Resume of Chief Technology Officer

Title
Chief Technology Officer

Primary Skills
CTO with over 23 years of experience with commercial software companies ranging from large organizations to start-ups.

Location
US-VA-McLean

Posted
Sep-10-07

Chief Technology Officer
6/2002 - 6/2006 Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), Washington, DC
BNA - Bureau of National Affairs, Washington DC

Complete responsibility for all Product Delivery and IT involving a multi-million dollar budget. Completed under budget and on-time technology refresh projects required to move the some of the company's aging product line from Visual Basic 6 to C#/.Net
Brought on board to turn around a $5.5 Million investment in an ASP application headed for complete right off. Quickly brought development cost under control through reorganization and laid the foundation for a successful product launch. The product is currently used by the largest organizations in the US and has been established as the future, next generation product of a very profitable product line for BNA.

Effective managment and expansion of Product Delivery operations has turned the company around from a severely declining $16M per year business to a growing $26M business today, while maintaining the highest profit contributions to the BNA Corporation.

Responsible for multi-million dollar development budget producing the # 1 selling Income Tax Planner, category leading applications in Estate Tax Planning, Fixed Asset Management and Corporate Tax Audit.

Responsible for the design and management of a multi-million dollar development, maintenance and licensing deal with the IRS.

Responsible for integration development engagements with partners such as Thompson Publishing Group / RIA, Deloitte and Touche and PeopleSoft.

Responsible for the re-organization, restructuring and staffing of the Product Delivery Division. Departments include Software Engineering, Network Services, Portal Engineering, Program Management, Quality Assurance, and User Education.

Responsible for the vendor negotiations and business case justifying an unprecedented expenditure to overhaul hardware at our IBM Hosting Center.

President/Chief Technology Officer
3/1999 - 5/2001 OutFront Technologies, LLC, Alexandria, VA

Worked closely with the CEO Barry Johnson (former CEO BET and Sony Interactive) to form strategic partnerships with Internet technology companies and Venture Capital Firms.

Responsible for the technology vision and presentation to investors and analysts.

Responsible for business development , architecture, design and implementation of commercial products around entrepreneurial goals, concepts and visions.

Designed and managed production of CliqueNet/CliqueNet Studio, a technology infrastructure for deploying rich content modules to websites as an ASP.

Served as Internet technology consultant for MYOB US Inc., providing technical analysis of next generation Internet technology for the MYOB product line.

Provided Internet application architecture, development and optimization assistance to Best Software.(OOA, OOD, MS COM, DCOM,Active X, MS Backoffice Technologies, MS C++/MFC, data warehousing , MS Frontpage, DBMS handle caching, NT Server Security and Service implementation)

Responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of an Internet java personal Internet appliance. (OOA, OOD, Java JDK 1.2/Swing, RMI, MS Backoffice technologies, XML, Macromedia Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Drumbeat, Borland JBuilder)

President
3/1997 - 3/1999 RRB Incorporated, Reston, VA

Collaborated with the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer to successfully startup an organization to design, develop and rollout an Internet software product -- an enterprise-scale Budgeting and Financial Analysis product.

Responsible for presenting the business plans and prototypes to the Board of Directors receiving strong support and funding.

Staffed and managed the startup of 30 analysts, programmers, technical experts, and support staff.

Responsible for the architecture of a successful n-tier Internet product. (OOA, OOD, MS ,C++ / MFC / ActiveX / COM / DCOM / BackOffice Technologies, multi-dimensional database design, data warehousing).

Successfully delivered the product and transitioned the startup organization of more than 30 employees back to Best.

Identified, integrated, and negotiated contracts with all 3rd party vendors.

Chief Technology Officer
6/1992 - 3/1997 Best Software Incorporated, Reston, VA

As CTO I had the Board of Directors full confidence in managing all technology concerns. In this role my responsibility was to grow Best technology and software engineering staff into a world class development shop producing applications that are market leaders. In addition it has been my responsibility to 'make it happen', to take an idea, build an organization around it, and move it forward to the delivery of a commercially successful product.

As part of the strategic planning process at Best prepared and presented the annual Corporate Technology Plan to the Board of Directors and the company.

Provided technology expertise to the Presidents Committee.

Planned, managed and executed the successful introduction of all major product lines and successfully designed, managed and implemented the transition of the Corporate Technology platform from DOS to Windows to the Internet.

Provided principal technology and management support for the internationalization of the Best product line.

Directed the efforts of large and small teams of analysts, programmers, technical experts, and support staff together in the development and integration of enterprise-scale applications using a wide variety of development tools on numerous technical platforms.

Championed, implemented and managed the Corporate Technology Strategy responsible for industry leading products which have rapidly grown Best Software from a small start-up in 1983 into a publicly traded (NASDAQ:BEST), international company with offices in Canada and Europe. Best is recognized as one of the industry's top 50 software companies.

Best was purchased in 2000 for approximately $500 million with a customer base of over 50,000.

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