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Providing C-Level Strategy and Information Technology consulting services.

Providing C-Level Strategy and Information Technology consulting services.

Responsible for strategic technology leadership and all aspects of information technology.

I As a CIO-level consultant I have advised firms on potential acquisitions, performed technical due-diligence, mapped out new technology strategies/architectures, created investor presentations, and helped evaluate new technology personnel.

The Hobart West Group is the parent company of Esquire Deposition Services, the country’s largest court reporting firm with over 30 offices nationwide. Esquire is a roll-up of dozens of court reporting firms with revenues of $175M and had not made substantial investments in technology for many years.• Chief Technology Officer 11/02 – 03/05As CTO I was responsible for all phases of corporate technology including technical strategy, on going technology partner relationships… Show more The Hobart West Group is the parent company of Esquire Deposition Services, the country’s largest court reporting firm with over 30 offices nationwide. Esquire is a roll-up of dozens of court reporting firms with revenues of $175M and had not made substantial investments in technology for many years.• Chief Technology Officer 11/02 – 03/05As CTO I was responsible for all phases of corporate technology including technical strategy, on going technology partner relationships, technical operations, hiring, budgeting, application de-velopment, internal consulting and infrastructure. I developed and am implementing a strategic transition plan for moving from old and cumbersome existing internal technical systems to a mod-ern web-based architecture, including a new network infrastructure and a new Cisco IP telephony solution to unify the company. I also made key hires to solidify our PeopleSoft environment and in-crease service quality for Hobart West’s Staffing division. Show less

Law.com provides content, ecommerce, seminars, and services to attorneys and other legal professionals.As CTO I was responsible for all phases of corporate technology. When I arrived in 2000 the site was almost ready to launch using an architecture designed and built by third parties that was far too complex to be maintainable without major rework. During the next year I built a tight internal tech-nology team, redesigned and simplified the site’s architecture to support our extensive… Show more Law.com provides content, ecommerce, seminars, and services to attorneys and other legal professionals.As CTO I was responsible for all phases of corporate technology. When I arrived in 2000 the site was almost ready to launch using an architecture designed and built by third parties that was far too complex to be maintainable without major rework. During the next year I built a tight internal tech-nology team, redesigned and simplified the site’s architecture to support our extensive content management needs, and implemented a new architecture that was fiscally prudent and technically robust. While at Law.com I developed our corporate technology strategy, served as a featured speaker at industry trade shows, and evaluated potential acquisitions. I also served as CTO for RealLegal, the company’s application division, where I managed core application development efforts including product releases across several iterations of the development life cycle. Show less

Now part of SBI, a leading web consultancy, iXL was a strong strategic web services company with industry-leading relationships with major firms such as General Electric, Delta, and Chase. Based in Atlanta, iXL had over 2,000 employees in 21 offices on three continents and vendor alliances with Broadvision, Arriba, ATG, Open Market, and other key eCommerce and Content Management companies to provide strategy, design, development, and integration services for Global 2000 firms.I built… Show more Now part of SBI, a leading web consultancy, iXL was a strong strategic web services company with industry-leading relationships with major firms such as General Electric, Delta, and Chase. Based in Atlanta, iXL had over 2,000 employees in 21 offices on three continents and vendor alliances with Broadvision, Arriba, ATG, Open Market, and other key eCommerce and Content Management companies to provide strategy, design, development, and integration services for Global 2000 firms.I built and managed iXL’s eCommerce Practice Group, the company’s consistently highest-performing practice area. My largest project was directly providing strategic consulting and techni-cal implementation services to design, develop, and deploy a sophisticated management por-tal/intranet/extranet architecture for a Big-6 global professional services firm offering their clients employee self-service, consulting, accounting, and legal solutions via the web. Show less

At IBM I built, managed and mentored a team of consultants and technical architects responsible for delivering IBM’s advanced e-business solutions. I was selected in 1999 as one of the top per-formers in Global Services worldwide thanks to my leadership in winning our largest contract to date for $7M to completely redesign a Fortune-200 company’s web architecture.