Chairman & Ceo, Co-Founder
Dobbs, Ram & Company
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
DOBBS, RAM, & Company is an information technology firm which provides services and solutions in the FinTech sector. The company has 4 niche markets: Dobbs, as an IBM Business partner, provides “turn-key” IT systems to municipal governments. DOBBS provided hardware, software and a tax-free lease for financing to local governmental units; the company designed, installed and provided maintenance on these IT systems.Dobbs was a sub-contractor engaged by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), from 1991 to 2006, to maintain its State Retrieval Subsystem of the “E-Filing System”, the federal system for filing income taxes. Dobbs was involved in the design, implementation and maintenance of the “E-Filing System. Each electronically filed state return is processed through a system designed, implemented and maintained by Dobbs. The Company provided twenty-four hour, seven-day software support to the six IRS Electronic Filing Service Centers across the United States.Dobbs developed a custom-designed management information system for issuers of tax-exempt bonds, including a proprietary software product, ARBI COMP™, to allow issuers to be in compliance with the federal statutes & implementing regulations.Dobbs served as Financial Advisor to local government units in the issuance of tax-exempt bonds for major capital projects such as the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, MARTA, Atlanta Zoo , water & sewer projects and general municipal projectsI sold my equity position in the company in 2008.