Lee Courtney

Current

Vice President - Customer Support and Quality at Audible Magic
Volunteer at Computer History Museum

Past

Product Line Manager – Open Source Automotive Infotainment Platform at Wind River
Product Line Manager - Linux for Consumer Devices at Wind River
Technical Account Manager at Montavista Software

Engineering Manager at Montavista Software
President at Monterey Software Group
Technology Consultant at RSA Security
VP - Engineering at Durango Software
Product Manager at Hewlett-Packard
Member Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard Company - Computer Systems Division
Member Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard - Data Systems Division
Programmer at APL Data Systems

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Education

The University of Texas at Arlington
Continuing Education

Recommended

4 people have recommended Lee

Connections

495 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Lee Courtney’s Summary

I proactively drive development, delivery and growth of products, people, and organizations into assets that benefit business results, market position, and customer satisfaction using my 29 years of software industry experience combined with business acumen, networking skills, technical knowledge, creativity, and enthusiasm. I have been a team member in organizations ranging from a two person startup to a Fortune-50 company. In these positions I have initiated, driven, matured and overseen product lines generating lifetime revenue streams upwards of several hundred million dollars. I can help you achieve, and exceed, the same high level of success in a positive, proactive, and timely fashion.

Lee Courtney’s Specialties:

Start-up venture development, Software Engineering and Product Management.

Product Mgt - Have run all plays in the "Product Manager Playbook”

New Venture Development - creation, funding, operation, & liquidation; tech & mkt analysis; Eco-system development; financial analysis & planning; Organizational & product development and implementation

Software Marketing - sales collateral, tools, content, training creation; Trade press communication...

Engineering Mgt - entire life cycle...

Lee Courtney’s Experience

Vice President - Customer Support and Quality

Audible Magic

(Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

At Audible Magic Lee oversees all customer and partner support and quality efforts.

Audible Magic provides innovative electronic media identification and copyright management solutions for content owners, publishers, broadcasters, disc replicators, hardware & software developers and IT organizations.

Audible Magic’s products and services identify, monitor, track and manage copyrighted multimedia content in all of its forms, including:

* Radio and TV analog broadcasts
* Internet and satellite streams
* Stored digital files
* Network file transfers

The company’s core copyright-sensing technology, CopySense®, accurately identifies digital or broadcast media content based on the perceptual characteristics of the content itself. Built on a patented electronic fingerprinting process, the technology is robust, efficient, and massively scalable.
Volunteer

Computer History Museum

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

1997 — Present (12 years )

Utilized the private sector skills developed as an entrepreneur and manager to create and nurture programs needed for growth at the Computer History Museum.
- Helped start and nurture Volunteer Steering Committee and served as Chair for several years.
- Help start our very (very!) successful Docent Program and Collections Volunteer Training Program - these have allowed the Museum to be open for public tours several days a week and greatly elevated our profile in the community.
- Member of Software Collection Committee concentrating on APL and Software Preservation Workshop.
-Advocated for and facilitated several donations around Scientific Data Systems, Xerox Data Systems, and Hewlett-Packard 1000 and 3000 systems.
-Member of the IBM 1620 Restoration Project Team.
-Numerous other projects with all aspects of the Museum: Collections, Marketing, and Development.
Product Line Manager – Open Source Automotive Infotainment Platform

Wind River

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

September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)

Product Line Manager for, and member of, a cross-company (Intel/BMW/Wind River) consortium creating a new open-source standards based Infotainment and Telematics platform for the automotive market. I created and managed Wind River portion of product platform definitions, Product Requirement Documents, worked with Services and Engineering to define product schedule and features, Roadmaps, Product structure, initial pricing, positioning and customer collateral. Worked with Alliances, Business Development, Services and the Field to define an eco-system and recruit partners for this new platform. With partners from BMW and Intel defined consortia governance, Roadmaps, technology deliverables, market positioning, and was key participant initiating discussions with, and presenting proposal to, AUTOSAR regarding consortia alignment.
Product Line Manager - Linux for Consumer Devices

Wind River

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

July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)

In this position I am responsible for the success of Wind RIver's Linux Platform targeted at the consumer electronics market segments - primarily mobile handsets/cell-phones, digital video, and infotainment/telematics. This position involves working with all organizational functions (Sales, Finance, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Executive staff) and external groups (customers, analysts, press) to define, build, and market a successful product portfolio based on the Linux and other Open Source components. This position involves the usual tasks such as MRD and PRD creation and maintenance, but also new market research, build vs. buy vs. partner investment decisions, and how to maintain and accelerate business growth via Open and Proprietary technologies.
Technical Account Manager

Montavista Software

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

May 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 2 months)

I was the “customer advocate” and troubleshooter for two Tier-1 consumer electronics manufacturers and a tier-1 Telcom Equipment Manufacturer. This position involves working directly with the customer’s program, engineering, and management staff, and within MontaVista marshaling and coordinating relevant field teams, engineering projects, and executive resources to insure MontaVista business and customer objectives are met. On an ad hoc basis involved with the management, motivation, and facilitation of the engineering team here in the U.S. and in Russia. Also devoted considerable time working with MontaVista Business Development team enhancing our relationship with semiconductor partners (Intel, Freescale) to deliver solutions to these customers.
Engineering Manager

Montavista Software

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

June 2000 — May 2004 (4 years )

Simultaneously managed several projects responsible for creating and maintaining developer tools. Successfully delivered new and follow-on product releases within time and resource constrained start-up environment. Team ranged from maximum of 18 and on average 12 direct reports (local, remote domestic, and offshore). Product teams managed:

Java - Working with IBM, delivered ‘clean-room’ VM and Websphere IDE. Managed technology relationship with IBM Phoenix, Raleigh and Toronto.

- Compiler Toolchain
- Integrated Development Environment
- Windows Host
- Graphics Toolkits

Performed management tasks including budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, planning, performance evaluation, coaching, hiring, and termination.

Customer Evangelist for Alcatel, Agilent, Texas Instruments and IBM Pervasive Computing.
President

Monterey Software Group

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

October 1987 — May 2000 (12 years 8 months)

Founder of Monterey Software Group. Involved in all aspects of starting, running, and growing a nascent software business that successfully developed and marketed mainframe caliber access control and audit tools for the HP3000 business computer. These included initiating, working and delivering results in the following areas:

- Bootstrapping and Fundraising
- Product development and support
- Marketing
- Sales
- Business planning
- Legal issues
- Business operations
- Personnel management

Monterey Software customers included: Exxon Company USA, Exxon Chemicals, Exxon Chemical Americas, Exxon Energy, MassMutual Life Insurance, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, Royal Saudi Air Force, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, University of Notre Dame, Mercantile Mutual Insurance (Australia), and Riverside County Flood Control District among others.
Technology Consultant

RSA Security

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1999 — December 1999 (4 months)

Consulting engagement at RSA Security where I ported, QA’d, productized, and documented the BSAFE Encryption Engine and SSL-C software suite for the HP3000 POSIX environment.
VP - Engineering

Durango Software

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

March 1999 — May 1999 (3 months)

Durango Software was engaged with IBM-Tivoli to acquire several software products and assets. Participated in discussions with IBM-Tivoli around the acquisition and future development of the technology, worked with founders on creating, building and growing the Engineering and Support Organization, and performed due diligence on the technology.
Product Manager

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1985 — 1987 (2 years )

Worked closely with R&D organization, field teams, other HP entities, and major accounts to insure a successful implementation, introduction, and release of
the MPE/iX OS on a new family of 32-bit PA-RISC computer systems. Position was focal point for internal (development, functionality, introduction) and external (customer, field, shipment) issues.
Member Technical Staff

Hewlett-Packard Company - Computer Systems Division

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

1982 — 1985 (3 years )

Member of team porting the MPE Operating System from 16-bit to 32-bit hardware architecture. Responsible for the design and implementation of OS bootstrap code. Position required that I interface to different teams including OS kernel, CPU hardware, memory, networking and peripheral groups.
Member Technical Staff

Hewlett-Packard - Data Systems Division

(Computer Software industry)

June 1979 — 1982 (3 years )

Responsible for RTE-6 Operating System generator (RT6GN) and SWTCH RTE OS installation utility. Also wrote and maintained several system utility tools.
Programmer

APL Data Systems

(Computer Software industry)

January 1979 — May 1979 (5 months)

Part-time position designing and developing a APL\Plus file system emulator for a PC based APL. This allowed mainframe program to be easily and quickly ported from the mainframe to PC environment with minimal source code changes.

Additional Information

Lee Courtney’s Interests:

Dynamics of new venture, market and technology development; Forward application of technology history to mapping venture and technology evolution; Community building in corporate and technology affinity groups.

Lee Courtney’s Groups:

SDFORUM Software Development Forum, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Computer History Museum (CHM), SVPMA Silicon Valley Product Management Association