Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- CEO at Enthios
- Past
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- Software Consultant at STMicroelectronics
- Software Consultant at Xilinx
- Technical Director at DEM Solutions
- Scientific Software Manager at Crocodile Clips
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Paul Golz’s Summary
I am an excellent scientific software developer with a unique skill-set. With over 13 years of high-end development ranging over a wide range of industries, I have a wealth of experience to draw upon. Additionally, as successful contractor, I have a natural ability to quickly pick up new concepts and ideas and use them to create very useable products to a very high quality.
Having worked as a consultant to many blue-chip companies I can communicate effectively at all levels, from engineers to senior management. I have lead development teams and am a confident and successful manager. My drive is always to create tools of real use to industry and education and I am fortunate enough to genuinely enjoy my work, and to take pride in my creations.
Paul Golz’s Specialties:
C++
Qt3,4
Visual Studio
Cross-platform development, MacOS X, Windows, Linux
Perl
PHP
Javascript
Python
Tcl
HTML
FORTRAN
C
Objective C
XML
SQL
XP-COM
VHDL
Paul Golz’s Experience
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CEO
Enthios
(Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)
Software consultancy specialising in Qt, scientific software and cross-platform software
I have been involved in researching the creation of a high growth, privately and publicly funded company to use FPGAs to accelerate software, in particular Physics and Maths algorithms. I was accepted onto the EPIS program and as an “Entrepreneur with High Potential” by Scottish Enterprise High Growth Team. This work was put on hold after I was offered consultancy work at Xilinx (an FPGA company) which I hoped would give me further insights into the challenges I would face.
During this time I also wrote a commercial software package. “Silicon Dragon” is an online management system for small organizations. It is written in PHP/XHTML/Javascript with a generic SQL connection to any underlying database. The product is now in active use and my plan to release the code under the GPL will hopefully stimulate an active user community. -
Software Consultant
STMicroelectronics
(Public Company; STM; Semiconductors industry)
December 2008 — July 2009 (8 months)
I'm designing a new architecture for ST's application development framework. What this means is that other people write their applications on our framework, a kind of SDK but a bit more specialized towards image processing applications.
I'm also helping move the existing code and development tools to a more professional software development environment by introducing build and test systems, re-organizing libraries, etc. I'm doing something similar on the project management side as well, helping move to a more structured approach with requirement specs, an established project lifecycle and general planning. -
Software Consultant
Xilinx
(Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 8 months)
I was originally contracted to create a software translation tool (VTFC) that would convert VHDL (a language used to program microelectronics) into Tcl for use in their in-house IP delivery system. I was the only developer on the project and liaised with both software and hardware engineers to create and deliver this useful tool. The product saves engineers around 2 weeks development time per piece of IP and using an automated tool significantly improves the quality of the work. As a result of this work, end-users now have access to resource feedback during the design stage that can help with design decisions.
After release of this tool, I began a large-scale re-factor and redesign of their main product – CORE Generator. This was largely driven by a requirement to move to Qt4. I was given considerable latitude over the new design and architecture and in just 11 months I created a fully featured product that provided a easy to use UI onto powerful engine. -
Technical Director
DEM Solutions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2003 — August 2006 (3 years 1 month)
DEM Solutions was created with the aim of taking an academic idea and turning it into a commercial product. It has been singularly successful in this aim. The product is now used the world over.
Discrete Element Modelling software simulates the collective behaviour of large numbers of particles, from powders to sand and mud, from grain to rocks. Our software has been used to study diamonds, catalysts, drug mixing and rock crushing to name a few.
Whilst DEM has been in existence for some time software has never been of a commercial grade. I took existing ideas and created a fully functioned, industrial quality tool which integrated with existing tools as well as further developing the fundamental algorithms. The EDEM product was my vision and I was the sole architect for the entire project, as well as writing all of the back-end physics.
EDEM has been met with uncompromisingly positive feedback from GSK, Exxon, Pfizer, Dow Chemicals, NASA and John Deere Inc. -
Scientific Software Manager
Crocodile Clips
(Computer Software industry)
September 1999 — November 2003 (4 years 3 months)
My position gave me responsibility for the development of all the scientific software that the company produced. I led a team of 4 developers and a development officer through the full product lifecycle. As the senior developer, I was the lead software architect and provided support and training for the other members of my team. I managed four separate projects – Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Technology, with responsibility for both the software itself and the accompanying files.
I personally wrote the majority of the core code for the Technology, Physics and Maths products. These first two were written in the MFC (C++) cross-compiled to Mac and the latter was based on the emerging Mozilla framework, a project I contributed to on a personal level.
