Roger Binns

Current

Consultant at Self (Self-employed)

Past

Consultant/Contractor at Devon IT
Diverse Responsibilities at Peribit Networks; Juniper Networks
Consultant at Various companies

Business Development Manager, Solutions and Software Architect at IXI, SCO, Tarantella

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Education

Brunel University
Waterford Kamhlaba

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Industry

Computer Software

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Roger Binns’s Summary

I recommend reading my resume at http://www.rogerbinns.com/rogerbresume.html

The position I am best suited for is one that combines Sales Engineer, Business Development, Software Architect, Product Marketing Engineer, Product Manager, Developer and Consultant. I enjoy visiting customers and partners, helping to close sales, fight fires, and having a positive impact on customer implementations and experience. I complete the feedback loop to internal development and product management with what worked well, considerations of future functionality, and areas of new potential including development of prototypes, bug fixing, custom development, infrastructure and tools.

My goal is to do whatever it takes to make things better for developers, partners and customers. I prefer to work in small companies and startup like environments.

I am located in the San Francisco Bay Area in California (Santa Cruz), and can legally live and work anywhere in the USA and European Union.

Roger Binns’s Specialties:

Biz Dev: Working with business oriented people on technical issues, and technical people on business issues, both internally and externally.
Architecting, designing, implementation, logistics and consulting for network and thin client oriented products.
Extensive programming experience: System and network level with some graphical user interface on multiple platforms (C, C++, Python, shell languages)

Roger Binns’s Experience

Consultant
Self (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Working for select clients to improve networked hardware and software systems.
Consultant/Contractor

Devon IT

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )

I was brought on to do product management for Devon Connection Manager/BladeWorks. After doing initial roadmaps etc, I did development work to help bring the product to initial release and to ensure everything was covered.
* Initial product roadmap, admin web interface prototype, initial administrator visible component specifications
* Critique of partner products and protocols (security, future capabilities, interoperability with networking)
* Designed and drove changes in partner product to drastically simplify initial setup and configuration for customers, resilience to network and administrative changes
Diverse Responsibilities

Peribit Networks; Juniper Networks

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; JNPR; Computer Networking industry)

September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years )

Peribit Networks Consultant reporting to CTO
Juniper Networks, Product Management Group, Application Acceleration Products

A substantial part of my effort was focussed on acceleration for the following protocols for the WX/WXC platforms (in addition to some others not made public yet): SMB/CIFS, MAPI, HTTP, SSL

I covered the complete lifecycle for features/functionality

Invention (new ideas and techniques, 2 patent applications, subject matter expert on Microsoft)

Product Management (assisted product managers, wrote requirements docs, implemented prototypes)

Development (productivity tools, architecture, tool development, research, reverse engineering, investigate tools for QA)

Marketing (drafts, found and documented flaws in competitor products)

Customers (worked in customer support issues, escalations, research)

Communication (maintained wiki, authored lots of content, discussion groups, podcast)

Business development (worked with 3 major companies)
Consultant

Various companies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 6 months)

Various companies

* Product competitive technical analysis and strategy
* Various other work (all under NDA)

MainSpring Ventures
Background research and analysis.

Unfunded local startup
(October 2003 till Sept 2004)
VP, Architecture, Design, proof of concepts and prototypes

* Helping with company strategy moving towards getting funding
* Architecture of distributed multi-media environment
* Development of prototype software: PocketPC 2002 Phone Edition, Windows XP Embedded, data and SMS, C++/MFC/Python, Linux web backend (PHP, Python, Perl and XML-RPC)
Business Development Manager, Solutions and Software Architect

IXI, SCO, Tarantella

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1993 — June 2003 (9 years 11 months)

Business Development Manager and Solutions Architect - Strategic Alliances Group

* Working with strategic partners to develop business and technical relationships, to the benefit of joint customers and partners.
* Technical consulting on customer projects.
* Feasibility study and prototype implementations of potential projects.
* Managing high priority customer issues, onsite visits.
* SunTone qualification of the Tarantella Enterprise product

Previous responsibilities:

Software Architect - Development Division

* Architecture, design and implementation of products.
* Member of company wide Technical Strategy Group.
* Training world-wide, On-site consultancy.
* Reverse engineered Microsoft Terminal Services protocol (RDP) and file and print protocol (SMB).