Ted Cahall has worked at extremely large (350K employees) corporations and relatively small (50 employee) start-up companies. He has experienced mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and, of course, normal day-to-day business operations. Ted started his career as a software engineer with an M.S. and B.S. in Engineering. He was hired by AT&T Bell Labs to write device drivers for a real-time version of Unix on proprietary, Intel-based, communication controllers. Currently he works in the Online Services Division (OSD) at Microsoft. Previously he managed thousands of staff at AOL as they continued their transformation from the largest and most profitable ISP on the web to an ad supported Online Media company. Ted also held positions in Network Management, Systems Management, Banking and more Online Media along the way. The list below highlights the companies that Ted Cahall has worked at during his career.

• Microsoft    AllThingsD Article
• AOL   Press Releases: Jan 2007 |  July 2007  | Jan 2009  | WSJ Jan 2009  | IEIA Oct 2009
• United Online    Hire Press Release |  Speaker's Press Release
• CNET Networks, Inc    Hire Press Release |  ZDNet Acquisition |  Video
• Bank of America
• OpenVision (now part of Veritas/Symantec)
• Clear Communications (RIP)
• AT&T Bell Laboratories (Quick History by Dennis Ritchie)
• University of Illinois at Chicago - Academic Computing Center
• Other career related media about Ted Cahall

• U.S. Patent 4,982,349
• Won 2005 MySQL Application of the Year Award for invention of CNET's ATOMICS
• Invented concept of SOLR subproject of Lucene while CIO at CNET Networks

• M.S. Engineering - University of Illinois at Chicago    (speakers bio)
• B.S. Engineering - University of Illinois at Chicago
• Loyola Academy - Wilmette, IL
• St. Therese Gradeschool - Parkville, MO
• Holy Cross School - Deerfield, IL