Paul Mace
BA and MA in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Currently working as President and Principal Architect at NavAware, Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Groups: | Startup Now! Oregon |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | California State University System - San Francisco State University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | NavAware, Inc. |
| Position: | President and Principal Architect |
| Time period: | December 2006 - Present |
| Description: | - Designed and built 5DOF portable Inertial motion sensor and integrated with GPS and Google Earth to provide Synthetic Vision in-flight.
- Architected KML database for extracting, managing and delivering diverse global aviation information, including live weather - Launched at AOPA Expo 2008 - www.navaware.com |
| Employer: | S3 Technical Solutions, Inc |
| Position: | Development Manager and Catalyst for web-based medical benefits management startup |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2007 |
| Description: | - Built new development team to replace lone coder
- Managed transition from homogenous ASP/VB6 app to layered .NET architecture - Implemented process-oriented development practices - Developed XSLT-based data import process. - www.monitorbenefits.com |
| Employer: | Anigraph |
| Position: | Architect and author |
| Time period: | December 2003 - November 2005 |
| Description: | - Developed SVG-based presentation tools.
- Ken Burns style animation to be incorporated with static presentations to capture gesturing and focus of attention common in live, white-board presentations. - Integrated with PowerPoint and Visio content. |
| Employer: | Outhink, Inc. |
| Position: | Co-founder, CTO, V.P. Engineering |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2004 |
| Description: | - Chief architect of secure, peer-based web collaboration, communication and content distribution platform
- Patent-pending Cross-platfrom Java implementation. - Lead Business development and fundraising. - www.outhink.com |
| Employer: | TiVo, Inc. |
| Position: | Tools Manager & Director Media Technologies, Television Group |
| Time period: | December 1997 - November 2000 |
| Description: | - Architected the television network-facing portion of the TiVo service.
- Managed tools development. - Invented proprietary TiVo tagging technique. - www.tivo.com |
| Employer: | MAS Media Utilities |
| Position: | Architect and co-author |
| Time period: | December 1996 - November 2004 |
| Description: | - Developed Media utility product specification and design.
- Implemented innovative consumer-oriented Windows GUI design. - Developed wavelette-based image query by example. |
| Employer: | Xsaver Screensaver Maker |
| Position: | Architect, Author, Publisher |
| Time period: | December 1995 - November 2000 |
| Description: | - Lead design and consumer technology implementations.
- Developed interface to Xpower multimedia engine. - Lead e-commerce product launch. |
| Employer: | Anigram |
| Position: | Author & Publisher |
| Time period: | December 1995 - November 1998 |
| Description: | - Lead design and consumer technology implementations of e-commerce interactive online animated greeting card site on the internet.
- Developed marketing model and supporting tcp/ip technology integration - Developed streaming multimedia player and integrated with load-balanced e commerce server - Lead e-commerce product launch. |
| Employer: | Xpower Windows/Internet Multimedia Authoring |
| Position: | Architect, Author, Publisher |
| Time period: | December 1994 - November 2000 |
| Description: | - Designed, developed and brought to market.
- Designed and wrote 'G' multimedia authoring language and real-time interpreter, including multi-threaded streaming-media TCP/IP support. - Lead engineering team implementation of supporting library and Integrated Development Environment. |
| Employer: | GRASP Multimedia Authoring for DOS |
| Position: | Publisher |
| Time period: | December 1986 - November 1996 |
| Description: | - Discovered and published first multimedia authoring tool for DOS
- Expanded customer base to over 10,000 users. - Provided editorial direction to outside authors - Managed development, documentation, support. |
| Employer: | Paul Mace Software, Inc. |
| Position: | President and Publisher |
| Time period: | December 1984 - November 1998 |
| Description: | - Founder and managing director.
- Responsible for new product design and development team leadership. - Lead development of marketing, sales, e-commerce and support strategies. - Public spokesman and popular panelist. - www.pmace.com |
| Employer: | Mace Utilities |
| Position: | Chief Architect and Author |
| Time period: | December 1984 - November 1990 |
| Description: | - Designed, developed and brought to market.
- Pioneered data recovery, with technical firsts: first to recover from formatted disk, first PC disk defragmenter, first automatic recovery. - Grew to 100,000 customers, $5M in annual sales. - Sold in 1989 to 5th Generation Systems. |
EDUCATION
| University: | California State University System - San Francisco State University |
| Time period: | 1973 |
| Degree: | English and Creative Writing, BA |
| University: | California State University System - San Francisco State University |
| Time period: | 1973 |
| Degree: | English and Creative Writing, MA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Paul Mace Guide to Data Recovery, Simon & Schuster; Paul Mace's Tools for Windows, Bantam |
| Patents: | 07403995 SYMMETRICAL BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Restoring and flying WW2 aircraft, cooking, reading, inventing solutions to everyday problems. |
