Dovetail Software and Tim Beres Professional and Personal

Objective

A software technology leadership role in your organization, involving business requirements definition and analysis, software architecture, project design, implementation and development. Preference is for consulting or contract role, but will consider full-time opportunities that maximize my experience, skills and creativity.

Expertise

Professional experience

2008 - Present NBC Universal (GE) / Senior Architect -Denver, CO

Senior Architect

• Senior member of Platform Services team responsible for: Web service architecture; Alfresco Content Management system implementations; Alfresco customizations; REST based service implementations; user interface customizations; Linux and Windows development platform and build system integration. Developed and deployed very large CMS implementation for Telemundo authoring and run-time services architecture Reported to Chief Architect for NBC Universal Platform Services.

1992 - Present Dovetail Software, Inc. -Boulder, CO

President

• Principal of software firm. Involved in all aspects of product development, marketing, sales, consulting, support and training. Consultant to multi-billion dollar businesses, US Government agencies, third party integrators and small local software developers. Portable Javascript/AJAX, Java, C and C++ framework development. Achieved sales of over 200 product licenses. Consulted worldwide. Many happy clients; references can be provided.

2006 - Present Scoreboard Pro

VP/Engineering

• Partner/owner and Engineering Vice President for web-based software measurement service. Substantially improved, designed, developed and deployed application service from prototype form to a production level toolset. Customers include Oil & Gas; Independent Schools; Humane Shelters; Law Firms.

June 2000 - June 2003 Zenodata Corporation, Inc. -Louisville, CO

Chief Architect and Director of Research & Development

• Participated in company founding, management, idea development, research and delivery of key product milestones; worked directly with executive team on IT, R&D and operational strategies. One of three founders to receive key man designation/insurance.
• Specified, architected, managed, designed, developed and deployed very large database and image management system.
• Researched, architected and deployed massive world-wide distributed document workflow, imaging and processing system.
• Led team researching and designing world-wide information technology infrastructure, including: Storage architecture; database management and data partitioning systems; web environment; database, workflow and directory services; operating systems; bandwidth and hosting.
• Successful development of workflow, posting and customer applications resulted in multiple successful financing rounds. Author/inventor of technologies integral to the Zenodata business objectives.

1990 - 1992 Self Employed -Boulder, CO

Consultant

• Self-employed software consultant. Project leadership and software engineering, including graphics user interface, large-scale application design and development, database systems in UNIX and DOS environments. Proven track record of delivered systems, including: Scientific visualization user interface (OLIT); construction engineering app. (Motif); GUI software design and development for management information system for two major releases of a business sales management app.; development of XVT GUI toolkit; enhancement, porting and maintenance of AET product (see below).

1989 - 1990 Jonas and Erickson Software Technology (Marathon System Services) -Broomfield, CO

Senior Programmer/Project Leader

• Responsible for all phases of software life cycle for UNIX/C Advanced Estimating Tools product. Accomplished three releases of AET, with successively higher quality and functionality; product deployed to hundreds of very large construction firms. Duties included user interface and windowing software; project management and supervision; database development, with design and implementation of reporting and SQL access facilities; advanced UNIX/C programming; project release, configuration, maintenance and porting systems design and development.

1987 - 1989 Daisy/Cadnetix -Boulder, CO

Engineer

• Member of the graphics group, reporting to graphics/systems manager. Graphics library, application and firmware development responsibilities supporting CAD/CAE/CAM applications. Project lead duties, including new release on Motorola UNIX kernel graphics sub-system. Other responsibilities and experience with: X11, OPEN LOOK and SunView window systems development; C language graphics libraries design and development; graphics accelerator microcode; PC and UNIX kernel graphics in C and assembly; test program, graphics database, benchmarking and porting of OEM platforms.

1987 - 1987 Hamilton/Avnet -Winter Park, FL

Advanced Technical Specialist

• Responsible for field applications engineering and technical support duties. Certified as Advanced Technical Specialist by Intel. Extensive involvement with: Requirements analysis; product demos/seminars; systems configuration and installation; sales force management on technical issues; post-sales debugging support.

1984 - 1987 Tech-Source Laboratories -Altamonte Springs, FL

Engineer

• Varied and diverse graphics, UNIX/iRMX kernel, C language and firmware development due to start-up nature of firm. Extensive experience with high performance graphics system, device driver, library and application development. Designed, coded and tested device drivers for graphic, disk drive, tape and terminal devices under UNIX System V, BSD and Intel iRMX real-time systems.

Education

1980 - 1984 Western Michigan University -Kalamazoo, MI

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science; Mathematics and Finance Minors

Interest and Activities

Building things: Software, woodworking, cabins, modeling, gardens and children.

Sports: Softball, skiing, volleyball, basketball, tennis and hiking. Seven years YMCA and club level soccer coach.