James Bullock

Seattle, WA

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How would you describe your dream job in 10 words or less?

Technology leadership at a mid-stage tech startup in Seattle.

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Work history

Client - Padcom August 2004 to September 2005
VP Engineering

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How would you describe your time at Client - Padcom?

Turn-around & transition from ad-hoc development to product operations at scale securing ~2x revenue gain, and ~ 4x engineering throughput for multi-protocol mobile VPN in HW and SW.

Managed SW engineering, HW engineering, manufacturing, architecture & tech writers through full product development life-cycle and introduction of multiple product egineering practices.... read more
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Client - Hightower April 2004 to July 2004
QA Director

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How would you describe your time at Client - Hightower?

Parachute in to pinch-hit for the suddenly departed QA Director, to secure first successful demo clients before company went for next round funding. Managed test engineers, SDETs and build / CM in rapidly iterative life cycle.
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Guest Lectures in Software Engineering

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How would you describe your time at University of Washington Co...?

Advisor to course design team, particularly on human systems view of software engineering. Guest lectures as requested including General Systems Applied to Software Engineering (as a workshop), Course Retrospective, Zero Feature Release, and What Happens Once You Ship.
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Rare Bird Enterprises December 2001 to the present
Principal Consultant

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How would you describe your time at Rare Bird Enterprises?

I help technology development teams align what they ship and how they ship it with the business they support. Quick results, working with business models and a broad portfolio of development tools & techniques with training and practical experience in change agency. Consulting, transition projects and interim technology management.... read more
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Amazon.com December 2000 to December 2001
Manager, QA Tools - a Development Team in Platform Technologies

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How would you describe your time at Amazon.com?

Picked off several tools unique to Amazon's stack and size. Some, tactical choices, helped with the rapid build-out to multiple sites. Others, strategically aligned with an intended platform / framework change, never really got traction as the platform / framework never really got traction.
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Harris Interactive January 1999 to December 2000
QA Manager

How would you describe your time at Harris Interactive?

Recruited to create company's first IT Engineering project life-cycle and protfolio (QA), and test team (Test.) Built lab, recruited team, assessed projects in progress.

Assigned to recovery of both core polling infrastructure development projects in progress at the time.
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Rare Bird Enterprises - Self Employed March 1998 to October 1999
Principal Consultant

How would you describe your time at Rare Bird Enterprises - Sel...?

Lead editor of "Roundtable on Project Management." Coeditor of "Roundtable on Technical Leadership."

Client work at the time was just the usual stuff.
dbINTELLECT January 1995 to March 1998
Senior Principal Consultant

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How would you describe your time at dbINTELLECT?

Recovery or phase management for Fortune-500 distributed enterprise IT projects in North America and Europe, about half and half transaction systems & analytics. Recognizing market opportunity cofounded an automated testing practice serving that segment.
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Cellular-One (Up-State NY) March 1993 to December 1994
Development Manager

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How would you describe your time at Cellular-One (Up-State NY)?

Built the company's first in-house development team to pick off its first system in 2 months, and an analytics system replacing 1/2 million annual service charge in 4.

Assigned to manage the regional 3-city conversion / deployment project moving to a distributed, multi-tier customer support system - about 400 seats, about 100,000 subs. Should have asked for a title change along with the bigger job.... read more
GE Ocean Systems Division November 1990 to February 1993
Systems Engineer / Team Lead

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How would you describe your time at GE Ocean Systems Division?

SDLC tools managing technical interface requirements & design (similar to IDL) for distributed, real-time combat system for a major weapons system platform. Think the interface specs Microsoft still can't (or won't) delivery to the EU. Now add multiple competing contractors, real-time requirements, and access management. Make that work. Oh, yeah, there's a deadline. BTW, ours spit out in under a week and was bigger than what Microsoft still can't (or won't) do.... read more
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Carrier April 1986 to May 1989
Software Engineering Team Lead

How would you describe your time at Carrier?

Developed the worlds' first microprocessor controlled high-volume heat pumps establishing the "Infinity" brand in US, followed by wave of first generation controls for other countries. We had to roll our own SDLC tools to do so. Iterative "agile" development BTW - time-boxed, thin functional slices, always releasable product, etc. Also nightly builds about a decade before Microsoft bragged about doing that in the book on building Windows NT.... read more
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Education

University of Rochester May 2007 to the present
Chemical Engineering - Before there were CS Degrees

How would you describe your time at University of Rochester?

The education I got had more to do with life than academics - family business went under while I was there. Interesting experience. "I curse the lesson and bless the knowledge."

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