Resume of Stanley Knutson

Professional Experience

Dun and Bradstreet: Purisma Division
San Mateo, CA
(www.purisma.com)

Nov-2007 to current: Director of Technology
My focus is to ensure the D&B/Purisma products succeed for the largest companies in the world. I am working closely with product management to define future products that leverage the D&B product and data portfolio.

Purisma Inc.
Redwood City, CA
(www.purisma.com)

Aug-2003 to Nov-2007: Director of Server Engineering
I was chief architect and managing most of the server engineering group from startup inception through the acquistion by Dun and Bradstreet in 2007. Purisma products are focused on improving sales efficiency in large organizations.

Open Country Inc.
Redwood City, CA
(www.opencountry.com)

Oct-2002 to July-2003: Director of Engineering
I am leading the design and engineering for V2 of the OC-Manager product. Open Country is an unfunded startup targeting system and software management for Linux and embedded systems. The V2 product will use a C/C++ client with a Java/JSP server using client-side XML/XSL.

Active Decisions Inc.
Burlingame, CA
(www.activedecisions.com)

Mar-2002 to Sep-2002: Consulting Engineer
I designed and implemented a substantial web application called the Active Application Manager. It is the primary user interface for defining applications to be presented by the new version of the Active Sales Assistant product family. The work was done in Java using Tomcat and Websphere application servers with Oracle databases, using servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP).

Knowledge Technologies International (formerly known as "ICAD" and "Concentra")
Lexington, MA.
(www.ktiworld.com)

Sep-1997 to Dec-2001: Chief Scientist

Provided technical leadership in all aspects of the product development process, including determining customer requirements, creating primary architecture and design, coding the initial prototype, and supervising implementation. Achieved CMM process quality level 1. Excellent customer rapport helped in solidifying plans.

Mentored less experienced developers in the development team.

Made crucial contributions to R&D management team both in strategy and hiring.

Lead a group of engineers in building an architecture for delivering our application via ordinary Web browsers (as a thin client), using XML, XSLT, Java 2 Enterprise (EJB), Franz Lisp and Lisp/Java connectivity.

Designed and implemented a Java/CORBA client/server toolkit that enabled customers to deliver high-quality 3d graphical applications via the Web. This tool is in use at a major European aerospace company.

Rebuilt the standard application templates to meet quality/maintainability guidelines.

Redesigned the core evaluation engine for improved performance.

Spearheaded a customer survey on product requirements. Key contributor in designing and performing a market research study

Sep-1995 to Sep-1997: Director of Special Projects.

Performed architecture review and research related to future products, with detailed design and implementation as required.

Trained and managed the off-shore development team.

1992-Sep 1995: Chief Engineer.

I was the technical leader for all aspects of the ICAD product. I worked with marketing to assess customer requirements and create product specifications, and worked closely with the various project leaders in the 30-person development group as well as with staff members.

Designed many key features of the product, including all of the user-interface.

Oversaw all the architecture for the ICAD system, and supervised design and functional reviews of all product-related projects.

Personally designed and implemented several key modules related to delivering customer solutions, in particular a C++/MFC-based 2d sketcher for both Unix and Windows NT. Over the course of the 11 month project I wrote most of the 70,000 lines of C++ code associated with this module.

1989-1992: Manager of User Interface development.

Managed all aspects of the user interface for several releases of the UI for The ICAD System, including specification, design, and leadership of a team of four developers.

Worked with marketing on usability studies and improvements to the user interface.

Digital Automation Corp.
Peabody, MA. 1980-1989.

Co-founder and Vice President of Software

Was responsible for all software and computer systems at the company. Hired, trained and managed four developers.

Wrote and tested all of the real-time control software involved in the network of three custom-built computers for the product, an automated wire-bonding machine.

Conceived and developed an advanced CAE system used for analysis and simulation of mechanical systems with digital controllers. After reorganization in 1985, the company did consulting in high-performance machinery design based entirely on this CAE system

SAC Inc.
Hingham, MA. 1979-1980

Vice President of Software Development

I helped to define the market requirements and implementation strategy for the proposed product (a signature-analysis system using a custom data-entry device). The startup was never fully funded.

Butler Automatic
Canton, MA. 1977-1979

Senior Software Engineer

I designed and implemented all of the software for real-time control of several different types of paper splicing machinery.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
MS Mechanical Engineering, 1978
BS Computer Science, 1976

Miscellaneous

Professional societies: ACM, SIGCHI. Past member ASME, IEEE

Stanley Knutson

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