Hello, I’m Michael Coté. But, please, just call me “Coté”: (1.) everyone else does, and, (2.) there are too many other Michael’s in this world to get confused with.

I work at Dell in corporate strategy. Previous to that, I worked at RedMonk, and then some coding before that for a long time.

My Family and City

I’m married to the lovely Ms. Kimberly Skotak. We a lovely son, along with some pets.

I was born in Austin, Texas, and I still live here. I may be a leftist whack-job, but I’m a proud Texan first.

Work

I work at Dell in corporate strategy, helping the company come up with new businesses and make existing ones better.

Previous to that, I was an industry analyst with RedMonk. You can check out my RedMonk bio which goes over what I did there. My “work blog” was PeopleOverProcess.com.

Previous to RedMonk, I was a developer at BMC Software at the Austin campus. My primary work was developing the BMC Performance Manager (né PATROLExpress), a web application for doing agentless network and web-site monitoring.

A long time ago I helped start an online banking company, now known as FundsXpress. Even longer ago, as a precursor to FundsXpress, I helped start one of the first on-line malls at VRCO/Mesa Internet Systems. Much of those years are “documented” written about in my “FX Pages”.

I’ve also worked at The Cobalt Group, Liaison Technologies, Coral Technologies (see Coral Quotes), and a few of my own projects, such as Acorro.

You can read more about my profesional like in my resume, or check out my LinkedIn profile.

Content is King

Since the days of Mosaic and gopher I’ve been playing around with the Internet, and there’s plenty of my old crap laying around here. Now-a-days, being the slave to the ‘net that I am, most of my efforts are put into my weblog and, more recently, my photos.