Richard Gaushell

Current

• Director of Engineering, IP360 at nCircle Network Security

Past

• Director of Engineering, Applications at SenSage, Inc.
• Manager and Technical Lead at IPIX
• Sr. Software Engineer at InRoads Technology

• Software Engineer at US Web
• Software Engineer at Microsoft (Contract)
• Network and System Admin at Laser Works, Inc.

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Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

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Richard Gaushell’s Summary

Experienced in hands-on software engineering management. Led multi-disciplinary teams, recruited A-level engineers, streamlined process and shipped innovative and useful software -- on time and with high quality.

Richard Gaushell’s Experience

• Director of Engineering, IP360

  nCircle Network Security

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  March 2008 — Present (10 months)

  Managing the development of nCircle's flagship product, IP360, the industry-leading Vulnerability and Risk Management platform.
  
  nCircle is the leading provider of agentless security risk and compliance management solutions. More than 4,000 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world rely on nCircle's proactive security solutions to identify, measure, manage and reduce security risk and automate compliance on their networks. nCircle has won numerous awards for growth, innovation and technology leadership and has been ranked among the top 100 best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Director of Engineering, Applications

  SenSage, Inc.

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

  August 2003 — March 2008 (4 years 8 months)

  • Hired and directed multiple teams of up to 15 software engineers and tech leads in the development of SenSage, an innovative platform for scalable event analytics.
  • Worked with QA, Support, Professional Services, Sales, Technical Publications and Executive Staff.
  • Led the team responsible for the design and development of Java GUI with XML-RPC connectors to a J2EE application server on Red Hat and SuSE Linux
  • Designed and developed a repository for Analytics using GWT, AJAX, Hibernate and Tomcat.
  • Designed and developed Collection framework, in Java and Perl on Linux and Windows.
  • Responsible for the internationalization and Japanese localization of the entire product suite.
  • Introduced test-driven and agile development, which reduced time-to-market and defect rates.
  • Was interim VP of Engineering twice

• Manager and Technical Lead

  IPIX

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

  November 1999 — August 2003 (3 years 10 months)

  • Managed and led a team of up to 5 software engineers in the development of a large-scale image processing and storage system, including client-side and server-side image manipulation.
  • The system was used for eBay Picture Services from 2000-2003. At its peak, the system processed 1.5M images and served 500M image views per day.
  • Designed and built a photo management application using Java, Oracle and Tomcat. Used by Bank of America for their credit card photo acquisition and processing.
  • Designed and built content acquisition and distribution system for interactive virtual tours, using Perl, C, Linux and Solaris.
  • Designed software, planned development, drove process improvement and handled customer support.

• Sr. Software Engineer

  InRoads Technology

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

  April 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 8 months)

  • InRoads Technology is a provider of software that enables software and professional service organizations to develop and package technology-assisted Sales, Evaluation and Implementation "kits" that can be automatically executed by their prospects, customers and partners through a simple, user-friendly, "turbo-tax" style interface.
  • Led development of a Linux-based web application that provided an early form of web services to Visual Basic applications.
  • Managed team of 3 developers, designed architecture, developed and planned releases.

• Software Engineer

  US Web

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1997 — April 1998 (1 year 4 months)

  Technical lead for application development group at Seattle office.
  Responsible for designs, schedules, client consultation and directing QA.
  Designed and built database-backed web applications for companies such as Alaska Air, Microsoft and HP on Solaris and Windows servers.

• Software Engineer

  Microsoft (Contract)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 3 months)

  Developer for MSN Kids, MS Games and Explorapedia.

• Network and System Admin

  Laser Works, Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1994 (3 years)

Richard Gaushell’s Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

  Bachelors, 1991 — 1995