Alan Noble

Current

• Engineering Director, Australia at Google

Past

• Co-founder and CEO at NetPriva
• CTO at Foursticks
• VP of Engineering at Intellisync Corporation

• Co-founder and VP of Engineering at NetMind Technologies
• Lecturer at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Engineering Manager at Schlumberger

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Education

• Stanford University
• University of Adelaide

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Alan Noble’s Summary

Serial entrepreneur and executive with 25 years of software technology leadership and management experience. Holder of 7 US patents.

Google is hiring talented software engineers in Sydney, Australia.
See www.google.com.au/jobs if you are interested in learning more.

Alan Noble’s Specialties:

Creating innovative products by bringing out the best in technology teams.

Alan Noble’s Experience

• Engineering Director, Australia

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  I'm responsible for Google's research and development operations in Australia. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. My mission is to build and manage our team in Australia so that more of Google's innovations, like Google Maps, come from down under.

• Co-founder and CEO

  NetPriva

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  NetPriva products and services address end-to-end network performance problems for enterprise business networks. NetPriva's EPdirect is the world’s first software-only distributed traffic shaper that provides application delivery with guaranteed bandwidth and response times right to the desktop of branch office users. Led to Successful acquisition by Expand Networks.

• CTO

  Foursticks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  August 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 10 months)

  Responsible for technology strategy, product development, research programs, technology acquisition and partnerships, and strategic technology licensing.

• VP of Engineering

  Intellisync Corporation

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; SYNC; Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — February 2002 (2 years 1 month)

  As head of engineering, managed 170 engineering staff across 5 facilities. Merged NetMind’s and Intellisync’s engineering organizations and standardized the company’s software processes and tools. Developed a common software platform for all products.
  
  (Company was named Puma Technology at the time and renamed Intellisync Corporation in 2004, then subsquently acquired by Nokia in February 2006)

• Co-founder and VP of Engineering

  NetMind Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  October 1996 — February 2000 (3 years 5 months)

  Responsible for product strategy, software development, SQA and operations. Grew engineering team from 1 to 25. NetMind was succesfully acquired by Pumatech (later renamed Intellisync, now part of Nokia) in February 2000.

• Lecturer

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

  As a part-time lecturer at the UCSC Silicon Valley campus, developed and taught my own curriculum on distributed objects programming with CORBA, teaching in both the C++ and Java languages.

• Engineering Manager

  Schlumberger

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Computer Software industry)

  August 1988 — October 1996 (8 years 3 months)

  Various technology and engineering management positions in Measurement and Systems, including:
  
  - Technologist, Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) Division.
  - Manager, Advanced Architecture Group, responsible for design and development of new product architectures.

Alan Noble’s Education

• Stanford University

  MS, Computer Science/AI, September 1986 — July 1988

• University of Adelaide

  BE (First Class Honors), Electrical and Electronic Engneering, 1979 — 1982

  Activities and Societies:

  Minored in Japanese language.

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