Steve Cox Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Austin, And Houston, Tx

Executive leader and advisor. Expertise in evaluating business and technology -- people, structure, process, projects, hardware and software choices, as well as systems performance, scalability, and reliability. Strategic evaluation and validation; tactical correction and redirection; overall delivery and assurance. Specialty in rescuing failing or underperforming teams, projects, and systems.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

The North Texas Angel Network is a member-led group of disciplined investors. Part of a statewide network of angel groups, NTAN members identify, educate, and coach early stage companies in North Texas for the purposes of funding, business growth, and successful exit.

Austin, Tx And Dallas, Tx

Senior executive in charge of worldwide information systems and technology. Drove innovation and velocity in product management, engineering, development, and daily operations of business-to-consumer and business-to-business retail eCommerce systems along with critical SaaS product offering delivering over $100 million in annual on-line revenue with significant cost of goods cost reduction and EBITDA increase. Led strategic development and delivery of enterprise systems including corporate administration, human resources, finance, operational fulfillment, customer relationship management, and business intelligence. Reduced operating budget by 30% while transforming the IT function to realize greater value at the corporate level and service level improvements in the business units. Advised BoD on technology acquisitions.

Austin, Tx And San Mateo, Ca

Senior executive responsible for strategy and delivery of on-going development, enhancement, support, and operation of a world-class SaaS e-commerce web analytics platform supporting Fortune 500 clients and partners worldwide. Led client services, product management, software engineering, and operations teams in client facing initiatives yielding 99.5% on-time delivery of over 15,000 daily client deliverables including online reports, downloads, and email alerts. Established high availability, high volume infrastructure in data centers across North America and Western Europe. Optimized performance and management of petabyte level databases. Operations lead on executive M&A team that acquired competitor yielding 25% increase in annual revenue.

Austin, Tx And Dallas, Tx

Senior technology leader for this $1.5 billion global oil and gas energy company with locations in 35 countries and 8,500 employees. Developed strategy and plans for implementing global business system utilizing Oracle’s enterprise business software for ERP and CRM. Developed large-scale data warehouse with business intelligence reporting including ETL from 35 different ERP systems. Established comprehensive support plan, selected managed services hosting provider, negotiated consulting agreements, and managed custom software development teams. Led pilot project in USA. Directed teams in France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Austin, Tx

Executive in charge of worldwide information systems and technology. Implemented and customized Oracle’s business applications software enabling integrated sales and marketing, order processing, manufacturing, and financial management throughout the enterprise. Implemented and customized Clarify’s CRM applications and call center technologies for customer service helpdesk and field service dispatch. Developed enterprise data warehouse with business intelligence reporting. Partnered with CTO to launch Onscreen24 start-up. Technology lead on executive M&A team that acquired competitor doubling the size of the company.

Dallas, Tx; Long Island, Ny; Tokyo, Japan

Senior director of information systems and technology in charge of business applications software, systems integration, and centralized data center facilities management for multiple operating divisions including domestic and international locations. NEC America was major U.S. operating affiliate of $35 billion NEC Corporation.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chi, Delta Chi.

Leadership And Management

- Certified Project Manager (CPM) - Six Sigma Greenbelt - Operational Excellence Lean Champion - Total Quality Management - International.

Software And Hardware

- C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, Python, Perl, PL-SQL, and Progress development languages - Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, DB2.