Paul Butcher

Paul Butcher

VP Software Engineering at kgb

United Kingdom

Current
  • VP Software Engineering at kgb
Past
  • CTO at Texperts
  • Technical Account Manager at SavaJe Technologies
  • CTO at Smartner Information Systems
Education
  • York University
  • Durham University
Connections
333 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

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

  • VP Software Engineering

    kgb

    (Telecommunications industry)

    December 2008Present (1 year )

    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.

  • CTO

    Texperts

    (Wireless industry)

    August 2005December 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 2003May 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 2003November 2003 (7 months)

    After Smartner acquired Commtag I took over as CTO for the combined company.

  • Engineering Manager/Acting CTO

    Commtag

    (Wireless industry)

    July 2001April 2003 (1 year 10 months)

    Architect of Duality Always-on Mail, an award-winning cross-platform push e-mail product (a Blackberry competitor).

  • Development Team Manager

    Argogroup plc

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    April 2000June 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 1996November 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.

  • Software Engineer/Team Leader

    Harlequin

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    August 1992December 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

  • York University

    PhD , Computer Science , October 1989July 1992

  • Durham University

    BSc , Mathematics, Computer Science , October 1986June 1989


Additional Information

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Paul Butcher’s Interests:

Motor racing (I compete in Formula Jedi and Monoposto)

Paul Butcher’s Groups:

  •    Durham University Alumni
  •    Argogroup Alumni
  •    SavaJe Alumni
  •    LTN ICT Special Interest Group
  •    Cambridge Jobs

Paul Butcher’s Contact Settings

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  • new ventures
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  • expertise requests
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