VP, Engineering at Sabrix
Portland, Oregon Area
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- VP, Engineering at Sabrix
- Past
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- SVP & CTO at Compli
- Chief Technical Officer / VP Product Strategy at ProSight, Inc. / Primavera Systems, Inc.
- Director, R&D at Intersolv/MERANT/PVCS
- Architect, Director R&D at Symantec's Peter Norton Security Business Unit
- Computer Systems Engineer at General Dynamics
- Consultant/Contractor at Systems Technologies Automated Resources, Inc.
- Consultant/Contractor at Kern High School District
- Education
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- University of California, Riverside
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Mark Lawler’s Summary
I've been working in the computer industry for over 20 years with a strong emphasis on the successful development of commercial software applications. I've been directly involved with and a strong driving force behind many well-known commercially successful products and companies. With a passion for products, R&D, and a desire to satisfy customers, I bring significant managerial, business, and technical knowledge and leadership to the table.
My Goal: To provide the very best in executive managerial and technical leadership, empowering managers and teams to deliver great products that are on time, delight customers, and bankrupt competitors!
Bottom line: I love what I do and have a track record of delivering on what I love.
Mark Lawler’s Specialties:
Senior executive management; R&D management; Product Management; analyst relations and briefings; working with industry leading CIOs, CFOs, and VPs in both commercial and federal sectors; offshore development; mergers and acquisitions; patent law; offshore development management; creating and building industry leading and recognized commercial off the shelf products; Java and .NET based architectures.
Mark Lawler’s Experience
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VP, Engineering
Sabrix
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Reporting to the CEO and a member of the executive staff I oversee product engineering for our entire product line, including software development, quality assurance, and technical communication.
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SVP & CTO
Compli
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — February 2008 (9 months)
Provided both external and internal technology leadership for Compli, focusing on corporate strategy and technologies that align the company's investments with the business requirements of Compli's customers. I managed Product Management, Research and Development, Hosting Services, as well as technology partners while providing premium solutions for our customers.
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Chief Technical Officer / VP Product Strategy
ProSight, Inc. / Primavera Systems, Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — May 2007 (8 years 5 months)
Provided executive leadership for ProSight, focusing on corporate strategy and technologies that aligned the company's products, solutions, and services with the business requirements of our customers. As one of the US founders I helped to grow ProSight in to an industry recognized high growth company with revenues in excess of $25M. ProSight was recognized by industry analysts such as the Meta Group and Gartner to be the leaders of the application and portfolio management spaces. Our customers included many industry CIOs including Hershey, Panasonic, Avery Dennison, US DHS, US Treasury, Army, FDA, HHS, VA, etc. I managed Product Management and Marketing, established key strategic partnerships, and M&A. A key designer of the ProSight system I hold 7 patents in the area of IT portfolio management. I managed a product portfolio with over a dozen products, coordinating all product management activities while overseeing the the work of our Israel-based R&D team. Acquired by Primavera.
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Director, R&D
Intersolv/MERANT/PVCS
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MRNT; Computer Software industry)
March 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 11 months)
Director of Research and Development for INTERSOLV's PVCS Business Unit where I was responsible for building a world-class development team from 21 to 70+ engineers and managing R&D budgets in excess of $6M. This was a turn-around that took PVCS Version Manager and PVCS Tracker to the Internet, shipping one of the first commercial server-based products written in Java. Within two years my five teams shipped more products under my leadership than in the previous 5 years combined, turning the business from being MFR driven to LFR driven with the business unit growing from $60M to over $120M in revenue. Introduced and instilled Software Development Lifecycle Management as well as Product Portfolio Management disciplines to both PVCS and its parent company. Managed both local and remote development teams including offshore components.
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Architect, Director R&D
Symantec's Peter Norton Security Business Unit
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
September 1990 — September 1996 (6 years 1 month)
I held various management and engineering positions at Symantec's Peter Norton Computing Group where I was key to the planning and development of many Norton products including Norton AntiVirus and Norton Desktop for Windows. I served as both the Director and Architect for Symantec's Security Business Unit before leaving Symantec. Other leadership positions included that of Development Manager for Norton AntiVirus and served as one of the key lead developers on the original Norton Desktop of Windows, which won hundreds of industry awards. I was the senior R&D manager of M&A teams that integrated both Fifth Generation and Central Point Software in to the Peter Norton Group with co-location assignments that lasted several months in Louisiana, Oregon, and Israel.
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Computer Systems Engineer
General Dynamics
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
June 1987 — September 1990 (3 years 4 months)
GUI Team Leader for the client/server PC Workstation subsystem of n-tier Paperless Factory Shop Floor Control System where I was responsible for the development of all Microsoft Windows software. Responsible for the evaluation and selection of Microsoft Windows 2.x/386 as the graphical user interface as well as SQL connectivity via Gupta. Designed and implemented all major Microsoft Windows user interface components, creation of Multiple Document Interface APIs, abstract data type memory management, state transition, system configuration APIs, display and manipulation of image and vector graphics. Provided technical leadership and training to all Windows and OS/2 personnel.
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Consultant/Contractor
Systems Technologies Automated Resources, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1983 — June 1987 (4 years 1 month)
Performed design and coding tasks in 'C' under the UNIX environment as an independent consultant/contractor. Ported and enhanced STARx software from Data General Business Basic to AT&T 3B2 and 3B5 platforms using ‘C’. Designed, developed, and tested alpha/numeric transaction processor for Western Union's EasyLink, a BBS for the STARx UNIX environment, a pharmacy label generator/compiler used to generate "custom" pharmacy label programs, and the “Tutor Instructional System” (Computer Aided Instruction authoring system).
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Consultant/Contractor
Kern High School District
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; E-Learning industry)
September 1980 — September 1983 (3 years 1 month)
Systems consultant and programmer for original Computer Assisted Instruction software. Instructed various classes and workshops for both students and teachers on programming ind Data General Business BASIC. Teaching Assistant for the Bakersfield Adult School. System administrator for Data General Eclipse and Nova computer systems at Arvin High School.
Mark Lawler’s Education
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University of California, Riverside
BS , Computer Science , June 1983 — June 1987
- Activities and Societies:
- President: Circle K
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Mark Lawler’s Interests:
NScale Model Railroading
Mark Lawler’s Groups:
Software Association of Oregon (www.sao.org),
TechStart Scholarship Committee Judge (www.techstart.org),
Fedarra Advisory Board (www.fedarra.com)
Business Education Compact Advisory Board (www.becpdx.org)
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Symantec Corporation -
PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon -
ProSight Alumni Group -
Silicon Florist
Mark Lawler’s Honors:
Software Association of Oregon Board Member, 2009
Chairman SAO DEVSIG (Developer's Special Interest Group), 2008 & 2009
Named inventor on 3 US and 4 International Patents as of Jan 2007 in the area of IT Project Portfolio Management
Validictorian
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