Category: News and Views
I'm not sure if this is the right category for this article, but if it's not, I'm sure one of the community police will move it:
From the Freedom Scientific newsroom:
Jonathan Mosen Joins Freedom Scientific
(St. Petersburg, Florida, August 31, 2006) - Freedom Scientific's open platform approach to hardware and software has brought over another major voice in the field of access technology for the blind.
Jonathan Mosen, previously of HumanWare, is the new Vice President of Blindness Hardware Product Management at Freedom Scientific's Blind/Low Vision Group.
"Freedom Scientific's products emphasize the strengths of an open-platform approach to both hardware and software," Mosen said. "This approach showcases the company's ability to leverage mainstream applications and technology elements to provide technology solutions for those that are blind in a timely manner."
"I'm excited to be joining the Freedom Scientific team," Mosen said.
"Freedom Scientific products enable blind people world wide to succeed in school, work, and the community. It's great to have the opportunity to shape the direction of Freedom Scientific's hardware products in close consultation with customers.
I am especially excited to be on board with a company that is so clearly setting the pace for new product introduction and affordability in this industry."
Mosen has been involved with blindness-related issues since the late 1980s and has been in the access technology field since 1999. He worked with the Association of Blind Citizens of New Zealand and the American Council of the Blind. One of his most significant contributions to blindness in New Zealand was his work to reform the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind's constitutional framework to become the Foundation of the Blind.
"It will be great to have the chance to work with some of the sharpest minds in the industry, both blind and sighted, to allow blind people to be more productive, more independent, and more efficient," Mosen said. "I've always admired the fact Freedom Scientific has blind people involved extensively in the company at all levels. This sits well with my own personal philosophy, that we, as blind people, must take control of our own destiny and improve the world."
Brad Davis, Vice President of Hardware Product Management at Freedom Scientific, said he thinks it will be exciting to see Mosen apply his ideas and experiences in the less confining environment made possible by Freedom Scientific's use of mainstream applications.
"Jonathan will help us make best use of both our hardware and software resources to bring solutions to a broader range of users," Davis said.
Lee Hamilton, President and CEO of Freedom Scientific, said that Mosen has great rapport with users and that he looks forward to Mosen bringing his insight to Freedom Scientific's blindness products.
that's interesting, will have to see how he works out.
hmm most know my opinion on this so I guess I won't bother stating it again. Lol
hmmm. I thought he just moved back to New Zealand. He going to move back to the states now?
That's really interesting. I guess he'll get the chance to sing the praises of the PackMate now. I wonder which notetaker he really prefers. <grin>
Bob
good on him, go John!
Hopefully he'll straighten that place out and jaws and their bugs.
Troy
lol maybe that's why he did it? He's probably had enough of the crap jaws has turned in to.