Company Overview
ConnectSolutions LLC delivers a global platform enabling reliable, scalable, and secure managed services for Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. QuickConnect, the company's on-demand platform, was designed specifically for web communication to ensure a high-performance experience for real-time communication. This platform maximizes a customer’s return-on-investment with Connect, by providing a complete solution for rapid deployment and management.
ConnectSolutions' managed services platform combines the instant-on, accessible-from-anywhere value proposition of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with enterprise-class configuration and integration support to ensure rapid adoption and success with Acrobat Connect Professional. Customers are deployed on dedicated, secure, and scalable infrastructure to ensure maximum reliability and flexibility in order to meet each individual organization's needs with this web communication platform.
With more than a decade in Acrobat Connect design, development, and deployment experience, ConnectSolutions' team brings deep domain expertise, innovative platform technologies, and an intense focus on customer success to each organization's deployment. This dedication to success on Acrobat Connect Professional ensures customers experience the most reliable and rewarding web communication experience available.
At-A-Glance:
• Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, with global infrastructure throughout North America and Europe
• VC-backed by Seabury Venture Partners
• Founders have extensive experience with Acrobat Connect, supporting millions of meeting minutes
• Experience in supporting 100s of customer deployments
• Fanatically focused on customer success with Acrobat Connect
Employment Opportunities
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Michael J. Fitzpatrick Jr,
CEO & Co-Founder
Michael co-founded ConnectSolutions LLC in 2007, and currently serves as president and CEO. Michael has over ten years of experience in software and technology development, specializing in real-time web communication technology. Prior to ConnectSolutions, he led Acrobat Connect product management through twelve releases at Adobe Systems. Before Macromedia/Adobe, Michael managed several web-based collaboration solutions at Siebel Systems. Prior to Siebel Systems, Michael led product management and marketing for Vignette's partner products. Michael holds a bachelor's degree from Amherst College, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their three children.
Chris Tennant,
CTO & Co-Founder
Chris co-founded ConnectSolutions LLC in 2007, and currently serves as Chief Technology Officer. Chris worked on the Connect product for seven years, from 2000 through 2007. Starting in 2000, he managed all development at presedia, where the Connect product began. Chris managed engineering teams through successive acquisitions by Macromedia and Adobe. Throughout his focus was on building and supporting quality software for customer success; he became the technical expert on the entire Connect product. Before 2000, Chris was a software engineer for two additional startups, and wrote a database-driven hypermedia authoring tool as part of his doctoral dissertation. Chris is also a co-founder of Secure Diagnostic Imaging, which produces software for remote diagnosis by ophthalmologists. Chris was trained as a lawyer and an anthropologist. After putting himself through college as a contract C programmer, he went on to law school, clerked at the Canadian Supreme Court, and completed a master's in law and and a doctorate in social anthropology, both at Harvard University.