David Thielen

1127 Barberry Ct. Boulder, CO 80305 303-499-2544 david@thielen.com

Summary

Over 18 years management experience, up to the CEO level, managing individual teams, departments, and entire companies. Built up superb software teams from scratch. Dramatically improved the productivity of existing software teams. An invited speaker on management at several national conferences and wrote two management books for McGraw-Hill.

Also have over 5 years experience developing in C#/.NET and Java/J2EE. Architected, designed and coded several complete .NET and J2EE-based enterprise systems. Have numerous years of experience with network protocols from the packet to the socket level. Have also written operating systems, enterprise server systems, applications, and games in C++.

Invited speaker at numerous national conferences speaking on topics ranging from low-level programming to managing the development process. Author of four books and over 30 articles.

Management Skills

• Senior management at six companies, most recently Vice President of Technology at QuickStreet, providing experience in virtually every facet of running a software company.
• At QuickStreet, as Vice President managing 3 teams, delivered an 85,000 lines of code enterprise J2EE-based system on time, under budget, and with no severe bugs.
• Built several development teams from scratch. In all cases was able to find and recruit world-class developers building extremely strong teams of very talented people.
• Increased the productivity of numerous existing developing teams. Brought schedules under control and delivered commercial quality code. Continuously study and implement the existing research on improving programmer and team productivity and quality.
• At numerous companies have had multiple programming teams reporting to me and I in turn worked with and reported to people at the senior executive level. In all cases I created efficient and focused project teams.
• Clear understanding of marketing and sales, having done everything from designing marketing campaigns and sales literature, determining product features, working booth duty, telemarketing, and closing sales. As a Product Manager for a 6 months period, designed and successfully implemented the first ever, multi-national marketing effort for Microsoft..
• Working in the Far East I faced three development groups, working in 3 different countries, who initially viewed each other almost as hostile competitors. I redirected them over a period of two months into working on the project as a single team.
• My technical knowledge allows me to evaluate the basis of any problem facing developers. This gives me the ability to make decisions based on the technical merits of the issue rather than solely on the summations made by the developers involved. My background also gives me the ability to make an educated evaluation of the time required to complete projects.
• My two major strengths as a manager are: I understand what the people working for me are doing and when it can realistically be completed and I am able to get both individuals and teams to push themselves to accomplish much more than they themselves ever thought possible.

Other Skills

Patents:	6,092,144; 6,033,108; 5,596,726
Languages:	C#, .NET, Java, J2EE, EJB, JDBC, JSP, HTML, Servlets, JavaScript, XML, XSL, XPath, C, C++, x86 Assembler, MFC, STL
Certifications:	CISSP, SCP (Java), SCWCD (J2EE), MCP
Products Shipped:	AutoTag, Windward Reports, Automate!Test, DefendTek, QuickStreet Server, Business Object Builder (Bob), Page 2 Stage, Enemy Nations, Wing Commander Armada for Windows, Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time, Win-Link, Windows 95, Far East Windows 3.1 (Japan, Taiwan, Korea), WinView, Co-Counsel, The Cat, and numerous smaller programs.

Employment experience in resumes above.