Dr Paul Hoad is a Software MTS at Applied Materials. He possess expertise in c++, c#, debugging, soap, test driven development and 47 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Simply put, Paul is one of the brightest minds in software I have worked with in the past 20 years. His ability to listen to customer stories and translate that into products is unparalleled. He has successfully implemented a Scrum based development environment and automated web-based burn-down charts on his own to meet the needs of a highly diverse and matrix managed organization. One of my fondest memories of working with Paul was having him and a couple other developers in a room for a week to try and finally solve a problem we had been struggling with for more than a decade. Watching his mind work as he learned a new product code base and developed a solution that we could validate against customer provided data all within a 5 day period was astounding. I would recommend Paul for any position in a development organization especially as a systems architect. He is an exceptional developer and a great friend."