Executive Team

 

Jay attained a BA in Economics and an MBA from UCLA before joining IBM in 1974, where he held a number of sales and management assignments in Los Angeles and Virginia during his 10 year career with IBM. Digital Systems capitalized on his talents by naming him President in 1984, evolved into a division of Convergent Technologies and later part of Convergent Business Systems, a Unisys subsidiary. Jay led these organizations before forming Coaxis to purchase them from Unisys in 1990.

Jay’s association with the construction software market dates back to 1983. As a consistent innovator in applying leading-edge technologies to address the industry's unique business problems, Jay is often sought as a subject matter expert for trade and industry organizations, and was recently awarded Technology Executive of the Year 2013, by the Technology Association of Oregon. Jay was able to pull together his many experiences in the development of RiverEast Center, a Gold LEED Certified building that serves as the Portland, Oregon headquarters for Viewpoint Construction Software. He is passionate about building a strong management team for Viewpoint that unites a vision that both customers and employees can gain from. Born and raised in Los Angeles, golf, snowboarding and cycling occupy free time outside of raising a dynamic, interesting family. His two oldest sons, Scott and Miles, are both active in the company.

Also see interview with Jay by Software Advice CEO Don Fornes

Jim brings nearly 30 years of product development, operational, sales, and strategic marketing leadership and experience across North American and International markets. He joined Coaxis, parent company of Viewpoint Construction Software, in January 2008 and serves as the organization’s Chief Operating Officer. Jim brings an intense customer focus and a reputation for strong strategic planning and operational execution to Coaxis, which is a fast growing, industry leader of construction ERP software serving mid-to-large commercial construction companies in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Jim most recently came to Coaxis from the General Electric Company, where he served as General Manager for the Intrusion Security Group from 2004-2008. At GE, Jim led the global engineering, design and manufacturing of high tech security electronic hardware and software and was responsible for over $200 million in annual revenues.

Prior to joining GE, Jim held a variety of sales and marketing leadership roles including Director of Marketing for Interlogix which grew from being a $50 million U.S. based manufacturer into a $650M global leader over the seven year period he was with them - and was eventually acquired by GE. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and MBA from the University of Oregon.

Ben attained a BA in Political Science and Economics from Princeton and a MBA from NYU’s Stern School.  After a couple of years with Deloitte and Touché working in Manhattan, he left heading West to join Xerox Corporation working in their Seattle office.  Over almost a 14 year span at Xerox that moved him back and forth across the country, Ben held positions in a wide variety of financial management roles.  Position included Region Controller, Senior Treasury Manager, Division Finance Director, and Director of Mergers & Acquisitions.

Although born in Washington DC, Ben was raised in Alaska. After multiple coast to coast moves, he knew the Northwest was where he wanted to live.  Although he spent almost 16 years working in large corporations, Ben always knew that where he wanted to be was a small to mid size company, where he could daily see how a strong team coming together could successfully grow a business.

Passionate about his four kids, Ben coaches their soccer, basketball and baseball teams and engages in Tae Kwon Do with his two oldest children. When he’s not participating, Ben loves to support the Portland Trailblazers.

Matt is responsible for Coaxis strategic growth initiatives. Previously he was Chief Marketing Officer of TigerStop LLC where he helped to lead a turn-around of a factory automation leader through new product development, international growth, and strategic customer initiatives. Prior to this he and his family lived in the Netherlands where he ran, as VP and General Manager, the highest growth division of FEI, a global leader in electron microscopy solutions. In addition, Matt has extensive Strategy, M&A and Operational executive roles with FEI and Planar Systems, Inc. He began his career with General Electric in a technical leadership program.

Matt has been active in the Portland business community and has served on the boards of the Software Association of Oregon Foundation, The Oregon Bioscience Association, The Oregon Innovation Network, the Oregon Technology Awards, and the Stanford Business School Alumni Association.

 Matt has engineering and psychology degrees from Cornell and his MBA from Stanford University.

Mary has long been fascinated by the characteristics that can make one organization successful while another is not. Over time, she came to the conclusion that one of the most important factors in this equation is an organization’s ability to promote a culture where people are valued. People with the talent, passion, and commitment to carry the business forward are essential to achieving business results, and such people have a choice about where they work.

Early in her HR career, Mary attempted to recruit a candidate who was currently working for another firm in the same industry. He told her that he was treated so well where he was that nothing her company could offer him would persuade him to leave.

That statement was for her the start of a career-long commitment to understanding the factors that create a true “employer of choice” and helping the organizations in which she worked to embody those principles. Over the years, she has worked in a variety of business disciplines but has always come back to human resources management as the profession where she believes she can most make a difference.

Mary earned a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management early in her career followed later on by an MBA in Marketing. She has worked for large organizations such as Quaker Oats and PacifiCorp as well as smaller, entrepreneurial firms such as Coaxis/Viewpoint where she continues her mission to emphasize the “human” in her practice of Human Resources.

A native Oregonian, Daryl left Oregon State University with degrees in both Computer Science and Business Administration to join Viewpoint more than 30 years ago. In the early days with just 8 people, he enjoyed using all his skills in operating systems, application programming and electrical engineering. Long before networking and the internet, Daryl created "Oscar" (Operating System Changer) and "DJcom", combined with custom data transfer boxes, to transfer data between computers with different configurations. When later faced with porting a library of applications to an entirely new operating system, he created a series of management utilities that allowed the application software to operate relatively unchanged.

As the company grew, he evolved into managing the company's hardware platforms, systems software and technical customer support.  He currently manages an IT staff dedicated to maintaining the internal infrastructure and related technology issues supporting all department and company needs.

The consummate technology junkie, he'd love a chance to spend time with Bill Gates for his vision for making computers ubiquitous for all. When not enmeshed in the latest technology, however, Daryl enjoys playing 6 and 12 string guitars, banjo, violin, piano and mountain dulcimer while squeezing a little camping, fishing and sailing