Ross Fujii is a Senior Architect with over fifteen years of web system architecture and development experience on multiple platforms. Before co-founding ideawave systems, Ross was a Senior Architect at XUMA, where he spent three years and helped grow the company from six to over 300 people. As the lead architect, Ross helped to define three of XUMA’s core products: the CommerceX 1.0/1.2 product built on ATG Dynamo; the ExchangeX 1.0/2.0 product built on ATG Dynamo and WebLogic (MOAI); and a generic adapter (the next-generation XUMA infrastructure) product for Enterprise Application Integration built on Java and TIBCO (Rendezvous, Repository, SDK, Hawk, Portal Builder, and Integration Manager). Prior to XUMA’s product development initiative, Ross was a Senior Technical Lead who was instrumental in gathering requirements, architecting, developing, and delivering over fifteen client e-commerce software projects.

Before XUMA, Ross was a Project Manager in the Professional Services division of INTERSHOP. While at INTERSHOP, Ross consulted with clients, gathered requirements for scoping exercises, formulated time/material estimates, and developed commerce solutions using Intershop3 software for business-to-consumer applications. Additionally, Ross designed and developed feature components in Perl, JavaScript and Sybase SQL stored procedures for BellSouth, theGlobe, and Tasq, and analyzed and architected database schema and application server code changes in Intershop3 to support unicode for displaying double byte characters, among other tasks.

Prior to his year at INTERSHOP, Ross spent three and one-half years at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), where he was a Systems Engineer & Supervisor of Integration Services (9 people), responsible for project management, resource allocation, employee reviews and General Motors Director Relations for the GM Service Technology Group’s Techline products (vehicle diagnostic and service information systems). While at EDS, Ross developed a file/data broadcast over GM Access (satellite linked network, servicing 10,000 client-server dealership systems worldwide), and consulted on an installation design for the next-generation Techline component system. Ross also supported the software installation on all ten Techline products and ported them to other OS’s, and evaluated Java 1.1 AWT in a prototype service information application.

When Ross isn’t busy architecting web systems for clients, he enjoys surfing and eating the Hawaiian food he misses from home, and spending time with his wife and two daughters.

Susan Fujii brings over fourteen years of combined software development, program / project management, and marketing experience to ideawave systems. Prior to the founding of ideawave systems, Susan was the Managing Director of a 70+ engineering organization at XUMA. XUMA, a privately held company, provided e-business software products and services to both Internet-only and brick and mortar businesses. While at XUMA, Susan was instrumental in growing the engineering organization from forty-five to over 70 employees, and successfully built the infrastructure to support clear management and communication paths. She oversaw and was responsible for multiple simultaneous client software projects (built on ATG Dynamo, Microsoft Site-Server, INTERSHOP, Oracle, and Sybase) through all stages of development. Additionally, she helped establish a standard project management process, a consistent analysis and design methodology, and a standard code review process.

Prior to joining XUMA, Susan worked at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, where she was ranked in the top 10% of Intel employees worldwide for her contributions. Susan spent three and one-half years at Intel and held a variety of technical and managerial positions. She developed the first-ever Mobile and Handheld Products software marketing program, which helped drive the fastest processor ramp in Intel’s history. Susan also implemented a web-based tracking system using Microsoft’s ASP technology, which streamlined a critical business process and resulted in improved customer relationships and $800,000/year cost savings to Intel. Furthermore, Susan led a multiple-division project that supplied Intel’s worldwide chip design and verification engineers with new defect-tracking system, implementing the global pilot program on schedule and within budget. Susan also spent time coding new demos of Intel’s latest technology and supporting Intel executives such as Andy Grove and Craig Barrett at worldwide industry speeches and events. She helped define Intel’s 1999 Home PC product offering by co-authoring the 1999 Home PC Market Requirements Document and obtained senior management buy-in. During her time at Intel, Susan created and implemented many programs that collectively saved Intel over $1M.

Susan received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.