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Intuit,
Inc.
Manage
internal startup building from ground up a foundation for
offerings to migrate 4 million small-business customers and expand to
employees, customers and vendors.
Heavily
involved with my team of 63 (distributed across Mountain View, CA, Orem, UT and
Bangalore,
India) building shrink-wrap software alongside hot-swappable SaaS offerings with
6-week release cycles.
Worked with IT to create a brand-new, offsite data center. Worked with SCM on automated build-to-deploy.
Elementary / Middle School Teacher. Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties 2002-2005
After a
successful and very rewarding high-tech career, changed gears to give back to
the community.
Learned a lot about group dynamics, mentoring and next generation interest in
SMS, MySpace, Hip/Hop…
Missing the drive and teamwork sadly absent in CA public school teaching, I
returned to high-tech.
BroadVision,
Inc.
Vice President, Engineering, Application Products 2000-2002
My team
(consisting of 130+ full-time employees + 40-50 consultants) built products
generating software
license revenues of $250,838,000 on 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: procurement,
business-to-consumer and business-to-business
e-commerce, knowledge management, content management, financial and billing
products.
Established/Managed
relationships with 20+ partners including CheckFree, ClearCommerce,
CyberSource,
Documentum, HP, IBM, Intel, Macromedia, Mercury, RSA, Siebel, Taxware, Tibco,
and Verisign.
Delivered over 100 product releases, as committed, aggressively scheduled and on time to within 1 day.
Director, Application Products 1997-2000
From concept
to release, directed and contributed to several versions of: Knowledge
Management,
Content Management, Retail-Commerce, Business-Commerce, Financial Services, and
Billing Services.
Senior Manager, Engineering 1996-1997
Windows and
UI development. Hands-on management of several releases with 3-5 person teams
of the
Directed internationalization and localization across several continents
Informix
Software, Inc.
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
Bachman
Information Systems, Inc. (formerly Cooperative Solutions)
Director, Product Development & Planning 1993-1995
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 (managing 40 employees).
· Managed team developing products with on time release from requirements to
shipment (1.8M-LOC).
Managed
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.
Manager of Application Life Cycle Management
1990-1993
(Cooperative Solutions was a $50M venture funded startup before the acquisition
by Bachman)
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 US and
Europe, defined product direction and quality standards, key trouble shooter,
coordinated responses to
customers, and sized funded and internal projects.
Technical Leader and Architect for Life Cycle Group
Ellipse
Repository –
Architected and implemented active OO repository
CMVC and Library Management
– Designed and Implemented Configuration Management and object level Version
Control.
Application Partitioning Model –Enabled applications to be deployed in
various C/S topologies.
Release Management – Architected and 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.
Softlab GmbH; startup in Munich, Germany - Client/Server CASE & app. development tools 1983-1990
(Germany's 2nd largest independent SW vendor. Startup grew to 1000 employees before BMW acquisition).
Product
Manager - for Maestro
(IDE/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 technical support organization & processes.
Technical
Leadership
re-implementing Maestro on Client/Server (PC/UDP/UNIX) infrastructure
supporting customer migration from previous architecture.
Project
Management -
migrated development to use of MAESTRO (eating our own dog food).
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 HTML
file system with outline processing & layouting
HTML print interfaces (UI to drivers) for PostScript other devices, Multi-windowing
prototype test driver,
Disc partitioning & backup systems for Maestro.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. B.S. Triple major: Physics, Math & Computer Science 1983
Atmospheric
Sciences Research Center, SUNY, Albany. Research
Assistant Summers of 1981, 1982
Analyzed and graphically depicted correlations in acid rain deposition and wind
trajectories with Altair.
(See: article based on results: The Challenge of Acid Rain. Scientific
American, Vol. 259, No. 2, pp. 30-38)
Misc: Ultimate Frisbee: Team Captain of National Champions, Three-time
member of German National Team,
Captain of a multinational team at World Club Championships. Member of U.Va.
team that placed fourth in
U.S. Nationals. Tournaments in Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany,
Holland, Italy, Sweden,
Switzerland, and the US. Coached numerous teams.