Abbreviated Bio and Photographs
Brief Bio: Pito is a principal member of the core technology team of the TrustTheVote Project of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation. In that capacity, Pito shares responsibility for the system’s technical architecture and design, with a current focus on ballot analysis, scanning, and tabulation.
Pito is the founder of BlogBridge – a cool open source project focused on delivering a great news reader and news discovery system for professionals. Prior to BlogBridge, Pito consulted to small and midsize high tech companies as well VC firms as founder of R. Pito Salas and Associates. The consulting focus was software engineering methodology and management, system architecture and design, product definition and management.
Before that he was the co-founder and CTO of eRoom Technology for six years – where he helped lead the company from startup to profitability and ultimately to a successful merger with Documentum.
Early in his career Pito worked at Lotus Development Corporation, where he was the originator of the Lotus Improv project, which has been credited as being the first instatiation of what has become to be known as the ‘pivot table‘.
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