Chris Dolezalek                     

148 East Creek Drive / Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 224-3995

 

Intuit, Inc. Mountain View, CA. Director, Product Development                                                  2005-Present

Manage internal startup building from ground up a foundation for Mobile and Flex/Web-based SaaS
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. Redwood City , CA - a leader in personalized e-business applications                     1996-2002

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
Dynamic Command Center. Visual Development Center, Dynamic Web Objects, and Business Reports.

Directed internationalization and localization across several continents

Informix Software, Inc. Menlo Park, CA Senior Development Manager, NewEra                            1995-1996

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) San Jose CA                          1990-1995

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.