Strafford Wentworth 15380 Kittridge Rd Saratoga, CA 95070 408-741-0317 straff@straff.com

Objective
I am looking for a senior leadership opportunity in a small or large company in one of the following software engineering areas: Analytics, Mobile, System Software or SaaS.

Qualifications
I am a technically strong, organizationally visible and effective manager with strong leadership skills that engender team loyalty, passion and dedication. My leadership style is built on a foundation of open communication, honesty, integrity and an understanding of individual differences. I have a proven track record of creating organizational cultures that are high caliber, results oriented, committed to excellence and always cognizant of the ultimate importance of internal and external customer satisfaction.

I have created teams from scratch, lead medium sized multi-site organizations through growth and change, developed a wide array of software products and services, established and managed relationships with 3’rd parties and enabled technology acquisitions.

Accomplishments

• Developed a data warehouse capable of processing a daily input volume of 20B.
• Developed a mobile enterprise unified communications product portfolio.
• Developed a mobile email+ client that is rebranded and sold by carriers globally.
• Transformed a DRM startup vision into a SaaS company, enabling it to be acquired.
• Developed 2 production quality Unix-like operating systems.
• Brought multiple Unix workstations to market, normally responsible for OS engineering.
• Responsible for the development of a Unix server line, scaling to over 2,000 CPUs.

Technology

• Data Warehouse: Custom ETL, Oracle 11g, RAC/Exadata and SAP Business Objects.
• Mobile: Brew, Symbian, J2ME, BlackBerry, Windows, Palm, Web, WAP, and iPhone.
• SaaS: MySQL, MS SQL Server, Apache, JSF, Ajax, REST, XML and Portlets.
• Operating Systems: Unix, FreeBSD, Linux and Microsoft Server.
• Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python and Ruby.

EXPERIENCE

Openwave Systems June 09 to March 11
Director of Engineering, Mobile Analytics

Openwave delivers products and services to mobile carriers around the globe.

• Developed a high performance mobile analytic product, capable of processing an input volume of 20 Billion transactions per day and providing ad-hoc and standard reports on a data warehouse sized up to 50 TB.
• Enabled mobile carriers to analyze a variety of conditions, such as: data usage patterns, subscriber usage patterns and marketing campaigns.
• Managed the 75+ person multi-site, multi-country development and delivery team.
• Filed two patents.
  
  

Traverse Networks / Avaya October 05 to August 08
Director of Unified Communication and Mobile Clients

Avaya provides enterprise unified communication and contact center products.

• Designed and brought to market the Avaya one-X Mobile client product portfolio.     
• Staffed and managed the mobile client organization, responsible for the development of one-X Mobile clients for: Web, WAP, iPhone, J2ME, Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry environments.
• one-X Unified Communication Product information:
• The Avaya one-X Mobile client allows smart and feature phones to act as your desk phone, allowing office calls to be made and received transparently while presenting your office phone number call identity.
• Flash Demo of product features (iPhone): http://www1.avaya.com/campaign/demo/iphone/index.html

SEVEN April 03 to July 05
Senior Director of Engineering

SEVEN builds a white label email and enterprise communication client that is rebranded and sold by the majority of phone carriers around the globe (see www.seven.com)

• Responsible for the feature set, GUI and development of SEVEN's mobile applications.
• Managed the client engineering organization, responsible for the development of mobile clients for: J2ME, Brew, Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile (Pocket PC / Smart Phone).
• Created a cross operating system application environment that allowed software to be easily ported from one phone environment to another.
• Created a custom client API and business structure that enabled 3'rd parties to create a variety of integrated products with System SEVEN.
• Improved organizational structure, engineering process and project execution.

Independent Consultant April 02 to April 03

• Patent and intellectual property consultant.
• Real time, wireless networking, micro-code development.

PublishOne / InterTrust Technologies July 99 to September 01
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations

PublishOne delivered a SaaS Digital Rights Management (DRM) product that enabled authors, publishing houses and consumers to respectively create, distribute and purchase documents. The PublishOne Service allowed authors and publishing houses to specify pricing and distribution rules and enabled consumers to use and their DRM content across multiple personal machines.

• Turned a startup vision into a company with a viable product.
• Staffed the engineering and operations departments from the ground up.
• Created the world’s first DRM digital publishing 7x24 web service.
• Successfully released service, achieving a 70% adoption rate from pilot accounts.
• Sold operational concern and transitioned team to InterTrust Technologies.
• Responsible for next generation products for InterTrust Technologies.
  

Silicon Graphics October 97 to April 99
Director of Engineering, Principal IRIX Operating System Development

SGI developed, manufactured and sold high performance UNIX graphic workstations and servers scaling up to over 2,000 processors.

• Managed the principal Operating System team of a 100+ system software engineers and architects in Mt View and Cray Research Park.
• Responsible for the platform independent OS and the high-end server platforms (32+ CPUs).
• Budget responsibility of 20 million, supporting revenue objectives of $1.5 Billion.
• Managed multiple all-platform system software releases.
• Implemented project management, project tracking and product lifecycle processes.
  

Silicon Graphics January 93 to October 97
Consultant, Engineering Manager

SGI’s Media Division developed, manufactured and sold SGI’s level graphics workstation.

• Managed the software portion of a $10M Adobe, Canon and SGI project.
• Managed the development of Adobe products for SGI platforms.
• Managed a variety of enterprise software products (digital camera, printing, etc).
• Developed and released the world’s first Web-based Color Management system.

Kubota Pacific September 90 to January 93
Director of Engineering

This company existed under various names: Dana, Ardent, Stardent and Kubota Pacific. It developed, manufactured and sold high-end multiprocessor workstations, providing super computer class floating point and 3D graphics performance.

• Key member of Kubota Pacific re-start team: developed mission, secured funding, and grew company to 180 people.
• Managed business relationship between Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) and Kubota.
• Managed operating system, application, graphics and software release teams.
• Developed and released the next generation 3D computational graphics workstation.

Engineering Options June 87 to September 90
Founder and President

Engineering Options was a technical consulting company.

• Provided UNIX kernel technical consulting for Ridge, MIPS, Stardent and SGI.
• Key development member of one of the world’s first multiprocessor UNIX systems.
• Provided managerial consulting to companies and venture funding firms.

AIT April 86 to June 87
Software Engineer and Manager

AIT developed a CPU and micro-code environment that allowed a single CPU to run different and unique instruction sets, such as Motorola M6800, Intel x86 and Tron.

• Part of the micro-development team that enabled concurrent OS’s on the M640.
• Lead the development of a virtual OS support for Windows. The demo of this prototype secured additional venture funding.
• Lead the rollout of standard the project management practices across engineering.

Ridge Computers April 83 to April 86
Software Engineer and Operating System Manager

Ridge developed, manufactured and sold a high performance UNIX workstation. The Ridge product was a price / performance leader for multiple years in the early times of the UNIX workstation market. The operating system ROS used an advanced micro-kernel design, provided a paging virtual memory environment and a fast and stable extent-based file system.

• A key member of the ROS design and implementation team.
• Managed the Operating System Group.

Valid Logic Systems January 82 to April 83
Software Engineer

Valid Logic was one of the 3 founding companies of the Electronic CAD market. Valid Logic later merged with Cadence.

• Joined as employee #12, when the company was in the concept stage.
• Implemented one of the world’s first ports of UNIX to Motorola 68K processor.
• Developed numerous drivers: Ethernet, disk, tape, parallel, etc.
• Designed and implemented a distributed file system prior to the existence of NFS.

Ford Aerospace, January 77 to January 82
Software Engineer and Manager

Ford Aerospace developed software and systems for the US Defense Department.

• Key member of 2 DOD sponsored secure UNIX development teams.
• Designed and implemented HDL, a program design language.
  

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts – Computer Science – University of California Berkeley 1976
Bachelor of Arts – Psychology – University of California, Berkeley 1976

Numerous Management Training Courses

REFERENCES

Personal and Professional references are available upon request