I am impressed Frank. It sounds like you are a lot like the guy I have worked for over the last 20 years with. He can talk with us engineers as well as the non-techy execs brokering big deals. Dealing with managing sales people is the worst as we never keep them around for more than a few years. Four of us engineers have been together for 20 years.
I am mostly focused on the drivers for real time fax over IP but have done fax drivers for other types of hardware along with things like printer drivers. I am known as FaxGod and I should have used that (or Dirtman) as my sign up name here.
My STBXW knows little of what I do for putting bacon on the table. The only encouragement I got was her saying that if my company ever got bought out and I got the multi-million payout that she would have sex with me ever day. Gold digger tramp.