CTO Abaqus
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CTO at Abaqus Inc.
- Past
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- Area Director - Western US at Attevo Inc.
- VP at Vitra Bioscience
- VP Marketing and Business Development at GE Healthcare
- Director of Software Development at Molecular Dynamics / Amersham Biosciences
- Software Research Site Manager at Zuken
- VP Development at VZ Corp
- Project Manager at Hewlett Packard
- Systems Analyst at HHB Systems
- Education
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- Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science
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John Schneider’s Summary
A go-to person for driving innovation & excellence in software development organizations, I have made my career at the forefront of software development in industries such as CAE/CAD, software engineering tools and platforms, biotech and the web.
I bring a deep & current technical background and expertise to solving application, scientific, engineering and business needs.
John Schneider’s Specialties:
Expert in creating, scaling and improving software development organizations, I have also been successful in turnaround and multi-site management situations.
Additional strengths in:
* Geoweb, location based services
* Mobile phone base software
* Analysis & visualization
* Portable platforms, programming languages
* Professional services & consulting
* Product portfolio management
* Business development
* Executive management
John Schneider’s Experience
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CTO
Abaqus Inc.
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Abaqus is creating an online application for managing & sharing personal Geodata and Geoweb experiences. For use by individuals, groups or 3rd party websites as a service to enable their sites with Geoweb capabilities.
Accountable for product development and operations. -
Area Director - Western US
Attevo Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Partner and Manager of business operations in Western US for Attevo Inc.
Consult in business process, technology strategy, implementation of enterprise solutions and creation of custom solutions. Work in both public and private sectors.
Accountable for business technology and practice development, business development, fulfillment and client satisfaction. -
VP
Vitra Bioscience
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)
March 2005 — February 2006 (1 year)
Accountable for business development, marketing, product management and software development. Worked with CEO and board on corporate development, M&A activities.
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VP Marketing and Business Development
GE Healthcare
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
January 2002 — December 2004 (3 years)
Developed informatics business. Leading the marketing and business development efforts. Brought suite of enterprise workflow systems, data integration and services to market.
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Director of Software Development
Molecular Dynamics / Amersham Biosciences
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Biotechnology industry)
April 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 9 months)
Built and scaled software development group that supported multiple intstrument platforms and created killer desktop applications to analyze and manage data.
Implented software development disciplines and ISO 9000 processes.
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Software Research Site Manager
Zuken
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
January 1991 — March 1998 (7 years 3 months)
Managed Santa Clara based research group for Zuken. Team provided technology scouting and developed advanced application platforms which were deployed within company to create next generation product line by international development teams.
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VP Development
VZ Corp
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1988 — 1991 (3 years)
Led product development of a portable software development platform with an C++ interpreter, GUI and business object set, persistance layer and composit software components. Architect of this system and a primary coder. One of the founders.
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Project Manager
Hewlett Packard
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1985 — 1988 (3 years)
Managed group that developed and supported the data management system and configuration compiler for HP's EDA software platform, which supported two electronic design software systems.
Group also accountable for groupware shared object server prototype
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Systems Analyst
HHB Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1983 — 1985 (2 years)
Wrote UNIX kernel code and ported UNIX system code to new architectures. Created software process development tools and co-authored technical report on portable intermediate language for electronics test equipment
John Schneider’s Education
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Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science
BS, Computer Science, September 1979 — May 1983
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John Schneider’s Interests:
Fly fishing, road cycling, mountain biking
John Schneider’s Groups:
IEE, ACM
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Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science Alumni
John Schneider’s Contact Settings
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