Wat Hughes

Current

CTO at Creative Data

Past

Enterprise Vault Consultant at Symantec
Application Performance Engineer at Precise
Application Performance Engineer at Symantec

Application Performance Engineer at VERITAS Software
Consultant at Crane & Co.
Product Designer at Mathsoft
Product Designer at Insightful
Director, Development and Principal Engineer at Open Data
Director, Workstation Engineering at Interleaf
Member of the Technical Staff at General Computer
UNIX Administrator at MIT
Software Enginner at GenRad

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Education

MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Information Technology and Services

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Wat Hughes’s Summary

20+ years experience in software and systems development with an emphasis on business intelligence and other data based systems.

Wat Hughes’s Specialties:

Discovery, Compliance and Archiving for Email and other documents using Symantec Enterprise Vault

computer system performance improvement

RDBMS database design & programming

Wat Hughes’s Experience

CTO

Creative Data

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1995 — Present (14 years 2 months)

Symantec Enterprise Vault Architect and Implementer. Performance Tuning Expert specializing in Precise's line of Application Performance Management Products.

Architect of numerous business intelligence initiatives, including data warehouses, data marts, reporting strategies and implementations, and more. Plus some general consulting management, engagement management and project management.
Enterprise Vault Consultant

Symantec

(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

2005 — April 2009 (4 years )

Working for Symantec and its clients, designed and led Enterprise Vault implementations ranging in size from single server to many tens of thousands of mailboxes and terabytes of archive data. Experience with EV in a wide variety of COOP and HA environments.
Application Performance Engineer

Precise

(Public Company; PRSE; Computer Software industry)

1997 — February 2009 (12 years )

See VERITAS, which acquired Precise Software Solutions then Symantec, which acquired VERITAS, then spun out Precise again.
Application Performance Engineer

Symantec

(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

1997 — April 2008 (11 years )

Application Performance Management Consultant to this Creative Data client, its clients, and other groups at Symantec. [VERITAS was acquired by Symantec in July 2005 and then Precise was spun out in 2008.]
Application Performance Engineer

VERITAS Software

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; VRTS; Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — June 2005 (8 years )

Application Performance Management Consultant to this Creative Data client, its clients, and other groups at VERITAS. [VERITAS was acquired by Symantec in July 2005.]
Consultant

Crane & Co.

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

1998 — 2004 (6 years )

Provided software architecture, development, and project management services to this Creative Data customer.
Product Designer

Mathsoft

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IFUL; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )

Built and led the Creative Data team that developed the initial versions of Mathsoft (now Insightful) StatServer.
Product Designer

Insightful

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IFUL; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )

Built and led the Creative Data team that developed the initial versions of Mathsoft (now Insightful) StatServer.
Director, Development and Principal Engineer

Open Data

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1990 — September 1995 (5 years 8 months)

Development leader in VC-funded company ($27M) that produced data warehousing products.
Director, Workstation Engineering

Interleaf

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LEAF; Computer Software industry)

September 1984 — February 1990 (5 years 6 months)

Hands-on software development leader with responsibility for several product development groups including many of Interleaf's Unix products and its Mac and PC products.
Member of the Technical Staff

General Computer

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1982 — August 1984 (2 years 8 months)

Various roles in the development of video games.
UNIX Administrator

MIT

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

May 1979 — January 1982 (2 years 9 months)

UNIX and network administrator at MIT's Labratory for Computer Science (now CSAIL). Wrote device drivers, fixed file systems, managed accounts and systems, and generally helped faculty, grad students, and staff with computer system use.
Software Enginner

GenRad

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; GEN; Computer Hardware industry)

1980 — 1981 (1 year )

Developed Apple II networking software and UNIX device drivers as a summer intern student working at the West Concord, MA location.

Wat Hughes’s Education

MIT

BS , Computer Science , September 1977 — May 1982

Interned at Genrad, West Concord, MA in 1980 and 1981 then elected not to attend grad school.

BS thesis was software that played Othello. Digital Design lab project played Othello. I was competitive nationally.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

BSCS , Computer Science , 1977 — 1982