VP Software Engineering at kgb
United Kingdom
- Current
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- VP Software Engineering at kgb
- Past
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- CTO at Texperts
- Technical Account Manager at SavaJe Technologies
- CTO at Smartner Information Systems
- Engineering Manager/Acting CTO at Commtag
- Development Team Manager at Argogroup plc
- Team Leader at Superscape
- Software Engineer/Team Leader at Harlequin
- Education
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- York University
- Durham University
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- Industry
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Paul Butcher’s Summary
An accomplished technical leader with an extremely broad range of expertise and a track record of successful delivery under challenging circumstances. Strong commercial experience including sales and marketing together with involvement in the entire business lifecycle from creating a business plan through fundraising, execution and exit.
Able to organise software projects with a view to both achieving high quality results and getting the product "out of the door".
Author of "Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code", published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Paul Butcher’s Specialties:
Software development methodologies, mobile data communications, compiler and virtual machine construction, real-time computer graphics
Paul Butcher’s Experience
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VP Software Engineering
kgb
(Telecommunications industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Since kgb acquired Texperts, we've been working on rolling out the technology we developed to support kgb's brands worldwide, as well as implementing numerous enhancements.
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CTO
Texperts
(Wireless industry)
August 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 5 months)
Texperts created the (now hotly contested) “mobile find” market in 2004. We developed Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval technology that fully- or semi-automatically generates answers to unrestricted free text questions, together with sophisticated workflow management and groundbreaking mobile interfaces.
One of the first UK teams to adopt Ruby on Rails; we have contributed several patches and enhancements that are now incorporated within Rails. -
Technical Account Manager
SavaJe Technologies
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 7 months)
SavaJe developed a Java-based mobile operating system designed to allow extensive customization of the user experience. SavaJe’s assets were acquired by Sun Microsystems and form the basis of JavaFX Mobile.
A member of the sales team, my role comprised technical liaison with diverse stakeholders including mobile operators, handset manufacturers, chipset vendors and third-party developers -
CTO
Smartner Information Systems
(Wireless industry)
May 2003 — November 2003 (7 months)
After Smartner acquired Commtag I took over as CTO for the combined company.
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Engineering Manager/Acting CTO
Commtag
(Wireless industry)
July 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 10 months)
Architect of Duality Always-on Mail, an award-winning cross-platform push e-mail product (a Blackberry competitor).
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Development Team Manager
Argogroup plc
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
April 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Architect of UbiquinoX, Argo’s “carrier grade” (highly reliable), scalable, modular and cross-platform architecture.
Under my leadership the team successfully pioneered the use of the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology, one of the first such teams in the UK. -
Team Leader
Superscape
(Public Company; Computer Games industry)
January 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 11 months)
Led the team responsible for developing Superscape’s authoring and visualisation tools for real-time interactive 3D (virtual reality) environments. Responsible for porting the product line to Windows, web-enabling the software, internationalisation, and numerous enhancements.
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Software Engineer/Team Leader
Harlequin
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 1992 — December 1995 (3 years 5 months)
Worked on the ScriptWorks PostScript interpreter. Among other things, responsible for the initial port to Windows/NT, including the multiprocessor version. After being promoted to team leader, I led the I/O group, which was responsible for device driver development under Windows, UNIX and Macintosh.
Paul Butcher’s Education
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York University
PhD , Computer Science , October 1989 — July 1992
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Durham University
BSc , Mathematics, Computer Science , October 1986 — June 1989
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Paul Butcher’s Interests:
Motor racing (I compete in Formula Jedi and Monoposto)
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Paul Butcher’s Contact Settings
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