Paul Golz

Current

• Software Consultant at STMicroelectronics
• CEO at Enthios

Past

• Software Consultant at Xilinx
• Technical Director at DEM Solutions
• Scientific Software Manager at Crocodile Clips

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Industry

Computer Software

Paul Golz’s Summary

My natural flair for Maths, Physics and Coding are unique within the industry. I am a highly competent Software Developer and can also understand the underlying equations and theory behind the software I work on. As a result I produce very useable products to a very high quality. I have worked as a consultant to many blue-chip companies and communicate effectively at all levels, from engineers to senior management.

I have created many innovative, patentable and commercially successful products which are used by engineers throughout the world. I have worked both independently and as part of a team to create tools of real use to industry. I am one of the rare people who genuinely enjoy their work and I take real pride in my creations.

Paul Golz’s Specialties:

C++
Qt3,4
Visual Studio
Cross-platform development, MacOS X, Windows, Linux
Perl
PHP
Javascript
Tcl
HTML
FORTRAN
C
XML
SQL
XP-COM
VHDL

Paul Golz’s Experience

• Software Consultant

  STMicroelectronics

  (Public Company; STM; Semiconductors industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 month)

• CEO

  Enthios

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

  Software consultancy specialising in Qt, scientific software and cross-platform software
  
  I have been involved in researching the creation of a high growth, privately and publicly funded company to use FPGAs to accelerate software, in particular Physics and Maths algorithms. I was accepted onto the EPIS program and as an “Entrepreneur with High Potential” by Scottish Enterprise High Growth Team. This work was put on hold after I was offered consultancy work at Xilinx (an FPGA company) which I hoped would give me further insights into the challenges I would face.
  
  During this time I also wrote a commercial software package. “Silicon Dragon” is an online management system for small organizations. It is written in PHP/XHTML/Javascript with a generic SQL connection to any underlying database. The product is now in active use and my plan to release the code under the GPL will hopefully stimulate an active user community.

• Software Consultant

  Xilinx

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  I was originally contracted to create a software translation tool (VTFC) that would convert VHDL (a language used to program microelectronics) into Tcl for use in their in-house IP delivery system (CORE Generator). I was the only developer on the project and liaised with both software and hardware engineers to create and deliver this useful tool. The product saves engineers around 2 weeks development time per piece of IP and using an automated tool significantly improves the quality of the work. End-users now have access to resource feedback during the design stage that can help with design decisions.
  
  My most recent work was to convert the application to work with Qt4. I was fortunate enough to be allowed certain latitude to create improvements to the user interface and architecture whilst performing the conversion, and I believe I have produced a piece of software that is easy for customers to use whilst allowing them access to the powerful engine beneath it.

• Technical Director

  DEM Solutions

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

  August 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 1 month)

  Whilst DEM has been in existence for some time software has never been of a commercial grade. I took existing ideas and created a fully functioned, industrial quality tool which integrated with existing tools (e.g. CFD, CAD) as well as further developing the fundamental algorithms. The EDEM product was my vision and I was the sole architect for the entire project, as well as writing all of the back-end physics and maths. The codebase is written in C++ on the Qt (Trolltech) framework with OpenGL graphics and the capability for a Javascript interface.

• Scientific Software Manager

  Crocodile Clips

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — November 2003 (4 years 3 months)

  My position gave me responsibility for the development of all the scientific software that the company produced. I led a team of 4 developers and a development officer through the full product lifecycle. As the senior developer, I was the lead software architect and provided support and training for the other members of my team. I managed four separate projects – Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Technology, with responsibility for both the software itself and the accompanying files.
  
  I personally wrote the majority of the core code for the Technology, Physics and Maths products. These first two were written in the MFC (C++) cross-compiled to Mac and the latter was based on the emerging Mozilla framework, a project I contributed to on a personal level.