Manager Sales
Resume:
PAUL WENSLEY HALF MOON BAY, CA 94019
****@***********.***
OBJECT I V E
Seeking an interesting program or product management position, either technical or
Skills
business, that incorporates technical competency with business processes.
Product Planning
and Strategy
S UM MARY
Software
An executive with over 25+ years of experience in leading and coordinating teams in Development
designing, developing, and deploying state-of-the-art products on mobile phones,
Mobile
W indows and Apple computers.
Application
Experienced in international product development and support, including all Development
budgeting, finance and strategy. Ran successful go-to-market programs for device and
Program
software products. M anagement
Adept at evaluating emerging technologies, developing practical applications of
Budgeting and
technology, creating and implementing patent strategies and executing successful F inance
p roduct creation. Knowledgeable in mobile and web technologies, as well has Windows
I nternational
and Macintosh application environments.
Patents
Solid, reliable, conscientious in both technical and business arenas. Highly
experienced in international aspects of product development and deployment. Strategic
A lliances
i Phone / iPad
E DUCAT IO N
Android
Windows Phone
Computer Science, Master of Science
Web development
University of California, Berkeley
Regents Fellow Cloud Computing
Specialization in Computer Graphics
Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Berkeley
H ighest Distinction in Scholarship
EXPER I ENCE
M icrosoft, Sunnyvale, California 2014 –
P resent
Senior Manager, Program Management
Senior Program manager for Developer Relations working with the Lumia Windows
Phone and Windows. Continued work after acquisition of Nokia by M icrosoft.
Nokia, Sunnyvale, California 2011 –
2014
Senior Manager, Program Management
Program manager for the Nokia Windows Phone developer marketplace. Responsible
for coordinating, communicating and reporting on all activities for the Nokia Windows
Phone developer ecosystem. Coordinate multiple international teams to ensure
p roduct releases are synchronized between engineering, marketing, adoption and
support. Work closely with Microsoft on issues related to the Nokia’s Windows Phone
developer offering.
Enthuse I nc., San Francisco, California 2009 – 2011
Founder and CTO
Created a company to focus on event applications for iPhone, Android and other smart
p hones. Target customers include sporting, music and cultural event organizers.
Developed ini tial concepts, software design and system, initial customer targets.
Developed architecture and all programming on iPhone, Android, web based backend
(AWS), including database, Java and client HTM L and Javascript.
Apeer, Inc., San Francisco, California 2005 – 2009
Founder and CTO
One of three founders of an innovative software platform for mobile phones (Windows
Mobile and iPhones), PCs and Macintosh computers targeted for rapid collaboration
and sharing for the enterprise.
Developed concepts, architecture and initial programming on Treo 650 phones and
W indows computers
Recruited and managed a team of developers, QA and product management staff in
San Francisco and Barcelona, Spain.
TerraGrafica, Inc. and ABIS, Inc., San Francisco, California 2002 –2005
Executive Vice President
The senior level executive for a software development division of a large Japanese
corporation.
Responsible for all daily operations, product strategy, finances, recruitment and
execution.
M anaged a team of ten programmers, QA and product management in San Francisco.
Identify product requirements and turn them into successful products to be sold
i nternationally.
Be the main contact and coordinator for all communications with Japan for product
creation.
Xippix, Inc., San Rafael, California 1999 –2002
Executive Vice President
Created start-up software development company addressing the needs of In ternet
users who use very high quality images.
Integral to all aspects of the company, including successful venture capital financing,
p roduct design and implementation, support, sales and operations.
Led the engineering, product marketing, IT and sales engineering departments.
Created and mentored 25 person software development organization building
enterprise class software.
Direct responsibility for international product co-development, internationalization
issues, and development teams in several locations.
Created budgets, proposals and designs to bring products to completion in expected
and accepted t imeframes.
Strategic customers include The Weather Channel, Sothebys, Hunter Douglas, Quark,
space.com and Sony.
Island Graphics Corporation, L arkspur, California 1993 –1999
Executive Vice President
Responsible for all aspects of a 35 person software engineering company creating and
i ntegrating Internet imaging server software.
Developed high performance graphics software for Island’s Japanese parent company
and OEM customers such as Sony and Quark.
Key to the relationship with the Japanese parent company, including all aspects of the
technology and product creation and design.
Created a software engineering office in Tallinn, Estonia with approximately 10
engineers. Managed and supported the Estonian office.
Successfully created many products and technologies for OEM and direct sales.
Active member of Island’s Board of Directors.
Island Graphics Corporation, L arkspur, California 1989 –1993
Vice President of Engineering
Responsible for all engineering, quality assurance, technical support and sales
engineering for Island’s Office Products division.
Created dozens of Unix-based software products, including word processors, design
p rograms, Paint programs etc. for both direct sales and OEM customers. This involved
m ultiple concurrent development teams, in California and Amsterdam, creating
p roducts and solutions for several products. At peak, averaged a product release a
week.
Managed 10 support personnel with 18 hour per day telephone, email and in-field
support.
Responsible for approximately 100 engineers and support personnel.
Co-created development and support office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Creator of several software patents applications.
Helped with the spin-off and sale of the Office Products Division.
Island Graphics Corporation, L arkspur, California 1987 –1989
Project Manager
Managed graphics software development projects for OEM customers, including Sun
M icrosystems, Berthold, Kodak, Sony and others.
Set up and instigated policies and procedures for software development in the
company.
Programmed large portions of the software applications on PC and Unix.
P UBL ICAT IO NS
“Hidden Feature Elimination and Visible Polygon Return”, IEEE Computer Graphics
and Applications.
“Method and system using non-uniform image blocks for rapid interactive viewing of
d igital images over a network”, U.S. Patent provisional filing.
“System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Concurrent Collaboration of
Media”. U.S. Patent provisional filing.
“System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Tracking Digital Media in
Collaborative Environments”. U.S. Patent provisional filing.
“System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Managing Rights of Media in
Collaborative Environments”. U.S. Patent provisional filing.
AWARDS
Nokia "Recognizing You" award
Nokia
January 2014
Nokia "Recognizing You" Award
Nokia
January 2013
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