Objectives: Software development manager or technical product management role in a software development organization.

Experience:
The NERDS (self employed) (2001—present)
Developed and present a team-building event based on my experiences with the Junkyard Wars TV series.  Participants are challenged to construct a solution to an engineering problem, in limited time, with limited resources. Stresses group problem solving, improvisation, and outside-the-box thinking.  Half and full day corporate programs for up to 120 people, school events for grades 6 through 12.  Details at  Rubbish Deconstruction League

Product Manager, Time0 LLC (1999 -- 2001)
Time0 developed large-scale B2B digital marketplaces for external clients. I was the technical product manager for the internal development organization, Systems Engineering.  The group developed the core upon which the digital marketplaces were built. Primary duties were to be the connection and filter between client-facing project development groups and the systems engineering group developing the infrastructure.  Coordinated 3 releases of the product and libraries.

• Designed tools for constructing large scale web sites, using JSP, and J2EE.
• Performed modeling using UML and Rose.
• Set release schedules
• Developed release and document control protocolls

Products included:

• Windows and Unix program development suites (Windows, X/motif)
• Database (SQL and OODB) visualization and data mining tools.
• Shrink-wrap end user applications on PC/Windows, Mac and Unix

• Developed training classes, and training schedules.
• Numerous structural changes in the support and product delivery areas.
• CD-ROM distribution of Unix products (a cost saving of $20,000 per release in 1993)
• Two new product launches, 5 ongoing major releases, one outside acquisition.
• World Wide Web distribution of products and product updates.
• Established QA lab, hired QA manager.
•  Specified, and supervised development of update authoring, delivery and tracking tool
•  Specified and managed staff developing multi-product, multi-platform, central software licensing tools (C, VC++).
• Target platforms: Windows NT, Unix, Java and Macintosh.
• Supported varying strengths of security, from simple product keys, to dongles and a license server.

• Drafted budgets, developed project and release schedules, hired and supervised staff.
• Enabled growth from 8 users at a single site to >60 users at 8 sites in 4 countries, on 3 continents.
• Significantly increased the reliability of the tool by identifying unreliable sub-systems, then directing their replacement
• Taught myself IC layout, then added device generation for 9 BiCMOS processes to the tool's automated IC layout sub-system. (The tool had previously supported a single process.)
• Worked on-site with users in Japan and Europe 4-6 weeks per year.
• Changed an undocumented prototype into a stable, supportable, and documented software product with a significant technical user community.

• Supervised consultants in porting effort.
• Supported non-technical customers and sales staff (telephone, on-site, and at trade shows).  The software was installed at more than 30 sites.
• Used corporate finance principles to write complex financial models.
• Designed a graphical user interface substrate that was used for all user interfaces on a financial analysis product, most user interface on a manufacturing planning product.
• Helped develop a portable (multi-platform) window system.
• Built a page layout/report generation system with Postscript output.

• Developed real time control software.
• Direct control of robot manipulator.
• Dynamic object system, with guaranteed maximum latency.
• Language development including a parser for PROLOG and real-time, multi-process extensions to SCHEME [an object oriented LISP dialect].
• System administration/management. (Included planning the relocation of a "traditional" machine room).

Languages: C, Dylan, Lisp, Assembler (several machines including common embedded microprocessors), SQL (Oracle, Sybase), Java, and FORTRAN. Strong background in object oriented program design.

Software: Have worked with the internals of VMS, RSX-11M, RSX-11A, RT-11, the Lisp machine software system, and ITS. Use IBM PC (MS-DOS, Windows, Linux), Macintosh and Unix workstations regularly. Familiar with several network protocols, at the packet level.

Education:
Japan Society of Boston (1989 -- 1990) Introductory Japanese
Palladian Software (1985 -- 1986) Principles of Corporate Finance
Northeastern University Continuing Education Program (1983) Principles of Telephony I and II
Boston University evening graduate program (1978) Operating System Principles
Northeastern University (1975 -- 1977) Mathematics, CS, and Electrical Engineering courses.

Other Activity: Cyclist, build recumbent bicycle frames. Certified "Effective Cycling™” instructor. Interested in early music; serve as treasurer and member of the board of directors for the Society for Historically Informed Performance, a non-profit, volunteer arts organization, now in its 15th year. Organized the first US team to compete in the British "Scrapheap Challenge" (called "Junkyard Wars" when shown in the US) engineering competition. The team ( The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society; The NERDS™) placed second.