Mike Moody

Mike Moody is SVP of development and operations at Lucid Imagination. Lucid is the leading Commercial Open Source Search company and provides commercial upgrades, training, support and services for the Apache Solr/Lucene project(s).

With more than 30 years of experience in software engineering, Moody (prior to Lucid) has successfully transitioned Jaspersoft's product line strategy from a proprietary/commercial base to a leading commercial open source BI position. Prior to Jaspersoft, Moody headed up CenterBoard's engineering development and was vice president of Engineering Operations at Portal Software where he saw it through a successful IPO with a team of up to 130 professionals. Moody was also senior director for value added software at Auspex Systems where he directed 45 software engineers in the development of Java-based system management tools. He has also held management positions at Wyse Technology and General Electric. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a B.S. in Combined Science from the University of Santa Clara and recently co-authored the book titled "Leading and Managing in Silicon Valley"(http://tinyurl.com/nnt99c).