Mr. Phillips has over 25 years of Executive leadership across industries, including Healthcare and Life Sciences, Biotech and Public Health, Higher Education, Automotive, Telecom and Technology consulting. Mr Phillips also helps lead the expansion of Coastal Cloud’s foothold within the Aerospace, Defense & GovSIs industry group.Mr. Phillips serves as a trusted advisor helping to drive conversations with customer’s enterprise architects and business stakeholders following best practices for enterprise architecture such as security, performance, maintainability, development process, and application governance. This includes communicating technical solutions and design tradeoffs effectively to business stakeholders and identifying potential issues and risks, and developing mitigation strategies to alleviate these challenges. Mr. Phillips advises and mentors diverse teams, which include customer and partner resources, using influence and adaptive communication strategies where he does not have direct authority over all the resources. Coastal Cloud is an award winning, disruptive force in the technology services industry featuring a unique delivery model that brings together the power of leading edge cloud (SaaS) solutions and a cost-effective, highly efficient, domestic network of skilled technology professionals and delivery centers. Some of the services we offer include:• Business Process Re-engineering• Enterprise Architecture Planning• Continuous InnovationWe believe that a high touch, nimble, affordable, 'easy to work with' delivery model powered by leading edge SaaS platforms such as Salesforce.com is the future of IT consulting. We recruit and retain our exceptional team of 100% onshore consulting professionals by offering a unique combination of attractive lifestyle and engaging, rewarding, continuously-learning careers. We have hubs in Florida and Kentucky where we can deliver on-demand skills at an affordable cost.

The Assistant Vice President for Enterprise Engineering is responsible for leadership, vision, planning and operation of all activities relating to enterprise applications, including enterprise systems, software engineering, data networking, telecommunications, video services, and collaborative technology infrastructure. Mr. Phillips reports directly to the Vice President of Information Technology and CIO at the University of Maryland and runs a group of over 80 FTEs. Some of the applications supported by Enterprise Engineering include the Student Information System (SIS), Data Warehouse, Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR), Financial Aid, Hobsons, Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Student Curriculum Management, PHR, Series 25, Student Accounts, U.Achieve, along with enterprise networking, wireless in 270 buildings serving approximately 50,000 customers, unified communications, servers and storage. Mr. Phillips is also the co-chair on the Enterprise System and Data Policy Committee that helped set the priorities for the DIT Enterprise Engineering group. Recent strategic efforts include the broader adoption of agile development processes, the engineering to move to the cloud (AWS), evaluating alternative Student Information System (SIS) solutions (e.g., Workday), and the adoption of Salesforce as the platform of choice for migrating the other non-SIS related applications off UMDs mainframe. Previously, as Development Manager for Kuali Student, Mr. Phillips led an international matrix’ed team of 85+ FTE’s in diverse roles from multiple institutions in the US and around the world. Mr. Phillips was responsible for all technical staffing, software methodology and delivery. Mr. Phillips improved the delivery process and methodology (Agile Scrum), the QA process, and the UX processes. All development was done on the AWS platform. For a short period of time Mr. Phillips also lead the Kuali Rice development effort.

Mr. Phillips managed the Web Development team, the internal Help Desk, and the Server and Networking infrastructure (SNI) groups within Sourcefire IT. Sourcefire, the creator of Snort, is a leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions with solutions from a next-generation network security platform to advanced malware protection (now part of Cisco). Mr. Phillips implemented best practice business processes replacing the ad-hoc methodology that was used previously. This included standardizing and documenting policies and procedures. Standardizing both employee laptops and desktops and the server and network infrastructure. Mr. Phillips was recognized by the Executive team as integral to improving communication between IT and the rest of the business leading to increase trust and better internal relations. Mr. Phillips, with the VP of IT, leads monthly strategy meetings with the Senior Executives within Sourcefire and managed the IT roadmap and budget. Other highlights include:• Led the effort to replace the enterprise phone system from the RFP process, down selection process, contract negotiation, all the way to the seamless implementation and roll out to 4 global offices initially over one weekend. And subsequently to 3 additional offices within the first year.• Data center migration, including moving key applications to AWS• Lead the effort to migrate the Customer Service group to Salesforce• Replaced the Help Desk ticketing system used by IT to improve response times, improve customer satisfaction, and to provide better visibility and reporting capabilities • Increased Help Desk coverage from 8 to 5 Monday - Friday to an outsourced model providing 24 / 7 / 365 support for the cost of less than 1 FTE. This greatly improved customer satisfaction of the employees, while staying within reduced budgetsAll this was done with no additional head count as Sourcefire approximately doubled in size and added 3 additional international offices.

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CIO in charge of Software Engineering and Development, Product Development, Technical Support, and Operations. Duties included:• Managed day-to-day efforts of the Software Engineering and QA teams• Primary Salesforce.com developer and admin• Ran business intelligence projects and defined BI products• Launched multiple new SaaS products in 2007 that added over $1.8 million a year in revenue• Part of Executive team that led the sale of company

Ran the Software Engineering Group for Edmunds.com with a team of 35 reports in an J2EE, BEA Weblogic, and Oracle 9i environment. Responsible for the technical architecture, design, and vision of the Edmunds.com web site. The efficiency of the group increased while also increasing the quality of the code released into the production environment. Duties include:· Managed day-to-day activities of the software engineering group· Assist the business with the selection and prioritisation of features and functionality for all Edmunds.com online properties· Set the technology and methodology followed by the Software Eng group

Owned the marketing, product mix, and technical strategy and vision for the Commerce Line of Business (LOB) for Digex (owned by MCI then Verizon). Ran a portfolio of over $40 million a year with a matrixed organization of the Product Management group, the Engineering group, and Sales and Marketing to drive revenue and profitability for the Commerce LOB. Participated as a member of the sales team for large and strategic potential clients.

Ran the Software Engineering Group (SWE) for Digex. Managed the developers, project managers, graphic artists, and SEs for a total of 36 direct reports. Responsibilities included the technical architecture, design, and vision of Digex’s Customer Portal, ClientCentral (CC), and all proprietary software used by Digex’s customers, such as the Application Notification Service (ANS). While under my guidance the Customer Portal was consistently ranked in the top 2 positions in TierOne’s rankings of XSP customer portals and was also ranked most functional by TierOne.

Provided technical strategy and vision for the system integration, software engineering and development groups. Directly reporting to Mr. Phillips were the Strategic Alliances Group and the Sales Support (Sales Engineering - SE) Group. Also participated as a member of the sales team for large and strategic potential clients.

Managed teams of 4 to 8 consultants who working on multiple projects. Responsible for the full lifecycle development of e-commerce applications. Handled all aspects of the Web site development including the look, navigation, the shopping cart, secure transactions of funds, and the EDI transaction with the fulfillment house.

Managed the Internet Department from near inception to one of the most successful sites on the Internet. Hits to the Web site increased to over a million a day, sales online increased 6 fold, and the number of Web pages developed doubled.