Project Manager Engineering

PAUL

ST. PIERRE

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Chelmsford, MA 01824

978-***-**** -- abp6er@r.postjobfree.com

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Employment History

TECHNOLOGIES

Java

/ J2EE / JSP / Apache / Tomcat / Javascript / jQuery

Adobe Flex 4 / Flash CS5

Web Services / XML/XSLT

bash / ant / awk / perl

Blackberry Browser

EDUCATION

M.S.E.E., Northeastern University

B.S.E.E. (with honors), UMass Lowell.

Independent Contractor and

Consultant -

November 2011 December 2011

Developed and modified small-business web sites utilizing Wordpress.

Modification of the Wordpress PHP code was

required.

July 2011 September 2011

Prototyped a user interface for a 3-dimensional oral

scanner, using Balsamiq Mockups. The goal of the UI was to provide an

intuitive, guided, step-by-step procedure for a dentist or dental assistant to

perform scans accurately and completely, then upload

the scan data to a website where it would be available to dental fabrication

labs, and track the status of the dental appliance for each patient. (The project was ultimately canceled due to

lack of venture funding.)

February 2004 May 2011

Team member developing DTI, "Demand

Test Interface" (and variants), a suite of circuit testing

applications for Verizon Telecom and Business Systems. Programmed

principally in Java, JavaScript, JSP, and Adobe Flex 4 using Eclipse.

Participated in four clients: two are Java fat-client

applications in Swing and AWT, and two are J2EE web applications built on

Apache-Tomcat. Developed and integrated the DTI applications with

various "back-end" systems which implement the circuit test sequences.

DTI is used by over 20,000 Verizon field and data center technicians to monitor

and test trunks, special-service circuits, POTS lines, and the fiber-optic

backbone. Designed and implemented

a non-linear circuit diagramming system for Verizon s fiber-optic backbone

using Adobe Flex 4, where the diagram is displayed using Adobe s Flash

player in a J2EE web hosting framework.

The animated diagram can be zoomed and panned, sections collapsed

and expanded, and circuit element attributes displayed, and test

operations initiated. Test results

highlight the diagram in a variety of colors appropriate to the status of

the individual elements and sections.Designed and created

scalable vector circuit element icons and graphics using Adobe Flash CS5.Designed and developed

code to display complex, non-linear communications circuits, using

Swing/AWT.Developed client and

server code in Java for test systems supporting video and telephony over

Verizon's consumer fiber-optic broadband product, FiOS:

the client is a web application running under Apache Tomcat and Struts.

Circuit and test data is internally stored in XML and utilizes extensive

XSLT transformations to generate browser page layout. The application also

heavily utilizes JSP, CSS, and Javascript. Wrote

many shell and Perl scripts for log file analysis and general maintenance.

Responsible for performance analysis and improvements using JProfiler and other Java profiling tools.Principal developer for

a BlackBerry browser-based DTI client in XHTML/JavaScript, interfacing to

server components in Tomcat/JSP/XML/XSLT.Designed, developed, and

managed the daily and release builds and installs for the above four

application systems utilizing bash

scripts, and ant dependency systems.

February 2002 - February 2004Designed and developed a

complete Web Services front-end using C# in Visual Studio .NET for a $40M

e-learning and collaboration software company. Developed data

classes, public methods, and SOAP interface using a variety of tools,

starting with an XML schema for the product API; the resulting service

includes over 500 product-specific data classes and 50 publicly accessible

methods/functions. Developed sample applications for the services

using ASP.NET and VB.NET. Developed an installer using Windows Installer

technology that integrates with the existing product installer.Developed several custom

integrations between legacy systems (directory databases, e-learning and

training system) for customers of the above company, as one of two

certified external consultants. I used the web service interface I

developed, and the existing product's XML API built with MSXML4.Designed and developed a

marketing and engineering demo application in VB6 for an audio processing

technology startup, used to flexibly prototype and experiment with user

interface concepts and used as a sales and

marketing tool for the technology. This application uses transparent

floating forms on Windows, is touch-screen capable, and drives the Windows

Media Player 9 API for playback, as well as the company's proprietary

audio processing technology.Wearlogic: Developed several

prototype applications in VB6 for contactless smartcard readers, including

detection, validation and authentication against a SQL Server database,

reading/writing secure data, and tracking usage. Applications

included Department of Defense passcard

security, and retail point-of-sale debit and loyalty cards.

Wearlogic, Inc.,

Wakefield, MA

June 1998 - February 2002: Vice President, Engineering

Co-founder of a startup company developing

hardware and software technology for a physically flexible computing platform

with keyboard and display, targeting a flexible personal financial management

device including an embedded smartcard reader. Two international patents are

issued or pending for Wearlogic technology. Other

products developed by Wearlogic for the smartcard

market include portable, ruggedized readers with PIN entry keypads for the

security and loyalty markets, supporting both contact and contactless

smartcards.

Worked with co-founder on all aspects of starting

a company from scratch - building a focused engineering team, designing the

software architecture and user interface, implementing several Windows client

applications, assisting in fund raising, early marketing efforts, and many

other activities. Managed all of engineering, including

software, QA and hardware groups. I have had a hand in all the key

decisions, both technical and business related.

Key technologies include: Java and Forth for the

device software, and extensive use of XML as the

native data container and interface for both the client and the device, and for

data acquisition from external applications and the Web, and VB for the client

application and serial communication.

We raised an initial seed $750K from ourselves

and angel investors, and acquired $4.3M in venture funding from BankBoston

Ventures and Cambridge Samsung Partners.

Omtool Ltd., Salem,

NH

March 1996 - June 1998: Vice President, Engineering

Omtool's Fax Sr. was the leading LAN fax server product for Windows NT. Omtool also fielded fax server products for OpenVMS, HPUX,

Alpha OSF, and Sun Solaris. Fax Sr. includes client applications

for Windows 3.1 and 95, Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, MacOS,

Motif, DOS, Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, Lotus Notes, and other popular mail and

groupware packages, as well as an API for fax services for proprietary customer

applications. Omtool made an Initial Public Offering

while I was VP, in August 1997.

Responsible for the R&D organization

management and growth, budget, staffing, development schedules, and releases.

Increased Engineering, QA and Technical Writing staff from 6

to 20+. Fielded numerous (8+) releases of Omtool's

flagship Fax Sr. fax server product, including a large number of major

features: integration with Microsoft Exchange, SMTP mail and Lotus Notes;

ActiveX, HTML/CGI/Perl, and Java clients; document to fax format conversion,

SNMP monitoring, client internationalization. Initiated a major project to redo

the Fax Sr. infrastructure to be distributed, scalable, and fault tolerant.

Managed 3rd party software component vendors. Omtool's

engineering staff was grown by me to over 20 engineers, with an aggregate

budget growth from $600K to $3M+.

I have also played a major role in business

development activities, including management of corporate acquisitions and

technical product integration, OEM partnerships with complementary product

vendors, product strategy and overall product planning, technical component

vendor management, and liaison with strategic partners.

Avid Technology, Tewksbury, MA

May 1992 -- March 1996: Director, Engineering

Avid is the leader in digital, non-linear

(disk-based) editing products for the international video, audio, film, and

television broadcast industries. Avid systems have won Emmy and Academy awards

for technical excellence. Since joining, the company has grown from a $20M

venture-funded startup to a $400M public company.

Directed Avid's

core software development, with a focus on the real-time aspects of video and

audio capture and playback on Mac, PCs and Silicon Graphics workstations.

Managed and provided technical leadership forAvid Media Engine:

object-oriented (C real-time, multimedia software powering all Avid

products for digital audio and video synchronization and editing,

incorporated in Avid products including Media Composer, NewsCutter, AirPlay, and

Media Suite Pro.OMF Interchange:

Avid-led multimedia interchange format. OMF's object-oriented features

support the interchange of compositions, sources, and media data among

heterogeneous systems.Media Suite Pro: three

desktop video editing products for corporate and institutional video

production, hosted on Apple Macintosh, SGI UNIX, and Windows (NT and '95).Avid Broadcast Video

board: managed the development of a broadcast quality hardware and

software system for the international television broadcast industry.AvidNet Media Server: managed

the initial development of a client/server, broadcast-quality media

management and delivery system, including the design and development of a

proprietary protocol for high-speed media transfer between a Unix-based

server and Mac clients over an ATM connection.Avid CamCutter:

directed the development of embedded software for a disk-based portable

camera back for the electronic newsgathering (ENG) industry.Apple QuickTime

components for Avid Cinema home and desktop products.

Responsibilities included strategic planning,

product specification, staffing, project management, engineering development,

liaison with hardware development group, management of external vendors, and

product release to customers. Also responsible for hiring, salary and

performance reviews, and staff career development. Directed a

staff of 25+ engineers, 3 engineering managers, with responsibility for a $2.7M

departmental budget.

Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH

January 1992 -- May 1992: Consulting Engineer

Project lead for Digital's

Fortran 90 compiler for Alpha. Worked with product

management to produce product requirements, product feasibility, project plans,

and technical specifications. Worked with other teams, including

Debugger, CASE tool, GEM compiler (DEC's base compiler technology), and runtime

library groups to enlist support for Fortran 90 development activities.

COMPASS Inc.

From the early 1980's, COMPASS developed

high-performance compilers for advanced architecture computers, focusing

primarily on Fortran 90 and C. The compilers

incorporated leading-edge technology such as data layout optimizations, a

world-class Vectorizer, and optimizations for

multiple pipelined function units and RISC instruction sets. COMPASS produced

compilers for CISC and RISC uniprocessors, and for

SIMD and MIMD computer systems.

COMPASS customers in this arena included Thinking

Machines, Suprenum (the German national supercomputer

consortium), MasPar, David Sarnoff Research Labs, and

Digital Equipment Corporation, COMPASS also licensed

its compiler technology to ACRI, Alliant, Computervision,

Concurrent Computer, GenRad, Kubota Pacific, nCUBE, Numerix, PictureTel, Stardent, and

Teradyne.

December 1990 -- November 1991: Director of Engineering

Responsible for planning,

staffing and coordinating all technical activities at COMPASS for a staff of 45

engineers. Also responsible for hiring, salary and performance reviews,

and staff career development. Responsible for planning and

acquiring support resources such as internal development systems and networks.

Member of X3J3, the ANSI Fortran

90 standards committee. Participated in the definition of the Fortran 90

language; made significant contributions to the specification of the array

processing features and intrinsic functions.

Participated in business

development and contract acquisition with an international customer base, ongoing

customer relations, and engineering support of marketing and sales activities,

including proposals to clients.

November 1982 -- December 1990: Engineering

Manager

Supervised the design and

implementation of the "COMPASS Compiler Components", a suite of retargetable, rehostable compiler

components implemented in C.

Primary responsibilities included coordinating

the interfaces among the components, verifying that design goals are met on

schedule, specifying the Internal Representation and key internal and external

interfaces, and specifying and enforcing software configuration management and

portability standards. Responsible for the day-to-day

management of eighteen software engineers and project leaders, as well as

project scheduling, project staffing, customer liaison, and technical marketing

tasks. Managed the Documentation staff, responsible

for end-user and internal documentation.

Project Manager for the

Thinking Machines "CM Fortran" Compiler. CM Fortran

was built using the COMPASS Compiler components and generated code for the

Connection Machine CM-2, a massively parallel SIMD supercomputer.

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