SUMMARY
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Twenty-plus years experience
managing software and hardware development projects in
medium and large organizations.
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Software consultant leading the
design and implementation of business applications:
General Accounting/ERP (GL, AP, AR, CA, PR), CATV
Pay-Per-View systems, HVAC shop floor control,
Construction project cost estimating, PC Graphics,
system performance tuning.
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Implementation experience: Windows
and Linux Application and device driver, embedded
development for network devices and small form factor
handheld devices.
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Networking:
HTML XML Java TCP/IP
Ipv4/Ipv6 Protocols, Sockets. SNMP and WBEM
Network Management.
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Industry experience: Computer
Hardware Manufacturing, Silicon Manufacturing, Cable TV,
Construction, Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning
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Government Systems: Secured and
Unsecured Property tax systems, Voter Registration,
Precincting and Election Ballot Counting, Budgetary
accounting, HR/Payroll, Land use, zoning and
assessment.
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N-Tier Internet data center design:
scalability, security and management.
Matching system requirements to Data Center and
PC server specifications - motherboard
processor/chipset/peripherals.
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Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
C, C++, MASM HTML XML Java Qualcomm BREW
for cell phone applications Microsoft
Windows CE for PDAs.
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EXPERIENCE
Project Leader - Software Architect --
Project Leader of Offshore Software
Development
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2005-Present
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Dynamic Ventures Inc., Cupertino, CA Manage multiple projects for various
customers utilizing Agile Software Development methodology.
Product Architect
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2003-2005
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AWS, Ben Lomond, CA Designed
cell phone software using the Qualcomm BREW and Windows .NET Visual Studio
development environment.
Superdome Manageability
Architect
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2001-2003
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Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA Designed
manageability suite for Windows-based Itanium servers, leveraging existing HP
server management tools and Compaq Insight Manager code bases. Planned system
evolution to new management standards based on EFI / WBEM - DMTF CIM.
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HP Itanium-based Server products were introduced
time-to-market with Windows Server 2003 and under initial budget by $16M.
A 64 processor HP 9000 Superdome
running Windows Server 2003 set a new speed record at
658,277 tpmC at cost of $9.80 per tpmC –
April 2003.
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Network Server Product Line
Architect
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1997-2001
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Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino, CA Owned the R&D product specification
process for HP’s entry-level IA-32 servers. Selected
motherboards, CPUs, memory, core chipsets, embedded I/O,
base-features for new servers.
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Released four version of the
E-series ‘entry-level’ server.
The E-Series was HP’s highest volume PC
server. E-series base-model
cost was reduced by ~10% each year.
Unit sales increased from forty thousand units
per year in 1997 to one hundred fifty thousand units per
year in 2001. Moved product
sourcing from France/Malaysia to Taiwan. Maintained
product gross margins above 25% in the highly
competitive low-end of the server market.
Revenue for my team’s servers exceeded $500M in
2001 and total market share increased from 1% of global
server units in 1997 to a peak of 3.5% in
2000.
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Created two new server products;
the 1P very low cost tower Eagle product and HP’s first
1U 2P high density/low cost rack-mounted server.
Both products were developed with OEM hardware
partners for the chassis and motherboards and in-house
software [BIOS/manageability] and hardware mechanical
design, reg/rel and QA.
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Coordinated cross-functional
strategic business planning teams focused on: Internet
data center architecture, blade servers, appliance
servers, ACPI, modular-IPMI manageability, warranty cost
reduction etc.
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Organized and managed the Network
Interface Controller and Internet Security team.
Improved vendor negotiations saved the division
$4M per year on 10/100 baseT embedded NICs and $20M per
year on 10/100/1000 baseT NICs.
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Home Products
Architect
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1993-1997
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Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino,
CA Led
the Home Products Division R&D product design team, which
created wireless, fiber-to-the-home and Hybrid Fiber Coax
[HFC/CATV] internet-to-the-home products. This division was
structured as an HP internal ‘venture capital’ startup, with
the goal of researching and developing products to leverage
the technology shift from analog to digital in the home.
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Led
the R&D team that created the QuickBurst
Cable Modem.
Lead the engineering team and invented portions
of HP MXL data-over-HFC link-layer protocol.
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Managed
HP’s participation and presentations to the CableLabs
DOCSIS 1.0 standards body and IEEE 802.14 HFC
data-over-cable standards
body.
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Lead
a 30 person R&D team that created HP’s Kayak
set top box for interactive television.
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Senior
Software Engineer - OpenView
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1991-1993
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Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino,
CA OpenView for Windows was the original
implementation of OpenView – an early Object-Oriented network
management framework that provided common device
services[event logging, device status, SNMP MIB management,
...] and global hierarchical network map. The original
product was written for Windows 2.x, and had not been upgraded
in sync with the Windows market, so HP gave the product to
small team of Windows experts to revive and enhance. The team accomplished
its goal by making the new product the most popular Windows
network management platform by volume from 1993-1996.
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In
support of sales and marketing, presented technology
roadmap updates and gathered feedback on future-product
features to HP OV OEM development partners.
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Built
the build-from-source SCM system. Created the
developer and end user product
installers.
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Ported
WINSOCK to the OpenView Stack.
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Authored
portions of two major releases of OpenView for
Windows.
Annual product revenues grew from $2M per year to
$9M per year.
OEM Unit sales per year exceeded 200K units per
year, making OpenView the number one network management
platform in 1993.
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Sr.
Software Engineer – Personal Software
Division
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1987-1991
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Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino,
CA PSD was responsible for creating HP’s PC software
application products.
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Designed
and implemented network installable NewWave for
NetWare[SPX/IPX] and
LanManager[TCP/IP].
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Created
and authored a software configuration management system
for building NewWave product releases. The SCM system
enabled weekly build-from-source and NewWave’s
localization into eleven languages..
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Created
‘Graphics Gallery’ device drivers [video, printers and
plotters] and 2D graphics application software
library.
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Created
and authored an automated printer driver test-suite
generation tool, which received an HP software
excellence award and saved $200K per product
release.
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Software
engineering consultant - Dave Hicks Associates –
Cupertino, Ca.
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1985-1987
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Embedded
Software Product Marketing – Zilog, Campbell,
Ca.
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1983-1985
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Sr.
Software Engineer - Ricoh Corporation, San Jose,
Ca.
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1982-1983
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Manager
Remote Systems – Gill Management Services, San Jose,
Ca.
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1980-1982
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V.P.
of Data Processing - CIO – Therma Corporation, San Jose,
Ca.
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1979-1980
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CEO
– Mini-Computer Software Consulting - Alpha Wave
Software, Ben Lomond, Ca.
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1979-1978
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Manager
of Computer Operations – Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz,
Ca.
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1969-1979
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