email: drhenke@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE
I want to utilize my experience to build best of breed, customer focused solutions for high growth/emerging/profitable markets.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
· Over 30 years experience in the software/Internet field as a senior manager, architect, programmer.
· Founder of two successful software companies. Both were acquired.
2005 - 2009,
Yahoo!
Senior Vice
President, Engineering/Operations
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Delivered
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Ran Production Operations, including datacenters,
networking, ACL’s, DNS, VIP, SA (System Admins), Storage, NOC (network
operations center). Scale, complexity, diversity of Yahoo’s offerings presented
key challenges.
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Ran Tools/Systems Software teams, from development to qa to
operations. Focus on simple, scaleable, useful tools, including: language
support, ticketing, bug-tracking, software configuration management, SA tool
chain, installation/deployment/provisioning, change/incident/problem
management, abuse, content/ad quality, performance measurement, and much more.
1998 - 2002,
AltaVista Company
Vice President,
Engineering/Operations; formerly Chief Information Officer (CIO) as head of
Operations
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Responsible for all product development, quality assurance,
deployment, customer support.
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Includes software/tools to build indexes/databases, answer
queries, and construct resulting web pages.
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Direct 7x24 production and internal operations, including
Computer Operations, Network Operations, Help Desk, Database Administration,
Data Integration, MIS, IT infrastructure.
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Combined AltaVista properties [1] are one of largest on the
Internet (page views, unique users).
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Key improvements in uptime/reliability, monitoring, and
price/performance of 7x24 hosting service.
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Consolidated operations for efficiency/cost effectiveness
across personnel, facilities, hardware, network.
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VP Operations for Zip2, responsible for due-diligence during
Compaq/AltaVista acquisition of Zip2.
1990 - 1998,
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Director of
Engineering, Engineering Manager, Member Technical Staff
· Director of Engineering for Cosmo Professional Authoring projects, including Java Development Environment (Cosmo Code), VRML authoring (Cosmo Worlds), and 2D/3D special effects authoring (Cosmo PageFx). [2]
· Director of Engineering for WebFORCE projects, including award winning video streaming (WebFORCE Mediabase), Java compiler/runtime on SGI, content management, and load balancing/replication/performance (WebFORCE Director). [2]
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Engineering Manager for award winning
CASEVision/WorkShop software development products including a visual debugger,
static analyzer, performance analyzer, coverage analyzer, native C++ compiler,
and MP Fortran analyzer. Managed
interactions between my group and compiler, O/S, UI, customer support, and
marketing organizations to insure quality and timely releases. Negotiated and
managed
· Defined requirements for database repository and version control/configuration management system offered with development environment solution. Technical liaison to Atria Software, builders of this world class product. Ported Sun's ToolTalk to SGI computer to provide solution for interprocess communication between tools cooperating in framework.
1987 - 1990, TeamOne Systems, Inc.
Founder, Vice
President of Customer Support, Manager of Testing, Software Engineer
· Principal designer and builder of TeamOne CM (configuration management) and ECO (engineering change order) products which support version, configuration, and change control for engineering environments. All objects are supported with TeamOne's proprietary object oriented database management system. Wrote kernel level driver to support new file system type, configured Unix directories, which can be versioned and transparently tracked.
· Ran customer support organization which handled product related problems/questions, pre-sales technical support, application engineering, and testing. Built fully automated regression test system which features testing hierarchical subsets, automatic comparison against "good" results, and filters to insure test portability. Supervised efforts of testers.
· TeamOne was acquired by Computer Associates
1981 - 1987,
Tektronix, Inc./CAE Systems
Founder, Manager of
Library Software Support, Software Engineer
· Architected design, development, test, maintenance, and enhancement of CAE2000 Computer Aided Engineering System, a turnkey solution for IC and PC design. Incorporated powerful user interface and object oriented revisional database to allow engineers to input, analyze, and test electrical circuits. Focused on user interface, graphics, database modeling, and circuit extraction.
· Managed software effort to automate construction and testing of thousands of hardware models used in electrical circuit design.
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CAE Systems was acquired by Tektronix.
1980 - 1981,
Hewlett Packard Company
Member of Technical
Staff
· Advanced development, maintenance, and enhancement of HP Interactive Graphics System, an in-house CAD tool for VLSI IC layout and design. Automated display of design rule errors on color graphics workstation, building an on-line help subsystem, and supporting graphics interface.
1979 - 1980,
Singer Corporation, Link Division
Programmer Analyst
· Designed and implemented user-oriented program to interactively analyze content of digital landmass data used for real-time flight simulation. Produced hardcopy plots and statistical reports of data selected by user.
1978 - 1979,
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Douglas Aircraft Company
Associate Engineer
Scientist
· One of four mathematician-programmers developing the Locus-I Parametric Cubic Geometry Program for Computer Aided Technology Group. Utilized parametric bicubics to define geometric entities which could be unioned, limited, and intersected by other geometric entities interactively. Programmed graphic display of geometric objects in 3-space, 2-space, and parametric space.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Computers: developer/end user knowledge of SGI, Sun running UNIX, PC's running Win/98,NT
O/S: UNIX with kernel expertise and extensive use of shells and UNIX utilities
Languages: C, C++, Java, Fortran (have used SPL-II, Pascal, HP assembly)
Interests: Web apps, debugging, profiling, analysis, testing tools, optimal algorithms/data structures
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
"Building a Layered Database for Design Automation", Zara and Henke
IEEE Proceedings of the 22nd ACM / IEEE Design Automation Conference,1985
HONORS
Graduated with "Highest Honors" in Mathematics from UCSB
Awarded "The Spirit of SGI" for the Visual Magic Division of Silicon Graphics
WEB REFERENCES
[1] http://www.oocities.org/drhenke (personal website)
REFERENCES Available upon request