Paul Barham

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Head (Director) of Software Engineering and Interim Head of Product @ Dakota Software
Chapel Hill, NC, US
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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area, United States, United States
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About Paul Barham

Former Amazon, AWS, Microsoft and Evernote Software Executive and Leader with market experience in E commerce, Payments, DevOps, Life Sciences, Open Source, Productivity Tools, Environmental Health & Safety, University Education, and Military Visual and Virtual Simulations.Strengths: • Team Building and Leadership (Software Engineering, Software Product Management, cross-functional teams)• Agile Software Development Management (Sprints), Architectural reviews and decisions• Managing platform teams (Software teams, program management, product management)• Service Oriented Architectures, SaaS, Large scale distributed Software, Distributed Applications, Open source, Cloud-based• Highly Available, Highly Scalable, Distributed Systems, Caching, Millions of transactions, Content delivery, Authentication, Low latency• Technical Program Management• Product Definition and Specification, Building Software, Product vision• Cost Center Management• Distributed software development management, on-shore, off-shore• Leading software teams using Java, C++, C#, .NET Core, SQL, REST services, JavaScript and web-based technologies, building scalable back-end systems • Coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, test automation and continuous integration• Strategic Planning & Execution including Technical Vision• Payment methods, Payment systems, Financial systems, Currency Conversion• Billions, Multi-tier, Developed software, Centers worldwide, Scaling, Compute, Development engineers, lead software engineer, simulation system, building engineering teams• Cross-team, Cross-platform

Paul Barham's Current Company Details
Dakota Software

Dakota Software

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Head (Director) of Software Engineering and Interim Head of Product
Chapel Hill, NC, US
Website:
dakotasoft.com
Employees:
58
Paul Barham Work Experience Details
  • Dakota Software
    Head (Director) Of Software Engineering And Interim Head Of Product
    Dakota Software
    Chapel Hill, Nc, Us
  • Dakota Software
    Head (Director) Of Software Engineering
    Dakota Software Nov 2023 - Present
    Cleveland, Ohio, Us
    Head of Software Engineering for Dakota Software. Manage all software development teams and efforts for legacy and next generation products. Lead the software engineers, QA, corporate IT, Data Engineering and Security for the company.Technologies: React, Redux, Typescript, Tailwind, C#, .NET Core, Azure, AKS, Kubernetes,Azure DevOps
  • Career Break
    Career Transition
    Career Break Feb 2023 - Nov 2023
    Following the acquisition of Evernote, took a career break looking for the right opportunity.
  • Evernote
    Software Engineering Director, Growth, Data & Commerce
    Evernote Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
    Redwood City, California, Us
    Manage 5 software engineering teams at Evernote: Two growth teams responsible for increasing customer engagement, the primary data team for the company providing operational and business data to the enterprise, the commerce team handling payments and subscriptions, and a SQA team to support the other four teams.Tech Stack: Java, Node.js, and Python back-ends; React native, Typescript, and Javascript front-ends.DevOps Tools: BitBucket, Jenkins, DataDog, PagerDuty, Confluence, SplunkCloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigTable, BigQuery, CloudCompoter (Airflow)
  • Metabolon, Inc.
    Senior Director, Software Engineering
    Metabolon, Inc. Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
    Morrisville, Nc, Us
    I recruit, develop and lead the software engineering and software product management teams at Metabolon. We are using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Data Mining, Internet of Things (IoT), and Big Data Scientific Computing to enable our global Metabolomic software platform. Our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is comprised of C# / .NET Core services, containerized (Docker) and running on Kubernetes. Tech Stack: C#, .NET Core, and Python back-ends; React/Redux, Typescript, and JavaScript front-ends.DevOps Tools: Azure Devops (aka Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)), DataDog, PagerDutyCloud: On-Prem Kubernetes, Azure Cosmos, AWS IoT, DynamoDB, EC2, S3Metabolon, Inc., is the global leader in revealing biological insights on disease state and physiological reactions in the present time through metabolomics. Leveraging one of the world’s most diverse and rich patient data sets, Metabolon is equipped to deliver biologically relevant evidence to address some of the most difficult and pressing questions in the life sciences. Every day, our work is helping to accelerate research and product development success in the biopharma, population health, consumer products, agriculture, wellness and academic research sectors. Metabolon was founded in 2000 and is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina with an international headquarters in Germany. For more information, please visit www.metabolon.com.
  • Microsoft
    Principal Program Manager - Azure Devops (Vsts)
    Microsoft Apr 2015 - Sep 2017
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Business owner for the cross-platform, open-source feature set (including Java, Python, NodeJS, etc.) for the Azure DevOps (was Visual Studio Team Services) including our Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) plug-ins for Eclipse, IntelliJ and VS Code. Bridged the gap between the external technical customer base (software engineers and architects) and the internal teams to define and prioritize product features. Set overall product road map and strategy as well as establishing and managing relevant partnerships. Arranged and conducted customer proof of concept (POC) evaluations, product demos and briefings to evangelize our features and offerings. Established, tracked and communicated goals and metrics to management and outside our organization for our in-product features and our IDE plug-ins. Worked across the entire organization to ensure a complete end-to-end compelling DevOps product for cross-platform customers ranging from product planning, agile tools, version control, software build, test and deploy.
  • Amazon Web Services
    Software Development Manager - Aws Payments
    Amazon Web Services Sep 2013 - Apr 2015
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Assumed ownership as the single-threaded leader of AWS Payments worldwide. My team and I managed the collection for all AWS invoices for monthly usage and for premium services and support. We made AWS Payments easy, secure and reliable. We primarily owned back-end systems, written in Java, that were extendible, scalable, and robust and thereby enable and empower the growth of all AWS services and products. Operating as a GM, I directly managed 30+ including developers , development managers, technical program managers, product managers, systems analysts and support engineers (operations).
  • Amazon
    Software Development Manager - Digital Coupons
    Amazon May 2012 - Aug 2013
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Joined the Amazon Retail organization, and quickly came up to speed on a new digital coupons initiative. Effectively hired and developed one of the best and most capable software development teams in the entire company. Lead and drove several aspects of defining product requirements at a time when the PM team was not fully staffed or focused. Lead the design and documentation of the overall core platform architecture and socialized the architecture across our various teams and to internal partners which in turn created a common image and terminology for aspects of the core platform. Opened a new office in Irvine, CA, and transitioned staff to form a foundational presence there thus positioning the organization to be poised for growth by recruiting into the highly desirable Southern California area. Managed my team to establish the necessary processes and engineering best practices to start building a new technology platform (including 100% use of continuous deployment and Elastic Computer (EC) 2 computing infrastructures). While contributing directly to my group’s success in building a solid foundation on which to grow our business, I also mentored Amazonians (~5) from across the company in a variety of business functions (two SDE-III’s, Business Analyst, TPM, and SDET), participated in evaluating and providing feedback on products and prototypes from several other groups/divisions, and assisted Global Leadership in evaluating a portion of the new manager training.
  • Amazon
    Software Development Manager - Global Payments
    Amazon Apr 2010 - Apr 2012
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Managed 4 software development teams consisting of approximately 20 software development engineers (SDE’s) total across 4 Internet commerce payments processing teams and over 4 other software development managers all using agile development approaches to design, develop and support large-scale Java software and Oracle database solutions. Managed the areas of currency conversion / foreign exchange, merchant (seller) accounts and disbursements, refunds, and debt management and recovery (collections) in a Systems Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment. Successfully off-shored the refunds development team to India to support rapid growth initiatives. Founded the new currency conversion team and co-architected the currency conversion platform. Managed the conceptualization, design, development and launch of two Version 1 (V1) software platforms (currency conversion, and debt management and recovery). Coached and developed direct and indirect employees and officially mentor SDE’s from across Amazon. Interacted with senior leadership at the Director, VP and Senior VP level on a regular basis. Drove teams to successfully meet annual revenue and operational excellence (uptime, latency, quality) goals. Proposed, wrote and justified new program initiatives, provided estimates to support new efforts, worked across all functional areas to schedule and perform work, and then conducted retrospective reviews to help capture lessons learned and improve processes.
  • Amazon
    Senior Technical Program Manager - Global Payments
    Amazon Mar 2009 - Mar 2010
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Senior Technical Program Manager on the Amazon.com Global Payments Platform Team. As a senior member of the TPM team, I take an active role advancing one of the web’s most scalable, reliable, and secure payments platforms that processes tens of billions of dollars in transactions, in 14 currencies, across 6 regions, leveraging 7 different payment methods. My focus is on currency conversion features and offerings and on payments-related security.
  • Microsoft
    Program Manager - Aces Game Studio
    Microsoft Nov 2008 - Jan 2009
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Technical Program Manager worked in the ACES Studio on the ESP simulation platform (www.microsoft.com\esp) defining product functionality and leading feature teams to create product upgrades using agile development methodologies. Coordinated with business development and sales to understand customer requirements then convert these requirements into clear and concise product requirements. Used these requirements to build product specifications and then lead the feature team to implement and test. The entire ACES studio was closed during Microsoft downsizing due to the weak U.S. economy.
  • Reality By Design (A Whollly Owned Subsidiary Of Advanced Interactive Systems)
    Member Board Of Directors
    Reality By Design (A Whollly Owned Subsidiary Of Advanced Interactive Systems) Nov 2007 - Nov 2008
  • Advanced Interactive Systems
    Vp Strategic Development
    Advanced Interactive Systems Dec 2005 - Nov 2008
    Challenge:Working directly for and with the AIS CEO/President, create, document, and implement corporate-level (i.e. cross divisional) growth and value creation strategiesAccomplishments:* Developed and executed merger and acquisition strategies and approaches including multiple courses of actions depending on dynamic market conditions and funding availability* Managed, conducted and analyzed internal and external market research and competitive positioning* Interfaced with the board of directors and major shareholders regarding value creation and above stated responsibilities
  • Reality By Design
    Director Of Military Programs
    Reality By Design Oct 2005 - Dec 2005
    Challenge:Manage all military programs for RBD subsidiary as the senior program manager (PM) leading other PMs and project managers/engineers within a matrix organizationAccomplishments:* Managed revenues of $1-3 million and 5-8 programs per year over tenure with company* Maintained revenue projections, profit, margin protection, program execution, management of personnel, business development and customer relations* Established and enforced strategy for military division for the company, reporting and working with the executive vice presidents and president
  • Reality By Design
    Vp Engineering
    Reality By Design Jun 1999 - Oct 2003
    Challenge:Manage and lead distributed software, hardware and systems engineering teams for RBD subsidiary spanning three geographic locations (Monterey, CA; Boston, MA; Orlando, FL)Accomplishments:* Served as Chief Scientist / Technologist for the subsidiary* Lead product and program development, supervised all software engineers and other engineering project managers* Along with two other owners, negotiated RBD company sale to AIS and managed subsequent transition* Lead efforts to expand primary military virtual simulation product (i.e. SVS) to serve a variety of new markets including weapons inspections, fire inspections, and homeland security applications
  • Reality By Design
    Director Of Emerging Technologies
    Reality By Design Nov 1996 - Jun 1999
    Challenge:Establish new office, build new customer relationships, create new business and lead development efforts for newly hired staffAccomplishments:* Opened and established RBD Monterey office after joining RBD as the third principle* With other two owners, grew the company from three to twenty four employees in three years* Landed large U.S. Army contracts for real-time, first-person, 3D graphics virtual simulation for infantry operations and then lead internal team to design, develop and field the world’s first PC-based dismounted infantry virtual simulation with SVS (now the leading system of its kind in the U.S. and exclusively used by the U.S. Army Soldier Battle Lab at Ft. Benning, Georgia)
  • Naval Postgraduate School
    Supervisory Computer Scientist
    Naval Postgraduate School Feb 1993 - Nov 1996
    Ca, Us
    The NPSNET Research Group (now called the Modeling and Virtual Environments (MOVES) group) conducts research into all facets of distributed visual simulation design and development including software architectures for large-scale, distributed virtual reality (VR) systems.GS-13 Supervisory Computer Scientist (12/95 – 11/96)GS-12 Computer Scientist (05/95 - 12/95)GS 11 Computer Specialist (02/93 - 05/95)* Served as principle investigator, technical lead, senior software architect, computer lab manager, and lead software engineer for NPSNET-IV, an open-source, Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) compliant, object-oriented, visual simulation system consisting of more than 100,000 lines of C++/C code developed at NPS and written using IRIS GL/Open GL and Performer
  • North Carolina State University
    Instructor And Computer Lab Supervisor
    North Carolina State University Aug 1987 - May 1992
    Raleigh, North Carolina, Us
    * Lectured, evaluated student performance, and designed notes, assignments and exams for undergraduate courses in the Computer Science Department on software design and development, computer architecture and computer graphics* Successfully hired, trained and managed all lab instructors for the required College of Engineering introductory computer course and served on committee to establish and implement lab policies the first semester this course was taught

Paul Barham Skills

Agile Methodologies Distributed Systems Software Development Product Management Program Management Software Design E Commerce Software Engineering Cross Functional Team Leadership Team Building Scalability Saas Soa Java Cloud Computing Strategic Planning Product Development Web Services Sdlc Team Leadership Software Project Management System Architecture Security Leadership Management Technical Leadership Entrepreneurship Scrum Technology Management Agile Project Management Electronic Payments Strategic Partnerships Architecture Software Product Management Project Management Enterprise Software Program Development Strategic Leadership Mentoring Technical Management Product Strategy Integration Performance Management Leadership Development Coaching Agile Requirements Analysis Strategy Business Development It Strategy

Paul Barham Education Details

  • North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University
    Computer Science
  • North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University
    Computer Science

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