Current

• VP Development at AideRSS

Past

• VP Product Management at Mindreef, Inc.
• Consultant - Architecture, Projects, Products at Ironring Software (Sole Proprietorship)
• Director of Software Developement at WWWhoosh

• Software Architect at TransactionWorks
• Software Architect/Project Manager at Pencom New Technologies
• Software Engineer at Aspen Technology
• Software Engineer at Hyprotech

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Education

• University of Waterloo

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Summary

Jobs:
Product Management, Business Development
Software Architecture, Product Development
Business Models and Go-To-Market Strategy Evolution and Execution
Managing Software Development Teams
Transitioning from Traditional to Agile Project Management
Bridging Agile and Market-Oriented Product Management

Context:
Early Stage Companies, Developing New Markets

Examples:
Social computing, Web 2, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services,
Enterprise Software and Software as a Service Delivery Models

Hands-On, Technical and Motivated

Specialties:

Agile Product Management
Certified Product Owner (CPO), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), http://www.scrumalliance.org

Pragmatic Marketing Certified
http://www.pragamticmarketing.com/

Experience

• VP Development

  AideRSS

  2000 (Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (2 months)

  Manage development team, define strategy, business development, product management

• VP Product Management

  Mindreef, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — June 2008 (6 years 1 month)

  Joined founding team to help with software development, market development, evalgelism and product management.
  Served as product line architect and eventually as product manager.
  
  http://www.mindreef.com/

• Consultant - Architecture, Projects, Products

  Ironring Software (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — October 2002 (4 years 10 months)

  Worked with companies building distributed systems especially focus on DCOM, and high performance XML based messaging systems. Worked with Excelergy Corporation on their eXact product, a high performance XML service bus.

• Director of Software Developement

  WWWhoosh

  (Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  Lead a team of engineers building Internet content acceleration technology. High performance appliance grade software for lower bandwidth costs for high traffic sites. Required a deep understanding of TCP/HTTP and the ability to develop an innovative product in a changing market environment.

• Software Architect

  TransactionWorks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

  Worked on web based, high perfornace distributed financial trading system - "eTrade in a Box" for smaller banks that want to offer online banking capabilities.
  
  Performed technial and management due dilligence for investors on related interests.

• Software Architect/Project Manager

  Pencom New Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  Opened first remote office in Boston area for newly formed fixed-price, custom software development consulting group based in New York City.
  Developed advanced analytical software for the American Red Cross Organ Transplant Lab in Baltimore, MD for matching bone marrow donors with potential recipients
  Managed team of highly skilled software developers in a dynamic environment

• Software Engineer

  Aspen Technology

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years)

  Built complex thermodynamic and transport models for refinery and petrochemical processes used in model predictive control and closed loop, real time optimization.
  Integrated large, complex modeling systems in different languages into a cohesive architecture.

• Software Engineer

  Hyprotech

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1996 (4 years)

  Helped start a new development office in Houston, Texas to develop petrochemical specialty group.
  Migrated successful commercial process simulator HYSIM from DOS based implementation to Windows UI environment
  Developed advanced thermodynamic models for multiphase fluid flow to model pipeline characteristics.

Education

• University of Waterloo

  BASc, Engineering, 1990 — 1995

  Option in Management Science, Operations Research

Additional Information

Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Interests:

family and kids, kung fu, carpentry, motorcycles

Groups:

Communitech, NAO, StartupCamp

•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Pragmatic Marketing Alumni
•    280 Group
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Agilistas
•    .Net Professionals
•    Salesforce.com Professional Network
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    Cloud Computing

Honors:

2007 SD Times Top 100, Mindreef, both SOA and Test & QA
2007 Jolt Productivity Award, Testing, Mindreef SOAPscope
2006 SD Times Top 100, Mindreef, SOA and Integration
2005 Infoworld Technology of the Year, Best Web Services Dev Tool
2003 Jolt Productivity Award, Web Services Tool, Mindreef SOAPscope