Dave Seidel

Current

• Director of System Architecture at Transparent Language

Past

• Principal Software Engineer at SeaChange International
• Senior Software Engineer & Co-Founder at Mindreef, Inc.
• CTO at CulturePort, Inc.

• Senior Software Engineer/Development Manager at Compuware Corporation / NuMega Technologies
• Director of Research & Development at Innovative Data Concepts
• Programmer Analyst III at Fleet Financial Services
• Programmer/Tech Support/Tech Writer at Dragonfly Software

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Education

• Bard College at Simon's Rock

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Industry

Computer Software

Dave Seidel’s Summary

I am an experienced and productive developer who thrives in a collaborative team environment. I have a thorough understanding of what it takes to design, build, test, and ship software that is useful and successful.

Dave Seidel’s Specialties:

Development process infrastructure and practices (Scrum, continuous integration, unit testing, toolchain assembly and build scripting for teams), API/library/component design and implementation, networking software (HTTP, SOAP, WinPcap/libpcap, Apache HTTPD), multiple languages (C#, Java, Ruby, ActionScript, C/C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP).

Dave Seidel’s Experience

• Director of System Architecture

  Transparent Language

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  I am creating standards for tools and practices to help guide our in-house and overseas teams, especially through the promotion of Scrum, Continuous Integration, unit testing, and other techniques. I also work on core technologies, including components that will be used by multiple products, with an emphasis on Web services.

• Principal Software Engineer

  SeaChange International

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SEAC; Telecommunications industry)

  November 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  We have just shipped the first version of a complex system built on top of the .NET Framework using C#, with some significant components written in unmanaged C++. I am the primary author of our C#-based "utility" library, which provides functionality across our system in areas including configuration, logging, monitoring, and causality tracking. I have also contributed to our C++ code base. In addition, I built and maintain our build/test/deploy tool chain, which utilizes CruiseControl.NET, NAnt, NUnit, NCover, Sandcastle and custom-built tools. We are currently migrating the web-based portions of the project from ASP.NET/SQL Server to Ruby on Rails/MySQL.

• Senior Software Engineer & Co-Founder

  Mindreef, Inc.

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

  March 2001 — October 2006 (5 years 8 months)

  As Mindreef's first employee, I designed and built the first prototypes for SOAPscope, and have had a major role in developing the product for every release since version 1.0. My primary areas of technical responsibility are the HTTP client subsystem in SOAPscope (written in Java) and the entirety of the Mindreef Collector (written in C). I am also responsible for release engineering, product Installers (InstallAnywhere) and am one of the primary providers of technical support for our products.

• CTO

  CulturePort, Inc.

  (Publishing industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

• Senior Software Engineer/Development Manager

  Compuware Corporation / NuMega Technologies

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1999 (6 years )

  This position started at NuMega Technologies, which was acquired by Compuware. I worked on the BoundsChecker team for versions 4 and 5, then managed both the JCheck and BoundsChecker teams.

• Director of Research & Development

  Innovative Data Concepts

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

  1991 — 1993 (2 years )

• Programmer Analyst III

  Fleet Financial Services

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)

  1989 — 1991 (2 years )

  As the only C programmer on a COBOL team at a mainframe shop, I worked on integrating IBM's new (at that time) check imaging feature into Fleet Bank's CPCS-based check processing system.

• Programmer/Tech Support/Tech Writer

  Dragonfly Software

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

  1986 — 1989 (3 years )

  I worked on Nota Bene, a word processor specialized for academic and scholarly users.

Dave Seidel’s Education

• Bard College at Simon's Rock

  BA , Music , 1974 — 1978

Additional Information

Dave Seidel’s Groups:

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Simon's Rock Alumni
•    Scrum Practitioners
•    Startup Specialists
•    Compuware Connection Group
•    Fans of Digsby

Dave Seidel’s Honors:

Patent awarded - "IR code instrumentation" (US6332213, 2001)
Patent awarded - "Byte code instrumentation" (US6314558, 2001)

Dave Seidel’s Contact Settings

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