Rick Hoffman

Current

• President and CEO at VDIworks

Past

• President and CEO at ClearCube Technology
• VP, Product Development at ClearCube
• Director and GM, Linux Systems Group at Dell Computer

• Director of Software, Server Group at Dell Computer
• Manager and Program Director, Systems Management and Solutions at IBM
• Senior Programmer /Manager. Strategic Software Development Environment at IBM
• Advisory Programmer / Manager. AIX Base Device Driver and RS/6000 Diagnostic Development at IBM
• Engineer/Scientist, Storage Products Development for the RS/6000 and RT at IBM

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Education

• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Texas at Austin

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Industry

Computer Software

Rick Hoffman’s Summary

· Top-producing executive with 26 years experience in all aspects of product development, sales, marketing and operations.
· Special strength in leading teams to identify, develop and ship integrated hardware and software solutions
· Experience in driving world wide product strategy with strong input from customers, competition and emerging technologies
· Highly trained and skilled in personnel management, quality management (ISO 9000 certified auditor), customer requirements and project management (PMI certified)
· Successful in managing engineering teams in US, EMEA, Japan, Singapore and establishing off-shore teams in India and Pakistan
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience in dealing with Enterprise Customers, Board of Directors, press and industry analysts and executive management

Rick Hoffman’s Experience

• President and CEO

  VDIworks

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

  May 2008 — Present (5 months)

  VDIworks (spin out from ClearCube) is a software company that delivers products and services to reduce the complexity of desktop virtualization. The software enables IT managers to centrally create, deploy and manage virtual desktop infrastructure.

• President and CEO

  ClearCube Technology

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

  June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year)

  President and CEO of ClearCube Technology

• VP, Product Development

  ClearCube

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

  June 2001 — May 2007 (6 years)

  Responsible for all hardware and software strategy, direction and development for ClearCube including cross functional Program Management. Also held responsibility for Product Marketing, IT, Systems Engineering and Customer Support for ClearCube.
  · Developed strategy and plans to expand ClearCube from a hardware only company to a solutions based company (hardware, software, services).
  · Established Program Management processes to drive development cycle from 18 to 9 months
  · Defined and developed hardware architecture and design for next generation P4 and Xeon based blades, chassis and user ports.
  · Defined and developed software architecture for 7 new software products utilizing J2EE. Included OEMing LANDesk and PowerQuest. Delivered ClearCube unique products using patented peer to peer distributed computing infrastructure software
  - Established off shore software development center in Pakistan

• Director and GM, Linux Systems Group

  Dell Computer

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

  2000 — 2001 (1 year)

  Dell Computer, Austin, TX 2000-2001
  General Manager, Linux Systems Group
  
  Responsible for Linux business at Dell for all server, workstation, desktop and portable lines of computers. This included Product Marketing, Engineering and Program Management.

• Director of Software, Server Group

  Dell Computer

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

  1996 — 2000 (4 years)

  Product development responsibilities for all software components of Dell's server line of products. This included BIOS, boot and install utilities, NT and NetWare validation and certification, and Oracle 8 validation and certification. Also responsible for strategy and development of Dell’s OpenManage systems management brand, products and technologies for all of Dell systems including servers, desktops and portables. These products include integration of Dell systems with Intel LANDesk, HP OpenView for NT and Unix, Microsoft SMS, Tivoli TME and other SNMP, DMI and WBEM (CIM) technology products.
  
  · Managed an organization of 120 people with 12 million dollar budget.
  · Established off shore development center in New Delhi, India with Tata Consulting Services

• Manager and Program Director, Systems Management and Solutions

  IBM

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

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  · Managed an organization of 200 people with 18 million dollar budget responsible for development of AIX systems management:
  · Developed SMIT, DSMIT, VSM, Performance Toolbox and Install products
  · Developed Common Desktop Environment
  · IBM’s representative for systems management and CDE to Common Open Systems Env (COSE)
  · Owned relationship between Austin and Raleigh for AIX SM and SystemView products
  · Main interface to Tivoli for integration of Tivoli’s Object Management Framework
  · Managed IBM software community to architect and deliver integrated software and hardware
  solutions:
  · Developed AIX base solutions for Systems Management, DCE, PC LAN Server (MS, NetWare, Apple)
  · Developed AIX applications for Internet, Lotus Notes, DB2, MQ Series, SNA and Tivoli

• Senior Programmer /Manager. Strategic Software Development Environment

  IBM

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

  1991 — 1993 (2 years)

  Manager of 50+ people with labwide (1000+ people) responsibility for AIX development environment for the RS/6000. These responsibilities included development of an ISO 9000/MDQ based quality management system, customer satisfaction, process and measurement management, education coordination, internal assessment system and corrective action system. Other responsibilities included development environment tools, vendor management and external relations management.

• Advisory Programmer / Manager. AIX Base Device Driver and RS/6000 Diagnostic Development

  IBM

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

  1989 — 1991 (2 years)

  Responsible for all AIX development of base device drivers: SCSI Hardfiles, 1/4 inch tape, 8 mm tape, 9 track tape, disk arrays, diskette, serial/parallel ports, TTY and all config management for the RS/6000. Main interface to IBM, FSD developing Air Traffic Control System for the FAA.
  
  Responsible for development and maintenance of diagnostic code and documentation for the first release of the RS/6000. This included diagnostics for over 50 individual hardware subsystems, adapters and peripherals. Diagnostics and documentation were translated into 10 languages.

• Engineer/Scientist, Storage Products Development for the RS/6000 and RT

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)

  1982 — 1989 (7 years)

  · Development of SCSI Adapter for RS/6000 (PowerPC).
  · Development of 1/4 Inch Tape, ESDI, ST506 and Diskette Controller Adapters for RT.

Rick Hoffman’s Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  MSEE, Minor in Business, 1984 — 1988

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BSEE, 1978 — 1982

  Activities and Societies:

  Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Longhorn Band