Paul Emery

Vice President of Engineering at Mu Dynamics

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Vice President of Engineering at Mu Dynamics, Inc.
Past
  • Vice President of Engineering and Technical Operations at Visible Path Corporation
  • Vice President Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation
  • Vice President of Engineering and Client Services at FaceTime Communications, Inc.
  • Vice President of Engineering at Vignette Corporation
  • Vice President of Engineering at Epicentric, Inc.
  • Vice President of Software Development at Webster Management Group, Inc.
Education
  • Harvard University
Connections
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Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Paul Emery’s Summary

In December 2007, I became the Vice President of Engineering at Mu Dynamics, the company that created the service analyzer market and has been shipping the industry's first service analyzer appliance, the award-winning Mu-4000.

Through October 2007, I was the Vice President of Engineering and Technical Operations at Visible Path, a Web 2.0 business social networking company. I expanded and led the software engineering and technical operations organization in Foster City, CA and Bangalore, India to deliver a complete re-implementation of Visible Path’s social networking service.

Through April 2006, I was Vice President Server Technologies at Oracle Corporation where I led product development effort for Oracle WebCenter, the next generation enterprise portal built on Oracle's Fusion Middleware technology stack.

Through August 2005 I was the Vice President of Engineering and Client Services at FaceTime Communications, Inc. I managed FaceTime Communications’ global product development, professional services, and customer support organizations in Foster City, CA, Huntington, WV, and Bangalore, India for for the company's real-time communications management, network security, and anti-spyware products.

Through June 2004, I was the Vice President of Engineering at enterprise content management leader Vignette Corporation. I led an organization of 225 full-time employees in the U.S. and Australia with an additional 80 contractors in India. In this role, I oversaw all product functional specification, product architecture, and software development activities for the company, including user interface design, code implementation, technical documentation, performance & scalability, and quality assurance for Vignette's enterprise content management, portal, and collaboration product suites. I joined Vignette through its acquisition in December 2002 of the enterprise portal pioneer Epicentric, Inc., where I was also the Vice President of Engineering.

Paul Emery’s Specialties:

Network Security, Software as a Service (SaaS), Internet Applications, Social Networking, Internet Security, Enterprise Portals, Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Software, Product Development, Product Management, Technology Mergers and Acquisitions, Software Engineering Management, especially globally-distributed organizations, Offshore Development, Software Quality Assurance, Technical Operations and Technical Support


Paul Emery’s Experience

  • Vice President of Engineering

    Mu Dynamics, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2007Present (11 months)

    In December 2007, I became the Vice President of Engineering at Mu Dynamics, the company that created the service analyzer market and has been shipping the industry's first service analyzer appliance, the award-winning Mu-4000. As computer networks have become more essential to the operation of businesses worldwide, they are becoming more complex. Increased functionality drives complexity and makes networks harder to manage, less robust and less resilient; it also increases the number of security vulnerabilities. Mu Security's products directly address these critical problems to find issues before they lead to service downtime.

  • Vice President of Engineering and Technical Operations

    Visible Path Corporation

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2006October 2007 (1 year 7 months)

    As Vice President of Engineering and Technical Operations, I managed and expanded the software engineering, quality assurance and technical operations organization starting from 10 US-only employees to 35+ employees plus additional contractors divided between Foster City, CA and Bangalore, India to deliver a highly-scalable re-implementation of Visible Path’s social networking product targeted at individual business users as a Web 2.0 consumer Internet service.

  • Vice President Server Technologies

    Oracle Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

    August 2005April 2006 (9 months)

    As Vice President Server Technologies, I led the product development effort for Oracle WebCenter, the next generation enterprise portal built on Oracle's J2EE-based Fusion Middleware technology stack.

  • Vice President of Engineering and Client Services

    FaceTime Communications, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2004August 2005 (11 months)

    As Vice President of Engineering and Client Services, I managed FaceTime Communications’ global product development, professional services, and customer support organizations in Foster City, CA, Huntington, WV, and Bangalore, India for the company's real-time communications management, network security, and anti-spyware products.

  • Vice President of Engineering

    Vignette Corporation

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

    December 2002June 2004 (1 year 7 months)

    I joined Vignette through its acquisition in 2002 of the enterprise portal pioneer Epicentric, Inc., where I was also the Vice President of Engineering. As the Vice President of Engineering at Vignette, I managed an organization of 225 full-time employees in the United States and Australia with an additional 80 contractors in India. In this role, I oversaw all product functional requirement specifications, product architecture, and software development activities for the company, including user interface design, code implementation, technical documentation, performance & scalability, and quality assurance for Vignette's enterprise content management, portal, and collaboration product suites.

  • Vice President of Engineering

    Epicentric, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    December 1999December 2002 (3 years 1 month)

    As Vice President of Engineering at Epicentric -- and earlier as Director of Engineering through October 2000 -- I grew the company’s development team from fewer than 15 to over 120 engineers, by introducing formal software development processes with associated specialist roles required to scale the organization efficiently.

  • Vice President of Software Development

    Webster Management Group, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Investment Management industry)

    September 1992December 1999 (7 years 4 months)


Paul Emery’s Education

  • Harvard University

    B.A., Physics, September 1983June 1987


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Paul Emery’s Groups:

  •    Club ex-Oracle.org
  •    Vignette Alumni Association
  •    Epicentric
  •    FaceTime Communications Alumni

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