Management Engineer
Resume:
Patrick R. Nicolas 408-***-**** Los Altos, CA
www.pnexpert.com *******@********.*** www.linkedin.com/in/patricknicolas
VP/Director Engineering
Equally effective in team building, project management and technology
leadership, Patrick possesses the roll-up-your-sleeves skills and attitude
that make him an invaluable part of our management team.
Barbara DeLury, President and CTO, BiggerBoat
VP Engineering & Operations
BiggerBoat Santa Monica CA www.biggerboat.com 07/08-03/09
BiggerBoat creates disruptive interactive advertising SaaS solutions for finding and reaching target
audiences consuming digital media and entertainment.
Ramped up engineering, research and IT groups from the ground up, with focus on
success metrics and hands-on execution. Built a working web analytics and demographics
based targeting solution in record time, unlocking a quick exit strategy for investors.
Harnessed Map-Reduce computing model, statistics, information retrieval and machine
learning technologies (Bayes, Clustering, Hadoop, JSON/Java, C Set up agile process
using eclipse IDE plug-ins & test harness over an EC2 cloud to speed up development.
Company in process of being acquired
VP Engineering
Resonate San Jose CA www.resonate.com 03/01-12/07
Resonate traffic management solutions maximize eCommerce applications delivery & availability.
Completely restructured all operations in product management, development, QA, tech.
support, and IT. Drove to success during 2 merger and acquisitions.
Turned around sales curve to growth, by introducing Test-Driven Development into
Salesforce.com platform. Increased largest customers retention rate to 94%.
Migrated development process to agile (SCRUM). Built an automated shared global
testing environment. Set up offshore engineering groups in India and Bulgaria, slashing
engineering costs by 40%. Assessed poor team performance, responded by creating a
new vision, resulting in a cohesive effort.
Started innovative program to attract and retain engineers. Built up a cost effective
network of consulting experts on demand.
Streamlined processes for product management and marketing, risk & financial analysis,
patent submission, 3rd party licensing, and activity-based costing.
Authored patents and white papers.
Directed 40+ developers to architect and release an enterprise wide service level
management (SLA) solution, Commander, sold to OpNet in 2004. (Java/J2EE
[Weblogic], EJB, JMS, JMX, UML, Oracle, Expert System, C++, XML)
Created an internal 24/7 collaboration portal to speed up tracking & resolution of customer
issues. (MS-SQL, SOAP/Web Services, jBoss, Flex 2.0, XML, MySQL, Spring, AJAX)
Led the development of a high volume TCP network traffic & applications management
solution, Central Dispatch. (Linux & Windows kernels, Java/JSPs, C++)
Engineered a web-based data virtualization appliance over TCP, SQLSure to optimize
performance, security & availability of SQL Server clusters. (C++, MS-SQL, BerkeleyDB)
Company acquired by private investors in early 2008
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VP Engineering
Diligent Software Systems Santa Clara CA (acquired by VerticalNet) 10/99-02/01
Grew engineering department from 5 to 40 engineers to build and maintain the first SaaS
B2B procurement solution ever. Set up and optimized 21 processes to streamline
operations. Managed $1M quarterly budget and invented a concurrent development
structure for cross-functional teams to meet punishing schedule. (J2EE, XML, OOD/UML,
Weblogic/JSP/EJB, Oracle, Windows/Solaris)
Lead Architect (Contractor)
Netro Inc San Jose CA 09/98-10/99
Built an SNMP-based Network Management distributed server for wireless communication
(Corba, Java, Oracle). Led a 4-developer team to resolve scalability, reliability, and
security issues. Stabilized product performance.
VP Engineering
Ikonodyne Inc Mountain View CA 05/97-08/98
Designed a Corba-based application management system (Java, Corba, OMG services).
Led a 7 engineer team during implementation and testing until the company shutdown.
Technical Team Lead
Integrated Systems Sunnyvale CA (acquired by Wind River) 03/96-05/97
Led a team of 8 engineers to create a GUI-based profiler, pRISM+, and device drivers for
embedded systems (UML, C++, pSOS, Corba, Windows). Defined requirements and
quality objectives. Setup testing of beta cycle in collaboration with field engineers.
Senior Software Engineer
Praxis Engineers Inc Milpitas CA (acquired by GE Electric) 06/94-03/96
Developed new process control software to monitor emission of pollutants at power plants.
The 3-tier architecture relied on distributed processes to execute linear programming
Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms. (RPC, C++)
Founder, CTO
Network Integrated Svcs Santa Ana CA (acquired by Systems Modeling) 01/88-05/94
Created and brought to market the first advanced C++ scientific library for PC & Sun
workstations. The library for statistics and mathematical computation enabled building
simulators for molecular research (Molecular Arts) & manufacturing (CACI Inc).
Currently: Developing an application to extend Twitter with semantic analysis and voice
recognition to archive video files (www.Scribovox.com)
Education: Master of Science Electrical Engineering
Institute Polytechnique, Toulouse, France
Technical Advisor: Splashnote, Resonate, Crosstest, SQLSure
Membership: SVASE, IEEE, Computerized Investing (AAII), Toastmasters, PARC
White Papers: Topics ranging from strategy for virtualization in data centers to the
selection of machine learning algorithm for audience analytics.
Patents: Discrete-event simulation, Database virtualization
Dynamic database provisioning
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