Senior Director at Aplix
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Senior Director, R&D at Aplix
- Past
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- CTO at Tao Group
- Director at Reference Information Systems
- System Engineer at Smith System Engineering
- Education
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- University of Surrey
- University of Cambridge
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Paddy Byers’s Summary
A senior and widely respected software technologist and innovator with two decades' experience in software and services for handheld devices and information strategy. I am able to combine a deep technical understanding, gained from many years’ practical software development, with extensive commercial and management experience.
Paddy Byers’s Specialties:
System architecture, web services, software development processes and quality assurance, security, mobile software and services, java, IP protection.
Paddy Byers’s Experience
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Senior Director, R&D
Aplix
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Regional responsibility for technical leadership and coordination of the group's R&D activities.
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CTO
Tao Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — March 2007 (6 years 11 months)
CTO and executive director responsible for all technical aspects of the company’s products leading a high calibre engineering team of 50. The role includes management, technology coordination, development, sales, and technology evangelism responsibilities.
As CTO I was primarily responsible for:
- steering the technical and techno-commercial strategy for the company;
- liaison with product marketing to define products and roadmap and associated marketing and sales collateral;
- oversight of technology development against a 2-year forward roadmap;
- work with partner technology companies in both hardware and software;
- IP policy including all aspects of patent development.
The role also occasionally involved work at an intensely technical level when required. -
Director
Reference Information Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1993 — May 2000 (7 years 3 months)
RIS was a technical consulting company founded by me and one other consultant. It specialised in provision of advice on the deployment of advanced technology. The company grew to having 5 permanent consultant employees and a number of other associated consultants employed under subcontract.
I was responsible for setting up the Quality System which gained certification to ISO9001.
Consultancy assignments conducted during my time at the company usually involved formulation of technology strategy and provision of advice at a senior level to commercial and government organisations. The technical focus was highly dependable systems in the transport and military sectors and the construction of information systems strategies based on (emerging) internet technologies. -
System Engineer
Smith System Engineering
(Computer Software industry)
September 1990 — March 1993 (2 years 7 months)
Technical leader in information systems technology group. I led multiple projects, primarily highly dependable systems including safety-critical systems in the transport sector.
Paddy Byers’s Education
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University of Surrey
PhD , Theoretical Computer Science , 1987 — 1990
PhD Thesis title: "Computability over abstract data types"
Studied theoretical models of computability and their relationship to various formal methods of program specification. -
University of Cambridge
MA , Mathematics , 1984 — 1987
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