Sr. Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com Global Payments
Greater Seattle Area
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- Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
- Past
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- Program Manager (ACES Game Studio) at Microsoft
- VP Strategic Development at Advanced Interactive Systems
- Director of Military Programs at Reality by Design
- VP Engineering at Reality by Design
- Director of Emerging Technologies at Reality by Design
- Supervisory Computer Scientist at Naval Postgraduate School
- Instructor and Computer Lab Supervisor at North Carolina State University
- Education
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- North Carolina State University
- North Carolina State University
- Wake Forest High School
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Paul T. Barham’s Summary
High technology lead plus individual contributor with successful achievements and experience in designing, developing and delivering large-scale software products and systems as well as professional technical services. Results driven entrepreneur with skills and strong experience in program management, product specification, software development, strategic development and partnerships, new business development, and research and development (R&D) management. Highly qualified leader, team builder and mentor with a software development background and demonstrated abilities functioning in a fast-paced and highly-independent environment managing diverse virtual and distributed teams with strength in communicating across groups, divisions and to management.
- Over 21 years defining/specifying, developing, managing and delivering complex packaged and service-based software solutions with 5 years of university teaching, 4 years of U.S. Government R&D simulation software development, and 12 years of applied industry experience designing and developing large software systems using object-oriented (mostly C++), cross-platform approaches.
- Over 15 years managing, leading and mentoring software, hardware and system engineering teams including distributed and virtual teams and contractors. I, along with my teams, designed, developed and fielded complex industry-leading , PC-based, integrated hardware/software training systems (featured on CNN and Discovery Channel for being novel and bleeding-edge). Experience with agile methodologies and full understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Over 13 years R&D and program management experience, operating with little or no management direction and oversight
- Over 8 years serving as group program manager leading and directing up to 4 other PMs to manage all Government programs for a corporate group/division including overall budget accountability, hiring, dismissing, training and mentoring.
Paul T. Barham’s Specialties:
• Program Management
• Agile Software Development Management
• Product Definition and Specification
• Team Building and Leadership
• Research and Development Management
• Budget and Schedule Management
• Internal and External Resource Management
• Strategic Planning & Execution
Paul T. Barham’s Experience
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Senior Technical Program Manager
Amazon.com
(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)
March 2009 — Present (10 months)
Senior Technical Program Manager on the Amazon.com Global Payments Platform Team. As a senior member of the TPM team, I take an active role advancing one of the web’s most scalable, reliable, and secure payments platforms that processes tens of billions of dollars in transactions, in 14 currencies, across 6 regions, leveraging 7 different payment methods.
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Program Manager (ACES Game Studio)
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2008 — January 2009 (3 months)
Technical Program Manager worked in the ACES Studio on the ESP simulation platform (www.microsoft.com\esp) defining product functionality and leading feature teams to create product upgrades using agile development methodologies. Coordinated with business development and sales to understand customer requirements then convert these requirements into clear and concise product requirements. Used these requirements to build product specifications and then lead the feature team to implement and test. The entire ACES studio was closed during Microsoft downsizing due to the weak U.S. economy.
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VP Strategic Development
Advanced Interactive Systems
(Defense & Space industry)
December 2005 — November 2008 (3 years )
Challenge:
Working directly for and with the AIS CEO/President, create, document, and implement corporate-level (i.e. cross divisional) growth and value creation strategies
Accomplishments:
Developed and executed merger and acquisition strategies and approaches including multiple courses of actions depending on dynamic market conditions and funding availability
Managed, conducted and analyzed internal and external market research and competitive positioning
Interfaced with the board of directors and major shareholders regarding value creation and above stated responsibilities -
Director of Military Programs
Reality by Design
(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)
October 2005 — December 2005 (3 months)
Challenge:
Manage all military programs for RBD subsidiary as the senior program manager (PM) leading other PMs and project managers/engineers within a matrix organization
Accomplishments:
Managed revenues of $1-3 million and 5-8 programs per year over tenure with company
Maintained revenue projections, profit, margin protection, program execution, management of personnel, business development and customer relations
Established and enforced strategy for military division for the company, reporting and working with the executive vice presidents and president -
VP Engineering
Reality by Design
(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)
June 1999 — October 2003 (4 years 5 months)
Challenge:
Manage and lead distributed software, hardware and systems engineering teams for RBD subsidiary spanning three geographic locations (Monterey, CA; Boston, MA; Orlando, FL)
Accomplishments:
Served as Chief Scientist / Technologist for the subsidiary
Lead product and program development, supervised all software engineers and other engineering project managers
Along with two other owners, negotiated RBD company sale to AIS and managed subsequent transition
Lead efforts to expand primary military virtual simulation product (i.e. SVS) to serve a variety of new markets including weapons inspections, fire inspections, and homeland security applications -
Director of Emerging Technologies
Reality by Design
(Privately Held; Defense & Space industry)
November 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 8 months)
Challenge:
Establish new office, build new customer relationships, create new business and lead development efforts for newly hired staff
Accomplishments:
Opened and established RBD Monterey office after joining RBD as the third principle
With other two owners, grew the company from three to twenty four employees in three years
Landed large U.S. Army contracts for real-time, first-person, 3D graphics virtual simulation for infantry operations and then lead internal team to design, develop and field the world’s first PC-based dismounted infantry virtual simulation with SVS (now the leading system of its kind in the U.S. and exclusively used by the U.S. Army Soldier Battle Lab at Ft. Benning, Georgia) -
Supervisory Computer Scientist
Naval Postgraduate School
(Educational Institution; Defense & Space industry)
February 1993 — November 1996 (3 years 10 months)
The NPSNET Research Group (now called the Modeling and Virtual Environments (MOVES) group) conducts research into all facets of distributed visual simulation design and development including software architectures for large-scale, distributed virtual reality (VR) systems.
GS-13 Supervisory Computer Scientist (12/95 – 11/96)
GS-12 Computer Scientist (05/95 - 12/95)
GS 11 Computer Specialist (02/93 - 05/95)
Served as principle investigator, technical lead, senior software architect, computer lab manager, and lead software engineer for NPSNET-IV, an open-source, Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) compliant, object-oriented, visual simulation system consisting of more than 100,000 lines of C++/C code developed at NPS and written using IRIS GL/Open GL and Performer -
Instructor and Computer Lab Supervisor
North Carolina State University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 1988 — May 1992 (3 years 10 months)
Lectured, evaluated student performance, and designed notes, assignments and exams for undergraduate courses in the Computer Science Department on software design and development, computer architecture and computer graphics
Successfully hired, trained and managed all lab instructors for the required College of Engineering introductory computer course and served on committee to establish and implement lab policies the first semester this course was taught
Paul T. Barham’s Education
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North Carolina State University
MS , Computer Science , 1987 — 1991
Master of Science (with thesis) in Computer Science, 1991
Computer Graphics Concentration, Mathematics Minor
Honors: Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant 1990 and 1992 -
North Carolina State University
BS , Computer Science , 1983 — 1987
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, 1987
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Kappa Phi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Pi Mu Epsilon, Academic All American
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Wake Forest High School
1979 — 1983
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Paul T. Barham’s Interests:
Professional Interests: - Start-ups, growing businesses, strategic development, business development, building capable teams, innovative thinking Personal Interests: - Family genealogy, coin collecting, fire fighter license plate collecting, being a good father and husband
Paul T. Barham’s Groups:
ACM – Association of Computing Machinery
ACM SIGGRAPH – ACM Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Computer Society
NDIA – National Defense Industrial Association
AUSA – Association of the United States Army
Navy League of the United States
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Amazon Global Network -
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ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers
Paul T. Barham’s Honors:
Volunteer Firefighter – Falls Volunteer Fire Department, North Carolina (1981-1991)
Deputy Chief (1 year), Captain (7 years), Active Member (10 years)
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizenship Award 1983
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