Steven Beal’s Experience

• VP of Engineering

  Covario

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — Present (6 months)

• R&D Section Manager

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

  September 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  R&D Section Manager for HP Service Management practice.
  Planned and executed convergence of the HP Service Desk and Peregrine Service Center products to produce HP Service Manager 7.0.

• R&D Section Manager

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)

  R&D section Manager for HP Asset Management practice.
  Site Manager for Paris office. Brought AssetCenter 5.0 to market.

• Director Shared Technology

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

  December 2005 — July 2006 (8 months)

  Leader of geographically dispersed, multi-national teams charged with producing J2EE/Spring based shared technology components utilized throughout the IT Service and Asset Management products as well as the greater HP OpenView software portfolio.

• Principal Developer (Peregrine fellow)

  Peregrine Systems

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 9 months)

  Leader of shared technology team focused on unification of the Peregrine product line through development of a Common Web Client framework. All Peregrine products successfully adopted this application technology neutral framework, producing a consistent user experience and seamless integration/aggregation of features (ServiceCenter, AssetCenter, DecisionCenter & Enterprise Discovery).

• Product Architect

  Peregrine Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2001 — April 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  Rearchitected the foundation of the Get-It product line, producing a custom MVC framework that can best be described as something between struts and coccoon.
  Provided architectural guidance to product teams and managed difficult customer escalations touching J2EE technology.

• Project Manager

  OrderFusion

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  Engaged to plan and execute migration of the OrdersOfMagnitude e-commerce system from WebObjects/Objective-C to Java/J2EE. Objectives included staffing and re-training of the development team, and collaborationg with Apple computer on the WebObjects 5 appserver and supporting toolset.

• CTO, Technical Advisor

  ComponentBID.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 1999 — March 2000 (6 months)

  Defined architecture and technical direction for implementation of company vision.
  Supported the founders at investor meetings.

• Senior Software Architect

  KeyLime Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — October 1999 (2 years)

  Joined the company at its inception and worked with the partners setting up the business infrastructure and assembling a winning technical team.
  Two unique products were produced, Echoes and Limelight. The LimeLight e-business analytics system is now a Yahoo offering.

• Principal Software Architect

  TriTeal Corporation

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1997 (4 years)

  A great startup experience going from 5 guys sitting around a folding card table to a public company.
  
  Defined the architecture and direction for a research project that produced a next-generation 100% JAVA desktop system for thin client Network Computers (NCs). The system was demonstrated at COMDEX 96’ & 97’ on the IBM and Wyse NCs and produced three patents.
  
  Served as an on-site representative of the company for top-tier customers such as Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and ATT during critical product rollouts

• Staff Scientist

  Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAI; Defense & Space industry)

  1986 — 1993 (7 years)

  Cruise missile simulations
  Sortie planning software / GIS systems
  Time series analysis and rule based "health monitoring" systems for Space Shuttle Main Engine test stand telemetry.