Software Engineering Management

Marc LeBrun

Engineering Management

Software Product Development

Technology Innovation

Address: ** ****** **** **. ******, CA 94945

Cell: +1-415-***-****

eMail: *******@**.***

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=12644

website: http://fxpt.com/

Summary:

25+ years delivering effective high-tech leadership: Engineering Management, Software Product Development, Technology Innovation. Start-ups to Fortune-50. Teams of ~30+ (up to ~70+). Reported to C-level in four public companies, work with marketing/sales, product, clients and customers.

Advanced Technology Director: Manage labs, project leaders and brilliant individuals for Autodesk and Adobe in virtual reality, security, media, graphics, signal processing and programming systems; technology transfers, products, publications and patents.

Engineering Manager: Responsible for software development (programming, QA, doc, release, support) products and services at Symbolics, Software Publishing Corp, Electrogig BV, McAfee Associates, Vungle and Sonic Solutions. Social media, discovery, search, algorithms and data services for web site with over 300 million worldwide users for Tagged.com. Managed hardware groups at Symbolics Inc. and Electrogig BV. Experienced Agile methodology practitioner, Certified Scrum Master.

Software Developer, Architect: Write production code in Java, C++, Lisp, assembly and firmware. Also coded in JavaScript, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, PHP and others. Work product deployed from super-computers to PCs, devices, enterprises, high-traffic web sites, RESTful software services (eg LAMP, SQL/noSQL, SaaS) and clouds (Amazon EC2/S3). Domain-driven design, architecture and evolution of complex systems products across multiple releases (Symbolics, Siebel, start-ups).

Scientist, Researcher, Hacker: Staff at top research sites (Stanford, MIT, Xerox PARC). Published in signal processing and math journals (JAES, MAA, CMJ, JIS etc). Trustee of math foundation OEISF.org; my Erdös number is 3. Co-created the original Apple Macintosh and architected and coded the demonstration prototype. Organize Tech Forums, public professional programs, Hackers conferences.

Professional: Worked at all scales from start-ups to Fortune 50. Led teams of ~30+ reports, with site-scale responsibility for larger units (~70+) with international teams (Europe, Asia). Reported to C-level in four public companies (Symbolics, Autodesk, McAfee and Sonic Solutions) plus other CEOs, VPs and General Managers. Enjoy working with marketing, sales, product managers, consulting clients, customers and stakeholders

History:

2015 : Director, Engineering, BackEnd, BandPage Inc, San Francisco, CA

Backend development team in early-stage startup; RESTful APIs, microservices, data content, interfacing with front-end, data science, infrastructure and QA engineering and Product management teams. Refactoring core database-oriented click-and-conversion persistence model into a performant modern streaming lambda architecture on cloud-based Amazon Web Services platforms.

2014 2015: Director, Engineering, Vungle Inc, San Francisco, CA

Reporting to VP, responsible for about 15 ICs in four “core” software engineering teams: Ad Serving cloud/server stack, Mobile Client Developer SDK Apple iOS & Android, Web-based admin & customer dashboard and Data Engineering, Architecture & Infrastructure, interfaces to Data Science, BI reporting subsystems. Modernized Agile development & planning processes, improved unit testing practices, etc.

2012 2014: Engineering Manager, Search & Advanced Data Services, Tagged Inc, San Francisco, CA

Integrated 16 ad hoc stacks into RESTful API Search-as-a-Service platform, for new product development and high-availability (HA) online operations for profitable social-discovery site with 300 million members (comparable to LinkedIn or Google+) generating 500 million search engine transactions per day. Led “big data” elastic, cloud, graph, natural language (NLP), machine learning (ML) & semantic search, algorithms & prototyping for innovative and profitable new Product, Social Discovery, Relevance, Security, Analytics and Quality initiatives.

2010 2012: Director, Principal Consultant, Fixpoint Inc, Larkspur, CA

Consultancy practice delivering advanced software engineering and management services to mature organizations through start-ups. Enterprise deployments and web, business rules systems, OWL/Protégé and semantic web technologies. Client engagements included Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Hoovers (D&B) and start-ups.

2008 2010: Principal Scientist / Manager Advanced Product Development, Adobe Systems Inc, San Francisco & San Jose, CA & Seattle WA & remote

Directed a stellar team of Scientists and Engineers for Dynamic Media (video, audio, web, animation) focused on new product development. Responsible for innovation pipeline, thought leadership, Principal Scientist (top 5% technical track). Next-generation video, audio and animation, from broadcast and motion picture through desktop and consumer. Enterprise-scale and cloud-based media production, broadcasting, image content analysis, search, monetization, media metadata, semantic web, stereoscopic 3D, codecs, software CPU/GPU architectures and advanced programming technologies. Team filed several dozen patents; Oscar and Emmy winners, Internet pioneers and other high-impact talents. Tapped by corporate management to organize Distinguished Speakers programs, Tech Summits, etc.

2007 Senior Scientist-Engineer, Powerset Inc, (acquired by Microsoft) San Francisco CA

Algorithms and tools for massively parallel distributed indexing pipeline for disruptive natural language search engine. Java, JSON, Ruby-on-Rails on Amazon EC2/S3 cloud system, Hadoop, map-reduce, test-driven development (TDD).

2002 2007: Chief Technologist, Consultant, Principal, Fixpoint Inc, Larkspur, CA

& Co-Founder, Adozu Inc, Cambridge, MA

Consultancy delivering advanced software engineering and management services, from mature organizations through start-ups. Java (J2EE) constraint engine for object-oriented business process management in finance, mortgage and insurance and deployments based on commercial business rules, semantic web, configuration and 3D graphics packages. Clients: Resonant Software, Tavant / Ameriquest, Ilog / Network Appliance, start-ups.

Also Co-Founder and Principal in developer of active-RFID based asset-awareness and real-time location systems (RTLS) web and business intelligence services.

1996–2002: Senior Contributor, Software Engineering, Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle) San Mateo, CA

Advanced technology IC "guru"; responsibilities from architecture to hands-on code development (primarily C Originally reported to CTO; pure technology charter (no management) to incorporate AI into Siebel's business software systems. Accomplished a range of assignments as company grew from 100-emloyee pre-IPO start-up to 8000-employee global public company.

1995–1996: Principal, Blue Dot Inc, Novato, CA

Clients included Sonic Solutions Inc (reported to CEO & CTO, responsible for hardware and software development) Protozoa Inc, Asymmetrix Inc and Franz Inc.

1994–1995: Vice-President, R&D, Electrogig BV. San Francisco, Amsterdam & Hong Kong

Reported to CEO, responsible for technical vision and all product & technology development worldwide: from ~$1M list price "virtual set" graphics supercomputer & studio-quality video broadcast systems through 3D graphics & animation products on multiple workstation platforms (SGI, Sun, HP etc) & vertical markets (graphics, CAD, prepress etc).

1993–1994: Director, R&D, Software Publishing Corp. Santa Clara, CA & Madison WI

Reported to VP R&D. Supervised ~35 positions including software engineering, QA & documentation. Overall responsibility for remote site (Madison) coordinate with HQ (Santa Clara), ~70 total employees.

1992–1993: Principal, Xvelope San Rafael, CA

Consultancy specializing in management services, development, multimedia titles patents and emerging technologies. Interim VP R&D for McAfee Associates, reporting to President/COO, responsible for all engineering of US public software company reorganized R&D into functions and product groups; established QA, documentation and technical operations; initiated product management and development processes. Also designed Educational/Creativity Game (target ages 5-11) for SEGA Genesis with Head Games ("Wacky Worlds", released Fall '94).

1990–1992: Director, Advanced Technology, Autodesk Inc Sausalito, CA

Reported to President/CEO. Supervised ~30 positions, including software designers, developers test & documention engineers, product and business managers, marketing and telesales, academic interns, professional and strategic services staff. Annual budget US $3M. Actuals managed within 1%. Deliverables included: secure object-oriented functional programming “Trusty Scheme” authoring system for multimedia/; sophisticated “Virtual Reality” C++ class library (~600pp documentation, drafted product plan, covering features, marketing, pricing, channels, support 3rd-party program etc.); shrink-wrap Retail Educational Software titles (including marketing, advertising, telesales, P&L exceeded revenue targets by >50%); managed corporate technical library, print and media collections and online services, Technical Forums and other programs; strategic planning: developed future technology scenarios (Global Business Network methodology), developed demonstration prototypes of new products.

Prior Experience (details on request):

Symbolics Graphics Division, Los Angeles CA

Symbolics Inc., Palo Alto, CA & Cambridge MA

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA

Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Dymax Inc. / People’s Computer Company, Menlo Park, CA

Publications:

“Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10”

in College Mathematics Journal, Mathematical Association of America, 2013

“Dismal Arithmetic”

in Journal of Integer Sequences, University of Waterloo, 2011

“Descending Dungeons and Iterated Base-Changing”

in The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order / Springer 2009

“Digital Waveshaping Synthesis”

in Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 1979

“Notes on Microcomputer Music”,

“A Derivation of the Spectrum of FM with a Complex Modulating Wave”

in Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, 1977

Editor, reviewer, writer, regular contributor:

Dr. Dobbs' Journal, CoEvolution Quarterly, People's Computer Company Magazine etc.

Other accomplishments:

Co-created the original Apple Macintosh (with Jef Raskin, Brian Howard and Burrell Smith). Researching, designing the software architecture and coding for the demonstration prototype.

Co-conspirator (steering committee 2010-2011) for first and still-ongoing “Hackers Conference”, (invitation only) CA.

Trustee, Associate Editor, The OEIS Foundation Inc (oeisf.org), Highland Park, NJ

Visiting Scholar, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University

Received Mathematical Association of America’s 2013 George Polya Award (with co-authors David Applegate and Neil Sloane)

Certified SCRUM Master

Professional Affiliations:

American Mathematical Society (Life Member)

Mathematical Association of America

IEEE Computer Society, San Francisco chapter (co-founder, first Program Committee)

ACM Ventura Chapter (co-founder, first Programs Chair)

AAAI, SofTECH, SDForum, North Bay Multimedia Association, etc

Avocations:

Concrete mathematics (sequences, algorithms, foundations of computation, symbolic, declarative & constraint systems, programming languages, software engineering), natural sciences (chemistry, physics, biology, paleontology), philosophy, arts (literature, music, painting, concrete & visual media), games, cooking, gardening, travel.

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