Chris Dolezalek Email: Chris “at” Dolezalek.com / (650) 302-4585
Current	A 3.5-year sabbatical, after a successful and very rewarding career, to take classes and teach 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th & 8th grades. Missing the pace, drive and teamwork sadly absent in teaching.
Skills	On-Time Delivery – In 20 years in the software industry, I have delivered over 100 shipped product releases - every one as committed and on time to within 1 day! Project/People Management - 12 years technical leadership/management positions with highly driven/committed teams. Modeled/implemented project/process management structures. Product Management - 3 years converting requirements into proposals/work orders, planning strategic initiatives/relationships, presenting to industry analysts/the press. Also, worked in development, technical services, training, consulting & sales departments. Distributed Application Development & Deployment - 17 years working on development & production environments for large scale, mission critical applications, focusing on distributed development, Client/Server issues.
2000 to 2002	Vice President, Engineering, Application Products BroadVision, Inc. Redwood City, CA - a leader in personalized e-business applications My team’s products generated software license revenues of $250,838,000 at the peak. Responsible for managing the budget for the lion’s share of R&D expenses of $51,621,000. Coordinated multiple product releases driving Engineering, QA, Release Management and Publications for BroadVision's entire line of applications: business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce, knowledge management, content management, financial and billing products. This consisted of 130+ full-time employees with an additional of 40-50 consultants. Established/Managed relationships with technology partners such as A2i, Actuate, Broadbase, CheckFree, ClearCommerce, CyberSource, Documentum, E.Piphany, Genesys, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, i2, Interwoven, Nuance, Macromedia, Mercury Interactive, RSA, Siebel, Taxware, Tibco, Verisign, WebMethods and Yantra.
1996 to 2000	Director, Application Products, BroadVision, Inc. Redwood City, CA Managed on-time releases of several versions of: knowledge Management, Content Management, Retail-Commerce, Business-Commerce, Financial Services, Billing Services. Senior Manager, Engineering, BroadVision, Inc. Windows and UI development. Managed/Coordinated several competitive releases with small teams of the Dynamic Command Center. Visual Development Center, Dynamic Web Objects, Business Reports. Directed the internationalization and localization across several continents
1995 to 1996	Development Manager, NewEra - Informix Software, Inc. Menlo Park, CA Informix's GUI Client/Server development product. · Managed Repository, Class Browser and Administration Tool development teams · Managed large transition project spanning several departments, locations and partners · Member Informix Process Improvement Committee. Initiated/implemented process changes
1993 to 1995	Director, Product Development and Planning – Bachman Information Systems, Inc. San Jose CA Provided traditional and client/server products and services to enterprises worldwide for the development of business-critical applications from concept through production/maintenance. · Presented company/product strategies to industry analysts, press, & customers worldwide. · Directed development and integration for Client/Server Application Development, Performance Modeling, Process Management, Database Administration and Data/Process Modeling products. . Site director for Bachman subsidiary in San Jose, California (40 employees). · Managed 5.0 project with on time release from requirements to shipment (1.8 M-LOC).
	Manager of Application Life Cycle, Database Interface, and Languages/Porting Groups Ellipse is used to create, maintain, deploy and administer mission critical applications in a client/server environment. It enables fully distributed applications to run in a heterogeneous computing environment. · Coordinated and managed development projects for OS/2, NT, UNIX, Netware and Windows. · Budgeted and scheduled project to port Ellipse source code from Pascal to C++. · Planned/initiated project for generic API to Sybase & Oracle for repository and application data.
1990 to 1993	Manager of Application Life Cycle Management Cooperative Solutions, Inc. San Jose, CA (acquired by Bachman 1993) Business-critical / transaction-processing applications providing team development and robust runtime services for client/server environments. · Managed/grew development team coordinating with others to ensure on time delivery. · Scheduled projects, defined requirements and functional specifications for various releases. · Involved in various aspects of "startup" company business: Visited customers and prospects in the US and Europe, defined product direction and quality standards, acted as key trouble shooter, coordinated responses to customer issues, and sized funded and internal projects.
	Technical Leader and Architect for Life Cycle Group Ellipse Repository - Architecture/implementation of active OO repository CMVC and Library Management - Configuration Management and object level Version Control. Application Partitioning Model –Allowing applications to be deployed in various C/S topologies. Release Management – Architected/implemented deploying without disturbing 24x7. Self-Hosted Development – migrated company to use Ellipse throughout. Member of Architectural Overview Board - wrote and evaluated product enhancement proposals Performance Group - Formed performance group & implemented distributed performance tool.

1983 to 1990	Softlab GmbH; Munich, Germany - Client/Server CASE & app. development tools. (grew from about 100 employees to 1000 - Germany's 2nd largest independent SW vendor).
	Product Manager - for Maestro (development/CASE product; 20,000+ user-base) Product strategies with input from Sales, Marketing, R&D & Customers, Product Presentations, Release announcements, migration guides, data sheets & product proposals.
	Training & Consulting - methodologies, project planning, sizing HW/SW (largest: $14M), integrating with businesses; project planning; training,; installing HW/SW & network; etc.
	Technical Support - Helped establish tech. Support organization & processes.
	Technical Leadership re-implementing Maestro on C/S (PC/UNIX) infrastructure.
	Project Management - Migrated development to use of MAESTRO. Performed similar migration for customer with 1000+ engineers & managers using Maestro.
	Member of 3-man Team to Architect OODBMS - basis of all Maestro II functionality from analysis/design and code generation to CMVC and project management.
	Ported Maestro OS - from Motorola S4000 to S5000 with backward compatibility.
	Architect and Developer of: Multi-user distributed file system with outline processing, layouting & hypertext, Print facility (UI to drivers) for PostScript other devices, Multi-windowing prototype test driver, Disc partitioning & backup systems for Maestro.
	University of Virginia: Bachelor of Physics concentrating in Math & Computer Science.