"Hello World"
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| Wayne Stidolph: S/W Architect -- Manager
-- Evangelist |
| Get better teams and better product with
clarity in goals, transparency in architecture, maturity in approach |
I'm a crossover software architect/leader
best suited
to helping teams gel while they build high-quality middleware and
distributed systems ... I want to help a team evolve its understanding
of a class of customer goals and build sustainable solutions, while we
improve our own capabilities and effectiveness; I take great pleasure
in both the delivered solution and the energized team.
My somewhat formal mindset and systems-engineer background shows in a
preference for objective
metrics of cost, progress and risk and for quantified customer-centric
value statements. But since I prefer
fast-paced
projects
and I have a fairly high risk tolerance (comes with the optimistic
attitude!) I also accept ambiguity, recognize that
often you
just need to make a judgement call and cheerfully move along with trust
in your team.
Turn-ons:
a good sense of humor, cleverness, new tech tooling, poetic brevity in
design and
presentation
Turn-offs:
pomposity, verbosity, ossified processes, opacity in purpose
I'm almost always looking for catalytic opportunities - I
thrive on
the change and growth that leverages the latent
possibilities in a team or
market
...
Skills List
- Leadership/People
- Inspire dev teams to gel and to excel
- Guide a design/implementation team to accommodate
multiple forces (user needs/wants, cost of development and ownership,
company
culture goals, etc)
- Coaching/mentor and structured teaching in
design/coding and in team
interactions
- Business
- Rapidly evaluate software trends, technologies and
companies
- Organize/improve dev process
- Schedule - define/estimate tasks with dependency analysis
- Manage technical development work (direct and inter-team
influence)
- Tech
- Customer need elicitiation and decomposition, spec writing
- Product architecture/design for middleware with TCO/LCC emphasis
- "Engineering Keywords" (sorry, this gets jargon-wordy)
- Main
tech skills in distributed applications design, OO and component-based
design, Java
technologies, requirements engineering, software
development metrics, software structural review, code review
- Adequate
non-specialist
skills in XML family, RDF, UML and some similar notations, generalized
security, DB concepts
(relational and OO), functional/structured design, mainstream user
interaction design and evolution, effort estimation, and several
lightweight software development processes. Working a bit with Ruby on
Rails
- Limited
(rusty) skills in other
computer languages (JavaScript, assembly, C, C++, awk, perl, ...);
non-procedural paradigms (FP, Prolog, SQL);
OS-specific programming (Window/Linux/CPM, device
drivers); signal processing; information
warfare; embedded programming/debugging
Links
You know a lot about someone from what they read; I keep a
'classics' list on my booklist,
but here's
what I'm reading in Sept/Oct 2006:
Chronology
Summary/Resume
GTE Government Systems for 20 years, moving through
various engineering/leadership roles (contributor, field team lead,
project
tech lead, principle investigator, etc). While I was there, I earned a
BS/EE (NPU)
and an MS/CS
(Stanford). Since then I've had a series of
shorter roles, rather like my
time at GTE except not under one employer umbrella:
- building object database demos at Versant Object
Technologies [1/2 yr]
- architect and
line manager for an R&D development group at Progress Software
[1-1/2 yr]
- chief architect
for a services framework and J2EE app server at Lutris
Technologies [2 yr]
- VP/E for Siderean
Software (very enjoyable, but I disliked the commute from Santa
Cruz to El
Segundo!) [1-1/2 yr]
Between these roles I'm a consulting architect
and teacher
(see booklist);
right now (2006) I'm doing some independent product
development and consulting with a seed-round startup
company ...
for more details, see my resume in your choice of formats:
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