Kevin is a strong motivator and leader to the Apartment Home Living team. As Chief Technical Architect and Strategist, he is always at the top of his game and ready to help the engineering and creative teams succeed at completing any challenge. Through Kevin’s leadership and planning, the company has faced tremendous growth and continues to grow daily. He’s also pretty darn competitive at foosball too.
Kevin’s experiences prior to joining Apartment Home Living span both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds. As a founding partner of Meridian Internet Services, Inc. Kevin was instrumental in designing, branding, and managing a network of social networking communities which garnered nearly 1 million registered users. During his time with Meridian, he was a key player in the creation of Meridian World Data, a leading provider of geographic data used in online and software applications. This company’s customers included Microsoft, the United Nations, PeopleSoft, General Motors, and numerous other governments and Fortune 500 businesses.
In technical roles, Mr. Ready spent parts of his career at Dell Computer Corporation and Toshiba Corporation. At Dell, he was responsible for a key software component used in the development and testing of new products designs, and their subsequent roll-out for factory production. Later, at Toshiba Corporation, Mr. Ready managed and was responsible for several multi million dollar software projects within the “Cell Broadband Engine” project, a joint venture between Sony, Toshiba, and IBM.