Engineer Manager

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David Z. Creemer

Palo Alto, *****

Email: *****@*******.***

Proven track record leading small to medium multi-disciplinary teams from pre-funded concepts, to business plans and software architecture, design and implementation, marketing plans, and finally to mature shipping products.Skilled at professional, high quality software architecture, design, implementation, and operations.Experienced at market research, product requirements gathering and analysis, roadmap definition, and lifecycle management.Knowledgeable and experienced at engineering management and operations through complete product lifecycles.Skilled in strategic technology analysis, partner relationship management, and business case development.Professional Experience

Palo Alto, CA

07/2010 - Engineer, and Engineering Manager

Engineer and manager of Flipboard's service team.

Menlo Park, CA

10/2008 - Director of Intangible Assets

Running engineering operations and developing tools and services for web-scale real-time semantic search technology. (Acquired by Flipboard, Inc.) and

Mountain View, CA

2/2007 - 10/2008Technical Director and Senior Software Architect

Lead the design and implementation of Wi-Fi networking and synchronization software for mobile media devices.Developed and shipped C++, C#, Lua, and XML-based embedded network software through two product cycles.

Los Altos, CA

5/2005 - 2/2007Chief Architect

Founding employee. Hired to lead the design, implementation, deployment and ongoing running of the product. MerchantCircle is both a platform for small business to market themselves online, and also a consumer directory of more than 15 million local merchants and tens of thousands of consumer reviews.As acting Product Manager: Analyzed market and customer base, wrote requirements and feature specifications.Lead the design and implementation of the web application.Deployed and managed productions systems.Achieved our scaling goals, serving O(1000) sustained requests per second, and >2M page views per day on very modest systems.

Cupertino, CA

1/2004 - 4/2005Engineering Manager, / Cluster Computing Team

Mac OS X Server EngineeringManaged the team responsible Apple's Xgrid cluster computing software platform.Designed, specified, and implemented product features. and

Sunnyvale, CA

9/1998 - 12/2003Director of Product Marketing, and Product Manager

Palm OS Platform Product OrganizationManaged two marketing teams through the research, analysis, design, implementation, launch and support of Palm OS.Represented PalmSource, Inc. to customers and partners, press, industry and financial analysts, investors, and the public.Sr. Software Engineer

HotSync Software EngineeringResearched, designed, and prototyped multi-user synchronization software.

Palo Alto, CA

1/1998 - 9/1998Independent Contractor

Contract Software Architecture and EngineeringDeveloped C++/RDBMS based online banking software for .Developed JAVA and Python based web applications for other clients.

Mountain View, CA

Sr. Software Engineer

Technical StaffDeveloped JAVA / CORBA based distributed systems applications.Claris (FileMaker Inc.)

Santa Clara, CA

Engineering Manager and Technical Lead

Email ProductsConceived, planned, and lead the implementation of Claris OfficeMail, a turnkey client-server email system for small business.Managed the development of Claris Emailer through a major release cycle.Go / EO Inc.

Foster City, CA

Sr. Software Engineer

Developer Tools TeamDesigned and implemented development tools for the PenPoint OS.

Austin, TX

Technical Lead

Founding employee, and lead developer for CM/1 / QuestMap (eventually redevolped into ). Esther Dyson called it a beautiful example of an intelligent application of hypertext."Designed and led the implementation of a groupware decision support tool for MS Windows and X/Motif, including a multi-user GUI and a distributed peer-to-peer groupware engine.

Austin, TX

Associate Member of the Technical Staff

Software Technology ProgramResearched and prototyped UNIX/X hypermedia development environments.Designed and built an object oriented, threaded Scheme interpreter.Presented research in an academic environment.

Austin, TX

Software Engineer (part-time)

LabVIEW Software GroupBuilt Mac OS mathematics and graphics software.Education

Austin, TX

9/1989 - 6/1990Graduate Studies

Two semesters toward MS CS; left to start Corporate Memory Systems.

Austin, TX

9/1986 - 6/1989Bachelor of Science, Computer Sciences

BS in CompSci with high honors; minor in Physics and English composition.GPA 3.8/4.0 overall; 4.0 GPA in major1987 Unisys Scholarship recipient.Key SkillsConcepts:

Highly Scalable Systems ArchitectureMarketing:

Development:

/C++Map-Reduce (e.g. )OtherInventor or co-inventor on numerous Instrument Rated Private Pilot, and Ice Hockey Player, References, and Samples Available on Request

David Z. Creemer

Palo Alto, 94306

Email: *****@*******.***

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