Vice President at Sun Microsystems
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Vice President, Systems Management at Sun Microsystems
- Past
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- Vice President, Product Marketing at Cassatt Corporation
- Vice President, Product Engineering at Cassatt Corporation
- Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Technology Consultant at K&A Software
- Managing Partner at Emergent Behavior
- Consultant at Apple Computer
- Education
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- University of San Diego
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Steve Wilson’s Experience
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Vice President, Systems Management
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
Responsible for Sun's data center management and automation products. This includes functions such as monitoring, server provisioning, and virtualization/cloud management.
Built the network that collects information from millions of deployed products to increase Sun's business intelligence about who is using its hardware and software products. -
Vice President, Product Marketing
Cassatt Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — July 2006 (7 months)
Leading Product Marketing for all of Cassatt. Managing a team of product managers and technical writers. Responsible for all requirements management and product definition as well as the creation of all technical outbound materials (both marketing and product documentation)
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Vice President, Product Engineering
Cassatt Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 7 months)
Managing all aspects of software technology productizataion including: Product Definition, Human Factors, Documentation, Quality, and Applications/Performance Engineering.
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Director of Engineering
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — July 2004 (5 years 3 months)
Leading the NetBeans open-source IDE project. Led a team of over 60 engineers and support staff to develop one of the leading Java IDEs. Responsible for the complete lifecycle of NetBeans 3.6 and initiated NetBeans 4.0.
Prior to leading NetBeans I managed performance for Sun's Java Virtual Machine, application server, web server and XML/WebServices API sets. -
Senior Technology Consultant
K&A Software
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Member of small consulting company specializing in object oriented technology and specifically Java. Clients included: Boeing, National Semiconductor, Lawrence Livermore Labs, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and others.
Spent over a year in this position under full-time contract to Sun where I worked as an engineer on the Java Development Kit. I was the technical lead on Swing's Java Look & Feel (aka Metal) and led performance tuning efforts that improved the performance of the toolkit by over 100%. -
Managing Partner
Emergent Behavior
(Computer Software industry)
1990 — May 1997 (7 years )
Led business and product development activities for the company and produced and marketed several products:
MicroGA - advanced C++ toolkit for solving tough optimization problems using Genetic Algorithms
QuickApp - C++ Framework for developing Macintosh GUI applications for machines with constrained RAM and CPU resources
Spreadsheet 2000 - Next-generation spreadsheet / visual-programing environment. Voted best Macintosh business software of 1996 and many other awards -
Consultant
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; APPL; Computer Hardware industry)
1988 — 1995 (7 years )
Contracted to Apple in many capacities. Designed interactive multimedia content to educate software developers. Taught hands-on seminars in Object Technology and Advanced C++. Worked on an advanced prototype IDE constructed of all OpenDoc parts.
Steve Wilson’s Education
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University of San Diego
BBA , Business Administration , September 1988 — June 1992
- Activities and Societies:
- Delta Sigma Pi
