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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Westchester, Illinois, Us

Helping power great supplier Diversity and ESG programs.

South Jordan, Utah, Us

(HireVue has acquired Modern Hire)Delivering the best talent, faster with hiring intelligence.HireVue helps global enterprises gain a competitive advantage in the modern talent marketplace with video interviewing software, conversational AI, and pre-hire assessments.

Twin Cities, Mn, Us

Focus: Meeting clients’ specialized payment needsOffering: Credit, debit and other electronic paymentsServing: Faith-based, professional services and nonprofitsClients: 30,000+Processing: $13.1+ billion in transactions annuallyProviding: Secure, seamless, simple payment solutions

Plano, Tx, Us

Fortium Partners is an IT turnaround firm, providing executive-level guidance to companies that have an immediate need for guidance and support to improve operational efficiency and competitive standing through the effective use of technology. Fortium’s Partners have all served as CIOs and/or CTOs of significant, recognizable companies and possess, on average, 20-30 years of experience helping CEOs, Boards, and Investors lead substantial technology initiatives and solve complex problems.For organizations of all sizes with an IT crisis demanding experienced guidance, Fortium Partners provides the right resources, when and where you need them. Fortium's partners are recognized as being among the world's foremost CIOs and CTOs, having encountered and solved the most challenging complex strategic, operational, and organizational obstacles. Fortium addresses every serious IT situation with industry-leading methods and tactics conducted by small, specialized teams of partners with extraordinary expertise that is otherwise unattainable by our clients. The result? Better outcomes, shorter time to value, at a considerably lower level of risk to our clients.

Marietta, Georgia, Us

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Focus Pointe Global is the premier source for qualitative and quantitative marketing research data collection and focus group coordination. Private Equity backed by MVC Capital.Chief Information Officer, April 2014 – Present (Fractional CIO April 2013 - April 2014)Responsible for all aspects of technology, including product development, quality assurance, information systems, support systems and technical support. Lead daily operations of IT staff supporting corporate offices in Atlanta, Philadelphia and St. Louis. - Migrated 21 facility and corporate locations to new high speed infrastructure. Budget neutral with performance improvements of 25X. - Migrated disparate technology infrastructure to consolidated co-location data center. - Consolidated teams and operations during acquisition activities.

Xceleration Partners assists companies in merger and acquisition readiness, execution and integration. Our team of operating executives have a demonstrated track record of working with private equity portfolio companies. The Managing Partners have successfully executed on a multitude of transactions building international businesses with experience in over 24 countries. The three practice areas are all focused on operational execution in the areas of technology, talent and finance. Our philosophy is to partner with management teams to improve transaction readiness and accelerate integration effectiveness with a particular focus on operational execution.

Responsible for all aspects of technology, including product development, quality assurance, information systems, data warehouse, internal decision support systems and technical support. Lead daily operations of IT staff supporting corporate offices in GA, MN, VA, FL, the UK, and Australia, as well as data centers in the US, UK, Australia, and South Africa.- Spearheaded IT roll-up and consolidation of 7 stateside and offshore acquisitions, including contract negotiation and financial management of technology selection and integration- Led consolidation of multi-enterprise products to common delivery platform, providing seamless access to legacy products- Developed and delivered unification strategy to support new geographically and culturally diverse technology and resource infrastructure- Instrumental in reinvigorating company after Dot Com bust by renewing stale contracts for products and services and building centralized data center- Developed online product and design team in first 9 months of employment, stimulating over $25M in revenue over 2 years- Manage operating budget of $2M+ and a capital budget of $1M+

Vice President of Network Services- Responsible for operations, development, and IT (LAN/WAN) for Magnet Outsource Service. Designed strategies for world class data center operation including redundancy, fault tolerance, operational monitoring and management, and disaster recoveryDirector of Professional Services- Expanded new line of business from $0 to $400K in recognized revenue within first 6 months- Engaged all existing and prospective clients for custom development efforts- Projected second year revenues of $2.5MDirector of Architecture- Developed initial set of robust business objects and laid groundwork for thin interface objects- Collaborated with sales personnel and supported technical presentations for prospective clients- Created cost-savings for existing clients by solving complex problems related to networking, internet adoption, and disaster recovery- Helped grow technical staff from 1 to 8 in first 6 months

Consultant/Project Manager- Pioneered and managed the analysis, design, and development of revolutionary web-based sales commission processing system called Horizon. Designed tool used to allow business analysts responsible for sales commission policy to build rules themselves, without re-development of application objects. Led team of 8 to build a 32 bit thin Windows application using CORBA business objects developed in C++ on AIX servers. Successful launch of the product resulted in $2M in recovered fraudulent time reporting.Data Warehouse Architect- Maintained “Call Detail” data warehouse for tracking every cellular telephone call made by BellSouth Mobility and American Cellular customers over a 6-month period. Automated existing data warehouse system to eliminate manual processes for data scrub and load.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Technical Services Manager- Led the development and support of application architecture, software distribution, database design, development methodology, code reviews, development tool selection, core code development, and staff development and training for team of 4- Created web-based intranet system for application documentation and general support- Managed budget of $500KSystem Technologist- One of three sole architects responsible for the application architecture for Worldwide Distribution Services whose applications supported Turner’s movie distribution and subscription sales efforts.- Designed system for migrating from two-tiered PowerBuilder and Oracle based platform to n-tier distributed architecture- Developed data models for use in OLAP queries by end users- Reviewed, tested, and procured Esperant reporting tool for use by WDS

- Acted as Project and Business Development Manager for several engagements. Led 1-2 week training sessions for Neuron Data’s cross platform and knowledge base development tools. Development consisted of C/C++ applications on Windows, UNIX, OS/2, and Macintosh and typically involved access to SQL databases like Informix, Oracle, DB2, and Sybase.- Grew startup consulting firm from 3 to 10 consultants, and from 2 to 5 accounts- Expanded GTE Data Services account from 1 to 4 consultants and from a 6 man-month contract to a 3 man-year contract- Successfully negotiated long term 3+ consultant engagement with IBM- Assisted with hardware procurement and setup of Atlanta office- Clients included Xerox and Coca Cola Corp; Contracts ranged in value up to $500K

Led effort to re-engineer legacy DOS TSR based funds transfer communications platform called Future FedLine. Future FedLine was a 32-bit NT based communications server developed in C++ and MFC, and built upon distributed, multi-tier technology, TCP/IP sockets and SNA. Sample clients were developed using Visual Basic and Raima data manager. Led team of 5 analysts, designers, and developers.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Directed effort to design and build next-generation lighting analysis tool. Vista was developed as a 16-bit windows application involving complex input of room layouts and lighting fixture selection. Graphical display allowed lighting engineers to accurately predict and document lighting levels before construction. Led group of 3 technical resources from concept to pilot.

Software developer responsible for full life cycle development of automobile dealership sales system. Developed communications system for UNIX to UNIX and UNIX to DOS file and message transfer.