Career
He is best known for co-founding Quack.com, the first popular Voice portal platform, in 1998. Woods holds a Doctor of Philosophy and M.Math from the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Saskatchewan. He was the first Doctor of Philosophy student of Professor Qiang Yang.
Woods" Doctor of Philosophy was published in 1997 as a book co-written with Alex Quilici and Qiang Yang entitled "Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments" He then worked for Carnegie Mellon"s Software Engineering Institute on product line development and practical software architectural reconstruction and analysis.
Woods was vice president of voice services for America Online and Netscape after the acquisition of Quack.com in September, 2000. He served as an officer and on the board of directors from 2001 through 2010 in Palo Alto, California.
As of 2013 Woods was engineering director for Google in Canada.
