About us
Symbiant Group was originally incorporated during the summer of 2000 to develop a business around the (then) emerging technologies of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Distributed and Collaborative Computing. Since then the P2P technology arena has changed dramatically and Symbiant Group has focused it's efforts on developing solutions and products based on the Groove decentralized collaboration platform. With over two years of experience working with and reviewing various P2P technologies, we have come to the conclusion that Groove is not only superior in it's technical & UI architecture, but is also one of the best managed companies. Because of its architecture and management we believe that we have found a platform that we can reliably and confidently develop products and solutions for our customers using or looking for a P2P decentralized collaboration platform.
We not only sell Groove based products and services, we actually use Groove internally. Our product development team relies on Groove for managing the product development process and our Engagement team utilizes Groove to communicate with clients.
We are proud to be presently located in New York City. As Groove's customer base expands in the near future, we expect to open new regional offices to meet our client's needs.
Founders
Jon Zimmerman:
is the President, CEO and a founder. Jon brings over seven years of project and client management experience to the group, all of which was spent working with Fortune 500 clients.
Jon previously founded a CD-ROM game company, a 3D Animation shop, and an Internet consulting group. His most recent position was Director of Project Management for Zentropy Partners, where he led the development of the New York City and UK offices.
Prior to Zentropy Partners, Jon worked at Ogilvy Interactive, developing Internet solutions for their Fortune 500 clients.
Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude from San Francisco State University where his studies focused on cultural issues in relation to the Internet and related emerging technologies. Prior to and during college, Jon played lead and rhythm guitar in several California based Heavy Metal bands.
Wolfgang von Stuermer:
is the CTO and a founder. Wolfgang is a Full Member of the IEEE Computer Society and the American Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and brings 15 years experience in software engineering, Internet & interactive application development and technical management to Symbiant Group.
Wolfgang has worked with a multitude of technology platforms and programming environments from low-level machine languages for embedded systems in robotics engineering to high-level Java and Microsoft based solutions for integrated Web application systems. He has managed and built Internet and interactive applications for many Fortune 500 clients.
His last position was with Zentropy Partners in New York City as Director of Technology Strategy. Prior to Zentropy Partners Wolfgang had worked as Production and Technical Director at US Interactive and then Ogilvy Interactive, leading the development of Internet solutions for their clients.
Wolfgang holds a Masters Degree in Computer Music, Computational Musical Theory and Composition from Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany.
Relationships
Symbiant Group is proud to participate in business relationships and partnerships with the following technology firms:
Groove Networks Inc. - Provides software and services that enable organizations to extend critical business processes, projects and meetings across time, space and organizational boundaries.
Wireless Blueprint - provides International - Wireless Internet consulting to End-User businesses, infrastructure technology and investment firms.
Microsoft Corporation - Speaks for itself.
IONA - is the leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration with more than 4,500 customers worldwide.
Events
Check back for events where Symbiant Group will be speaking or giving product Demos
Symbiant Group has founded the PeerGRID Special Interest Group (SIG). PeerGRID is a SIG in the New York City Metro area focused on the new emerging fields of Peer-to-Peer and GRID technology. Attendance at PeerGRID is free and open to individuals and organizations working with, developing with, or just generally interested in this new generation of technology. If you are or are going to be in New York City and would like to inquire about presenting or attending an event please contact us at peergrid@symbiantgroup.com. Presentations are open to companies, products, concepts and ideas related to Peer-to-Peer and GRID technology.