Peter Slade

Director Product Development at BST Global

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Current
  • Director Software Product Development at BST Global
Past
  • Chief Architect at CallMiner
  • Director Technology at Globus and Cosmos
  • Director of Development & Chief Architect at Bid4Vacations.com
  • CTO at nFusion Technologies
  • Independent Consultant at Network Imaging
  • Solution Architect at Versatility Inc
Connections
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Industry
Computer Software

Peter Slade’s Summary

Over seventeen years of software development expertise, including ten years of Executive Management expertise (Director, CTO), with strong leadership, entrepreneurial and managerial skills. Specialty in bridging the gap between technical resources, business managers, and CXO's.

Competencies:

* Strong leadership, entrepreneurial and managerial skills.
* Expertise in bringing high-technology product lines from R&D to release and full commercialization.
* Proven ability to manage large scale projects, consistently deliver within time and budget constraints.
* Proven ability to motivate and manage technical professionals to achieve high levels of performance.
* Full ability to manage an entire company, separate division, or particular departments.
* Considerable knowledge of active strategic and business issues facing senior executives.
* Attracted, motivated, and retained teams of first-class technical and management staff (including outsourced contractors).
* Co-founder of several software and consulting businesses.
* Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

Peter Slade’s Specialties:

* People Growth
* Project Management
* Process Management
* Technology Strategies
* Leading R&D Effort
* Communication & Presentation
* Technology Evolution Planning
* Software Methodologies/Best Practices
* Process Engineering & Reengineering
* Turnaround & Change Management
* Technologies
- Operating Systems: Windows, OS X, Linux, Unix
- Languages: C#, .NET, Mono, Objective-C, Java, VB.NET, VB
- Databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL
- Web: IIS, Apache, HTML, SOAP, XML


Peter Slade’s Experience

  • Director Software Product Development

    BST Global

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

    August 2005Present (4 years)

    I manage a group of 40 outstanding individuals to deliver high quality commercial software products.

  • Chief Architect

    CallMiner

    (Computer Software industry)

    February 2004August 2005 (1 year 7 months)

  • Director Technology

    Globus and Cosmos

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Retail industry)

    February 2001February 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  • Director of Development & Chief Architect

    Bid4Vacations.com

    (Computer Software industry)

    19992001 (2 years)

  • CTO

    nFusion Technologies

    (Computer Software industry)

    19971999 (2 years)

  • Independent Consultant

    Network Imaging

    (Computer Software industry)

    19971997 (less than a year)

  • Solution Architect

    Versatility Inc

    (Computer Software industry)

    19961997 (1 year)


Additional Information

Peter Slade’s Interests:

Software Architecture, iPhone Applications, Digital Photography, Business Strategies, Management Philosophies, Racket Sports

Peter Slade’s Groups:

  •    Executive Suite
  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Business Intelligence Group
  •    Linked .NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
  •    CIO Forum
  •    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
  •    Microsoft .Net Developer Partners
  •    Linux Users
  •    Tampa Area Business Leadership Alliance
  •    Linked by Tampa Bay / Orlando
  •    Tampa Bay Area Technology Professionals
  •    TechDemand > Tampa Bay
  •    TBTF - Tampa Bay Technology Forum
  •    Linked To Denver

Peter Slade’s Honors:

Primary Inventor: US Patent 2007/0094270 - Method and apparatus for the processing of heterogeneous units of work


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