- Experienced and innovative manager of international development efforts with highly developed communication, project management, and business skills.

- Exceptional ability to architect macro level solutions that take full advantage of each unique environment.

- High personal integrity with the ability to relate to, and create trust in all.

- Highly articulate, confident, and persuasive team-builder, able to motivate and communicate to achieve exemplary business performance.

- Dependable and reliable in supporting and enabling team effort to produce short-term gains as well as long-term sustainable successes.

- Persistent and flexible approach to the mutually beneficial achievement of business objectives and goals of the individual teams.

- Multi-lingual: Fluent in English and Portuguese, familiar with Spanish and French.

- Over 17 years of proven expertise in software development implementation and management, IT service and support, and strategic business operations.

- Background in a wide range of industries including Bio Technology, Telecommunications, Software Development, Financial, Manufacturing, and Electronic Design Automation.

- Responsible for optimizing software development and improving management processes to decrease resource reliance and time waste while increasing product quality.

- Agent of change within the demanding and pressurized international business environment.

- Implementation of modern management practices, concerning personnel, IT, reporting systems, and partnership customer-supplier relations.

- Numerous years of international management experience in Europe and South America.

- As the engineering development lead for EMC in a new purposed acquisition. I spent 3 years coaching, driving, and evaluating a targeted organization for acquisition. I had direct accountability to a joint Executive Board from the targeted organization and EMC which consisted of members of the Board of Directors from both companies.

- As head of Information Technology, I was responsible for strategic oversight of all of XanGo technological needs, including IT operations, support, internal process automation, and my team developed the next generation of order entry, CRM, order fulfillment, commissions and distributor management systems.

- As Chairman of multiple working groups in the Global Grid Forum I have brought together people from all over the global together to deliver standards that are now being used throughout the Grid Technology community.

- As Chief Architect of Grid Strategies with Cadence Design Systems, I introduced tools and processes that reduced automated build and test system cycles by 60%. This resulted in a company-wide saving of over $15 million in hard costs, $30 million in soft costs, and over 500,000 man hours.

- As Sr. Configuration Manager with Cadence Design Systems, I developed and deployed a common software build and test system which was deployed over 10 international locations, saving over 10% in software development cycle times.

- As Sr. Process Manager with Lucent Technologies, I managed tool integration team that developed a build and test system that reduced the software build and test cycle from 12 days to 2 days.

- As CTO of Qoses Inc. I have published over 50 articles, 2 books, spoken at more than 15 conferences, and consulted with several fortune 500 companies on software development best practices.

- As a contributor to the international standards community, I have contributed to the UML standard from the OMG, have been a primary contributor to the NPi standards organization, and been chair of three different groups in the Global Grid Forum (NPI-WG, JSDL-WG, and Policy-RG). I also contribute as a member of the Grid Marketing Awareness Council (GMAC).

2006-Present EMC, Hopkinton, MA

Director of Engineering

- Directed the Engineering efforts of teams in USA (Boston, Chicago, Little Rock) and China. Spanning 3 different companies, and over 250 people.

- Restructured a division of an acquisition target during a pre-acquisition/due diligence period to fit into the EMC culture and methodology.

- Reported strategic and tactical engineering and budgetary plans (~$50 MLN) to members of the board of directors of EMC and targeted acquisition company.

- Working with EMC Executives in Sales, Customer Service, Manufacturing developed cross functional teams to integrate and deliver targeted solutions to EMC Customers.

2005-2006 XanGo LLC, Lehi, UT

Director of IT (Head of IT department)

- Managed all aspects of XanGo IT including, Help Desk support, Production Support, Operations, Project Management Office, QA and Solutions Development.

- Restructured IT department from a startup structure into functional enterprise resource.

- Developed and deployed strategic direction of IT department to fit the needs of the Business Units for XanGo.

- Instituted broad sweeping changes to stabilize business processes company wide through automation and optimization.

1999-2005 Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA

Sr. Architect

- Chief Architect of Server Farm Initiative including hardware, software, and processes. This included the development and productization of the gridMatrix™ -- a job definition, control, and monitoring tool for distributed jobs in the corporate grid.

- Chief Architect for Build and Test reporting system. Company wide tool for reporting progress of build and test cycles via the web.

Sr. Configuration Manager

- Developed and deployed multi-site software development strategy to decrease costs and promote off-shore development.

- Supported configuration management, change management, and build and release management software and systems.

- Architected the configuration management system including integration of top of the line third party tools, ClearCase, Scopus, Visual Studio, and Rational Rose.

- Trained engineering and marketing on the use of the products and processes used to develop software products.

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1997-2000 Qoses Inc., Tracy, CA

Chief Technical Officer - Founder

- Key product visionary for Qoses products and services.

- Architected and deployed Rational Rose Add-ons to help software engineers increase productivity in visual modeling.

- Architected and produced software design pattern mining tool, Quarry, to generate designs and code from high level designs and requirements.

- Architected and designed new product development tool, BloQs, for all key players in software development to bridge the gap between requirements, code and deployment.

- Developed and taught training courses in ClearCase, Rational Rose, UML, CORBA, and Software Engineering best practices.

1998-1999 Lucent Technologies, Milpitas, CA

Sr. Project Process Manager

- Developed strategy for software engineering tools and process deployment in multi-national development project. Including configuration management, change management, and build and release management.

- Configuration Managing Project leader for multi-national development project.

- Training of engineers in ClearCase and Configuration Management Process.

1995-1998 Cemax-Icon, Fremont, CA

Sr. Process Engineer

- Developed Software Development process that adhere to the ISO 9000 and FDA-QS requirements

- Developed integrated object-oriented development environment using: Rational Rose 4.0, Lotus Notes 4.5, Purify 4.0, Quantify 3.0, ClearCase 3.0, DDTS 4.0, UNIX utilities (sed, awk, ed, sh, and csh), and Visual Basic.

- Started and administered the Software Engineering Forum to openly discuss Software Engineering issues. This included a number of seminars on Software Quality and good engineering practices

- Started Software Engineering Training program: Courses developed and taught include: "CORBA, Using Orbix and C++"; "UML, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design", and "ClearCase basics"

Software Engineer

- Worked with a team of engineers to develop a multi-terabyte archival system for medical imaging in hospital information system.

- Responsible for User Interface, and service applications for the full life cycle of the product.

- COTS used include: Orbix 2.1, ObjectStore 4.0, RougeWave 7.0, Galaxy 2.x

- Responsible for builds and release of product.

Special Appointments

- Quality Steering Committee - Responsible for Software Engineering Quality System

- Safety Committee - Responsible for ergonomic policy

1994-1995 ISG Technologies, Mississauga, ONT, Canada

Software Engineer

- Worked with the Process and Procedure group to develop coding standards and design standards for projects in the company

- Design and implementation of Diagnostic Review Station for medical imaging for radiologist.

- Product was written in C and C++ using X11R5 and Motif 1.2

- Involved in the second and third generation of the product.

- Worked closely with the Radiologist and MIS professionals in defining product features.

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1993–1994 Cimetrix, Orem, UT

Software Engineer

- Design and implementation of Robot control and simulation product.

- Sat on the quality control board for software development.

- GUI implementation was done in X11R5 and Motif 1.2

- Implemented BUGS tracking database in Motif 1.2

- Provided Hardware and Software Administration duties as well for HP, SGI, PC, and Sun workstations

1991–1994 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Systems Programmer

- System Analysis, design, development, implementation, and support of various applications and production tools.

- Developed system administration user tracking tool using X11R4 and Motif 1.x

- Developed C based dynamic database builder using X11R4 and Motif 1.x, which allowed users to create user interfaces for relational databases.

- Provided custom applications for university faculty and students.

- Hardware and Software Administration for over 100 workstations of various platforms: IBM RS6000, HP 400-800,Sun Sparc 4, DEC 9000, and SGI VGX320

1990–1992 Marri-tots, Springville, UT

Systems Manager

- Dealt exclusively with executive level personnel in all departments to determine information system needs.

- Responsible for identification and acquisition of all hardware and software and it's subsequent installation, modification, and training.

- Developed custom applications to connect Accounts Receivable and Payable to EDI system for large customers and vendors.

University of Phoenix, MBA in Technology Management, May 1999

Brigham Young University, BS, Computer Science, 1994

Rational Software Corporation

UML Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Rational Unified Process

Object Design Inc.

OODBS Administration

Application Development using C++ and ObjectStore

Iona

CORBA Application Development using Orbix and C++

Industry Standards Bodies

- 1996 - Object Management Group - Unified Modeling Language Working Group - Minor reviewer

- 2001 – 2002 - New Productivity Initiative - Distributed Resource Management Working Group - Key Contributor

- 2001 – 2003 - Chair of NPi Architecture Working Group of Global Grid Forum

- 2002 – 2005 – Chair of Job Submission Description Language Group of the Global Grid Forum

- 2002 – 2004 – Chair of the Policy Research Group of the Global Grid Forum

- 2003 – 2004 – Member of the Grid Marketing Awareness Council of the Global Grid Forum

Courses Taught

- Beginning CORBA in C++

- UML Basics

- Advanced UML using Rational Rose

- Modeling verses Drawing using Rational Rose

- Design Patterns and UML

- Developing Software in Multiple Locations

Published Books

2003 –

- “Secrets of the Change Agent” – Red Hill Publishing 2003, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2004 –

- “The Art of ClearCase Deployment: The Secrets to Successful Implementation” – Addison-Wesley, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher (July 2004).

2006 –

- “The Art of ClearQuest Deployment” – Addison-Wesley, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher (To Be released Jan 2006).

Patents

2002 –

- “Mechanism For Managing Parallel Execution of Processes In A Distributed Computing Environment”, Nancy Hannaford and Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Mechanism For Managing Execution Of Interdependent Aggregated Processes”, Nancy Hannaford and Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Mechanism For Managing Execution Environments For Aggregated Processes”, Nancy Hannaford and Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Hierarchically Structured Logging For Computer Work Processing”, Nancy Hannaford and Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

2004 –

- “Method and Apparatus for Coordinating Fault Tolerance over Distributed Activities”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Gathering Resource Information”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Propagating Hierarchical Statistical Data”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Handling Multiple Heterogeneous Dispatch Systems”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Automated Distribution of Failed Tasks within a Distributed System”. Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Optimizing Distirbuted Activities”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Homogeneous Identification of Heterogeneous Resources”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

- “Method and Apparatus for Deadlock Prevention in Single Threaded Servers”, Darren Pulsipher (PENDING)

Speaking Engagements

1999 –

- Rational User's Conference - "Quarry: A Pattern Mining Tool for Rational Rose"

2000 –

- Rational User's Conference - "Defining and Utilizing Patterns using Rational Rose"

2001 –

- Cadence Technical Conference - "Multi-site Development Integration - Bugs, Locations, Branches, Code and Builds"

- Rational User's Conference - "Defining and Utilizing Patterns using Rational Rose"

- Rational User's Conference - "Multiple Platform, Parallel, Distributed Builds with a Server Farm"

- Global Grid Forum 2 – “New Productivity Initiative: Distributed Resource Management Reference Model”

- Cadence International User's Conference - "Multi-site Development Integration - Bugs, Locations, Branches, Code and Builds"

2002 –

- Global Grid Forum 4 – Chair “NPi Working group Planning session”

- Cadence Technical Conference – “Fault Tolerant, Mixed-Platform Inter-process Communication using Perl in System Programming – Persistent Distributed Objects”

- Global Grid Forum 5 – Chair of NPi Working Group - 3 sessions

- Rational User's Conference - "Defining and Utilizing Patterns using Rational Rose"

- Rational User's Conference - " Multi-site development integration – Bugs, Locations, Branches, Code and Builds "

- Cadence International User’s Conference – “Getting CM Out of the Bottleneck Through Automated Build and Release Web Reporting”, Darren Pulsipher

- Global Grid Forum 6 – Chair of NPi Working Group 3 sessions

2003 –

- Global Grid Forum 7 –

Chair of NPi

- Global Grid Forum 8 –

- Global Grid Forum 9 –

- Rational User’s Conference – “Using Grid Technology And IBM Rational® ClearCase® To Increase Productivity”, Darren Pulsipher

- Cadence Technical Conference –

- Steering Committee Member

- “Software Development and Grid Technology Strategies”

- “Deploying gridMatrix to increase productivity”

2004 –

- Global Grid Forum 10 –

Chair of Job Submission Description Language working group 4 sessions.

Chair of Policy Research Group 2 session.

- Global Grid Forum 11 –

Chair of Job Submission Description Language working group 4 sessions.

Chair of Policy Research Group 2 session.

Publications

1998 –

- Rose Architect Vol 1, # 1 - "Making the Earth Move - The Paradigm Shift to OO Development", Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

1999 –

- Rose Architect Vol 1, # 2 - "Destroying the Tower of Babel", Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rose Architect Vol 1, # 3 -Business Modeling, Teenagers, and Primal Scream Therapy" Feature Article, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rose Architect Vol 1, # 4 - "Overcoming Father Time: Parallel Development through Component Engineering" Feature Article, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rose Architect Vol 2 # 1 - "Growing Roses - A Green Thumb Approach to Modeling" Feature Article, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2000 –

- Rose Architect Vol 2 # 2 - "Super Models, Super Geeks, and Design Patterns: the Dawn of the Digital Sweater" Cover Article, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rose Architect Vol 2, # 3 - "System Integration, Manufacturing Process, and Warm Potato Salad" Feature Article, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Software Quality Test Engineering Fall 2000 - "Tool Look: Rational Rose in the Real World", Darren Pulsipher

- Catapulse E-zine Issue 1 - "Configuration Management Maturity", Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Catapulse E-zine Issue 2 - "Ixnay on the Oliticspay: A Lesson in Software Development Office Politics", Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2001 –

- Cadence Technical Conference 2001 Proceedings - "Multi-site Development Integration - Bugs, Locations, Branches, Code and Builds", Sudesh Amin and Darren Pulsipher

- Catapulse E-zine Issue 3 - "I'm as Mad as Hell and I am not going to take it any more - i.e. Standards and How CM can Help", Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Catapulse E-zine Issue 4 - "How to eat a Whale (Build and Release of large Multi-site products)", Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net July Issue– “The Drag Coefficient of Test-Cycle Reduction”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net August Issue – “Decreasing Test Time through Process Optimization”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net September Issue – “Automation + Optimization = Project Optimism”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net October Issue – “Get Your Boots; We’re Going to the Farm”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Cadence International User's Conference 2001 Proceedings - "Multi-site Development Integration - Bugs, Locations, Branches, Code and Builds", Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net November Issue – “The Art of ClearCase Deployment”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net December Issue – “Bridging the CM Gaps: Use Case Analysis of a New Configuration Management System”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2002 –

- Rational Developers Net January Issue – “The Magical World of VOB Sizing”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net February Issue – “Trigger Happy: Overcoming Entropy in Software Engineering”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Global Grid Forum 4 Toronto – “New Productivity Initiative Note Resource Description Language Requirements”, Paul Foley and Darren Pulsipher

- Global Grid Forum 4 Toronto – “Grid Forum for Dummies: A Guide to the Global Grid Forum”, Paul Foley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net March Issue – “Trigger Happier: More Tools for Overcoming Entropy in Software Engineering”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net April Issue – “From Soup Base to Soufflé: ClearCase Integration Strategies”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Cadence Technical Conference 2002 Proceedings – “Fault Tolerant, Mixed-Platform Inter-process Communication using Perl in System Programming – Persistent Distributed Objects”, Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net May Issue – “Conjunction Junction, What’s Your Function? More ClearCase Integration Strategies”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net June Issue – “Fishing Lessons: Training and Scripting to Control Process”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net July Issue - “Ground-Level View of a Product Release”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net August Issue – “Integrating Multi-Site Development Efforts in Your Spare Time: Actors, Phases, and Distributed Teams”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net September Issue - “System Level Design in 15 Minutes (or More): Development through Production”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- International Cadence User’s Conference 2002 Proceedings – “Business Modeling, Teenagers, and Primal Scream Therapy”, Darren Pulsipher

- International Cadence User’s Conference 2002 Proceedings – “Getting CM Out of the Bottleneck Through Automated Build and Release Web Reporting”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Global Grid Forum 6 Chicago – “New Productivity Initiative Distributed Resource Management Use Model”, Paul Foley, Raj Kumar, and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net October Issue - “Tree House Construction Theory: Development of a CM Tool Server”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net November Issue – “Boxes, Packing Tape, and Some Heavy Lifting: Moving to ClearCase”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2003 –

- Rational Developers Net February Issue – “Why Use ClearCase? Selling ClearCase to the Rest of Your Organization”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net March Issue – “You Know you need ClearCase when…”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net April Issue – “I Thought Only Guns Had Triggers? Triggers in ClearCase and Why You Need Them”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net May Issue – “Skiing the Back Slopes of Software: Build and Release Basics”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net June Issue – “Lone Eagle Management”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2004 –

- Rational Developers Net February Issue – “Hot Rods and Hardware: Setting Up ClearCase”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

- Rational Developers Net May Issue – “Integration of Tools and Ideas: UCM Basics”, Christian Buckley and Darren Pulsipher

2005 –

- DSA News – “Selecting a Vendor”, Darren Pulsipher