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Resume for J. Douglas
Donohoe |
Summary
Accomplished, visionary leader in
software and technology with 16 years of startup and
Fortune 500 business experience in high tech, enterprise software and
entertainment software.
Experience and Skills
Entrepreneur.
· Produced the top selling entertainment software title in 2004-2005: DD Tournament Poker. 160,000+ copies sold.
· Formed Donohoe Digital LLC to develop computer games for PC and Mac. Profitable in 2nd year of operation.
· Successfully negotiated lucrative publishing deals, a feat accomplished by relatively few independent game developers.
Executive experienced in designing and delivering high-quality, enterprise class internet software applications.
· Over 16 years of experience designing and implementing complex enterprise software projects and applications.
· Vice President, Technology and Chief Architect of Blue Martini Software’s award-winning eCRM application suite which generated over $67 million in license revenue and $65 million in service revenue during my tenure.
· Chief software architect of Netscape’s CommerceXpert internet selling and procurement application suite with annual sales of $35 million during my tenure.
Broad business experience.
· Created and chaired multi-disciplinary committee focused on ensuring customer success. Participating customers had significantly fewer escalations and quicker implementation times.
· Designed company intellectual property guidelines. Managed patent application process (2 patents, 4 provisionals).
· Member of the merger and acquisition team, responsible for evaluation and technical due diligence of candidate companies.
· Member of executive corporate strategy council focused on defining company plans and strategic moves.
Track record of productivity improvements, team building, successful management and delivering customer success.
· Experienced in building from scratch, leading, motivating and retaining engineering, release and documentation teams.
· Direct manager of teams as large as 20 people in engineering, documentation, release, support and quality assurance.
· Architectural leader of engineering, release and quality teams as large as 40 people. Provided technical instruction and mentoring to pre-sales and consulting teams of over 100 people.
· Consistently establish loyal team relationships, resulting in multiple repeat hires of top talent.
· Pioneer of rapid, quality software development leading to on-time delivery of 4 major product releases in 2 years.
Frequent innovator.
· Created DD Poker, the first peer to peer online poker software for play over a LAN and the internet.
· Awarded US patents #6,175,864 and #6,401,092 for innovative software architecture concepts (at Netscape).
· Several patent applications in-process based on work at Blue Martini.
· Created the first Model-View-Controller (MVC) internet application framework at Netscape in 1997.
· Created one of the first C++ internet application servers at Netscape in 1997.
· Built one of the first enterprise applications based on Java and J2EE at Blue Martini in 1998.
Strong software development experience, with functional expertise in internet, e-commerce and eCRM technologies.
· Expert in designing flexible, data-driven, internationalized, fault-tolerant, multi-tier, scalable internet application architectures which support browser-based, full GUI (graphical user interface) and command-line interfaces.
· Functional expertise: Content Management, Merchandise Management, B2B, Procurement, eCRM, Poker.
· Designer of software that meets company-wide design requirements (i.e., not only product management, but also sales, consulting services, release engineering, technical support and quality assurance).
· Created and led research and development team focused on research, prototyping and rapid productization of new technologies such as XML, wireless and collaboration.
1990 B.S. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Graduated 3rd in the class.
Married. Interests include snowboarding, travel, digital video and photography, flying (licensed private pilot), playing ice hockey.
Professional History
Donohoe Digital LLC (www.donohoedigital.com). Wayzata, Minnesota 9/2001 – Present
President & Founder. Profitable computer game developer - specializing in computer versions of poker and strategy games. 1st game, War! Age of Imperialism, was awarded a Bronze Medal in the 2003 Readers Choice Awards by Wargamer.com and was a finalist in the 2005 Independent Games Festival. 2nd game, DD Tournament Poker was first-to-market for no-limit hold’em tournament poker software, selling over 160,000 copies (to lead the market). Received Editor’s Choice awards from PC Magazine and GameZone.com and an Excellent rating from PC Gamer.
Ingenix. Eden Prairie, Minnesota 10/2006 – 12/2007
Sr. Director of Engineering of team responsible for 20+ applications used by the Anti-Fraud and Recovery Services division of Ingenix (an $87 million business). Managed analyst, development, quality assurance, and support team comprised of 35+ onshore and offshore staff. Successfully innovations: application portfolio management practices; wiki for company-wide communication; and agile development process.
Blue Martini Software. San Mateo, California 11/1998 – 9/2001
Vice President of Technology and Chief Architect. Joined Blue Martini as employee #12. Architected Blue Martini’s world-class enterprise software architecture from the ground up. Recruited the engineering, release and documentation teams. Coded significant portions of the core infrastructure. Successfully managed Blue Martini’s first three major product releases, resulting in revenues after three years of over $132 million. Formed R&D unit, created intellectual property policies, managed patent applications and contributed as key member of corporate strategy and business development teams (including mergers and acquisitions).
Netscape Communications Corporation. Mountain View, California 11/1996 – 10/1998
Chief Architect for Netscape’s CommerceXpert suite of internet commerce products. Designed and coded multi-tier architecture for rapidly building scalable, internationalized, customizable web-based enterprise applications. Senior development manager of 15 people across three teams: architecture, application administration and build/release. Successfully delivered five major product releases that generated $35 million in annual revenue.
Emerge Consulting, Inc. Palo Alto, California 1/1996 – 10/1996
Chief Technology Officer of startup focused on internet commerce and internet business consulting. Researched and developed expertise in electronic commerce issues such as security, payment methods and advertising. Interviewed for electronic commerce articles appearing in The Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal Constitution and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Andersen Consulting LLP (now known as Accenture). Palo Alto, California 9/1990 – 1/1996
Technical Manager. Various professional enterprise software consulting engagements. At Netscape, created Sales Leads Tracking System that improved efficiency 20% to 25%, resulting in an increase in revenue of $1 million in the first month alone. Also created Netscape General Store (one of the very first on-line stores, generating 1000’s of orders a day and over a $1 million a month in revenue). Other U.S. and international engagements: DFS (five-year strategy), Elis (textile company in Paris, France), Sun Microsystems, AT&T (in New Jersey and Germany), Halliburton and Elektronische Borse Schweiz (electronic stock exchange in Zurich, Switzerland).