Management Team

Stephen King- Chief Executive Officer

Stephen King, CEOStephen J. King, President and CEO, brings vision and leadership to the OpenMake Software team. He's not the famous mystery writer, although he does write and lecture about archetypes in today's business world. Mr. King has authored dozens of articles for publications ranging from Marketing Magnified to SD Times, and he is regularly invited to speak at business and technology events throughout the United States and Canada. Prior to joining Catalyst, Mr. King was CEO of Marqui, a software as a service provider of web 2.0 marketing solutions whom he joined in June 2004.  Prior to Marqui, he was Executive Vice President and General Manager at Merant PLC, a $130M global enterprise software provider, he was responsible for all aspects of marketing, engineering, and business development.

He played a key role in a dramatic turnaround at Merant, and its successful acquisition by Serena Software creating close to $300m in shareholder value. Prior to joining Merant in February 2002, Mr. King led Terayon Communications Systems' cable solutions group, growing the business by more than 20 percent per quarter to $280 million in revenue. Prior to that, he served as the chief operating officer at digital video start-up Imedia Corporation, and as a Regional Manager for the Middle East and Africa for Tektronix.

 

Steve Taylor - Chief Technical Officer - Co-founder

Steve Taylor, CTOMr. Taylor is an expert in software build management spanning multiple languages and platforms. He currently serves as CTO of OpenMake Software and is the architect of OpenMake Meister, the first commercially available build management solution.  With more than 20 years of experience in application development, Mr. Taylor has the answers for solving the most difficult of build and release issues.  Prior to founding OpenMake Software in 1995, Mr. Taylor served as a Technical Consultant assisting companies with defining a solid build and release process. Early in his career, Mr. Taylor recognized the need for a solid and agile build process that could easily adapt to source code changes. At this time he began developing the build procedures which have since become OpenMake Meister. Mr. Taylor received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science/Mathematics from the University of Illinois-CU.

 

 

Tracy Ragan - Chief Operations Officer - Co-Founder

Tracy Ragan, COO Ms. Ragan has had extensive experience in the development and implementation of business applications. She began her consulting career in 1989 consulting to fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Ms. Ragan recognized the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform that had long been considered standard on the mainframe. In the four years leading to the creation of OpenMake Software she worked with development teams in implementing a team-centric standardized build management process. Ms. Ragan served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors as an Add-in Provider Representative for 5 years.   Ms. Ragan received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.

 

 

 

Customer Success Stories

  • 100% Automation
  • Transparency
  • Standardization
  • Efficiency
  • Speed
  • Consistency

100% Build to Deploy automation that is Developer Driven

See how American Family Insurance implemented a secure, developer driven, build to deploy process using OpenMake Meister and CA SCM r12. This demo was presented at CA World 2010 and at the CA technologies Global Lifecycle User Group Quarterly meeting in September of 2010. This demo has an excellent example of how Meister can parallelize the build to deploy process.

 

Meister added Transparency to the process...

"The implementation of Openmake Meister for build management allowed  BNSF to directly address one of their biggest challenges in the area of IT controls. This technology automated the team’s build processes, providing a  complete audit trail of changes, progression and approvals through each lifecycle stage. Finally, the implementation team used MKS Integrity Manager’s capabilities to manage the implementation itself." BNSF Technology Services Division - Learn More

Meister Standardized the compile process across the enterprise at UCLA ...

"UCLA's challenge was to standardize how builds and releases were processed, regardless of the development language used. OpenMake Meister provided this across the enterprise." University of Southern California, Production Control Team Lead - Learn More

 

Meister allowed for developers to be more efficient saving money and time...

"As a company who specializes in process improvement we look for the most efficient ways to manage changing resources and requirements. We found this quality in Openmake Meister. Meister has allowed us to improve our development process by providing a streamlined, agile and 100% transparent build environment across the application lifecycle." Chris Lank, Ivis President and CEO, VP Worldwide Sales, Togethersoft

Meister accelerated builds across multiple remote machines...

"OpenMake Meister drastically reduced the cost of supporting our builds.  Meister allowed our build team to increase the number of builds supported using only 1/2 the staff, configured across 100 remote build agents."   Production Control, Major US Bank

Meister added consistency across multiple languages...

"Meister provides us a standard rules-driven build process regardless of platform, compiler and operating system. We selected Meister because it is the only enterprise-wide build tool that can thoroughly support our mission-critical Java, C/C++, and .NET applications.”   Todd Athorp, Sr Programmer, FIS