Vice President of Products at Mirage Networks
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- VP of Products at Mirage Networks
- Past
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- VP of Engineering at NovusEdge
- Senior Director, Engineering at Vignette Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at VTEL Corporation
- Director of Programming at SicolaMartin
- Staff Software Engineer at IBM Corporation
- Education
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- Syracuse University
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David Thomas’s Summary
Executive-level Engineering leader with 20 years of experience in all aspects of product R&D. Blend of excellent organizational and communication skills with technical analysis capabilities. Team experience ranges from multi-function large-scale team-oriented software engineering (100+ people) to small, SWAT team approach (1-4 people). Experience with pre-IPO fund raising, M&A due dilligence, outsourcing, and board-level management.
David Thomas’s Specialties:
Enterprise Software Applications, Software as a Service, Packaged Software, Video Conferencing Systems, Desktop software, Retail Software, embedded and appliance networked devices, Software Engineering Process, Outsourcing, Systems Architecture, Software Development, Project Management, Content Management Software, Physical Security, IT Security, Network Management Software, Multimedia Software, Computer Graphics.
David Thomas’s Experience
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VP of Products
Mirage Networks
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Leading an outstanding team responsible for R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and customer support for a product line of IT secuity appliances.
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VP of Engineering
NovusEdge
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 4 months)
Led a team of 19 brilliant R&D Engineers creating an embedded device platform for distributed, intelligent, peer-to-peer applications, starting with a physical security access control system integrated with building automation and networked video systems. Responsible for the following functions: software, firmware, and hardware development, QA, Customer Support, IT (operations), Technical Writing, UI design, program management, and manufacturing.
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Senior Director, Engineering
Vignette Corporation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; vign; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — November 2004 (5 years 11 months)
Responsible for Vignette Content, Business Integration, Dialog, and Messenger products. Leader of a large team (100+) including onshore and offshore development, architecture, quality assurance, technical publications, program management, and human factors teams in Austin, Texas, Hyderabad, India, and Colombo, Sri Lanka.
· 7/03 – 7/04: Director of Software Engineering
· Owner of the Vignette Global Engineering Process.
· 1/03 - 7/03: Software Development Manager, Content Suite Products.
· 10/01-12/02: Principal Architect.
· 12/00-9/01: Staff Architect, Commerce Applications Division
· 1/99-11/00: Staff Developer, Architect, and Team Lead. -
Senior Software Engineer
VTEL Corporation
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
May 1997 — January 1999 (1 year 9 months)
· Technical leader of videoconferencing applications group. System architect, API designer and lead programmer.
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Director of Programming
SicolaMartin
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)
June 1995 — May 1997 (2 years)
· Manager of software development, quality assurance, and IT departments (7 people). System architect, technical consultant and lead programmer. Responsible and accountable for all technical aspects of interactive multimedia product development for electronic marketing communications.
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Staff Software Engineer
IBM Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1987 — June 1995 (8 years 1 month)
Networking Systems, IBM Microelectronics, and Power Personal Systems Divisions.
* Team lead, system architect, designer, and programmer on a wide variety of multimedia and network management subsystems and application products on Windows NT, OS/2, and AIX operating systems. Received two IBM Technical Excellence Awards.
David Thomas’s Education
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Syracuse University
BFA with Honors, Computer Graphics, 1983 — 1987
Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian
- Activities and Societies:
- Tau Theta Upsilon, Leadership Honorary fraternity
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David Thomas’s Interests:
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, submission grappling, and wrestling. Owner and head coach at Austin Jiu-Jitsu, a ground fighting gym with 40 students. Assistant coach for youth wrestling.
David Thomas’s Groups:
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Vignette Alumni Association member -
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees member -
Agilistas member
David Thomas’s Honors:
Patents
· “Method and System for Optimizing Resources for Cache Management” (App No. 34712 filed on 12/28/2001, Serial No. 10/033,242, awarded 2/3/2004, US 6,687,793)
· “System and method for the synchronization of a file in a cache” (App No. 10033242 filed on 12/28/2001, awarded 6/13/2006, US 7,062,515)
· “Token Cache Access Control System” (filed 7/11/2006, Non-provisional App No. 11/456,754)
