Jay Michlin

Past

• VP of Engineering Services at Panasas
• VP of Software Development at ONStor Inc.
• Sr. VP/General Manager at Transitive Corporation

• VP, Software Quality at Cadence Design Systems
• VP and General Manager at Synopsys, Inc.
• VP of Product Development at ICMS International
• Chief Operating Officer at Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.
• Director at Amdahl Corporation
• Manager of Computer Technology at Exxon

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Jay Michlin’s Summary

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
• Solid command of technology, business and finance.
• Personal leadership to build strong and scalable organizations and develop and mentor staff.
• Experience in both enterprise-class and startup companies; managed up to 200 staff.
• Background building offshore teams in India, U.K., France.
• Operational effectiveness for on-time delivery and high quality.
• Deep technology skill including Windows, UNIX, Linux, storage, architecture and hardware.
• Customer focused and effective with marketing, sales, and executive management.

Jay Michlin’s Specialties:

Complex software
Storage
Executive

Jay Michlin’s Experience

• VP of Engineering Services

  Panasas

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 7 months)

  Panasas delivers appliance-like ease of management to a virtually boundless storage system for High Performance Computing (HPC) organizations around the world.
  * Revitalized the QA organization to improve testing and quality. Software quality and on-time delivery improved from being a major sales deficit to a key asset.
  * Improved software engineering leadership and process for on-time delivery and strong working relationship with Marketing, Sales, Service, and partners.

• VP of Software Development

  ONStor Inc.

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

  August 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Managing U.S. software development plus two teams in India for this network attached storage company. Our product serves as a gateway to any vendor's storage arrays and adds features such as Unix or Windows support, real time mirroring, net backup, clustering and more. Typical customers manage tens of terabytes -- or more -- with our product, and require always-on availability.

• Sr. VP/General Manager

  Transitive Corporation

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2002 — July 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  Managed software development and operations for products providing high performance dynamic binary translation.
  
  This is operating system- and embedded-level code that allows commercial software written for one chip to run on another without recompiling and without loss of performance.
  
  Delivered five highly complex projects, on or ahead of plan, to delighted Fortune 100 customers. Two are currently in production (one with Silicon Graphics, one with Apple Computer).
  
  In addition, I implemented quality and development processes, developed and mentored a group of 50+ engineers and managers, and generally made the organization scalable to take on additional projects.

• VP, Software Quality

  Cadence Design Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CDN; Computer Software industry)

  January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year )

  Managed a corporate-wide quality initiative to improve software development processes and customer perception of product quality.
  • Created eight corporate quality goals, with quarterly improvement in each product unit.
  • Represented the industry to customers as quality chair of the EDA industry consortium.

• VP and General Manager

  Synopsys, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SNPS; Computer Software industry)

  January 1999 — January 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  Managed the business unit producing software tools to design Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips. Synopsys is the leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software with revenue exceeding $1 billion. FPGAs offer the unique advantage of very quick time-to-market for electronic products.
  • Recruited and developed a strong R&D team, operating in the U.S., India and France.
  • Restructured the product line to include high-end and low-end offerings.
  • Increased revenue over 70% the first year.
  • Served as contact executive for Cisco, EMC and all Synopsys India operations.

• VP of Product Development

  ICMS International

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

  August 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 5 months)

  Managed R&D and Product Management in this financial applications software company. The product runs on Windows client-server platforms, and serves large corporate Treasury operations for cash management and electronic funds transfer.
  
  • Defined, and delivered the company’s next generation product, including full GUI and OO methodology, and database capability supporting Oracle and SQL Server.
  • Rebuilt and reinvigorated both the R&D and Customer Support teams.
  • Worked with company CEO on negotiations with major partners and investors.

• Chief Operating Officer

  Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Retail industry)

  August 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Managed 90% of the business for the world's largest retailer of computer books. Reports included corporate staff and retail stores with a staff of 100. Launched a groundbreaking Web service for online book sales.

• Director

  Amdahl Corporation

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMH; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 1985 — December 1993 (8 years 5 months)

  A series of increasingly responsible assignments to improve performance, productivity and morale of large engineering organizations. In chronological order (latest at the top):
  
  • Director of Storage Products (enterprise disk storage, 200 staff).
  • Director of Design Automation (electronic CAD tools, 20+ staf).
  • Director of Product Planning (product management, 6 staff).
  • Manager of System Performance Architecture (architecting new processors for high performance, 30 staff).

• Manager of Computer Technology

  Exxon

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1975 — 1985 (10 years )