Thom Linden, Vice President of Engineering, comes to WatchGuard with an impressive background in engineering architecture and methodology. During his extensive career in the industry Linden has established a reputation for delivering hardware and software products, and large, globally distributed services. He served as VP of engineering and CTO of Command Audio, where he was integral in developing and launching an award winning multimedia service and handheld receiver/player used by multiple digital broadcast systems and, as VP of data development and architecture at iBiquity Digital, he established the integration of this advanced on-demand technology for the U.S. digital radio broadcast system. Linden has served as chief architect and senior director at Oracle, directed international product development teams at Cisco Systems, and was the IBM programming language standards authority to ANSI and ISO. |