The Team

 

CERTES GROUP is a private consulting practice whose principal is Chuck Runge. Since 1985 he has provided interim executive management services to companies in software intensive businesses. He has a history of accomplishment in quickly adapting to new environments to determine what is required to deliver successful leading edge computer based products in complex, difficult organizational and/or technology situations. These experiences are characterized by:

• Depth of Management Experience - President, COO, VP, Program Management, Project Management
• Breadth of Functional Experience - Marketing, Business Development, Operations, Technology, Intellectual Property
• Variety of Markets
• Internet applications, electronic commerce, software, Point of Sale, document imaging
• General purpose computing,semiconductor test systems, factory automation, time-sharing
• Electronic distribution of content, TV set-top boxes
• Corporate settings - Start-up, Fortune 100, Domestic and International

 

The totality of these experiences provides the ability to effectively communicate with and work with all levels of the organization including the Board of Directors and investors in domestic and international organizations. Some specifics of this background include:

• Co-founding Tenet Incorporated, where he led product development of a general-purpose 32-bit timesharing system, with advanced software features which did not become commonly available until years later and won in competitive bidding against major manufacturers.
  • See Unpublished Uncut Tenet Paper for more information.

  • An abbreviated version of this paper was published in the IEEE Annals in the summer of 2008; see Published IEEE Annals Tenet Paper.

  • A Canadian read the IEEE Annals version while researching BASIC compilers, found it interesting and published a reduced version of it in Wikipedia; see Wikipedia Version.
• Co-founding National Semiconductor's Systems Division, where he led the development of the software for its supermarket scanning systems, which allowed National to became one of the three top vendors in that market. He also developed the division’s first Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process.
• Leading product development for Onyx+IMI, which produced the first commercial, microprocessor-based UNIX system.
• Leading worldwide marketing of PC and microprocessor programming languages for Ryan-McFarland Corporation.
• Leading the development of computer based systems for real-time control and timesharing as well as application specific fields.
• Leading the development of the first semiconductor tester to be controlled by an embedded, proprietary computer and including the first commercial high-level test programming language (FACTOR). See Chip History - Sentry Tester for more information.

 

As the principal of CERTES GROUP he has provided executive management consulting services in funding, business strategy and planning, operations, business development, product development, and marketing for many markets including:

• Business Process Outsourcing for Internet based technical support
• Back office, Internet-based financial transaction processing
• Internet applications to serve Yellow Pages
• Development and hosting of web sites for small businesses
• Database and web integration for automated, dynamic electronic publishing
• Document imaging
• State of the art factory automation for manufacturing Personal Computers
• Electronic Point of Sale systems
• Electronic commerce applications
• Secure, electronic distribution of digital content (movies, software, catalogs, publications,...)
• General purpose imaging and graphics applications