Manager Sales

DAVID BARTON

********@*****.*** 503-***-**** Camas, WA

Leadership Profile

Seasoned technology executive with over 25 years experience building and leading high performing teams that deliver cutting-edge commercial products. Consummate entrepreneur, eager to bring energetic and nimble leadership to longer-term objectives in an established organization. Solid understanding of program-wide leadership challenges from diverse scales and perspectives. Thoughtful and direct collaborator among executive leadership, encouraging ambitious goals -- confident in aggressive and effective execution. Broad and deep technical background that includes machine learning, hybrid-cloud architectures, devops with continuous integration and high-performance global architectures. Amature, tested leader focused on team effectiveness and growth through a culture of aggressive goals, mutual respect, mentoring, and safe accountability. Professional Experience

Founder, CEO, CTO 2003-2016

BARTON LABS

Advanced technology consulting firm of around 15 permanent full-time employees providing contract R&D, operations consulting, program management, and science/technology advisory services. Expertise in algorithms, high performance computing (including GPUs), distributed computing, machine learning, video science and infrastructure and big-data.

Selected Projects:

Fortune 500 Company -- World’s fastest, non-indexed search engine (MPI GPU cluster) that evaluated complex, boolean search expressions on live social media streams in real time.

Fortune 500 Company -- Hybrid (AWS + on-prem-OpenStack) file sharing and workflow deployment control plane for global financial services company with heavy transactional and deployment security. In use by 95% of Fortune 1000 companies.

Fortune 1000 Company -- “Product of the Year 2007” (with trophy!) awarded by internal R&D for a major consumer electronics manufacturer.

Startup -- Healthcare reimbursement data mining system that successfully identified underpayments according to highly complex contract models. Modelling accomplished via web-based, graphical interface with offline processing and notification.

Startup -- Machine vision architecture that identified product branding in consumer generated imagery.

Startup -- “On-Air” in 2012 London Olympics with hybrid cloud/on-prem/mobile media management system. Utilized proprietary, GPU-based compression and military grade, transactional authentication and encryption. Reduced x-Atlantic bandwidth by 80% with no loss in video quality.

Startup -- GPU mezzanine appliance that conditioned video streams for 30% greater compression with no loss of perceived quality.

Selected Skills:

Invited speaker on neural computation and Deep Learning to UAV (drone) industry group (Boeing, UTC Aerospace) with practical experience and theoretical understanding of modern machine learning and deployment (Theono, Caffe, TensorFlow, raw C++/CUDA).

Microservice architectures and security for highly available systems, including encryption, key rotation and message authentication in heterogeneous and hybrid-cloud topologies.

Complex API development including REST and RPC, for public and internal use.

Video and image processing and science, including secure data movement and acceleration, and commercial workflows for video production and distribution.

Python, C++, CUDA, Java, numerous databases (SQL, noSQL), AWS, dev ops tools.

Best practices for Continuous Integration/Deployment, source management and large team logistics

UI design and implementation, including HTML5, Ruby, Javascript and Angular with efficient task partitioning and dataflow for scalability and rapid response. Founder, CEO, CTO 2012-2014

EPOCH, INC.

Spun out of Barton Labs, this virtual media operations startup automatically optimized heterogeneous, global commercial media workflows. Company made it to successful product introduction and early customer trials. Unable to raise B-round due to capital requirements of long, enterprise sales cycles.

Product brochure from NAB 2013: E poch_NAB2013_Brochure

18 regular employees.

Stochastic optimization and Deep Learning in the cloud decided where to process and how to move data in real time using a blend of customer-defined on-prem, mobile and cloud compute and storage resources.

10x+ (often up to 40x) efficiency gain over cloud-only.

Multiscreen UI based on Angular. Python and C++/CUDA backend in AWS. Linux/Win/Mac client software.

Complex, global deployment as easy as DropBox.

VP Technology 1999-2003

HOSTS LEARNING

Hand-built a world-class product development organization in a company that had 2 previous failures in major software product initiatives.

Successfully developed and introduced an award winning Internet based assessment and curriculum alignment product line for educators, based on WebObjects/Java.

Frequent participant and invited speaker for political events including addressing members of the US Congress and White House Cabinet (2002).

Key player in external partnerships and large sales initiatives. Key mentor and trainer for sales force. R&D General Manager 1997-1999

SPLASH TECHNOLOGY

Hand-built and staffed multi-disciplined R&D facility.

Responsible for all facets of product development.

Worked with industry partners, key sales accounts and various functional areas to identify new product opportunities then led execution from conception to market.

Led extensive R&D for advanced imaging algorithms that produced significant commercial advantage, and for commercial software development that encompassed hardware, firmware, Windows and Mac software, Web applications and a number of low level device drivers for various platforms.

Successfully developed and introduced a new software/hardware product line, increasing overall revenue 30% in 12 months.

R&D Manager 1995-1996

INTEL ARCHITECTURE LABS

Managed applied R&D group developing new video compression technology.

Led productization of industry's best video compression.

Principal Microsoft development liaison and program manager for video products. R&D Engineer 1991-1995

HEWLETT PACKARD

Conducted proprietary, collaborative imaging, clustering and signal extraction research with leading universities.

Worked with software, firmware and writing system staff to develop and implement new image enhancement, halftoning and color algorithms. Productized new algorithms in HP's imaging business.

Primary inventor for 5 fundamental patents and numerous trade secrets. Infantry/Combat Engineer 1987-1992

USMC

Active and reserve

Patents

8001236 - M ethods and systems for content-consumption device monitoring and control

8156547, 8341238 - Methods and systems for device-independent portable session synchronization

5313287 - I mposed weight matrix error diffusion halftoning of image data

5526438, 5761325 - Digital halftone rendering of a gray scale image with frequency dependent diagonal correlation

6053609, 5 861896 - C ontrolling ink migration and physical color gamut discontinuities in digital color printing

5929874 - M ethod of minimizing bleeding in printed products Education

Oregon State University - CS/EE

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