Patrick Nicolas

Founder of Coalesce Networks, a startup dedicated to collaboration platform and services for global software development teams.

Sector: Software publishers

- Manage all technical operations: Product Management, Development. QA, Customer Support & IT services with emphasis on automation & ROI.
- Increased revenue of existing traffic management product line by 50% without cost increase by creating a customer centric culture using agile development, building remote engineering teams (India, Bulgaria), a configurable QA lab and developing a network of experts on demand
- Led the fast paced design and development of a database virtualization appliance, dbDispatch™ as an alternative approach to traditional replication and data center high availability and security solutions.

Sector: Software publishers

- Built the engineering department from 5 to 40 engineers, with no attrition, to develop the first hosted B2B procurement solution on the market. Introduced component-based development with 22 repeatable processes & metrics.
- Managed a $1M quarterly budget and set up a concurrent development structure with cross-functional teams to meet tight schedule.

Sector: Software publishers

Led a 4-developer team to resolve scalability, reliability and security issues regarding wireless communication server and concentrator.

Sector: Telecom - Internet Products and Services

Created and brought to market the first advanced C++ scientific library for PC & Sun Workstations

Sector: Software publishers

Led the development of a CORBA & Java-based applications management system and OMG compliant naming, trading and events services.

Sector: Software publishers

Led a team of 8 developers & QA Engineers to build development tools for embedded systems using C++, CORBA. Specified requirements, quality criteria, and set up the beta cycle with field engineers.

Sector: Software publishers

Led the development of process control software for electric power utilities

Sector: Engineering - Projects