Pecan Software SystemsVice President, Research and Development
Nov. 1985 - Nov. 1990Brooklyn, NY* Responsible for establishing overall technical direction of, and managing, Pecan Software, a systems software firm, and Liaison Systems, an affliated consulting firm. Hired and trained software development and technical support staffs. Directly supervised maintenance of an elaborate family of programming tools on multiple machine platforms. Directly supervised all testing and QA for this elaborate set of software tools, including IDE and various compilers, including a C compiler.
Developed and implemented version and release tracking mechanisms for the entire product line – a particularly complex undertaking, since the tool suite was available on multiple hardware and software platforms.
* Supervised Pecan’s technical writing department, and personally wrote or contributed to almost all user manuals. Wrote quarterly company newsletter and most of company’s marketing literature.