Software Engineer Sales
Resume:
Peter W. McKenna
Sausalito, CA 94965
SUMMARY
Recruiter specializing in Technology and Technology Sales Professionals. I know technology -
prior to working as a recruiter, I had 12 years of experience as a software engineer, technical lead
and performance consultant. My work on mission critical projects at over 15 different companies
from startups to large financial institutions and engineering firms gives me a unique perspective on
matching talent with roles. I administer and evaluate programming problems for software
engineering candidates. I ask solution architects to walk me through a design. I ask a sales
executive to detail the steps he uses to sign a new client.
EXPERIENCE
January 2001 The McKenna Group
to Sausalito, California
Present Technology Industry Recruiter/Account Manager
Focused on opening new accounts and sourcing and placing software engineers, engineering
managers, product managers, business development and sales professionals for small to medium
size companies.
January 1998 JLC Partners, Inc.
to San Ramon, California
January 2001 Technical Recruiter/Account Manager
Filled over 50 positions in SF Bay Area Companies including data analysts, statistical
programmers, web programmers, database programmers, database managers, network engineers,
sales engineers and technical managers. Clients ranged from startups to large financial institutions
(Charles Schwab, Wells Fargo, Barclays Global Investors.)
February 1990 Over 15 Consulting Assignments
to San Francisco Bay Area
December 1997 Software Engineer/Technical Lead/Performance Analyst
Clients included Charles Schwab, NetJet Communications, Providian Bank Corporation, Health
Systems Design, TRW Financial Systems, Tri-Pacific Consulting for the US Army, American
Protective Services and Water Conservation Associates.
March 1986 Integrated Automation
to Alameda, California
January 1990 Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead
Served as Software Engineer and Technical Lead for 4 major Document Management Systems:
proof of technology tax return digitialization for the IRS, airbill transaction procession system for
Emery Airfrieght and engineering drawing digitilization and management systems for Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft and Rockwell International. I served as technical lead on the Rockwell project
that digitalized the engineering drawings for the Space Shuttle.
Systems were based on CCD digitalization of customer documents, storage on magnetic or optical
media and distribution of image files over high-speed networks to editing workstations. Systems
supported 30-100+ users and were budgeted for $5-$20 million. Determined functional and
technical requirements and designed system software. Design features included distributed
processing over WANs/LANs, client-server architecture, high-performance queuing, shared
memory, performance monitoring, crash recovery and redundancy.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
C, C++, Java, Scripting Languages
VMS, DEC Ultrix, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, BSD Unix, Open Source Tools
Database Design, Optimization and Programming
Design, loading, programming large RDBMSs (Oracle and Sybase)
Process control, State Machines, State Transition Diagrams,
Multi-threaded and Concurrent Programming
Robustness and Redundancy
Real Time Systems
Network Design under the OSF/OSI Model
General Throughput, Database & Network Performance
Queue & Workflow Managers
Prototyping, Testing and Simulation Environments
Web Application Frameworks
EDUCATION
1983 B.S. Mathematics/Minor in French and Art History including senior year abroad in France
Pennsylvania State University
1985 M.S. Biostatistics
University of Hawaii - Last 6 months held part time position at University of Hawaii
Population Genetics Lab writing ten major (1,000 lines or more) interactive simulation programs
using FORTRAN and assembler macros under Harris VOS. Developed unique sequential event
monitoring program used to signal impact of environmental factors on frequency of genetic
abnormalities.
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