Rich is a regular contributor to the Bayonne project, and the coordinator of the GNUComm and Voxilla projects. He worked as a software engineer at several silicon valley telephony companies, and one Linux company, before founding Open Source Telecom Corporation (OST). OST has been deploying open-source telephony systems since 1999. He has most recently spoken at the O'reilly Open Source Convention and the Intel Communications Tech Summit. He organizes the bi-annual Free Telephony Summit as well as the Telephony BOFs and GNUComm booths at LinuxWorld conventions.