Robert Kleinschmidt

38220 Parkmont Drive

Fremont, CA
94536

510.790.8013

[email-masked]

Objective:

Senior Director or VP of Engineering position with responsibility for
product direction, team building, quality improvement, on-time-under-budget
delivery and improving organizational efficiencies.

Summary:

·         More than 20 years engineering management experience including
development of enterprise and consumer software products and joint
hardware/software projects.

·         Co-founder of a software company; built
to 50 employees and $14M valuation over 3 years.

·         Product marketing experience analyzing and developing service
products in a large corporate environment.

·         Proven success eliciting customer needs and translating them
into product offerings.

·         Proven team building skills and outstanding communication skills

·         Called on to manage customers in pre- and post-sales roles
including defusing customer escalations.

·         P&L responsibility, business plan preparation and
presentation to venture funds.

·         Proven problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

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Demonstrated
highly successful management of multiple, geographically separated teams.

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Offshoring experience, including vendor selection, team building, and
successful execution.

Experience:

Oracle (Oracle acquired BEA in June
2008)

2005-present

Senior Director of Engineering: Responsible for the Software Engineering Tools and
Infrastructure group.

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Directing 6 teams: Release Engineering, Systems
Testing, Infrastructure Tools, Platform Certification, Performance
Engineering and Engineering Lab (500 servers).

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Created and maintained testing tools, harnesses, and
procedures that reliably reproduce test results, provides for tests that can
run automatically, and reports on test results.

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Spearheaded Virtualization and automation of QA and dev
processes.

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Provided process and tools for a world class
componentized build system.

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Provide a build harness that schedules and starts
product builds & tests.

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Setup and maintain the Bug Tracking database

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Setup environments that can be used for testing
products against a variety of network, system and software configurations.

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Responsible for all aspects of provisioning and
maintaining the Engineering Labs

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Provide Infrastructure and Tools for Developers and QA
to measure, monitor, and test performance

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Perform Benchmarks, Performance Tests, or other
exercises with third parties for Marketing or Technical purposes related to
Performance, Stability, and Scalability

Evant, Inc.

2004-2005

Senior Director, Engineering Services: Responsible for all Engineering processes.

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Responsible for product development, qualification,
delivery, and support processes.

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Liaison
with Professional Services, Customer Support and Bangalore DBA team.

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Ran
the Program Office.  Ensured
process compliance, including gate reviews, completion of all deliverables,
and effective decision-making model.

Geac Computer Corporation (Geac acquired Extensity in March
2003)

2003-2004

Senior Director of Engineering: Responsible
for the Enterprise
software group that spanned three locations, and numbered roughly 50
engineers at its peak.

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Core member of the Integration team following the
Extensity acquisition, resulting in high retention and project continuity
including delivery of two major Extensity releases within 1st year.

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Delivered an HTML complement to Extensity’s Java
client in four months.

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Ramped-up Atlanta
resources on Extensity development and support as part of the integration.

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Reviewed and revamped PSO delivery model and delivered
tools that cut implementation costs by 30%.

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Resolved customer questions and issues through direct
contact and by leveraging customer support resources.

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Drove investigation, vendor selection, contract
negotiation and operational ramp of offshore engineering team, adding
capacity to deliver more, faster, at lower cost.

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Evangelized for a fundamental business shift toward
Hosted Services.

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Responsibility for development of the Extensity
Application Suite portion of Geac’s BPM
offering.

The Extensity Suite includes configurable workflow, email notification and
business rules.

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Coordinated activities of teams in Atlanta,
Emeryville and Bangalore.

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Spearheaded the vendor selection process, negotiated
and set up Geac’s offshoring
facility in India.

Extensity, Inc.

2000-2003

Senior Director of Engineering: Responsible for development of Extensity Application Suite
covering Expense Reports, Travel Plans, Procurement Request, Payment Request,
and Timesheet applications (JAVA, HTML).

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Instituted new processes, testing methodology and data
set layering to improve product quality and reduce costs.

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Interfaced with Sales, PSO and Marketing to define and
deliver two new products and six releases.

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Delivered three major functional releases resulting in
increased sales and improved customer loyalty.

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Expanded product line from four to five products,
increasing market penetration.

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Broadened product line with mobile, portal, analytics,
and tools

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Drove improvements in product scalability, growing from
100’s of seats to >30,000 seat deployments implemented in more than
45 countries worldwide.

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Implemented significant usability improvements
resulting in enthusiastic customer and analyst response

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Leveraged 3rd party and open source code to reduce
costs and delivery time

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Developed highly effective and responsive engineering
team that delivered against commitments, resulting in strong customer
satisfaction and loyalty ratings

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

1994-2000

Technology Competency Manager:

·         Responsible for forecasting global PSO revenue and market needs,
and planning the requisite service product offerings.

·         Evaluated one-off engagements and identified several new productization opportunities.

·         Served as the portal to core engineering for the PSO business
unit, providing efficient, trackable communications..

Acting Director of Engineering:

·         Responsible for four direct report managers and 36 indirect
reports, delivering Macintosh and PC connectivity.

·         Created the Connectivity group and built a team of eight
engineers to work with third party vendors

·         Developed business relationships with Insignia Solutions, Xinet, Neelum, Data Connection,
Syntax, Tektronix, Mainsoft, and NetManage, increasing software availability and customer
satisfaction.

·         Delivered many releases of the following products to customers: SoftWindows, Netware Client, Appletalk,
PC-NFS, InPerson, Showcase, and Shockwave.

·         Planned new collaboration products and Win32 solutions for NT
connectivity.

Xcelerated Systems, Inc.

1989-1993

Founder and Vice President Engineering:

·         Co-founded Xcelerated Systems and
introduced “Liken” Macintosh emulation software into the
marketplace.

·         Created and managed team of ten engineers in further development
of Liken, including AppleTalk networking support and porting to Sun, HP, and
IBM workstations.

·         Responsible for development of MABI technology that allowed
off-the-shelf Macintosh applications to run on Unix workstations.

Other Professional
Experience

Engineering Director and Engineering Manager with responsibility
for design, implementation and integration of Unix OS on prototype and
production mini-supercomputer hardware. Additional projects included compiler
development, hardware simulator and teaching microprogramming courses to
customers.

Education & Other Skills:

Bachelor of
Science, Computer Science, Graduated cum
laude, Arizona State University

Cross-cultural experience:

·         Managed teams in London and Bangalore;

·         Lived for two years in Ecuador;

·         Worked for weeks at a time in Germany,
England and Israel.

Foreign Language Skills:

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Spanish