Business Technology Executive
Executive Profile
Innovative, strategic-thinking executive with an exemplary record of
leading IT for technology, publishing, and manufacturing companies,
including small through billion-dollar businesses. Recognized for
turning around underperforming IT organizations through
vision-building, creating and executing strategies, and developing
new architectures while aligning mission and priorities with
corporate goals and objectives. Strong background in bringing the
benefits of technology to proactively solve business issues and
improve processes while effectively managing costs and mitigating
risk. Ability to build high performance IT teams. Trusted partner
with senior management on all IT and business issues. Academic
credentials include an MBA in e-Business, along with PMP and EPM
certifications.
Notable Contributions
- Lead in numerous business and technology
roles including CIO, CTO, Chief Stategy Officer, Senior VP for
e-Business, and Chief Solutions Architect.
- Extraordinary Internet experience: Built, launched, and the
company I founded became for three years the exclusive Web site
builder for Martha Stewart, Reba
McEntire, The Wedding Channel,
Electronics Boutique (now EBWorld), American
Diabetes Association, and many more. Appeared with
Bill Gates onstage to help him launch
Microsoft’s e-commerce platform.
- Transformed platform infrastructure through
virtualization in less than six months for a provider of online
marketing/lead management solutions. Overall effort enabled 4x
revenue and 8x performance improvement and side-by-side
redevelopment of core applications.
- Built processes and practices, for a
provider of Microsoft-centric products and consulting services,
that allowed 50% headcount reduction while growing services
revenues from $28M to $35M.
- Executed market strategy for a provider of
technology-enabled team solutions, achieving Microsoft Federal &
DOD Partner of the Year award for two consecutive years and
Cognos Global Partner of the Year award.
Core Leadership Competencies
- Board-Level Presentations and Membership
- Creating Substantial Shareholder Value
- Consolidations, Mergers, and Acquisitions
- P&L Responsibilities
- Leading Complex, Multi-Million-Dollar Projects On-Time and/or Under Budget
- Strategic Business Alignment
- Cost- to Profit-Center Transition
- Operational Improvements
- Enterprise Program/Project Management
- Leading Growth (Organically and Externally)
- Legacy Systems Migration & Modernization
- Systems and Product Design and Development Processes
- Building an IT Department that Focuses on Innovation and Improvement
- Strategic Alliances
- Business-Driven Technologies
- Change Management
- Virtualized Infrastructures
- Outsourcing Software and Platforms
- IT Services Delivery
- Application/Infrastructure Management
- Supply/Demand Chain Automation
Professional Experience
Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, DC: The nation's premier environment- and
climate-focused agency with over 17,000 professionals and staff.
Senior Information Technology Project
Manager & Team Leader, February, 2009 – Current
Recruited to develop, establish, and entrench
project management best practices within the Office of Water
Project Management Office (PMO) for eventual agency-wide
application and implementation and provide senior project
management for assigned projects.
- Implementing an Enterprise Project Management solution
upon which project management best practices and agency
business processes can be developed, refined, and finalized
for production deployment and eventual agency-wide
implementation consideration. Currently customizing Project
Server 2010 implementations for office/agency best practices
entrenchment and attainment of CMM level 3 this year.
- Lead Content Management System site migration from
uncontrolled, static, original site to managed, dynamic site
for over 100,000 documents and pages.
- Assigned to lead US EPA American Recovery and
Reinvestment (ARRA) Act 2009 Office of Water IT project
supporting over 85% of EPA’s $7.4B allocation under the Act.
- Assigned to support Senior Information Officer in
performance of Agency infrastructure board (QTS) activity.
- Assigned as alternate for Information Management Officer
on Agency standards committee.
- Achieved FAC-COTR certification and am actively serving
in that capacity on multiple contracts.
- Eligible for FAC-PPM certification pending finalization
of agency policy and procedures for implementation on CPIC
and Exhibit 300 projects.
Channel Blade Technologies, Virginia Beach, VA: Privately held
provider of online marketing/lead management solutions for marine,
recreational vehicle, and power sports industries.
Chief Technology Officer, 2006 – 2008
Responsible for technology transformation for a fast-growing company
to enable platform, application, and process scalability. Major
customers included Brunswick,
Freedom Roads, Honda
and MarineMax.
Led five direct and 42 indirect reports. Managed operational budget
in excess of $6M and CAPEX budget in excess of $1.5M. Inherited a
failing production IT platform, uncontrolled technology product
development, a dysfunctional corporate IT environment, and
dispirited IT team. Reported to the company President.
- Stabilized platform instituting a broad range of IT processes
ranging from product development and project management to software
life-cycle management, including test-driven development,
R&D-to-operations transfer, customer support involvement, and
interface policies & processes.
- Implemented state-of-the-art virtualization architecture; reduced
operations overhead by 40% and increased operational agility in the
face of accelerating market rate of change.
- Introduced customized Agile methods and processes coupled with
tool-facilitated, product-focused requirements, and product
development disciplines critical to redevelopment in parallel with
support which lead to the revitalization of the entire IT team.
MicroLink, LLC, Vienna, Virginia: Privately held award-winning
provider of technology-enabled teamwork solutions for government
agencies and Fortune 500 firms.
Vice President
& Enterprise Solutions Architect, 2005 – 2006
Responsible for identifying, crafting, and marketing technical
solutions for industry-wide business requirements including
messaging and collaboration solutions, enterprise content management
& search solutions, and full-spectrum product development leadership
for four applications (complete software development life-cycle
management). Major customers included U.S. Secret Service,
U.S.
Department of Defense, General Motors, and
Cap Gemini. Reported to
the CEO.
- Built strategic, top-level partnerships with key industry players,
including Microsoft, Autonomy, and Cognos through
thought-leadership, integrated solution development, and extensive
sales and marketing-related pre-sales technology leadership.
Academic Sabbatical, 2003 – 2004: MBA in E-Business conferred
December, 2005 upon completion of a Master’s Project with a 3.93
GPA.
Internosis, Inc., Arlington, VA: Privately held provider of
Microsoft-centric products/services; subsequently acquired by EMC to
become their Microsoft Professional Services division.
SVP for Business Internet Solutions,
Chief Strategy Officer,
Chief
Software Architect, 2000 – 2003
Role migrated from tactical to strategic as this 225-person
management-buyout start-up faced growth, lack of processes formerly
provided by their Parent Corporation, and challenges in responding
to rapid technology shifts and sector maturation. Led up to 12
direct and over 150 indirect reports as my role evolved with the
growing company. Major customers included U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Bank of New York,
Pfizer, and Verizon. Reported to the
CEO.
- Identified key segments, solutions, and strategic partnerships;
maintained profitability during IT industry downturn.
- Reversed 2x headcount growth without corresponding revenue. Created
and executed a sustainable strategy at a much lower headcount level,
built needed industry partnerships, and crafted an affordable
infrastructure & processes to reduce costs while positioning the
company for growth. Also package our technology services solutions
for repeatable execution at minimal cost, which maximized our
incremental margins.
- Led application development, infrastructure, and managed services
solutions and practices for all offices nationwide.
- Provided IT thought leadership and intellectual property strategies
to Fortune 500 clients.
AppNet, Inc., Bethesda, MD: VC-backed provider of services,
solutions and staffing for Fortune 500 firms focusing on e-commerce;
acquired by Commerce One.
President, Microsoft e-Business Solutions Practice
& Corporate VP,
e-Commerce Services, 1998 - 2000
Crafted a technology strategy to support subsequent acquisitions
without undue interruption to the existing and newly acquired
organizations which ultimately led to two integrated architectures:
one focused on Microsoft-based technology and one focused on other
technologies. Promoted to general divisional leadership of the
Microsoft-centric technology and services component of the company.
Led up to 20 direct and up to 200 indirect reports as the company
grew from a headcount of 50. Major customers: Ford Motor Company,
Xerox, Government Technology Services, Inc., and the
Wedding
Channel. Reported to the CEO.
- Led development and growth of company’s Microsoft-based practices
and organic growth of “Microsoft Center of Excellence” from internal
start-up through multi-million dollar annual revenue. Overall effort
achieved the exit-strategy growth target and sale of the company to
CommerceOne for $2.1B.
- Identified key markets, segments, and targets for the roll-up of
$100M, 13-company M&A effort.
Judd’s OnLine, Inc., Winchester, Virginia: Wholly owned subsidiary
and online company that provided the emerging online publishing and
e-commerce needs of the print publishing industry.
Founder & Senior VP Sales and Marketing, 1995 -1998
Founded the company as a work center within the IS department of
magazine and catalog printer Judd’s, Inc. while serving as corporate
Vice President for Information Services. Managed 30-person,
multi-million-dollar publishing vertical. Major customers:
Martha
Stewart (exclusive site builder from launch through 2001),
EBWorld, American
Diabetes Association, Society for
Human Resource Management, and The Salvation Army.
- Instrumental in the development of Microsoft’s e-commerce product:
Merchant Server 1.0; appeared on-stage with Bill Gates at the launch
of the product to demonstrate two customer successes created by
Judd’s Online built using the pre-release version of their new
flagship e-commerce product.
- Created a new technology services revenue center during a period of
intensive technology change accompanying the explosive growth of the
then emerging Internet. To support our largest customer,
Martha
Stewart Living Omnimedia. Developed a hosting infrastructure and
operational processes, and supporting technology team that allowed
her to grow from initial online launch with only five servers to the
84-server content and e-commerce suite she required for her IPO.
Judd’s, Inc., Strasburg, VA: A $300M magazine/catalog printer;
acquired by Perry Graphic Communication and subsequently by RR
Donnelley.
VP Information Services,
Board of Directors, 1994 — 1997
Identified and developed the technology strategy, infrastructure,
processes, and team needed to turn a $150M/year, 129-year-old
magazine and catalog printer using manual printing processes into a
near totally digital process-based sector leader, Major customers
included: Time Warner,
Newsweek, The Economist,
Billboard
Publications, and Fast Company.
- Improved financial and market positioning by 4.5 percent, or $11M,
which led to successful sale of company to Perry Graphic
Communications (becoming Perry Judd’s, Inc.).
- Transformed host/terminal, film-based magazine and catalog printer
into a fully integrated, digital workflow printer; created first
totally filmless commercial magazine issue ever printed - a special
issue of Life magazine.
- Earned InformationWeek’s “Fast Track 500” award for digital workflow
and data warehousing achievements.
Education
- PhD
candidate in IT specializing in Project Management, Capella
University
- MBA in eBusiness, University of Phoenix
- B.S. in Sociology, University of the State of New York
- PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MSITP) for Enterprise Project
Management (EPM)
- Microsoft Certified Business Management Solutions
Professional for Dynamics CRM 4.0 Professional
MILITARY: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
(Retired) in strategic and tactical
reconnaissance (inactive Top Secret clearance with access to
Specially Compartmented Information - TS/SCI), Acquisition Program
Manager for HQ, Naval Air Systems Command.
