[1][2] He began his career in 1982 at the Computer Corporation of America in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before working as an assistant professor at Cornell University’s Computer Science department, during which he also worked as a technical consultant for Bell Laboratories.
In 1986, Skeen worked at TIBCO Software in Palo Alto, California, becoming the vice president of research and principal inventor of “The Information Bus” data integration backplane.
[3] Vitria started as a business process management company and then developed operational intelligence products.
[5][6] He has patents on the distributed publish/subscribe communication mechanism and three-phase commit protocol.
[7] Skeen received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2001 for “fundamental contributions in publish-subscribe communications.”[8] In April 2004 he became chief executive officer of Vitria.