Software technologist in web, content delivery, mobile and networking
Greater Boston Area
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- Principal Performance Engineer at Akamai Technologies
- Past
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- R&D Manager, Principal Software Engineer at Nokia
- Technical Lead at Vividon
- Technical Manager - Architect at Inktomi Corp.
- Technical Lead at Invensys/Marcam/Baan/SSA Global
- Senior Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
- Software Engineer at Unisys
- Education
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- Northeastern University
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Art Huston’s Summary
Innovative software technologist, engineer and leader at leading edge startups and established companies. Extensive experience in content delivery, mobile emulators, distributed systems, data communications, mobile devices, and audio/video streaming.
Art Huston’s Specialties:
Lead dynamic, high performing, successful teams. Deep understanding of trends and technologies through active participation in groups such as Boston Mobile Mondays, Mass Network Communications Council and Web Innovators. Strong software design and implementation skills and and expertise in mobile software, networking, Php, C/C++, Java, SQL, Linux, Windows and other technologies.
Art Huston’s Experience
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Principal Performance Engineer
Akamai Technologies
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AKAM; Computer Networking industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for improving the performance of Akamai’s remote application acceleration service, and consulting with Akamai’s worldwide Sales and Customer Care to increase sales and support the service.
• Perform technical studies and research to increase performance within the Akamai services network, including the effect of different configurations and server locations on performance. Recommended hardware deployments, software enhancements and configurations to increase the performance of the service.
• Provided Product Managers and Sales performance data on Akamai products. Consulted to them and to worldwide Sales Engineers on product positioning and selling points.
• Improved automated network monitoring. Created extensive intranet site as a training and troubleshooting guide.
• Teamed with Engineering staff, Sales Engineers and Product Management to review sales and installation progress and to resolve related issues. -
R&D Manager, Principal Software Engineer
Nokia
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Wireless industry)
February 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 6 months)
Led team that delivered leading edge mobile development tools. Delivered eight emulators used to develop mobile phone applications, including text, audio, video, Java, and distributed applications. Worked with management to select product features, track the schedule, and integrate with software modules created in Europe, and with off-site documentation writers to produce highly user-friendly documentation.
• Designed and implemented new software architecture to increase product robustness and reduce costs. Designed and implemented new MIDP 2.0 simulations for mobile devices.
• Assumed responsibility for entire 25-person staff upon sudden resignation of incumbent. Led group to complete both major projects on schedule despite above-average team attrition and illness. Recognized by Senior Management for maintaining and enhancing team motivation, productivity, and quality. -
Technical Lead
Vividon
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
October 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Designed and implemented high-performance audio/video streaming cache in C/C++, supporting RTSP over TCP, UDP and HTTP. Led up to five-person engineering team.
• Created architecture to add caching to Real Server and implemented the critical caching algorithms.
• Increased product reliability and robustness resulting in certification at an independent lab, successful product delivery to AOL, and a doubling of product performance. -
Technical Manager - Architect
Inktomi Corp.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; INKT; Internet industry)
April 1999 — October 2002 (3 years 7 months)
Managed software team and led the design and development of a web acceleration servce in C/C++/Perl using HTTP over TCP/IP, on Linux and Windows.
• Created new product from ground up, working closely with management and customers to refine concept and create roadmap.
• As individual contributor, designed, implemented and tested prototype.
• Led team to enhance and deliver the product.
• Presented product concept and technologies to key customers, sales team and senior management. -
Technical Lead
Invensys/Marcam/Baan/SSA Global
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1996 — April 1996 (1 month)
Led team that designed and implemented enterprise resource planning system in C/C++ on Windows. Worked with Product Manager to specify system feature set and capabilities.
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Senior Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1994 — April 1996 (1 year 5 months)
Developed video-on-demand system in C/C++ on Digital Unix
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Software Engineer
Unisys
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UIS; Computer Software industry)
1989 — 1994 (5 years)
Developed air traffic system in C/C++ using HP/UX.
Art Huston’s Education
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Northeastern University
Master of Science, Computer Science, 1994 — 1998
3.7 GPA, concentrations in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems and Object-Oriented design
- Activities and Societies:
- Computer honor society.
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Art Huston’s Interests:
high tech, green energy, downhill skiing, softball, volleyball.
Art Huston’s Groups:
Mobile Mondays Boston, Massachusetts Network Communications Council, Web Innovators Boston, TIE-Boston Entrepreneurs (www.tie-boston.org), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) www.acm.org
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Inktomi Alumni member
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