Wayne K. Yamamoto
3814 24th
St.
San
Francisco, CA 94114
1-415-987-9961
OBJECTIVE
Vice
President of Engineering responsible for software development in a small and
growing company.
EXPERTISE
Proven
executive with a track record for delivering enterprise software solutions.
Successfully
built and managed product organizations to deliver software products. Evolved engineering teams with a single
product focus into organizations capable of delivering large enterprise
solutions. Shipped over 50 product
releases -- all delivered on time, meeting functional, quality, and resource
goals.
Deep
technical software engineering experience -- architected, designed, and
implemented solutions to meet complex business requirements. Expertise in building scalable distributed
systems.
EMPLOYMENT
2002-2004 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Department of Computer
Science & Engineering, Seattle, WA.
2002-2004 Visiting Scholar
·
Investigated the application of large scale, distributed
information and computational technologies for the biological sciences (in
affiliation with the Genome Sciences department). Explored applications utilizing the results from the sequencing
of the human genome. Focused on
heuristic, statistical, and machine learning techniques to solve complex
problems in the domain of graphs and networks.
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Taught classes in the department of Computer Science and
Engineering.
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Provided strategic consultation to VYKOR, INC. and SPOKE
SOFTWARE, INC.
1994-2001 BROADVISION,
INC., Redwood City, CA.
2000-2001 Vice President of Engineering
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Responsible for all engineering aspects of BroadVision’s
eBusiness applications, including product development, quality assurance,
release management, and documentation.
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Managed five application groups and 75 engineers.
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Successfully delivered multiple product releases across
multiple product lines.
1999-2000 Director of Engineering
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Initiated and managed the development of three BroadVision
application product lines – One-To-One Finance, One-To-One Billing,
and One-to-One Travel.
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Defined product and marketing requirements.
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Managed third party and joint venture relationships.
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Built and managed three teams of engineers (30 people) to
take products from inception to deployment.
1997-1999 Senior Engineering Manager
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Hired and managed a team of engineers (10 people) to deliver BroadVision Financials.
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Architected, designed, and implemented software when
necessary.
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Managed consulting relationships for the successful
deployment of the application.
1996-1997 Engineering Manager
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Responsible for the user management system (identity,
authentication, and customer profiles) and reporting tools (real time monitors
and off line analyses) of
BroadVision’s One-to-One Enterprise
Application System.
1994-1996 Senior Staff Engineer
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First engineer and chief architect at BroadVision. Architected, designed, and implemented
large portions of BroadVision’s flagship product, One-to-One Enterprise.
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Defined procedures and selected tools for engineering. Responsible for all aspects of the development
methodology and release process.
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Received patent #5710887, “Computer System and Method for
Electronic Commerce,” a broad patent covering ecommerce solutions for
personalization, shopping carts, transactions, and exchanges.
1990-1994 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., Mountain View, CA.
1990-1994 Staff Engineer
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Architected and implemented Xtl, a software platform for computer telephony solutions in a
distributed object oriented environment.
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Chaired the National ISDN Users’ Forum (NIUF) subcommittee
for telephony APIs.
1988-1990 OLIVETTI RESEARCH CENTER, Menlo
Park, CA.
1988-1990 Research Staff
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Architected, implemented, and supported Oli-FaX, a TCP/IP-based facsimile server.
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Defined TMTP, Typed Message Transfer Protocol.
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Designed and implemented the VOX audio server.
1986-1988 AT&T BELL LABORATORIES,
Naperville, IL.
1986-1988 Member of Technical Staff
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Designed and implemented software for the AT&T 5ESS®, a
distributed, fault tolerant digital telephone switch.
EDUCATION
1998 Executive Management
Program in Business Administration, STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
1988 Master of Science in
Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Thesis: “ACOMP: An Animated Compiler to
Study Program Animation.”
1986 Bachelor of Science in
Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude,
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.
OTHER RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
1985 XEROX CORP, Software
Engineer, Palo Alto, CA.
1984 HEWLETT-PACKARD CO, Software
Engineer, Marysville, WA.
1983 PACIFIC NORTHWEST
BELL, Network Design Engineer,
Seattle, WA.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, PATENTS,
CHAIRS, AND AWARDS
Advisory
board member of Spoke Software, Inc., 2002-present.
United
States Patent #5710887, “Computer System and Method for Electronic Commerce,”
1998.
Chair of
National ISDN Users’ Forum (NIUF) subcommittee for telephony APIs, 1992-1994.
AT&T
Bell Laboratories Graduate Fellowship, 1986-87.
Presidential
Medalist Scholarship, University of Washington, 1983-1984.
PUBLICATIONS
W. Yamamoto and S. Stanton.
“Workstation Integrated Teleservices,” Proceedings
of INTERWORKING ‘92, November, 1992.
K. Lantz, J.C. Lauwers, B. Arons,
C. Binding, P. Chen, J. Donahue, T. Joseph, R. Koo, A. Romonow, C. Schmandt,
and W. Yamamoto. “Collaboration Technology at the Olivetti Research Center,” Groupware Technology Workshop Proceeding,
IFIP Working Group 8.4, August, 1989.
B. Arons, W. Yamamoto, J.D.
Northcutt, C. Binding, K. Lantz, and C. Schmandt. “The VOX Audio Server,”
Version 1.0, Technical Report, Olivetti Research Center, August 1988.
K. Andrews, R. Henry, and W.
Yamamoto. “The Design and Implementation of the UW Illustrated Compiler,” Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN ‘88
Programming Language Design and Implementation Conference, May 1988.
B.C. Neumann and W. Yamamoto.
“Adding Packet Radio to the Ultrix Kernel,” USENIX
Winter Conference Proceedings, February, 1988.
W. Yamamoto. “ACOMP: An Animated
Compiler to Study Program Animation,” Masters Thesis, University of Washington,
1988.