Will Stevenson

Current

Chief Technology Officer at Capitis Healthcare International

Past

Chief Technology Officer at Movai Technologies, Inc.
Board Member and Chairman of the Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management Committee at Colorado Performance Excellence
Chief Technology Officer at Lifeline Nutraceuticals

IT Manager at OMI, a CH2MHILL Company
Network Manager at IBM
IT Manager at Fay's Inc.
Visual C++ & TCP/IP Kernel Developer at Dart Communications

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Education

State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome
MetaGroup
Oracle Corporation

Saltwater Institute

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Will Stevenson’s Summary

Mr. Will Stevenson is a graduate of SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome in Information Systems. He also holds a Masters Certification from Oracle Corporation in Financial Systems Management.

In cooperation with General Alexander Haig, Maurice Strong and the Ministry of Health to the People's Republic of China, Will most recently developed one of China's premier Pharmaceutical/Medical Surgical Logistics & Distribution e-Commerce platforms to a live pilot in the Haidian District of Beijing.

In the fortune 500 space, Will held the highest Technology Leadership position at a Malcolm Baldrige award winning company. Will's corporate track record there included maintaining 100% employee retention throughout the .com technology industry boom, positive budgetary variance and "raving fans" for customers for over 7 years at 6 tenths of one percent (.6%) of annual revenue.

His leadership and experience in the Technology Industry has been requested in the local community as a Board Member of CPEx (Colorado Performance Excellence). CPEx state-wide programs are dedicated to enabling organizations to succeed through the effective application of the practices embodied in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

In his career, Will has been certified to act as CIO by META Group Corporation, a Gartner Company focusing on information technology and business transformation strategies.

Will is also certified in "Values-Centered Leadership" as expressed by his graduation from The Saltwater Institute; where he learned processes and tools to create a new style of management that capitalizes on the energy and creativity of people by integrating personal values within the core mission of an organizational system.

Will’s experience include a term as CTO for Lifeline Therapeutics. Lifeline launched their premier product "Protandim", on national television programs 'Extra' and 'Primetime' to a valuation of $500MM.

Will Stevenson’s Specialties:

Quality as a Business Strategy, Linkage of Processes, Creating IT Market Differentiation, Data Standardization and Taxonomies, Intellectual Property Rights, Software Requirements

Will Stevenson’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Capitis Healthcare International

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

Selected achievements at Capitis:
• Prepared and presented our inaugural keynote address to the Chinese Government on Capitis' role in Healthcare reform.

• Built the Technology Framework and Taxonomy for China's first international e-Commerce Med/Surg & Pharma API standard.

• Led our mixed-culture development team on an Agile framework 6-month live deployment in the Haidian District of Beijing.

• Developed the IPR Strategy for our end-to-end supply chain including USPTO market gap analysis.

• Aligned the technology for the acquisition of a Malaysia-based Microsoft Gold Certified software company.

• As acting Vice President of HR, wrote the corporate draft policies and procedures.

• Grass-root recruited local staff.

• Led the authoring of Barcoding, HIS & AP/AR/GL API interface standards for Chinese Hospitals.

• First on-the-ground member of Capitis Leadership team; Full office build-out responsibility.
Chief Technology Officer

Movai Technologies, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

September 2004 — June 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Movai Technologies, Inc. is a development stage company that has developed DomoDrive™, the first product that transparently restores your optimized system – OS, applications, settings and data – in minutes following any software system malfunction.

Selected achievements at Movai:
• Created, Developed and Protected marketability and sustainability for Movai by sole-authoring 3 non-provisional Patent applications for DomoDrive(tm), Movai’s premier product.

• Developed and implemented Movai’s personal storage management prototype/demo unit.

• Developed strategic relationships with top Denver Venture Capital firms including iSherpa, Sequel, Wolf and Mobius.

• After securing Term Sheets, produced Movai’s competitive analysis summary, market requirements, product landscape, is/is-not facts and assumptions, use-case scenarios, and 6-month Agile methodology development plan.
Board Member and Chairman of the Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management Committee

Colorado Performance Excellence

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2003 — June 2006 (3 years )

Will's leadership and experience in the Technology Industry has been requested in the local community as a Board Member of CPEx (Colorado Performance Excellence). CPEx state-wide programs are dedicated to enabling Colorado organizations to succeed through the effective application of the practices embodied in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

Baldrige recognition is personally awarded by the President of the United States to businesses that are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, information and analysis, human resource focus, process management, and business results.
Chief Technology Officer

Lifeline Nutraceuticals

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; LFVN.OB; Biotechnology industry)

February 2004 — October 2004 (9 months)

Will acted as CTO during development stage for Lifeline Nutraceuticals (now Lifevantage), a BioTech firm that produces Protandim, A formula of botanical extracts, Protandim rejuvenates your body's highly effective natural defenses against oxidative stress – the cell damage that significantly contributes to aging.

Will protected initial development-stage progress by provisioning a thin-margin, high yield IT infrastructure and developed the early-stage Internet eCommerce strategy including hosting and product fulfillment.

Lifeline launched their premier product Protandim, on national television programs Extra and Primetime to a valuation of $500M.

http://lifevantage.com
http://www.protandim.com
IT Manager

OMI, a CH2MHILL Company

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Civil Engineering industry)

March 1997 — 2004 (7 years )

Will has held the highest technology leadership position at a Malcolm Baldrige award-winning company, where he contributed greatly to the company's continuing success. Baldrige recognition is personally awarded by the President of the United States to businesses that are judged to be outstanding in leadership, strategic planning, customer and market concentration, information and analysis, human resource focus, process management, and business results.
Network Manager

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1996 — March 1997 (10 months)

Selected achievements at IBM:
• Managed a 500 OS/2 server and 10,000 Windows workstation network spanning the state of California.

• Wrote production REXX programs to handle processes such as global admin password changes, security profiling, software updates, and system availability reporting for all 10,500 machines in a 4 hour window.

• Asset manager for entire project.

• Measured and managed system reliability and guaranteed Service Level Agreements.

• Maintained sole responsibility over Infrastructure Security.
IT Manager

Fay's Inc.

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

August 1994 — June 1996 (1 year 11 months)

Fay's Inc. was the nation's 12th largest drug-store chain at the end of 1995 and the largest operator of super drug stores in the Northeast. After the sale of an office-supply division in mid 1996, it consisted of 273 discount drug stores, almost all in New York and Pennsylvania.

Selected achievements at FAY’S:
• Developed production Pharmaceutical Point-of-Sale platforms for retail store locations

• One of four AS/400 Security Officers for the Enterprise

• Developed the Corporate Wide Area Network for remote locations

• Managed communications, cabling and network standards

• Spearheaded Corporate cabling reconfiguration to managed distribution
Visual C++ & TCP/IP Kernel Developer

Dart Communications

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1994 — August 1994 (5 months)

One of two developers responsible for TCP/IP protocol development, writing to the Winsock interface in Visual C++, under Windows and Windows NT and also designed sample user interface applications and documentation.

Particularly difficult was that not only the Operating Platform immaturity (Windows NT 3.1) but also the Development Environment (Visual C++ 1.0), which frequently crashed during code stepping and long compile runs.

This code was rolled into SDK's that were sold to companies like Motorola and Black & Veatch for 'internet enabling' sets of applications that were not previously designed to do so in a day when the internet was not much more than an extension of DARPAnet and browsing consisted of Archie and FTP.

Will Stevenson’s Education

State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome

Masters of Science: Computer Science , 1992 — 1994
MetaGroup

CIO Boot Camp , Information Technology Leadership

During Will's career, he has been certified to act as Chief Information Officer by META Group Corporation, a leading research firm, focusing on information technology and business transformation strategies.
Oracle Corporation

Masters of Database Administration , Technology: Database
Saltwater Institute

Values Centered Leadership , Quality as a Business Strategy

Will is certified in "Values-Centered Leadership" as expressed by his graduation from The Saltwater Institute, where he learned processes and tools to create a new style of management that capitalizes on the energy and creativity of people by integrating personal values within the core mission of an organizational system.

Additional Information

Will Stevenson’s Websites:

Will Stevenson’s Interests:

Health and Fitness, Martial Arts, Classic Gaming

Will Stevenson’s Groups:

IEEE Computer Society,
American Society For Quality,
Association for IT Professionals

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
China Private Equity & Investment Banking Insiders
China Business
SUNYIT Alumni Association - SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome (SUNY IT)
CH2M HILL Alumni Group
Hi-Tech Ventures & Startups
Venture Capital Group
China Entrepreneurs (CE)