Resume of Cameron McLean

74 Pine Street

Medfield, MA 02052

(508) 359-6474

HIGHLIGHTS:

·         Over 17 years involvement with all aspects of complex software development and application environments.

·         Technical hands-on leadership of sophisticated large-scale software product offerings.

·         Very strong people and management skills

·         14 years direct experience in the area of application architectures and development tools (Internet, OO) including product strategy, requirements analysis, architecture, design, implementation and management.

·         Creatively assimilates technologies along with customer requirements to achieve successful solutions.

·         Specific expertise in components and object architectures, multi-tiered and distributed E-business architectures, rule-based internet strategies and database technology.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

·         Architecture: Internet, Distributed Objects, Development Tools

·         Languages: Java, C, C++, Smalltalk, Pascal

·         Middleware: Tuxedo, TIBCO, MQSeries, EJB, CORBA, CGI, HTTP, Servlets, Applets

·         Database: object and relational databases.

EXPERIENCE:

Bremer Associates – Newton, Massachusetts

Chief Technical Officer/VP Engineering                                                       

Bremer Associates provides tools as well as solutions and professional services in the area of enterprise integration EIA for financial services firms, B2B and Government.

Provides leadership across all facets of Engineering  (staff of 16) and Professional Services as well as adviser to CEO regarding product and marketing strategy.

Mentors all staff including chief architect, developers and professional services staff regarding architecture implementation strategies.

Established support for Java in all facets of the product architecture.

Helped win and maintain key partners and customer accounts providing  liaison to key technical management at client companies.

Directed multiple successful product releases and successful services engagements for Bremer customers.

 

World Class Objects – Medfield, Massachusetts

Founder President/CEO                                                                               

World Class Objects offers tools, frameworks and professional services that aid in the design and development of complex, transactional, scaleable and distributed business application and reusable business components utilizing object technology.

Specific company strengths (supported by products and services) are in the area of object/middleware integration for; distributed transaction processing (Tuxedo), legacy data access (e.g., HLLAPI), messaging and database access.

Companies such as: EDS, Continental Airline, LSI Logic, Ameritec, Unysis have successfully utilized world Class Object’s products and services. Cincom Systems is a licensee and distributor of a Java and Smalltalk-based e-business framework created by Cameron.

 

BULL HN Information Systems– Billerica, Massachusetts

Director Strategy and Architecture ASPU                                                    

This work was in the Application Services Products Unit of the Open Systems Division which delivered solutions to BULL customers in the areas of Database, Development Tools, Transaction Processing and Workflow. Worked with large customers to establish corporate and computing strategies.

Chief Architect of the Bull Integrated Systems Development (ISD) product set, an open systems, repository-based application development framework. Strategist, key contributor to the management of, and provided technical leadership and mentoring for  a large scale development effort that included parallel development in US., UK.and France, with the involvement of over 50 engineers. Directly managed a team of product architects and designers responsible for the creation of the product architecture.

Promoted the ISD strategy internally to management as well as externally to partners, industry analysts, the press and customers through presentations and publications. Successfully promoted the  ISD strategy to gain market endorsement of major CASE, hardware and database vendors.

Successfully implemented the startup of; and transfer of ISD technology to a new company called Transtar in Europe.

As Director Cameron was also a key contributor in many business areas including operations, product planning, marketing and sales.

 

Chief Architect Application Development Services and Tools                                

Key contributor to the overall direction, architecture and design of an application model and development strategy oriented towards solving the problems faced by customers developing and deploying mission critical distributed systems on an open systems platform. A key objective for this work was the incorporation of existing systems and technologies into these applications.

Also provided technical leadership for work with Vista Technology to create an application development environment based on HyperWeb, an object oriented, hypermedia-based application development framework similar in concept to the World Wide Web. Supplied technical requirements and architecture for the development environment and the hypermedia infrastructure.

 

Cortex Corporation – Waltham, Massachusetts

Project Leader / Architect                                                                            

Project leader for Core Technology Team. Charter was redesign of Cortex’s design and application generation tool for maximum portability, reuse and extensibility.

Respo­nsible for the redeployment of the DOS workstation tool AIX. Researched and provided recommendations for repository access, user-interface (Windows, PM, Motif) and the object oriented client/server architecture.

Jointly developed Cortex five year product plan. Performed in-depth research and developed prototypes (C, C++ and Smalltalk) in the areas of client/server, object oriented architectures, GUI and development tool interfaces.

Co-designed and developed the product components such as report and screen painters, screen resource compiler and runtime system,  server transport system, template driven C source and documentation generators.

 

Harper and Shuman – Cambridge, Massachusetts

Senior Programmer/Analyst Micro-CFMS                                       

Responsible for the design and development of a PC-based project control and financial management systems for architects and engineers.

Designed and developed a (C and Pascal) portable runtime services layer in order to port the UCSD P-system product to DOS. Automated source code changes through UCSD- to MS-Pascal language translation scheme. 

Programmer/Analyst VAX Product Group                                        

Designed and developed product and customized solutions for the VAX CFMS product. Major contributions in the area of application architecture and runtime. Also key contributor to the advancements in the product to support the demands of large customers including support for multiple distributed work groups including remote data entry, automated data consolidation and replication.

EDUCATION: 

Northeastern University

Software Engineering and Business related coursework

Framingham State College

Software Engineering related coursework

Berklee College of Music

Graduated with honors