Ed Vielmetti is a networker in Ann Arbor, and one of the founders of SocialText. See more stuff at http://vielmetti.typepad.com. He works now for PureVisibility on SocialMedia.
He has worked at TheUniversityOfMichigan, ArborNetworks, CiscoSystems, FirstVirtualHoldings, and MsEn, just to give a capsule work history.
His son has a toy dog named Otto. http://vielmetti.typepad.com/otto