Al Jacobson, Mba, Bscs, Pmp®, Ipma-B™ Email & Phone Number

Boca Raton, Florida, United States

• Senior Advisor to a North Carolina based thought leadership consulting firm.• Performed in the role of CEO and CTO for a Chicago based start-up that develops hardware/software for pediatric physical therapy.• Resolved hardware/software issues for a South Florida Talent Solutions Firm.• Software/Web-based business/design consultant for a Chicago based physical therapy practice.• Software/Web-based business/design consultant for a South Florida cosmetics company.• Negotiated intellectual property licensing contract between a large, national commercial roofing company and Argonne National Laboratory.• Performed strategy analysis & formulation for a South Florida Software Industry & Business Technology start-up. • Senior information technology advisor for a Chicago based manufacturing company.• Chief Technology Advisor to a South Florida Green Technologies start-up.• Class Manager & presenter for a Business Process Management certification course..• EMR/Practice Management database design/development/deployment for Pediatric Therapy Practices.

Led and managed an international, multi-company effort that provided electronic software delivery over the Internet. Negotiated competitive software development and test contracts with IBM Mexico. Managed software development teams located in Mexico and China. U.S. based testing and product release.• Moved development role from IBM Mexico to Lenovo China while improving product performance and software development productivity. Delivered three major products three months ahead of schedule.• Reduced warranty expense $32M by preloading updated software delivery products on all Lenovo built systems worldwide. • Generated first year OEM revenue projection of $900K from the sales of value added software to licensed OEM users. On Lenovo built systems the software is free. • Improved cross selling capability by architecting and designing a product feature that generates aftermarket hardware, software, and accessory sales through the Internet.

Directed a multi-company effort to provide software support and delivery over the Internet. Architected a language in XML for software/update deployment over the Internet. Identified technologies in IBM Research Labs that could be integrated into new products, developed and promoted a new product vision throughout IBM, negotiated contracts and funding for new products, managed development and deployment of them.• Saved the company $32M in warranty expense per year by preloading automated support software on selected IBM systems and won the prestigious IBM Award for Excellence.• Team received several patents in the area of automated support giving IBM a competitive advantage.

Managed strategy development department and re-engineered the business strategic planning process used by IBM’s software division to determine market and product opportunities. Published market research studies on emerging business opportunities and key competitors for use by Development and Marketing in product functional decision making. Defined strategic vision and business opportunities and the direction for division products. Promoted the vision and initiated development efforts on emerging business opportunities to insure focus on new opportunities.

Co-founder and Visionary for the IBM Multimedia Publishing Studio (Independent Business Unit). Managed & performed market research, developed strategic plans, business/financial plans, product plans, marketing plans, budgets, and business cases. Led IBM Multimedia Publishing Studio Florida based employees. Helped grow the business from a conceptual stage without a budget and a staff of three to an organization that had over 55 employees and a budget in excess of $20M per year. Negotiated contracts for development and production of multimedia titles with Sony and others. Business unit P&L responsibility.Received prestigious IBM Vice President’s Award several times (5 figure monetary bonus each time).

Responsible for market research and strategy formulation for Internet and Multimedia products.

Technical Staff member responsible for computer languages. Consultant to departments implementing compilers on the OS/2 operating system. Also, Senior Planner responsible for defining the strategy for artificial intelligence across IBM.

Senior Architect and Strategist responsible for defining IBM's graphics architecture and strategy for both drawing graphics (vector graphics) and business graphics across IBM's product lines. Helped define the graphics software architecture for IBM Office Systems products. worked with multiple divisions and executives on a worldwide basis to insure products developed fit within the corporate graphics strategy for office systems.

Senior Business Planner for all software for the IBM PC business. Product Manager & Chief Software Engineer for APL programming language.Responsible for developing business plans for the VP of Software for the IBM Personal Computer Division (Entry Systems Independent Business Unit). Responsible for managing the product announce/release process for all software products. Responsible for portfolio management of software products.Presented with Division Excellence Award.

Managed the software for IBM's initial release of the IBM PC.

Placed PL/I programming on the EDX operating system for the Series 1.

Placed EDX operating system on the Series 1.

Placed PL/I programming language on the RPS operating system for the Series 1.

Developed realtime operating systems for System 7.

Developed and maintained software for the university inventory control system as well as student registration.

Owned a software company.

Led a platoon of construction engineers in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Mba, Executive Mba

Activities and Societies: Graduated with High Honors Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma Honor SocietyExecutive Certificate in Project Management.

Bs Cs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Graduated with High Honors Degree Minor in Business Administration Member ACMSubstitute Instructor COBOL Worked.

Aa, Accounting & Business Data Processing

Education record

Activities and Societies: Industry Fellow