Contact
John Cullen
www.linkedin.com/in/john- Vice President of Engineering
cullen-31aa7 (LinkedIn) Los Angeles
www.dairbhre.com (Personal)

Summary
Top Skills
SaaS Software Engineering Leader: Who believes strongly in collaboration,
Enterprise Software responsibility, and passion; Who has high level technical skills; Who
Java leads teams to develop great software; Drives the use of automation
to improve efficiency in the development process; Championing
Languages agile development, encouraging the flow of innovative ideas and
Japanese (Elementary) increasing productivity;
French (Elementary)
English (Native or Bilingual) He has excellent cross-functional technical skills, management and
leadership experience; He has driven projects to completion at firms
such as Oracle, Yahoo and Ricoh; He has a self motivated and
tenacious attitude that has made him successful at startups including
WWC and ServiceMax;

Mission: To build teams to develop state of the art software; Use a

strong sense of responsibility to take charge and deliver projects on
time, within budget, resulting in satisfied customers;

• 25 years working in Information Technology

• 10+ years managing teams delivering SAAS applications, teams of
4 – 40 engineers
• Broad experience in Java, C, C++ JavaScript, AJAX, xhtml, JEE,
Hibernate, MySQL
• Extensive experience with JBOSS and Weblogic
• Experience using XML, Web Services, multi-tier architectures,
Seam and struts
• Strong knowledge of Linux and Eclipse for development
• Led teams developing on iOS, Android and Windows for iPad,
tablet and laptop
• Familiar with Agile, Scrum and Waterfall techniques; MS project,
Visio, Version One, Jira
• Excellent facilitator; strong written and verbal communication skills
• Published and presented at international conferences
• Extensive International experience; 3 years working in Japan; 2
years managing teams in India;
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On the ground collaboration with teams in Quebec, Canada

• MS in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz, BS in Physics
from UCD Ireland
• Holder of 33 patents on algorithms and systems for Image
Processing
• Member of IEEE and PMI

Experience
Cast & Crew Entertainment Services
Vice President Of Software Engineering
February 2017 - Present (4 years 4 months)
Burbank, Los Angeles

As department head, John with his team develops and manages key software
of the company. He has rolled out digital products that manage cast and crew
for studios, including On-boarding and Employee Management
He also manages the Gross-to-Net Payroll Processing System
He drove extensive upgrades for security, reliability and usability
He is a member of the company wide Leadership Team

ZipRecruiter
Senior Director of Engineering
January 2016 - January 2017 (1 year 1 month)
Santa Monica, CA

John lead the technology team developing the International product offering
for ZipRecruiter. ZipRecruiter.com is an online job distribution and job board
service. The web-based platform aggregates applications from boards and
provides tools for applicant tracking and screening. It is a subscription-based
SaaS for employers.

ServiceMax
Director of Engineering
September 2014 - June 2015 (10 months)
Pleasanton, CA

ServiceMax is a SAAS based field service management tool build on the

SalesForce platform. As director, he oversaw 4 development teams in India,
30 engineers and 4 managers. He drove capacity planning, improved feature
definition and Agile Story-Time, delivering a challenging Spring release with
a significant decrease in found defects. He accelerated hiring, growing the

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teams by 20% in 6 months and hired a new engineering manager in India.

He executed on removing 3 ineffective team members in engineering and
conducted a talent review. He also worked as an engineering manager
overseeing the Pleasanton team developing the first ServiceMax Android
application. In this capacity he managed 4 engineers.

Oracle
Engineering Manager
June 2012 - September 2014 (2 years 4 months)
Dublin, CA

While at Oracle he managed the engineering team that developed the

WWC Compensation Planning System. This included managing the team,
budgeting and hiring. He continually raised the bar on quality. Our 2013 and
2014 releases had 0 known defects. Happy customers included Sapient,
Broadcom, TDBank, YPG and Western Digital. He worked closely with Oracle
Professional Services to deliver special customer asks. He also managed the
Taleo platform components that supported both Recruiting and Performance
Management. In this role he hired 3 engineers in India and interfaced with
resources in Pleasanton and Quebec Canada. He joined Oracle through their
acquisition of Taleo. In November 2012 he was promoted by Oracle to people
manager of the Compensation team.

Taleo
Senior Software Engineer
January 2010 - June 2012 (2 years 6 months)
Dublin, CA

At Taleo he worked as a senior developer on the WWC codebase. he

extended the code for the administration side of the product to configure and
run Basepay, Bonus and Stock budgets. he provided technical leadership to
other engineers. He trained Professional Services engineers and provided
escalation support from both Professional Services and Customer Support. He
joined Taleo through their acquisition of WWC Inc.

World Wide Compensation Inc.

Senior Software Engineer
May 2007 - January 2010 (2 years 9 months)
Redwood City, CA

WWC was a startup company and a SAAS provider of software to manage

the Compensation planning cycles in multinational corporations. As a software
developer he implemented a highly configurable portlet UI model for building

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Compensation Plans. As part of a team of 3 developers rolled out the first MVP
release. This release was configured and deployed to Mattson Technology
with great success. Subsequent releases when to Western Digital, TDBank
and YPG. Successful outcome when Taleo bought the company!

Gaslight
Captain
April 2005 - May 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Sausalito, CA

Operated marine charters for private parties and school education programs
on San Francisco Bay aboard Gaslight a 70' scow schooner

Yahoo Inc
Engineering Manager
September 2001 - November 2004 (3 years 3 months)
Sunnyvale, CA

Worked as a member of the Resumix/Hot Jobs Hiring Gateway Development

Team. The Hiring Gateway was a product to enable Recruiters and Hiring
Managers interact with their company Job Board and provided a recruiting
workflow. He managed the engineering team that delivered the first version
of this product. Beta releases were rolled out to Chevron and NVIDIA. He
engaged closely with customer rollout. He provided training and support to
Professional Services. As manager he scaled the team by 50%.

OMIX
Senior Applications Engineer
1999 - 2001 (2 years)
Menlo Park, CA

Managed groups of engineers to build dynamic web sites for customers

of OMIX - Used extensively the Web Logic Application Server for
implementations. Engaged with requirements negotiations with customers.

Ricoh California Research Center

Research Engineer
1986 - 1998 (12 years)
Menlo Park, CA

He worked for 12 years on advanced imaging systems for Ricoh. 2 years

were spent in the Research Center in Japan, followed by 10 years at the
Ricoh California Research Center. Today he holds 33 patents for the work
done on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. At CRC collaborating
teams developed hardware prototypes in ASIC and FPGA technology to
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simulate target systems. Software and firmware was developed to run on those
prototypes. He developed ground cutting algorithms in Image Segmentation,
Analysis and Pattern Matching. These systems were patented and productized
into the latest generation of Ricoh Digital Copiers. John managed the
technology transfer between California and Japan and was applauded for his
people skills and diplomacy between different engineering teams. He helped
in building strong relations between product teams in Japan and algorithm
developers at the Ricoh California Research Center.

Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering · (1996 - 1998)

University College Dublin

BS, Experimental Physics · (1981 - 1985)

CBS Cahersiveen, Ireland

High School  · (1975 - 1980)

NVC workshop

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