Philip Dodds

I am a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur, having served as the Chief Technology Officer for companies such as Exist Global and Devzuz, as well as co-founding Unity Systems. Working with open source and web 2.0 technologies, I have led the definition of products, managed development and serviced fortune 500 companies. Leveraging experience and insight, I provide a deep understanding of available technologies and I am a strong communicator.

More recently I have been focused on cloud computing, and working with companies to help them plot a roadmap to adoption.

Philip Dodds’s Specialties:

Co-founded and bootstrapped SOA Data Management start-up into first year profitability
Managed delivery of support and services around open source distributions to Enterprise clients
Architected and lead development of mission critical financial service systems
Worked with both Enterprise and Open Source communities to drive ROI for clients
Defined a roadmap for transitioning a Enterprise-scale product set into a Service-Oriented Architecture

Philip Dodds’s Experience

Advisor

eMOBUS "Smart Mobility Management"

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Managing Partner

c42

(Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Working as a boutique consultancy, we provide both technical expertise, and development experience, to help companies build structured development environments leveraging Amazon’s cloud technology for both computing and storage. Primarily involved in the Enterprise Data Management space, working with vendors to provide roadmaps leveraging cloud computing offerings based on Apache Hadoop technology (MapReduce) and BigTable (HBase) style storage.

Managed a reference data vendor in a migration to an updated application server platform (based on JBoss 5.x), and incorporated new management features as well as integration of new REST-based architecture, to allow open data services to be made available across the enterprise.

Implemented and developed Amazon Web Service image marketplace (http://www.thecloudmarket.com), to allow people to quickly identify available machine images and provide a platform for learning about offerings in place from vendors.
Committer

Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Committer

The Codehaus

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
Chief Technology Officer

Exist Global

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2007 — June 2008 (7 months)

As part of the acquisition of Devzuz, I was asked to lead the technology teams, this was a much more operational role, focused on building up the infrastructure and management of a 140-person offshore development group. Positioned as an innovation partner for both enterprise clients and web 2.0 start-ups, we worked to create an effective service delivery structure. This included the forming of Practices to identify horizontal technology groups and the development of a project portfolio application, including restructuring of career development to improve retention. Also we pioneered the use of social networking technology for status reporting and blogging within the company to help build a corporate identity. Through our sister company Morph Labs we migrated development environments to Amazon EC2, allowing us to quickly create and scale development needs to meet client demand.
Chief Technology Officer

DevZuz

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Led a small globally distributed development team, and leveraged an off-shore development model, to support and extend releases of Apache Maven, Continuum and Archiva under the brand name Maestro. Highly active in the open source community, and working with large enterprises, we allowed them to produce real value through use of both the open source software (OSS) and also the development model that had been so successful. Overseeing the definition and development of the Maestro project, as well as working closely with large clients to understand how the use of repositories for build artifacts and extended metadata, can enable both legal processing and complex dependency management in the modern enterprise. We were also involved in the development of the Eclipse IAM project which was designed to bring more meta-data into the development life cycle and also provide Apache Maven capabilities in the Eclipse environment I was actively involved in development and led a PMO, and leveraging Basecamp, and other online tools, developed a suite of project reporting using Ruby.

In the latter stages of the company we focused on building an open repository of build artifacts, as a Platform as a Service (PaaS), for developers to leverage. However a shortfall in funding led to our acquisition by Exist Global.
Consultant

LogicBlaze

(Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — November 2006 (7 months)

Working on a short contract with the LogicBlaze team (now part of Progress) to build up the open source FUSE platform. This SOA technology stack, based on Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Servicemix, included web service integration and JBoss. A great opportunity to work within the open source community, and also with customers, to build a suite of tooling and integrate FUSE with the Eclipse platform and Apache Maven build technologies.
Chief Architect/Co-Founder

Unity Systems

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 7 months)

A founder in a self-started Enterprise Data Management software company, leveraging the experiences from working with a large number of financial services clients. I was responsible for the conception, design and implementation of an SOA data platform, which was implemented in large financial services companies in order to allow for the normalization of data, coming from multiple disparate systems within the organization. The initial release of the platform was made available to clients within 7 months of the start of the company and we became profitable within the first year. Our flagship product was built on an open source stack (JBoss) and was designed to leverage many of the cutting edge aspects of SOA, such as both REST and WS interfaces. In the final release, we successfully ported the underlying technology to JBI 1.0. The system remains in production environments after the company was sold, and is responsible for the processing of millions of data points, from over 50 market data vendors, and continues to prove successful.

I was involved in all aspects, including leading the small development team, releases to clients, support - as well as sales and marketing. The broad experience base helped grow my vision up from pure architecture to understand the process of building and selling products in the enterprise landscape.
VP Technology and Architecture

GoldenSource

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Working initially as a senior resource within the professional services arm of the organization, I was promoted to lead the Technology and Architecture. I began my tenure by working very closely with a number of large clients globally, providing support and architectural guidance for the implementation of large scale trading , reference data and sub-ledger platforms. I led the transition of the flagship product suite into a Service-Oriented Architecture - taking multiple languages and platforms and linking them together through a messaging infrastructure. With development teams in New York, London, Mumbai and Austria, I was responsible for ensuring that the global technology vision met both the demands of the investment banking world and was future-proofed. I was also responsible for presenting and discussing the next generation architecture with a number of high profile clients, including Deutsche Bank, RBC, UBS and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi.
Architect

Credit Suisse/First Boston

(Public Company; CS; Banking industry)

July 2000 — April 2001 (10 months)

Working as an architect within a large scale project within CSFB, during the acquisition of DLJ. Part of the implementation team for a global sub-ledger. Led the integration of the messaging infrastructure and vendor products, as well as involvement in the overall architecture for the solutions within the Business Process Technical Architecture project.
Architect

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette

(Public Company; DLJ; Investment Banking industry)

August 1999 — July 2000 (1 year )

Lead architect on the design and implementation of a messaging based solution, for both reference data and sub-ledger accounting, within the European arm of the investment bank. I worked within a small team, focused on the rapid delivery of a multi-environment deployment and testing infrastructure, and also to ensure the system scaled for global use.