Daryl Porter, President & Head of Technology

Daryl founded mindsong based on the firmly held belief that Cloud Computing had already created two provocative corollaries for Moore's Law: The cost of software operations should drop by half every two years; and the production capability of agile 5-person teams ought to increase by a factor of 5 every 2 years.

With that in mind, Daryl uses his extensive enterprise software development background to evaluate emerging Cloud Computing Architectures against unique business requirements to create the right tools at the right price.

Whether it's the strict FDA compliance regulations of clinical research organizations or the fragmented claims chain of commercial insurance or the distributed global supply chain of custom jewelry design the Cloud is presenting disruptive opportunities that dampen costs while amplifying productivity.

At mindsong, Daryl has worked on a wide ranging set of projects.

Entrepreneurial results include developing an ODM-compliant eCRF Casebook Generator, an FDA-Compliant Digital Signature Feature and a Clinical Intelligence Sales & Marketing Tool.

Prior to mindsong, Daryl spent 18 years at Oracle Corporation and held several executive level positions in both product development and support services.

In product development, Daryl’s 15-year career included jobs as programmer, manager and Vice President in the Database Tools’ Division where he managed teams from 3 to 300 with commensurate responsibilities around strategic direction, operational execution, budget and performance.

Technical accomplishments include building the world’s first distributed PL/SQL debugger for the Oracle eBusiness Suite. Daryl has extensive programming background in the runtime layers of Oracle Forms, Reports and Portal products.

Project Management achievements include moving the Oracle eBusiness Suite from client/server to the Internet. Daryl has extensive integration experience in bringing together new releases of the Oracle Database, Oracle iDS & iAS as well as the Oracle eBusiness Suite.

Operations Management results include streamlining software life cycle services for global, distributed teams of over 10,000 software professionals in 5 countries.

In support services, Daryl spent 3-years as a Vice President in Advanced Support Services.

Technical exploits include architectural assessments for Fortune 100 Oracle Customers in Health care, Government, Financial & Telecom industries to accelerate the adoption of GRID computing & LINUX.

Account Management appointments include 18-months as the Red Hat, Oracle OnDemand Service Executive.

Daryl is also a leader in business process re-engineering with background in M&A technical due diligence. Highlights include Oracle’s acquisitions of Siebel and People Soft.

Daryl holds an MSE in Computer Science from Princeton University and a BS in Mathematical Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.