Charles H. Sauer, Ph.D. CAPABILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS System architect with broad experience and vision in computing, communications, networking, multimedia, PC's, Windows, Unix, software, and systems modeling. Development manager of advanced products and technologies. Leader and organizer of cross-functional and multi-company teams, technical groups, and standards bodies. Authored 4 books, 6 book chapters, 17 journal articles and numerous additional publications. Named inventor on two U.S. patents and one European patent. Expert in successful patent litigation, providing research, reports and testimony. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Technologists, Austin, Texas, ongoing Founder and Chief of Research. Lightling, Inc., Austin, Texas, 2001-2002 Chief Software Architect. Designed and developed Java software for integrating wireless "smart phones" with e-mail, intranet, and other enterprise applications. Cymbia.com, Austin, Texas, 1999-2002 Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer. Chief architect and developer of Cymbia Telecom Analyzer, a tool for analyzing and managing corporate telecommunications expenses and networks. This web-based software enables the user to identify inefficient usage and PBX programming, costly network design problems, policy abuses, billing errors, and non-competitive carrier plans. Signet Network Systems, Austin, Texas, 1999 Consultant. hire.com (formerly World.hire), Austin, Texas, 1996-1999 Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President Product Group. Established all aspects of Recruiter, a web-based enterprise application for hiring and retention, including overall definition matching customer requirements, user interface, and internal architecture. Invented "appearance modeling" technology and incorporated in Recruiter. Managed network access and server support for major corporate installations of Recruiter. Managed all aspects of development and product management. Assisted in gaining funding from top tier firms, including Crosspoint Venture Partners, TL Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. VTEL Corporation, Austin, Texas, 1993-1996 1995-1996 Chief Technical Officer, Vice President Product Planning and Advanced Development. Established “VTEL Labs” as a separate functional organization. Developed, and achieved executive staff endorsement of, technology roadmap and “VTEL 2000” vision. Created corporate “intranet,” including broad information base on VTEL Labs, VTEL 2000, industry trends, standards and competitive environment. Established and led “Internet Systems Group,” a cross-functional program office for IP network conferencing and management. Negotiated key agreements with Microsoft and DataBeam. Chaired technical advisory board, with members from Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, MIT Media Lab, TeraQuest Metrics and the University of Texas at Austin. Chaired executive planning committee. Managed product planning function, coordinating product plan and definitions across marketing and development, and delivering new generation of hardware and software products. Established industry leading T.120 data conferencing products across VTEL product line. 1993-94 Vice President, Software and Architecture. Delivered leadership Windows-based products for videoconferencing, with extensible user interface appropriate to a broad range of environments. Provided overall system architecture and product planning direction for products for both group and desktop environments. Led technical relationships in joint activities with Intel. Dell Computer Corporation, Austin, Texas, 1989-1993 1991-1993 Vice President, Software and Technology. Development responsibility for operating systems products including Windows/DOS, Windows/NT, NetWare, OS/2 and Unix. Specifics included customization for maximum compatibility, performance, features and ease of use, and automated factory installation procedures targeted at high volume build to order environment. Network hardware and software development, including "LAN-ready" systems and network management offerings. Responsible for competitive analysis and performance evaluation across product lines. Development responsibility for digital audio and video products. Managed strategic technical relationships with Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Sun and others. 1990-1991 Vice President, Advanced Systems Development. Development responsibility for all 486 EISA system products, including advanced storage subsystems, ASIC and technology development. Products developed received numerous "editor's choice" and similar awards in industry publications. Led joint Dell/Intel development of "JAWS" local bus graphics systems, the primary precursor to local bus implementations in PC systems. Formed BAPCo (with IBM, Intel and NCR). 1989-90 Director, Systems Development. Led development of premiere PC implementation of UNIX SVR4. Developed RAID disk subsystems for EISA products. Developed ASIC's for Dell systems. IBM Corporation, Austin, Texas, 1982-1989. 1986-1989 Senior Technical Staff Member, Advanced Engineering Systems. Lead architect for AIX on RS/6000 and "AIX Family" (RT/PC, PS/2, System/370). Initiated joint development efforts with Apollo Computer, CMU and OSF leading to winning design submission to OSF for Distributed Computing Environment. 1984-1986 Manager of System Architecture, Engineering Systems Products. Total responsibility for AIX software architecture, including graphics systems, networking and distributed systems components. IBM RT/PC software/systems design, with emphasis on compilers, run-time performance and virtual memory subsystems. 1982-1983 Senior Programmer, Communications Products Division. Architecture of micro-kernel subsystem for RT/PC prototype and product. The University of Texas at Austin. 1977-1979 Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences. Research and teaching in performance modeling methodology, operating systems and programming languages. IBM Corporation, Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 1975-1977, 1979-1982 Research Staff Member/Manager. Research in performance modeling methodology and software. Developed RESQ, the pioneering modeling and simulation package. PROFESSIONAL AWARDS IBM Corporate Award, AIX Architecture, 1988. (with G.G. Henry and L.K. Loucks.) BOARDS, COMMITTEES, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES Director, Rainbow Network, 2008- BOOKS Duran and Sauer, Mainstream Videoconferencing: A Developer's Guide to Distance
Multimedia, Addison-Wesley (1997). See http://technologists.com/jwdchs/.
PATENTS "System and method for accessing remote files in a distributed networking environment" (Johnson, Neuman, Sauer, Shaheen-Gouda, Smith) #4,887,204"Single system image uniquely defining an environment for each user in a data processing system" (Johnson, Loucks, Sauer, Smith) #5,001,628 EDUCATION Ph.D. 1975, computer sciences, University of Texas at Austin. |