EDUCATION:   B.A. Physics, Northeastern University.  Minor in Mathematics.  Four years co-op experience at MIT Synchrotron Laboratory.

                               Post graduate studies in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

LICENSURE:   Massachusetts DESE License #471440, Mathematics 8-12, Preliminary, issued October 8, 2013

EXPERIENCE (Academic):

Sandwich High School, East Sandwich, MA                                                                                                              September 2014 to Present

Mathematics Teacher

Courses include Calculus, Statistics, Sports Statistics, Algebra II, and MCAS Prep.

Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School, MA                                               April 2013 to Present

Substitute Teacher

Providing ongoing substitute teaching services in Mathematics, Science, English, and History.

Hesser College, Manchester, NH                                                                                                                                 September 1978 to December 1980

Adjunct Professor

While working full-time, taught two-semester evening course on machine and assembler language programming for Digital Equipment Corporation mini-computers and COBOL programming on IBM mini-computers.

EXPERIENCE (Author):

The Portuguese in Falmouth: 1870 to 1920, Spritsail Magazine, Winter 2013 edition.  A fourteen-page article based on historical documents and oral histories.

Sopas, A brief history of Portuguese islanders, the Cape Cod town of Falmouth, and the Feast of the Holy Ghost, Amerazor Publishing, 2012.  Why Azoreans and Cape Verdeans left their islands, the conditions that attracted them to Falmouth in sufficient numbers to become a third of the town’s population, and an eight centuries old religious folk tradition widely celebrated in southeastern New England.

Texas Hold’em Proverbs, Amerazor Publishing, 2011.  A brief (179 page) simplified approach to competitive hold’em based on actionable probability guidelines based on real-world statistics, positional betting, and 40 proverbs.  Includes a thirty page summary of a 45 player tournament showing each hand, with author’s notes on key situations.

EXPERIENCE (Small Business):

Bobcat of Cape Cod, Inc. Bourne, MA                                                                                              June 2002 to December 2009

Consultant        (6/2002 to 3/2005)

Owner              (3/2005 to 12/2009)

Grew business from $4.5 million to $7 million in three years, increasing employees from 11 to 14. Reorganized sales, service, and back office.  Changed inventory from order to purchase basis.  Increased rentals.  While market size decreased 43% in three years, and another 60% in the fourth, gradually dominated the market with share greater than #2 and #3 combined.  Sold business to Bobcat of Boston.

EXPERIENCE (High Tech)

Gerber Scientific Products, Inc.  South Windsor, CT     (www.gspinc.com)                    August 1998 to May 2002

Director of Software Engineering

Recruited by President of GSP as a direct report to produce PC and Macintosh CAD/CAM software for proprietary mass customization manufacturing system products, and firmware for imaging and motion control devices.  See www.gspinc.com.  Managed software development, firmware development, software test, and technical communications in developing products for sale worldwide.

·       Introduced tools, processes, and metrics to shepherd highly defective product in the field to stability and profitability, with leveraged sales exceeding $40 million annually.

·       Using new development process, developed new software application on budget and ahead of schedule to penetrate new market (See Gerber Sector at www.gerberinnovations.com).

·       Ported products to full 32-bit environment with major GUI improvements consistent with prevailing standards.  Expanded platforms to Windows XP, 2000, NT, Windows ME, and OS X. 

MEI, Inc.  Spokane, WA                                                                                                                          October 1995 to July 1998

President and COO                                                                   October 1997 to July 1998

·       Established six consecutive months of profitability after years of red ink.  Reduced run rate 55%.

·       Recruited a new sales team and emphasized marketing role in providing sales tools.  Personally visited key accounts to overcome previous problems generating increased good will as reflected by contract renewals (at higher rates) and new sales.

·       Reinvigorated legacy products by adding functionality to leverage customer investment, resolving the Y2K problem, and migration to new environments.

·       Broadened market by unbundling primary product to set of software packages, services, and hardware more appealing to Tier 1 accounts at a lower price point also attractive to Tier 2 and Tier 3.

Vice President of Engineering and Operations                             October 1995 to September 1997

Responsible for all aspects of engineering and technical operations, from initial analysis through customer support, of MEI’s retail industry products.

·       Directed $2.4 million government development and integration subcontract through acceptance and initial installations, including credit and check authorization with major financial institutions over TCP/IP network, with expected follow-on revenues of $3 million.

·       Cut product development cycle by 50% through methodology and development environment improvements.  Decreased installation costs 80% by developing remote electronic delivery.  Stabilized existing product base as measured by 68% reduction in customer support calls while expanding installed base 53%.

·       Expanded product technology base from single processor “spoke and hub” to three-tier distributed client/server SMP data warehouse with intranet access, including development of transaction-based data pump providing WAN efficiencies not available with existing replication engines.  Transitioned staff and source code base from Unix-based C/COBOL to Windows, NT, and Unix-based C/C++, PowerBuilder, and Microstrategies DSS.  Delivered higher quality new products in ten months, including learning curve, while achieving five times the national productivity average.

Itron, Inc., Spokane, WA   (www.itron.com)                                                                                      December 1992 to September 1995

Director of Engineering

Full responsibilty for development and engineering support of all Itron meter reading and field service systems for electric, gas, and water utilities.  Reported to Vice President of engineering.  Budgets ranged from $8 to $11.5 million.

·       Personally directed creation of new development environment and new products based on object-oriented technology.  Worked closely with engineering leads to architect an object-oriented client/server host processor implementation configurable on single or multiple hybrid platforms.  Directed implementation of internal development (business objects, GUI) and integration of third party libraries/tools/development (Open Client, SQL Objects, tools.h, SQR, Power++, XVT Portability Toolkit, framework library). Redesigned primary hand held meter reading application to provide new object library featuring user programmability and dynamic replacement transparent to the application; library is currently in use within other Itron engineering organizations worldwide.  Integrated third party tool (Vermont Views) to accelerate customization.  First customer, currently in live operation, is based on Sun platforms running Solaris.  Second customer, now in Beta, is based on Windows clients and Unix (HP) servers.

·       Extended existing product lines, based largely on proprietary Forth programmed hand held computers and PC/DOS flat-file host processors tied to customer IS systems.  Successfully introduced Itron’s first OMR (RF technology) release within accelerated development schedule.  Identified, renegotiated requirements, and worked closely with engineers to develop a new approach to upgrading older systems, enabling over $10 million in upgrade sales twelve months sooner than expected, while reducing development costs 75%.  Delivered new custom project within six months as extension to existing system, retaining a major customer valued at over $10 million in sales.

·       Improved software release quality by introducing software configuration management and developing automated test systems.  Launched cross-functional sustaining operating group to improve customer satisfaction and reduce support costs.  Service margins improved from a loss situation to over 50%, with software service margins approaching 80%.

·       Project management of multiple-site new technology project leading to $3.5 million in revenue in 1993 and an anticipated $12 million in 1994, plus additional orders of over $27 million in 1994.

NBI Inc., Boulder, CO                                                                                                                               July 1991 to June 1992

Vice President of Engineering

Full development and support responsibility for this international supplier of Windows word processors with superior desktop publishing functionality.

·       Recovered slippage for major release providing critical revenue generation during reorganization.

·       Formulated/negotiated key portions of major licensing agreement, increasing royalties from $150,000 to $400,000 with $50,000 prepaid.

·       Achieved software productivity of 18 kLOSC/yr (thousand lines of source code per year; national average is 7.4) despite high turnover.

·       Reduced per customer support costs by 40% by introducing quality processes and metrics.  Increased development staff by 50% within original budget by reducing overhead expense.

QUEST COMPUTER SYSTEMS, Inc., Boulder, CO                                                                           June 1990 to June 1991

Vice President of Engineering

A founding officer with full engineering responsibility for a startup funded by a private venture capital group.

·       Led conception, design, and development of (1) a self contained GUI optimized notebook with unparalleled modularity and communications and (2) unique software providing a mobile proactive office environment.  In 3 months, completed the design of a state of the art 20MHz/386SL notebook computer including all schematics, parts lists, mechanical and tooling drawings.

·       Conducted on-site technical reviews, and provided subsequent business assessment, of Eastern European technologies in imaging systems, holographic interferometry, fingerprint identification, software quality measurement, international trading, and textile CIMs.

·       Conducted technical discussions in Moscow with ParaGraph,  a Soviet-American joint venture.  Identified unprofitable products/technologies and areas of focus.  Prescribed rearchitecting the primary product and restructuring the organization; ParaGraph subsequently licensed this technology to Apple.

DAISY/CADNETIX Inc., Boulder, CO                                                                                                   June 1987 to June 1990

Interesting (dated) video on one of one of Dazix’s products: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i9tl7gz3hY&feature=youtu.be

Vice President of Engineering     (11/88 to 6/90)

Full responsibility to direct a 350 person, $25 million budget hardware/software engineering organization providing products for the electronic design automation industry.

·       Developed and supported products generating over $150 million in annual sales.  Introduced leading edge VHDL simulation package with interchangeable text and graphic representations.  Introduced the first integrated transmission line package.

·       Produced initial integrated open standard products fifteen months after the merger on Unix and Windows software and Intel, Motorola, and SPARC architectures.

·       Reduced development cost by $700,000 by qualifying project for Bird-F funding.

·       Achieved porting rate exceeding 400 kLOSC/yr by developing special porting tools, establishing a canonical binary standard, and redefining application layering.  Eliminated non-standard languages.

Vice President of Software Engineering, CADNETIX CORP.        (6/87 to 11/88)

·       Ported all products to open hardware/software (Unix/Sun/PC) within seven months of arrival, leading to revenue growth from $35 million to $64 million in 18 months, with 54% margins.

·       Extended product life by adding non-engine routing, radial component placement, analog simulation, behavioral modelling, flex-field routing, and CAD macros.  Introduced fundamental unit of measurement yielding true English or metric placement with sub-mil accuracy, leading directly to first sale in Japan.  Introduced PC/NFS products.

·       In fifteen months, improved product quality from where user groups recommended "no further purchases" to the highest user satisfaction rating in the industry (72% versus nearest competitor at 49%), as reported by Dataquest in November 1988.  Reduced software receivables by over 90%.

·       To meet corporate goals and objectives, grew organization from 112 to 160 (42%) while providing products to support sales increase of over 83%.

·       Improved predictability of engineering deliverables by introducing software configuration management and project management techniques.

ATEX, Inc. (A Kodak Company), Bedford, MA                                                                                     January 1985 to May 1987

Reference: wiki article on Atex

Vice President of Product Development    (1/86 to 5/87)

Full responsibility for technical management and direction of a 110 person $8.4 million organization developing and maintaining systems products for the newspaper, magazine, and legal markets.  Technical liaison to Eastman Kodak, including MCC and the Kodak Research Labs.  Reported to President/CEO.  Member of Operating Committee.  Chaired, on rotating basis, contract fulfillment meetings.

·       Launched a series of new products based on PCs,  Sun workstations, AT&T fault tolerant engines (3B15, Apache), and state of the art networking on schedule and within budget.

·       Defined, with senior managers, a project strategy maximizing return on existing products while introducing new products and preserving the investment of the installed base.

·       Successfully lobbied Sun Microsystems for new low cost monochrome workstation (Sun 3/125G)

·       Demonstrated prototypes for Architect (AI based page dummying) and Page Production Node (innovative database product using centralized context control with fully distributed content).  First public demonstration of UNITS (now Tuxedo) and NFS running concurrently on a UNIX 5.2 engine (DRUPA, May 1986).

·       Introduced Unix based Display Ad terminal in June 1986

Director of Software Engineering            (1/85 to 12/85)

Reported to Vice President of Software Development.  Directed System Software, Editorial Products, Classified Products, and Pagination Product departments.

·       Refocused organization from 125 projects over 6-9 months to 16 projects over 18-24 months.

·       Introduced Integrated Advertising System (IAS) and Motorola 68000 based News Layout and Classified Pagination products.

·       Reduced workforce by 15% with no serious impact to ongoing programs

COMPUTER CONSOLES, Inc., Rochester, NY                                                                                    January 1981 to January 1985

Reference: wiki article on CCI

Director of Development             (6/83 to 1/85)

Full responsibility for a 125 person $6.3 million organization developing and supporting high performance fault tolerant systems to the telephone industry.

·       Delivered products contributing 115% of corporate earnings while rapidly expanding product lines

·       Wrote technical proposal and completed $35 million development contract from proposal through initial install, leading to over $50 million in follow on orders and total profits exceeding $30 million.

·       Successfully completed development and installation of the first 911 Emergency Auto Dispatch System in the United states (Monroe County).

·       Provided new product (CNA) with $14M potential at total development cost of under three (3) staff months utilizing existing hardware and software.

·       Relocated entire development organization to new location with minimal schedule disruption.

·       Proposed and developed prototype for real-time database for MCI switching system.

·       Increased staffing by over 30% within six months to accommodate corporate reorganization and new business plans.

Director of Systems Development and Architecture            (11/82 to 6/83)

·       Developed a distributed fault tolerant operating system (with UNIX system calls) optimized for on-line transaction processing applications

·       Defined a fault tolerant architecture machine, from board through network level.

·       Eliminated subassembly redundancies and combined product lines, reducing inventory expense and increasing manufacturing responsiveness.

·       Specified, selected vendor, negotiated contract, and integrated 3270 bisync in six months

Manager of Systems Engineering                        (1/81 to 10/82)

·       Brought major project from chaos (with minimal one year slip) to initial delivery in five months, ultimately generating $15 million in revenue.

·       Developed specification for first audio response product in the telephony industry.  Directed phoneme definition and generation.

Hendrix Electronics, Manchester NH                                                                                                  May 1978 to January 1981

Group Manager   (5/79 to 1/81)

This position was established to create a family of product lines from conceptualization through production.

·       Led and managed the completion of the functional specifications for initial product introduction.  Led development of and gave pivotal new product presentation to operating committee.  Developed general hardware/software life cycle models, project perts, and staffing requirements.

·       Sole engineering representative on corporate task force that defined product strategies and products required to meet five year corporate objectives.  Chaired software steering committee which provided feedback to task force, defined software tools, and defined development environment.

·       Member of GCCA GenCode standards committee, the group that provided industry input to ANSI X3J4 and X4A12 committees developing standards for office automation and publishing..  Personally authored fourth draft of GenCode standard, which evolved into SGML and then HTML.

Group Manager   (1/79 to 5/79)

Managed the 6500/3400 application groups, the Classified III development group, and the composition group.  Established requirements and schedules for all groups. Handled numerous RFQs and customer requests.  Developed plans for major conversions at customer sites in full production.

Group Leader  (5/78 to 12/78)

Led the programming team responsible for the development, customization, and modification of existing software to meet customer requirements.  Installations typically consisted of three networked systems each compromised of 3-5 tightly coupled minicomputers.  Specified, directed, and monitored design and implementation of customization and modification tasks.  With marketing, defined customer requirements, determined configurations, and produced specifications.

Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, NH                                                                                       January 1977 to April 1978

Reference: wiki article on DEC

Project Leader

Coordinated outside contractors and project programmers to complete a demonstration package; personally designed and implemented parts of the package and supervised all other tasks.

Developed project plan including functionality definition, task breakdown, task estimates, manpower requirements, schedules, milestones, and contingency plans.  Interfaced with internal operating groups to define (marketing) and support (quality assurance, performance measurement, documentation) the project.  Resolved internal support issues relative to standard products.  Identified product deficiencies in demonstration package and directed performance measurement effort resulting in decision to abandon current operating system.  Surveyed all DEC standard operating systems for suitable replacement recommending another after verifying with additional performance analysis and measurement.  Analyzed customer database specifications, updated to correspond with actual data received, and authored conversion specification.  Directed and monitored conversion, database, and application implementation.

Hendrix Electronics, Manchester, NH                                                                                               August 1974 to January 1977

Senior Programmer Analyst

Assigned to the database manager project; the node processor in a tightly-cou

pled multiprocessor system with intersystem communication capabilities.  Overall responsibility for the redesign of the database manager.

Coordinated and scheduled other programmers on project (five), personally designed critical modules, consulted on and monitored others.  Coauthored functional specification for first installation of this system.  Introduced, taught, and implemented structured programming and associated methodologies.

Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH                                                                                      June 68 to August 1974

Reference: wiki article on Sanders Associates

Chief Programmer  (12/73 - 8/74)

Directed JETS software efforts for test and diagnostic package for digital display subsystem of real-time air traffic control system. Reported to Chief Engineer.

Successfully completed development on schedule despite eleven (11) week hardware slip during fourteen (14) week integration schedule.  Personally designed and implemented all critical modules. including the executive; supervised all development.  Resolved all hardware/software tradeoffs and interface problems.

Software Engineer  (10/70 - 3/74)

One of three principal software engineers responsible for the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of DATACORTS, a real-time automated shipboard command and control system.

Researched requirements, specified, designed, and developed software for: automatic and semi-automatic reaction systems (gun, missile, EW systems); manned decision units (Evaluator's console, WLO interface, etc.); simulations, both batch (LINK-14) and real-time (CHAFFROC Mk28); lexical scanning of LINK-14 data; and peripheral and intercomputer test programs.  Provided field support in all phases of field integration.

Programmer Analyst  (7/68-9/70)

Developed and implemented programs for engineering applications as well as business systems that were basically mathematical in nature.  Engineering programs included antenna analysis, antenna generation, microwave circuit analysis, and automatic error checker for numerical control programs.  Business systems included direct labor forecasting, marketing analysis, and inventory control.  Developed numerous JCL templates.  In April of 1969 became lead programmer for the Microwave Division and shortly thereafter assumed technical and project supervision of the programming staff.

Electrical Engineer  (6/68 to 7/68)

Originally hired as electrical engineer and assigned to antenna analysis and design.  Developed three dimensional log periodic antenna generation software, complete from design through digitized plots for photo etch.  Transferred at corporate request to Microwave Division Computer Systems Group.

OTHER:     Coach, Cape Cod Startup Weekend.  See http://capecod.startupweekend.org/ , March 2013 to Present

                       Recording Secretary, Portuguese American Association of Falmouth, 2011-2013,

                        Sopas chef, Fresh Pond Holy Ghost Society, East Falmouth, 2009 - Present.