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.
• Electronics Engineer GS-12 at USA Ballistics Research Laboratory
• Systems Engineer/Senior Systems Engineer at EMC Controls 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 broad expertise in software engineering, technology architecture and the software development process looking for an opportunity to use technology to create new innovative products.

Experience managing both small teams and larger multi-function engineering organizations.

Talent for using creative strategies to improve company offerings and develop advanced technologies.

Demonstrated success in building and leading multi-site teams focused on cutting-edge technology development and customer satisfaction.

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; Computer Software industry)

  April 2006 — Present (3 years 4 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 including a $2.5 million engineering and salary cost budget to achieve company goals of increasing sales by 300% over 3 years to over $3 million/year. Develop budget forecasts; interview, hire, and manage overall project implementation for staff of 26 direct and indirect reports.
  
  Key Achievements:
  > Improved timeliness and quality of product releases for 5 products by focusing requirements on key customer needs and implementing QA & defect tracking processes.
  > Decreased average development cost by ramping up India offshore development team from 2 to 22 people.
  > Enhanced reliability and feature set of existing products, which resulted in achieving best suite of products in the marketplace as evidenced by rapidly increasing sales (average growth 75%/year).
  > Initiated and directed development of an Excel add-in product, which was key to first OEM deals with major software vendors including SAP.
  > Led architecture and engineering of first major customer implementation of server product with a microfinance clearinghouse

• VP Development

  Embarcadero Technologies Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  November 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 6 months)

  Recruited to deal with persistent quality issues and to realign development organization of 10 different products in Embarcadero’s suite of Database Administration, Development, and Modeling tools including the industry leading DBArtisan® and ER Studio® product used by 97 of the Fortune 100, and an additional 56,000 business customers. Established quality and release timeliness objectives for the organization and administered $16 million salary and capital expenditures budget.
  
  Managed four directors from Engineering, Quality Assurance, Technical Documentation, and Information Technology disciplines, in addition to 110 indirect reports in 5 major locations.
  
  Key Achievements:
  > Refocused development on a smaller number of high value products by discontinuing some products and realigning resources with company revenue goals.
  > Reduced new release defects by 50% and cut major patches from 6 to 1 per release through proactive planning and improved quality process.
  > Redesigned customer bug process to reduce time to fix customer issues from 4-6 months to under 60 days.
  > Expanded company QA effort by selecting a QA vendor in India and integrating a dual-shore QA process for the 3 most important products by revenue.

• VP Engineering

  Xdegrees Inc.

  (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 successful patent applications which proved instrumental in Microsoft’s acquisition of Xdegrees in 2002

• VP Network Operations

  Zaplet Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 8 months)

  Started the network operations department as one of the first 30 employees at Zaplet Inc. a Kleiner-Perkins venture-backed company. 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. This included hosting service for early customers and redundant connectivity with substantial uptime guarantees. Designed performance suite, provided specifications to developers, and conducted system performance benchmarking. Responsible for 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 QA/test release cycle for company and ensured adherence to serviceability and privacy issues.
  > Member of team that repositioned the company from a consumer focused to enterprise software company.

• 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; Internet 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.
  > Assisted in closing $38 million in B-round funding by providing technical presentations and due diligence.
  > Designed significant components of the server architecture to enable scaling to millions of concurrent users.

• VP Internet Technology

  Oracle Corporation

  (Public Company; ORCL; 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). This 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; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1982 — 1984 (2 years)

  As an initial founder of CPRC Inc, architected and developed the TCS distributed control system based including hardware selection, operating system and communication system design and implementation as well as implementation of initial customer systems in the United States and Europe. Developed initial design of system operator interface as well as all low level device driver functionality for both Computer Products and externally built I/O hardware.

• Electronics Engineer GS-12

  USA Ballistics Research Laboratory

  (Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1983 (1 year)

  Performed design and analysis of Internet protocol based systems used both in the laboratory and by US Army units in the field. Participated in design/review sessions with other US Government agencies and contractors. This position involved prototyping in the C programming language using UNIX based systems on various hardware architectures.

• Systems Engineer/Senior Systems Engineer

  EMC Controls Inc.

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  1978 — 1981 (3 years)

  Implemented process systems for EMC Controls Emcon-D process control systems, including operating system and system communications design for both remote (PCM) processor and operator control station (DCM) systems. Implemented as systems engineer 7 systems for ARAMCO, a major EMCC customer and was selected as a member of the design team for the next generation system that replaced Emcon-D. Programs written in “C” and Assembly Language

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.