Joe Pistritto

Current

• VP Engineering at UBmatrix

Past

• VP Development at Embarcadero Technologies Inc.
• VP Engineering at Xdegrees Inc.
• VP Network Operations at Zaplet Inc.

• VP Engineering at FaceTime Communications
• VP Server Engineering & Network Operations at PointCast Inc.
• VP Internet Technology at Oracle Corporation
• Senior Technical Staff at Computer Products, Inc.

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Education

• The Johns Hopkins University
• The Johns Hopkins University

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Industry

Computer Software

Joe Pistritto’s Summary

Highly accomplished, visionary Information Technology Executive with expertise in long-range strategic planning, budget administration, personnel hiring and administration, and oversight of software engineering, technology architecture, and technology development processes.

Talent for utilizing innovative strategies to improve company offerings and develop advanced technologies. Demonstrated success in building and leading teams focused on cutting-edge technology development and customer satisfaction.

Strengths lie in developing offshore partnerships to drive bottom-line profits.

Awarded 3 US Patents as co-inventor.

Joe Pistritto’s Specialties:

Computer software development managing teams from 10 to 100 developers.
Network Operations management for 24x7 sites using Microsoft or Sun based architectures.

Joe Pistritto’s Experience

• VP Engineering

  UBmatrix

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

  April 2006 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Direct the execution of product development and client service / support functions for a startup focused on the XBRL technology for automating financial reporting as used by FDIC for over 8000 member banks and major European banks.
  Collaborate with the CEO and Marketing on new product development vision. Manage development teams in Kirkland, WA and New Delhi, India, and oversee the service group charged with delivery of customized implementations.
  Administer a $2.5 million engineering and salary cost budget. Forecast human capital requirements; interview, hire, and manage overall project oversight / workflow management for staff of 26 direct and indirect reports.

• VP Development

  Embarcadero Technologies Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; EMBT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  Recruited to revamp organization and facilitate overall development of 10 different products in Embarcadero’s suite of Database Administration, Development, and Modeling tools with over 30,000 business customers. Established objectives for the division and administered $16 million salary and capital expenditures budget. Supervised development teams in San Francisco, Denver, Monterey, Toronto, and India.
  
  Managed four directors from Engineering, Quality Assurance, Technical Documentation, and Information Technology, in addition to 110 indirect reports.
  
  Key Achievements:
  > Managed releases of 8 different products among development teams located in 5 different locations
  > Redesigned quality assurance process, which reduced bug fix time 50%.
  > Successfully completed Sarbanes Oxley 404 Audit for IT organization.
  > Initiated and expanded remote global quality assurance organization in India by sourcing and securing vendor focused on delivering QA functionality.

• VP Engineering

  Xdegrees Inc.

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

  May 2001 — April 2002 (1 year)

  Spearheaded the development, quality assurance and MIS/operations functions for an early stage company concentrating on the development of peer-to-peer network systems for secure collaboration and information exchange (Enterprise Napster). Conceptualized and established a hosted data center environment, including system configuration and architecture. Collaborated on network technology and provided advice on product direction and Internet functionality. Conducted hands-on regression testing and performed customer trial field installations at multiple locations. Hired and supervised staff of 10 direct reports.
  
  Key Achievements:
  > Released product to early customers (GM, Accenture) through three software production versions.
  > Conceptualized emerging standards for accessing files over the internet; reviewed and assisted with authoring patent applications which resulted in patent awards and proved instrumental in acquisition by Microsoft in 2002.

• VP Network Operations

  Zaplet Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 8 months)

  Initiated the network operations department as one of the first 30 employees at Zaplet Inc. (formerly Firedrop Inc.), a venture-backed company in the Kleiner-Perkins family of companies. Hired 10 team members and established site
  operations for a major three-tier, application-based site running on the Sun/Java/Oracle (Java/J2EE) platform. Designed performance suite, provided specifications to developers, and conducted system performance benchmarking. Administered a $4 million equipment and salary cost budget.
  
  Key Achievements:
  > Launched the $3 million data center, which encompassed negotiation of software licensing, hosting facilities, internet connectivity, and hardware contracts/ leasebacks.
  > Performed cost analysis of deployment for various customer and reference configuration, and participated in cost reduction process that yielded 20-50% savings during deployment phase
  > Designed release cycle for company and ensured adherence to serviceability and liability issues.

• VP Engineering

  FaceTime Communications

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

  Founding VP of Engineering of FaceTime Communications - provider of real time network interaction services to enterprises. Product was an enterprise chat/IM engine that interfaced IM to a support/customer service environment.

• VP Server Engineering & Network Operations

  PointCast Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1995 — August 1997 (1 year 10 months)

  Built the development, QA and Internet operations team at PointCast’s Broadcast Facilities, focused on development of server software, hardware and network operations. Performed public speaking and press/analyst presentation roles, and
  participated in business development and strategy activities. Managed staff of 75 employees.
  
  Key Achievements:
  > Grew user base from zero to more than 2 million on a weekly basis within first six months, while maintaining over 99.5% uptime and scaling server capacity by a factor of over 1000x.
  > Conducted technical presentations, which assisted in closing $38 million in first-round funding.
  > Designed significant components of the server architecture to enable scaling to millions of concurrent users.

• VP Internet Technology

  Oracle Corporation

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1995 (5 years)

  Promoted to establish group charged with developing Oracle’s entry into the Web Server/Application server space. Supervised staff of 15 employees.
  
  Key Achievement:
  > Released first product and first “free” Oracle product for use by developers integrating Oracle applications with the World Wide Web (co-inventor, Patent #5,761,673), which led to establishment of major company-wide initiative to
  enable domination of Oracle in the internet-facing web application marketplace based on an RDBMS.
  
  This position was the last of several over a 5 year career at Oracle covering areas of Desktop & Network software development at the Manager, Senior Manager, Director and VP level.

• Senior Technical Staff

  Computer Products, Inc.

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1984 (2 years)

Joe Pistritto’s Education

• The Johns Hopkins University

  MS, Engineering, 1979 — 1980

• The Johns Hopkins University

  BS, Electrical Engineering, 1975 — 1979

  Graduated with General and Departmental honors

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi, Campus radio station WJHU, Managed UNIX computer system for electrical engineering department.