Newark, NJ – OCTOBER 16 2008 – Binary Tree announced today the appointment of their new Director of Software Development. Mr. Steve Mullen comes to Binary Tree after a long and successful career as a technical expert on IBM’s Lotus Notes & Domino. Most recently, Mr. Mullen worked for IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino development organization as Program Director of the Notes Client Development Team. His primary focus was to lead efforts to modify the Notes client for the Notes 8 launch.
A graduate of Boston College, Mr. Mullen joined Lotus in 1992, while the Lotus Notes client was at version V2.1A. He spent 2 years in the Lotus Support organization digging into customer- reported problems, refining processes, managing large customer relationships and teaching troubleshooting skills.
His expertise in writing debugging tools got him noticed by Iris and he transferred over to the Iris development team in 1994. Steve spent the next 8 years in the maintenance team, debugging customer problems, managing the development and test teams and releasing quarterly maintenance releases.
Mr. Mullen’s role as the new Director of Software Development at Binary Tree will allow him to focus on managing various development team projects and to create a development methodology that scales to the increasing product scope of Binary Tree software offerings.
"As the new Director of Software Development, Mr. Mullen brings rich experience to the Binary Tree Development team,” states Steven Pivnik, Co-CEO of Binary Tree. “He is an excellent fit for assisting us in creating a professionally designed and executed development and QA methodology. His experience will be instrumental in leading our development efforts as we scale to meet the never-ending demand of the messaging and collaboration market."
CONTACT: Julieanne Speciale, +1-917-885-1204, jules@binarytree.com, of Binary Tree