Vice President Engineering
Resume:
William M. Coughran, Jr.
Los Altos Hills, CA
****@********.***
www.coughran.net
Business and technology executive with expertise in web services and computer systems as well
as experience working as a researcher / technologist.
EXPERIENCE
Sequoia Capital, Menlo Park, CA 2011-present
Partner and coach to help founders build engineering-centric product companies.
Corporate Advisor, Google, Mountain View, CA 2011-present
Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Infrastructure, Google, Mountain View, CA
2011
Senior Vice President, Engineering, Google, Mountain View, CA 2007-2011
Vice President, Engineering, Google, Mountain View, CA 2004-2007
Senior Engineering Director, Google, Mountain View, CA 2004
Engineering Director, Google, Mountain View, CA 2003-2004
Responsible for engineering of Google s research and systems infrastructure.
CEO, VP of Engineering, Director & Founder, Entrisphere, Santa Clara, CA 2000-2002
With co-founder conceived converged access system. Secured two rounds of funding. Grew
team to 95. Delivered rst product with less than $12M; delivered product to trials. Recruited
new CEO; transitioned to COO and then VP of Engineering role. Company later sold to
Ericsson.
Bell Labs Research Silicon Valley Senior Vice President, Lucent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA
1998-2000
Responsible for creating R&D organization focused on new business creation including a con-
verged softswitch and access system as well as quality-of-service and network-monitoring
businesses.
Computing Sciences Research Center Vice President, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray
Hill, NJ 1996-1999
Head, Scienti c Computing Research Departmnet, Computing Sciences Research Center,
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 1993-1996
Member of Technical Staff, Scienti c Computing Research Department, Computing Sciences
Research Center, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 1980-1993
Responsible for broad computer science research and product efforts including embedded
software systems, protocol analysis, languages and tools, wireless and ber-optic modeling, and
next-generation access platforms. Algorithms research and development of semiconductor de-
vices and circuits simulators, programming languages, visualization, and distributed systems.
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Internet Software Vice President / Chief Technical Of cer, Communications Software Group,
Lucent Technologies; Liberty Corner, NJ 1997-1998
Responsible for security appliance business.
Programmer/Analyst, Of ce of Personnel Services, California State University, Los Angeles
1973-1974
Designed and developed a personnel database system.
Applications and Systems Programmer, Computer Center, California State University, Fresno
1969-1972
Developed student grade processing and transcript system.
E D U C AT I O N
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1980; M.S. in Computer
Science, 1977
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA B.S. (with honors) & M.S. in Computer
Science, 1975
ACTIVITIES
Boards and advisory groups: Metaswitch Networks (2011-present), Caltech Information Science
and Technology Council (2012-present), FireEye (2012-present). Previously, served on other
boards, editorial bodies, and program committees. Past adjunct or visiting faculty positions at
Duke, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Z rich), and Stanford.
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