Casey Klimasauskas

Business Savvy CTO

Experience:  33 years
Home Location:  Zelienople, PA
Industry:  Software / Technology
Current Title: Senior Engineer at Forte Design Systems, April 2004 – November 2006

Personal Statement

I am a CTO with strong business and process experience, demonstrated technical and management leadership, and strong customer orientation. I am seeking a company where I can apply this breadth of experience to create break-through products that drive top line revenue. I co-founded a company. I have envisioned, architected, produced, and managed the life-cycle of two award winning products. I have staffed, motivated, and managed a diverse team to develop a break-through product in the chemical industry. I am author of numerous articles and conference presentations. I am an excellent communicator. Most recently, I have taken a tour of duty through corporate management, enterprise sales, United States government contracting, marketing/new business development, and engineering. I believe the best integration of these experiences is as a CTO. If you are looking for a CTO who can connect your business drivers to your product development, contact me today.

Education

BS, Mathematics (June 1974)  California Institute of Technology

Experience

Senior Engineer at Forte Design Systems — April 2004 – November 2006
Function: Technology Industry: EDA Compensation: $125k-$150k 1-100 Employees
Transform C++ code into structures suitable for chip-level implementation. Key accomplishments: Improved key product performance metric by 7%. Substantially increased product stability. Developed hands-on understanding of Linux Operating system and its capabilities.

New Business Development at MAYA*Viz — August 2003 – March 2004
Function: Marketing Industry: Decision Support Software Compensation: Under $100k 1-100 Employees
Research and identify business opportunities, craft individual and corporate messages. Key accomplishment: Initiated and managed the re-design of the corporate web site creating a coherent image and message that concisely reflected the corporation and its capabilities. linked corporate capabilities to customer business benefits. This position required a Secret Government Clearance which is currently inactive.

Principal Consultant at Klimasauskas Group — March 2001 – July 2003
Function: Technology Industry: Government Consulting Compensation: $150k-$175k 1-100 Employees
Identify, pursue, close, and deliver technology intensive services in business process optimization, data-mining, and pattern recognition to US Government customers and sub-contractors. Worked through government procurement process. Invented statistically sound non-linear classifier for high-dimensional small data sets that uses a combination of genetic optimization, statistics, and neural networks. Developed and deployed an integrated automated system for training and deploying neural networks. Researched and collected over 13,000 random number generators (RNG). Developed a custom high-quality RNG. This work was done as a DARPA sub-contractor. These contracts required a Top Secret Government Clearance that is currently inactive. Received the Christine Helms award for exceptional contribution. Delivered solutions in C++, Java, Visual Basic, and Microsoft Excel.

Senior Account Executive at Aspen Technology — April 1999 – February 2001
Function: Sales Industry: Enterprise Software Compensation: $200k-$250k 1,001-10,000 Employees
Responsible for enterprise software sales to a list of named accounts. Took a C (less than $500M revenue) to an A (greater than $10,000M revenue) company in 18 months. As team leader, researched, envisioned, developed a business case, initiated contacts, managed relationships with technical, project management, senior and executive management, and closed a multi-million dollar technology and consulting sale to a Fortune 500 company.

VP Advanced Control and Optimization Division at Aspen Technology — August 1997 – March 1999
Function: Operations/GM Industry: Enterprise Software Compensation: $150k-$175k 1,001-10,000 Employees
Integrated the engineering organization of NeuralWare into ACOD addressing both technical and personnel issues. Developed and delivered presentations to ACOD management and engineering staff on the viability of NerualWares technology. In coordination with Joe Boston, the President of Aspen Technology, created a corporate vision and related presentation for Plantelligence. Delivered this presentation to 80% of company's 1,500 employees at 21 sites around the world. This was a critical early step in creating company-wide understanding and acceptance of the vision that has become Aspen One.

Chief Technical Officer at NeuralWare — March 1992 – July 1997
Function: Technology Industry: Data Mining Compensation: $150k-$175k 1-100 Employees
Working with a Fortune 500 customer, developed an approach to stock portfolio management. Led the engineering team to deliver a prototype that generated a simulated market and risk adjusted excess rate of return of 2.6%. This project formed the basis for an award winning data-mining product, NeuralWorks Predict, integrating neural-networks, genetic optimization, statistical analysis, and fuzzy pre-processing. Staffed and lead a research and engineering team that created a break-through product for the control of non-linear chemical processes. The development of this product led to several patents. This prototype became Aspen Apollo, a successful product for the control of polymer manufacturing. It was the motivation for Aspen Technology to acquire NeuralWare. Initiated practices and processes to improve product quality using the SEI maturity model. Product development was done in C, C++, and assembly code. Operating systems included Windows, AIX, HPUX, SunOS, VMS.

President / Co-founder at NeuralWare — March 1987 – February 1992
Function: Operations/GM Industry: Data Mining Compensation: $125k-$150k 1-100 Employees
Co-founder of NeuralWare. Developed initial business concept. Wrote business plan. Designed and led a team to develop NeuralWorks Professional neural-network based data-mining software. Raised capital from angel investors. Managed P&L. Designed and implemented manufacturing and operations procedures and supporting systems. Visited and supported relationships with distributors in England, France, Germany, South Africa, and Japan. Worked closely with engineering to develop an award winning second generation product, NeuralWorks Professional II+. Ported NeuralWorks Professional II+ to Intel Hypercube using Parasoft's parallel operating system kernel. Worked on customer projects including fraud detection, targeted marketing, credit scoring, process modeling, pattern recognition, and data-mining.

Principal Consultant at Casey Company — November 1985 – February 1987
Function: Technology Industry: EDA Software Compensation: $100k-$125k 1-100 Employees
Worked for a variety of clients, primarily on projects in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) / Electronic Computer-Aided Engineering (ECAE). Primary customer was Future Net which was later acquired by Data IO. Enhanced graphics performance for a printed circuit layout tool. Developed back-annotation system for schematic capture. Improved algorithms for a rip-up and re-route printed circuit board router. Worked in FORTRAN, C, PASCAL, and 8086 assembly code.

Vice President Engineering at American Industrial Vision — March 1984 – November 1985
Function: Technology Industry: Robotic Vision Compensation: Under $100k 1-100 Employees
First full-time employee at start-up joint venture of American Cimflex and BMW Ventures. Under the direction of the CEO, Romesh Wadhwani, researched the robotic vision market, developed product specifications and competitive analysis for robotic inspection, tracking, and welding products. Implemented prototypes with a small initial engineering team. Worked at the engineering and executive level to establish license agreements and acquire key technologies with UK-based company. Hired engineering department including hardware, software, and image processing engineers. Managed and motivated department. Prepared presentations for board of directors and investors.

Senior Engineer at American Cimflex — June 1982 – February 1984
Function: Engineering Industry: Robotics Compensation: Under $100k 101-1,000 Employees
Designed and implemented AR-SMART, a teach-pendant based programming language for a 6-axis articulated robot. Designed and implemented a real-time low-level multi-tasking operating system, including file system and device drivers for AR-SMART. Researched and identified a real-time UNIX clone, Regulus, and assisted in negotiating license agreement. Enhanced the Regulus real-time operating system with inter-process communication functionality. Worked in C, and 68000 assembly language.

Principal Consultant at Casey Company — September 1979 – May 1982
Function: Technology Industry: Software / Hardware Compensation: $100k-$125k 1-100 Employees
New business development, hired and managed technical staff, worked as an engineer on key projects. Designed and implemented a high-reliability crash-proof file system for Future Data. This was based on extensive research into state-of-the art in file system design and empirical performance tests. Designed and implemented an extensive suite of low-level microprocessor diagnostics. Assisted in the system level design of an optical storage system for Xerox EOS. Designed and implemented the machine control portion of a high-speed visual inspection system. Assisted in debugging hardware vision algorithms. Developed and enhanced 6800 BASIC compiler; Forth cross-compiler; Z8000 C-compiler. Implemented object-based financial modeling program and applied it to analyzing combined bio-mass conversion project, multi-state income real-estate deal, a multi-function office, retail, residential project, and modeling benefits of a charitable remainder trust.

Additional Information

Honors / Awards
Patents: 5,809,490, 5,877,954, 6,278,962, 6,110,214; 6,246,972. Publications: One Book, 46 articles, numerous conference presentations. Training courses created: Applying Neural Networks in Business, Industry and Government, Financial Forecasting, and Advanced Neural Networks; Taught 100+ sessions. Best product award for NeuralWorks Professional II+, NeuralWorks Predict. Christine Helms award for exceptional contribution (as DARPA sub-contractor through American Institutes for Research)

Other Information
TEC Management Training Technical Account Selling Entrepreneurial Management Program (Carnegie Mellon University GSIA) Object Oriented Design with UML.

Candidate Interests