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Netsoft Completes 6th Placement at GoPro

2012-02-20T08:40:00.000-08:00

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 6 professionals with GoPro: 2 engineering directors, a Sr. engineering program manager, a Sr. mechanical engineer, a Sr. Hardware Engineer and a Sr. firmware engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to Wing Poon, Sr. Hardware Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

Netsoft Completes Placements at MapR Technologies, Arxan & Retained Search for HPCC Systems

2012-01-19T11:03:00.000-08:00

Netsoft completes 4th placement at MapR Technologies
AVP of Sales West
Director of Sales in NYC and Atlanta
Solutions Engineer for the North East

Netsoft places the VP Asia Pac for Arxan

Netsoft completes first search, Director of Sales, for a new player into the big data space
HPCC Systems.

5 Things I Look for in a Great Job Interview

2012-01-19T10:07:00.000-08:00

Here is what separates a good candidate from a great one.
By Matthew Swyers

In my career I have reviewed thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of employment interviews for both The Trademark Company and other businesses for which I have worked. In doing so, I got to see the good, the bad, and the downright ugly in terms of resumes, interviewing skills, and the like. For other CEOs looking to hire, here's what I think makes a great candidate stand out from the good ones. Read story here...

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Job Hunting Tips: Eight Things You Should Never Say in a Job Interview

2012-01-10T13:54:00.000-08:00

Hiring for Attitude (McGraw-Hill/Available now) is a book intended for recruiters, but in its pages author Mark Murphy reveals the game within the game that applicants need to understand to make the best possible impression in an interview. Managers often seek subtle but telling uses of language to detect trouble signs; certain answers to questions may be seen as demonstrating lack of ability to handle change, challenges, team chemistry or corporate culture. In other words, being talented isn’t enough when hirers are determined to distinguish candidates who know how to work well within the organization. Murphy is founder and CEO of Leadership IQ, a training and management consulting firm. Read story here..

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Netsoft Completes 20th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

2011-10-31T08:58:00.000-07:00

Netsoft Completes 5th Placement at GoPro

2011-10-24T08:48:00.000-07:00

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 5 professionals with GoPro: 2 engineering directors, a Sr. program manager, a Sr. mechanical engineer, and a Sr. firmware engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to Eric Jing, Sr. Firmware Engineer.

Note this article about GoPro in the Wall Street Journal:

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Job Hunting - Make In-Person Connections - New Article in Netsoft Career Center

2011-10-18T17:11:00.000-07:00

In 1938, Lillian Brownstein Chodash had already spent 15 months looking for work. One morning she rode the elevator to the top of an office building in her Jersey City, N.J., neighborhood and started knocking on doors. She worked her way down nine stories, fielding rejection after rejection.

Finally, on the second floor, Ms. Chodash found a father-and-son real-estate and insurance business. The duo had just fired their secretary that day. After a shorthand and typing test, they hired her on the spot. Read entire WSJ article here...

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Ruckus Unveils High Capacity Smart Wi-Fi System & High-Speed 802.11n Wi-Fi Wall Switch

2011-09-18T23:40:00.000-07:00

Ruckus Unveils High Capacity Smart Wi-Fi System to Tackle
Growing User Density Concerns Caused by Smart Mobile Devices

Newest ZoneDirector 5000 Platform and ZoneFlex Software System Allow Enterprises and Managed Service Providers to Scale Wi-Fi to 20,000 Clients Per Controller, 500 Clients Per Access Point

SUNNYVALE, CA – September 19, 2011 – Ruckus Wireless™ (www.ruckuswireless.com) today unveiled the ZoneDirector™ 5000 (ZD5000) along with a collection of advanced capabilities within a new version of its award-winning ZoneFlex™ software (v9.2) that deliver unmatched scalability, simplicity and security for providing Wi-Fi access to diverse user groups across multiple locations.

As the growth of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices continues at an unprecedented rate, the demand for wireless capacity and speed is driving organizations to offer more reliable, high-speed wireless service within dense user environments. Designed for this purpose, the new Ruckus ZoneFlex Smart Wi-Fi system adds essential hardware and software capabilities to scale, simplify and secure large Wi-Fi networks.

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High-Speed 802.11n Wi-Fi Wall Switch a Hit with Hoteliers

Ruckus ZoneFlex 7025 Lets Hotels Overcome Cost, Complexity Issues of Converging Wired and Wireless Networks to Deliver IP Guest Services and Support Flood of Wi-Fi-Hungry Mobile Devices

SUNNYVALE, CA – September 19, 2011 – Ruckus Wireless™ (www.ruckuswireless.com) today announced that its high-speed Wi-Fi wall switch (the ZoneFlex 7025) has experienced broad adoption by hotels around the globe looking to deliver a myriad of IP-based in-room services over a unified wired/wireless infrastructure, while also providing high-speed wireless Internet access to a flood of new Wi-Fi-enabled mobile and handheld devices.

The ZoneFlex 7025 Wi-Fi wall switch integrates 802.11n Wi-Fi technology with wired Ethernet ports in a small-footprint wall jack, giving hotel and resort operators an elegant, low-cost and inconspicuous device that allows them to leverage their existing wired infrastructure to deliver an ever expanding set of IP-based guest services over multiple virtual LANs (VLANs).

Netsoft Completes 18th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

2011-09-09T09:01:00.000-07:00

Your Co-Workers Might Be Killing You - New Article in Netsoft Career Center

2011-08-31T19:55:00.000-07:00

Hours don't affect health much—but unsupportive colleagues do

The typical American will spend about 15% of his or her lifetime working at the office. Given this expanse of hours, it's not surprising that the details of our job can have a profound impact on our health.

Traditionally, researchers have focused on the ways in which different kinds of labor affect the body, investigating the hazards associated with activities such as coal mining, truck driving and professional football.

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Netsoft Completes 4th Placement at GoPro

2011-08-29T08:46:00.000-07:00

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through Best Buy and specialty retailers in over 40 countries.

Netsoft has now placed 2 directors, a senior program manager, and a Sr Mechanical Engineer with GoPro. Congratulations to David Guasca, Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer.

Note this article about GoPro in the Wall Street Journal:

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Netsoft Completes 1st Placement at Spigit

2011-08-23T12:04:00.000-07:00

Netsoft completes it's first placement at Spigit, a SaaS platform for innovation, their first Solutions Architect.
James McLaurin joins as the leader of the Solutions team.

Netsoft Completes 4th Placement at Sencha

2011-08-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

Netsoft completed their fourth placement at Sencha, a Sequoia funded mobile applications company, Aaron Zallen as Director of Sales for the East Coast.

Netsoft Completes Two Retained Searches at 4D Inc.

2011-08-23T11:38:00.000-07:00

Netsoft completes two retained searches at 4D Inc. Thomas Miller from Trolltech division of Nokia joins 4D as the COO of the Americas and Michel Gerin from Zend, BackBase and Borland joins as the CMO.

Netsoft Completes 17th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

2011-08-22T11:27:00.000-07:00

Netsoft Completes 16th Placement at Ruckus Wireless

2011-08-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

Founded in 2004, Ruckus invented the market for smart access points, selling wireless solutions to both Service Providers and Enterprise Customers worldwide, including their new Wireless Broadband Access and 3GO products. Netsoft has now placed five Sr Directors and Directors, three managers, and eight senior engineers with Ruckus. Congratulations to Sean Bian on his new position as Strategic Accounts Systems Engineer.

Netsoft is a Technology Search firm, co-founded in 1992 by Randal J. Prout and Eric A. Thoreson and serving Silicon Valley from our office in Santa Clara, California.

Note our track record and the resulting success of our client companies!

Providing Retained Executive Search and Contingency Search

We are a boutique search firm specialized in attracting top talent for positions throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. While we serve Silicon Valley networking and software startup company needs throughout the U.S., we also locate top performers for companies worldwide searching for California-based talent.

New Article Posted in Netsoft Career Center

2011-08-04T12:38:00.000-07:00

Small Firms, Big Options
Some High -Tech Executives Lured to Join Would-Be IPOs

A chief executive who boosted his company's stock price more than 50% in two years might be expected to trade up to a larger company as his next career move. Instead, Mark McLaughlin resigned last week from the top job at publicly traded Internet-infrastructure company VeriSign Inc. to join a Silicon Valley start-up.

Mr. McLaughlin has been tapped as CEO of Palo Alto Networks Inc., a closely held security-technology company widely viewed as a candidate for an initial public offering.

Read Full WSJ Article Here...

GoPro Launches the Floaty Backdoor

2011-07-25T15:21:00.000-07:00

Half Moon Bay, CA, July 25, 2011

GoPro, maker of the world’s most versatile HD cameras, today announced the launch of the Floaty Backdoor, an attachable flotation backdoor for the company’s best selling HD HERO® camera.

The Floaty Backdoor is an industrial strength 3M adhesive backing that attaches the float directly to the HD HERO water housing backdoor. It’s great for snorkeling, diving, surfing, wakeboarding and any other water activity that might require additional safeguarding. This new accessory adds to the HD HERO’s reputation as the most versatile camera in the world.

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Industry’s First Independent Wi-Fi Interference and Capacity Testing by Tom’s Hardware Reveals Ruckus Consistently Outperforms Others

2011-07-18T15:36:00.000-07:00

Sunnyvale, CA, July 18, 2011

Ruckus Wireless today announced that its ZoneFlex midrange Smart Wi-Fi system performed up to 10 times faster than higher end competitive wireless products from Cisco, Aruba, HP and others, in the industry’s first independent Wi-Fi interference and capacity tests released by Tom’s Hardware, one of the Internet’s premiere resources for unbiased reviews, news and information on technology.

According to Tom’s Hardware, the wireless LAN testing was developed to determine how advanced Wi-Fi capabilities affect real-world wireless performance at different distances.

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Netsoft Completes the Following Management Placements

2011-07-12T17:42:00.000-07:00

Netsoft completes fourth Regional Sales Manager search for Visible Technologies. Netsoft has placed the following regional managers: Mid Atlantic, Central US, West Coast and South East

Netsoft completed it's third search at Sencha. Netsoft has placed their VP Sales, Director of On-Line Marketing, and Director of Sales East Coast. Sencha continues to add major enterprise customers for their Open Source platform for building web and mobile applications.

Netsoft completes COO of the Americas and CMO for 4D as they launch their Open Source JavaScript solutions for web development.

Netsoft Completes 3rd Placement at GoPro

2011-07-12T17:32:00.000-07:00

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. GoPro produces the famous HERO® line of wearable and gear-mountable cameras and accessories, GoPro's products are sold through specialty retailers in over 40 countries. Netsoft has now placed 2 directors and a senior program manager with GoPro. Congratulations to John Wyatt, Quality Director.

GoPro is the world's leading activity image capturing company. Note this article about GoPro in the Wall Street Journal. READ WSJ ARTICLE

KDDI and Ruckus Wireless Debut the World’s Largest Mobile Data Offload Network and First Nationwide Wi-Fi Access Service in Japan

2011-07-05T15:48:00.000-07:00

Tokyo, Japan and Sunnyvale, CA, July 5, 2011

Ruckus Wireless™ (Ruckus) today announced that it has been selected by KDDI Corporation, Japan’s principle telecommunications provider, to supply advanced Wi-Fi products for the world’s first and largest “instant on” Wi-Fi access and mobile data offload service.

With over 32 million mobile subscribers, KDDI is leveraging advanced carrier Wi-Fi technology, pioneered by Ruckus Wireless, to offload mobile data traffic from its cellular network while providing subscribers with seamless, high-speed wireless access throughout Japan.

Increased Demand for Reliable Mobile Internet Connectivity Drives Strong Q1 Growth for Smart Wi-Fi in Europe and the Middle East

2011-05-31T16:11:00.000-07:00

London, England, May 31, 2011

Ruckus Wireless, an innovator of advanced Smart Wi-Fi technology and one of the fastest growing suppliers of advanced wireless products, today announced increased demand of its Smart Wi-Fi products and technologies and said it experienced the strongest quarter-on-quarter (Q/Q) growth within the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in the company’s history.

In the first quarter of this year, Ruckus, one of the industry’s fastest growing wireless suppliers, grew by 34 percent overall in EMEA, with an 86 percent increase in outdoor and 27 percent increase in indoor Wi-Fi product shipments.

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Baruch College Makes Big Wi-Fi Move Showcasing How Better Wireless Can Advance the State of Higher Education

2011-05-23T16:21:00.000-07:00

Sunnyvale, CA, May 23, 2011

Ruckus Wireless™ today announced that Baruch College, a senior college in The City University of New York (CUNY) system and home to the Zicklin School of Business, one of the largest business schools in the U.S., has standardized on Ruckus products and technology to support a strategic campus-wide initiative to deliver reliable, high-speed Wi-Fi access to some 17,000 students, faculty members, and staff.

Baruch College operates in a very dense campus environment spanning more than 1,000,000 square feet in just two buildings that comprise its north campus.

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The Preakness Stakes Races to Higher Capacity Wi-Fi from Ruckus Wireless

2011-05-16T16:33:00.000-07:00

Baltimore, MD and Sunnyvale, CA, May 16, 2011

Ruckus Wireless™ today announced that Believe Wireless Broadband and the Maryland Jockey Club, owner of the Pimlico Race Course, have selected advanced Smart Wi-Fi systems and technology from Ruckus Wireless to deliver reliable, high-capacity Wi-Fi access at the world-famous Preakness Stakes horse racing event, taking place on Saturday, May 21, 2011. Believe Wireless Broadband has provided temporary Internet access to Pimlico since 2007 for the Preakness event.

Teaming with Believe Wireless Broadband, a full-service Internet provider in the Baltimore area, Ruckus Wireless is supplying high-speed.

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Tech Data Canada Corporation and Ruckus Wireless Sign Distribution Agreement in Canada

2011-04-18T16:39:00.000-07:00

Mississauga, ON, Canada, April 18, 2011

Tech Data Canada, a leading distributor of IT products, logistics management and other value added services, announced today that it has partnered with Ruckus Wireless™ to offer Ruckus “Smart Wi-Fi” systems and technology to its 5,000 reseller and solution provider customers across Canada. Through the agreement, Tech Data will distribute the entire line of Ruckus ZoneFlex™ Smart Wireless LAN products throughout the country.

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GoPro, Already Profitable, Receives Funding from the same VC that Funded Pure Digital, Maker of the Flip Videocam

2011-04-06T16:47:00.000-07:00

Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2011

Even as cellphones put video cameras into pockets everywhere, one company is seeing brisk sales of a rugged video camera that turns ordinary people into the stars of their own self-shot action movies.

GoPro's trick: a collection of mounts that allow its inexpensive cameras to be attached to everything from the tips of surfboards to ski helmets. The cameras have also started winning converts among professional cameramen, who have used the gadgets to burrow into cobra dens and shoot the insides of shark's mouths for television nature shows.

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