Paul Mace

Paul Mace is a former Marine Corps Navigator, pilot and software pioneer. His career in hi-tech extends from pioneering the field of Data Recovery, through launching television innovator, TiVo, to Synthetic Vision for Aviation, where his professional career and lifelong passion for flying converged.

As Co-Founder and CTO of Outhink Inc., Paul headed a $4M research and development effort to architect and deliver patented secure internet collaboration and content and distribution system. Developed intellectual property from content from concept to grant of patent. Featured by Intel at Oracle Open World. Currently engaged implementing Outhink’s peer technology for the Internet of Things, as well as patent licensing and prosecution

He was previously engaged with Massachusetts General Hospital as a consultant on UI design and human factors software engineering for medical devices and applications.

Before that Paul built a development team in Portland and supervised the re-architecting and redevelopment of a web-based enterprise healthcare benefits management system. The application ties carriers, brokers, businesses and their employees into a unified, secure, self-managed, online environment. The engineering challenge was to take an existing VB legacy application already in production and re- implement it around a modular .NET, C#, code-behind architecture. The organizational challenge was to transition from a single-coder working by word of mouth in one place to a process-driven team effort spread across several geographic locations-without disrupting service or support.

He was Tools Manager and Director of Media Technologies at PVR pioneer TiVo where he architected and managed development of television network content delivery portion of the TiVo service, and participated in TiVo’s service launch and initial public offering.

As Founder, President, and Chief Architect of Paul Mace Software, a development and publishing company with reputation for innovation and technical excellence in systems utilities and multimedia software he was generally credited for inventing, along with Peter Norton, the disk utilities business and invention of the underlying technology.

Paul is an author, popular speaker and panelist, and a publisher of multimedia authoring tools since 1986; responsible for over a dozen commercially released software products, including oversight of and involvement in design, implementation, development team management, documentation, packaging, marketing sales and publicity. These products have included both a market-leading disk utilities product and, more recently, the first interactive animated multimedia comic book for the PC, and a full multimedia authoring language and integrated development environment.

Paul is a graduate of San Francisco State with Masters degree in English and Creative Writing. He holds several patents covering peered network communications.