• Over 25 years of software industry experience in engineering management, software development, product management and business development
• Proven ability to recruit, organize, lead and motivate, as well as build team consensus
• Able to analyze options from both technical and business points of view, make reasoned recommendations, and develop practical plans
• Able to set realistic goals, meet deadlines, and persevere to deliver successful results
• Talent for conceptual thinking, dealing with complex issues, and crystallizing ideas
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

LookSmart Ltd. (1999-2000)

• Responsible for LookSmart's proprietary and integrated third-party Web Directory software (online and offline) with a FY2000 $9.85M budget and targeted headcount of 48. Reported to COO and then CEO. 
  

• Defined and built organization to manage, develop and support software for fast moving Internet environment with multiple simultaneous small and large projects. Doubled size of fulltime staff in first 12 months. Augmented staff on key projects by leveraging outside consulting organizations. Defined and introduced company-wide project lifecycle process and mechanism for planning and prioritization with business units.

• Oversaw the successful development of key deliverables with aggressive business deadlines. Provided overall technical direction including architectural evolution, introduction of new technology, and quality control. Initiated and lead strategic task forces including those relating to search engines, content management, and web application servers. Drove technology assessments and conducted contract negotiations with third party vendors.

Verge Software Corporation (1998)

• Reporting to President/CEO, managed Verge's software engineering organization and key technology partnerships. Provided project management and technical leadership for development of Verge's CORBA-based knowledge management application written in Java that supports multiple data sources including web pages and employs neural net technology. Created detailed release plans and guided development teams to successful completion of Beta 1. Introduced improved engineering processes and procedures. Established 1999 engineering objectives, budget, and hiring plan. Worked with VP of Product Management to put in place long term product and technology roadmaps.

Visigenic Software, Inc. (1997-98)

• Managed development and/or productization of security, trader, and replication services, mainframe ORB, and other advanced distributed object products involving partners and internal resources. Directed engineering team and all activities required to bring products to market. Carried out technology and business opportunity assessments and make/buy/partner analyses. Contributed to strategy and positioning of future products including Inprise's application server.

• Managed Java and C++ VisiBroker product lines through to successful delivery of next generation 3.0 versions. Reporting to VP of Engineering, defined, planned, and drove new releases of Object Request Broker, security, development tool, and object service products. Led product team involving documentation, QA, and technical support while interacting daily with software development, outbound marketing, and field sales organizations.
   
• Developed and managed business/product relationships with third parties. Represented engineering in negotiations with technology providers, partners, and licensees. Also responsible for internal and external technical communication including collateral source material, presales customer presentations, and analyst briefings.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (1987-96)

• Managed strategic Joe/NEO partnerships with key ISVs and platform vendors, evaluating third-party technologies, developing technical and business proposals, and driving technology licensing and exchange agreements. Negotiated and closed seven-figure OEM source licensing agreement with large European computer manufacturer and managed relationship over 18 months to vendor’s product release, resolving all business, marketing and engineering issues.
 
• Managed all aspects of SunSoft’s activities at the Object Management Group (OMG), obtaining strategically important results that exceeded goals set and supported product goals, with cost effective use of engineering resources. Represented SunSoft on OMG’s Board of Directors, Architecture Board, and Technical Committee.
 
• Made major technical and organizational contributions to the success of OMG as a key open systems consortium and effective standards making body. Pioneered broad industry use of CORBA. Chaired Technical Objectives Subcommittee that defined OMG's technical agenda. Chaired 100+ person ORB/Object Services Task Force from its inception in 1991 to 1996, resolving technical and political issues, and guiding group through adoption of thirteen specifications.
 
• Built consensus and led seven company alliance whose proposal was adopted, after a contentious campaign, as the CORBA 2.0/IIOP interoperability standard. Assembled, negotiated, and led twenty company group supporting SunSoft’s common object services that were adopted as OMG’s first CORBAservices. Successfully orchestrated and drove campaigns that resulted in the adoption of other SunSoft and multi-vendor submissions.
 
• Made significant contributions to SunSoft’s object technology planning and product strategy including analyzing customer requirements and market trends, developing a product plan for distributed transactions, and designing the NEO component architecture. Initiated and chaired ground breaking cross-divisional distributed application framework task force.
 
• Evangelized Project DOE both internally and externally to Sun, articulating and building awareness of product vision with customers and partners. Published articles and technical papers on CORBA and object technology in journals and magazines including Distributed Computing Review, Standards Technical Journal, and FirstClass. Wrote main technical NEO White Papers and developed detailed technical presentations.
 
• Established authority on distributed object technology and spokesperson for Sun and OMG. Invited speaker and panelist at industry conferences including ObjectWorld, UNIXexpo, Xhibition, and SoftwareWorld/USA; at various industry groups including ANSI, Unix International, OSF, X/Open, Software Forum, and IEEE; and on satellite broadcast programs on CASE and CORBA technology.

• Managed development of an integrated CASE project support environmen t, complementary to Sun’s NSE,  that combined elements of project management, process management, and lifecycle workflow support. Researched, defined and architected overall system, secured initial funding, and recruited high-level core engineering team. Managed team and provided technical direction through to successful completion of first phase. Also managed related third-party vendor partnership.

Apollo Computer, Inc. (1986-87)

• Managed group responsible for enhancement and support of Apollo’s network-model distributed DBMS product and productization of third-party relational DBMS.

Computer Consoles, Inc. (1982-85)

• Managed development of a visual application development environment with integrated DBMS for use on CCI's fault-tolerant transaction processing systems. Conceived and architected product, then recruited and directed twelve person engineering team through to successful introduction into application groups. Defined overall product requirements and wrote or oversaw detailed design of key subsystems including windowing display manager for intelligent forms, network-model DBMS, integrated 4GL forms-database scripting language, and distributed runtime executive (virtual machine).
 
• Managed group responsible for language compiler products on CCI's family of 68000-based UNIX computer systems involving both internal development and support activities and external vendor relationships.

I. P. Sharp Associates, Ltd. (1975-82)

• Led joint development project with Eastman Kodak of a multi-user computer-aided microfilm retrieval system featuring an end-user configurable database.
 
• Designed and led implementation of five minicomputer-based turnkey systems that were successfully deployed at multiple customer sites including systems for hot-standby message store and forward, real-time telemetry, and business applications.
 
• Led projects involving up to six programmers covering system software, communications systems, real-time systems, and laboratory automation. Individually designed and implemented data base management, file system, memory management, communications control, data transmission, and language processing software.

Recipient of OMG's first Fellows Honor, 1997

"Using Java with CORBA", OMG FirstClass Newsletter, 1996

"CORBA 2.0 and IIOP", Standards Technical Journal, 1995 (also appeared in Distributed Computing Review)

Recipient of OMG's second Distinguished Service Award, 1994
 

Verge Software Corporation, San Francisco, CA

1998	Director of Engineering

Visigenic Software, Inc., San Mateo, CA(acquired by Borland/Inprise)

1997-98

Engineering Manager/Senior Product Manager

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA

1993-96	Manager of Strategic Alliances, SunSoft Object Products
1992-93	Manager of Strategic Endorsements, SunSoft Object Products
1991-92	Manager, Project DOE Program Office, SunSoft
1989-91	Manager of CASE Standards and Framework Technology, Software Products Division
1988-89	Engineering Manager, Software Products Division
1987	Project Leader, Software Engineering Technologies, Software Products Division

Apollo Computer, Inc., Chelmsford, MA

1986-87

Manager of Database Products Group, R&D

Lotus Development, Inc., Cambridge, MA

1985	Principal Software Engineer, Business Products Division

Computer Consoles Inc., Rochester, NY

1984-85	Manager of Application Systems and Languages, Product Engineering
1982-84	Manager/Architect of Application Systems Group, Product Engineering

I. P. Sharp Associates, Toronto, Canada

1981-82	Project Manager/System Architect, Special Systems Division, Rochester, NY
1975-81	Project Leader/Senior Consultant, software house subsidiary, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Imperial College, London, U.K.

1972-75

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Computing and Control

 

MS Computer Science (with Mark of Distinction), University of London, 1972

BS Theoretical Mechanics(with Award on Part I), University of Nottingham, 1971