Paul Dumais

Current

Senior Technical Architect at Research In Motion

Past

CTO & Co-founder at Rove
Senior Software Architect at MKS
Software Developer at Databeacon

Software Intern at Sun Microsystems
Software Developer at Corel Corporation

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Education

University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

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Industry

Computer Software

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Paul Dumais’s Summary

Paul is a wireless application visionary. His expertise include creating new products, developing product strategy and leading development teams to bring wireless applications to market. He has over 13 years of professional experience in all mobile application development technologies including BlackBerry, Java, .NET, Palm and Windows Mobile.

Paul is also a contributing author of O'Reilly's BlackBerry Hacks book, in which he wrote the chapter on getting started with BlackBerry programming.

Paul began his passion for wireless communication and technology when he got his amateur radio license as a teenager in a small town in northern Canada. He fabricated his own antennas for satellite communication, and programmed software for packet radio communication on his amateur radio.

After receiving a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Ottawa, Paul became one of the first experts in the Java programming language and was a developer of Corel Office for Java, as well as a developer on JavaBeans and JavaHelp at Sun Microsystems. In 1999 Paul co-founded his first company, creating world class bug tracking software, the technology was acquired by MKS and went on to win many awards branded as MKS Integrity Manager.

After MKS Paul co-founded Idokorro Mobile (later renamed Rove Mobile), where he created Rove's award winning wireless products and built the company to have thousands of customers and millions of dollars in annual revenues.

Paul Dumais’s Specialties:

Creating new and innovative software products, mobile application development, BlackBerry development, Java development, .NET development, remote access, network management systems

Paul Dumais’s Experience

Senior Technical Architect

Research In Motion

(Public Company; RIMM; Wireless industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Architect of BlackBerry App World. I'm responsible for all aspects of designing the technical architecture of the BlackBerry App World product, allowing BlackBerry software developers to deliver their applications directly to millions of BlackBerry users.
CTO & Co-founder

Rove

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2000 — September 2008 (7 years 10 months)

Paul was responsible for product vision and leading the technical team at Rove. Paul is the driving force behind the development of all Rove's products. Rove was formerly known as Idokorro and Planetfred.
Senior Software Architect

MKS

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

July 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 6 months)

Paul co-founded a company that created defect tracking software which was acquired by MKS in 1999. Paul lead the development team at MKS bringing to market the newly re-branded software called Integrity Manager. The product is marketed as world class change management software and went on to win many awards and distinctions.
Software Developer

Databeacon

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

January 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Paul was hired at Databeacon (then Internetivity) to develop a data modeling application for multi-dimensional data analysis. He developed the desktop application called dbPublish entirely using the cross platform Java Swing toolkit. He also provided his expertise on porting the flagship product dbProbe to some of the very first Windows CE handheld computers.
Software Intern

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

August 1997 — December 1997 (5 months)

Paul did an student internship at the Javasoft division of Sun Microsystems. He worked on the JavaBeans and JavaHelp team helping bring these new technologies to market.
Software Developer

Corel Corporation

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CREL; Computer Software industry)

December 1995 — August 1997 (1 year 9 months)

Paul worked as a software developer on the Corel Office for Java product, mostly working on an online persistent document storage mechanism. Paul also worked at Corel on the web team providing Java development expertise.