Paul Berneis is one of the founders of Huron Valley Software Consulting. He has almost thirty years of experience designing, implementing, and managing the development of software products and custom applications. He has developed software for database systems, distributed applications, telecommunications, EIS/DSS, financial systems, operating systems, and machine control systems. He has:

• Managed groups of up to 35 developers, including some hardware design, and worked with overseas development groups.
• Additional expertise in product planning, customer support, and localizing software for international (including Asian) markets.
• Reputation for taking over projects in trouble and making them successful.
• Up-to-date technical skills, including: client/server, relational database, object oriented, GUI design, Visual C++/Basic/FoxPro, Lotus Notes, etc.
• Experience with a wide variety of platforms (personal computers to mainframe, LAN, WAN, etc.) using a wide variety of programming languages (from assembler to 4GL) and development tools.

This section briefly lists some of the many successful projects Mr. Berneis has led:

• Developed a documentation authoring and management tool for automotive quality documents, to meet the QS-9000 APQP requirements.
• Helped establish a programming subsidiary in Chennai (formerly Madras), India.
• Developed a compiler to take a flowchart description of a factory process and produce assembly-level code to run the process from a PC acting as a PLC.
• Developed and promoted common architecture for the five main product lines of an EIS/DSS software company.
• Worked with a Big 6 consulting company in a joint-venture to design a business intelligence system. Completed the initial design and turned product over to development group for implementation.
• Assumed responsibility for a LAN-based document distribution system product, a three-year old project still in the high-level design phase. Redirected the project to use Lotus Notes, cutting schedule from 30 months to 12 months and reducing the staff needed by two-thirds.
• Managed the conversion of an American, OS/2-based, EIS product to support Japanese, Korean, and Chinese using resources provided by a Japanese reseller. The American company received the Japanese "Software Product of the Year" award as a direct result, at the time one of only six non-Japanese companies ever to receive the award.
• Developed TCP/IP protocol suite and Novell low-level protocol stacks for a PBX/data networking system. TCP/IP suite installed at customer site for three months before first bug was discovered. Also supported and enhanced existing LAN redirector protocols and services, ASCII access methods, 3270 terminal emulation, and X.3 PAD
• Developed X.500-like directory system for electronic mail and phone services
• Developed high performance ISA and MicroChannel bus adapter cards for proprietary LAN (both hardware design and software drivers). Briefly a member of IEEE 802.9 subcommittee.
• In 1983, developed one of the first executive information systems, on distributed IBM PCs and mainframes.
• Developed a time-series data management and statistical analysis system
• Developed a graphic output system for database, analysis, and financial modeling systems
• Assumed responsibility for $1 million custom hardware/software contract when manager left and customer threatened to sue for non-performance. Turned situation around so that customer was later used as a reference account.
• Developed major components of timesharing operating system, including file access, scheduling, error recovery, etc.

M.S. Computer Science, University of Michigan 1973
B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Michigan 1969
    

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