dogs, cats, and chickens .