IT Director at Motorola
Greater Chicago Area
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- IT Director at Motorola
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- Founding Partner at Shopping-Depot.com LLC
- Manager, Professional Services at VPE, Incorporated
- Founding Partner at NetObjective, LLC (Self-employed)
- Technical Team Lead at Defense Intelligence Agency
- Education
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- Aurora University
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William (Bill) J Davis’s Summary
Application owner for enterprise portal and collaboration tools. The portal is the primary face for all internal, web-based destinations. Providing personalization on top key information such as, empoyee communications, human resources, finance/accounting, and business to business interaction to name a few. Maintenance is managed using a distributed model, delegating out authority and training with my team acting as the hub.
The collaboration tool is the central repository for enterprise content. Responsible for managing/protecting over 60 TB of business critical information. To include Enterprise Content Management, Search, Blogs, Wikis, Workflow, Knowledge Management, and Web Content Management.
William (Bill) J Davis’s Specialties:
Vignette Application Portal, OpenText LiveLink, Java, XML/XSL, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, UNIX (Solaris, Linux), Windows, Database (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), scripting (ksh, ASP)
William (Bill) J Davis’s Experience
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IT Director
Motorola
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
October 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)
Director responsible for enterprise portal, based on Vignette Application Portal technology. This includes responsibility for the primary website/home for all employees.
In March 2008 added responsibility for enterprise collaboration based on OpenText technology.
Responsible for the technical definition and implementation of the intranet standards. -
Founding Partner
Shopping-Depot.com LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 8 months)
- Responsible for the concept, architecture, implementation and maintenance of the application used as the foundation for the company. The Shopping application was written to conform to an application service methodology, whereby multiple Shops could field and maintain an e-commerce solution, with a unique look and feel, without having to invest in the infrastructure and training needed to house the technology internally. The application supports the full range of selling products, including on-line store administration, credit card processing and promotions.
- Architect of the relational databases, using MySQL, and their interaction with the application.
- Formed the product strategy and was essential during the creation of the financial plan and market analysis within the business plan.
- Responsible for server administration and network administration for Shopping-Depot servers. Servers are both Sun and PC-based running Solaris and Linux operating systems. -
Manager, Professional Services
VPE, Incorporated
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1994 — July 2001 (7 years 4 months)
- Responsible for the program management and all technical interaction with most of the company’s large customers. To include proposals, billing and relationship management in addition to the design and development of production quality data driven applications. These applications were built using an internally developed software package (WebBUILDER) in conjunction with all of the major relational databases.
- Provided strong leadership during the internal decisions for solutions, designs and new directions made for WebBUILDER, based on personal concepts and ideas, interactions with the customers and emerging technologies.
- Worked with the Service division of Motorola to produce a series of applications for global web-based solutions for their customers, resulting in centralized solutions with a dramatic decrease in overhead.
- Managed the development of a client server solution for the key components of loan management and underwriting for Household International. -
Founding Partner
NetObjective, LLC (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1995 — April 1999 (3 years 10 months)
- Developed a sophisticated Java applet to Java server trading/exchange system for futures trading on sporting events.
- Designed, created and sold a number of single purpose Java applets, such as: DateTime, CountDown, FilmStrip, Laser, and TourneyPicks.
- Performed several consulting engagements involving tasks such as Java programming, CGI development, database design, and web site creation.
- Responsible for server administration and network administration for NetObjective servers. This includes administration for web hosting customers, automated services, and server maintenance. -
Technical Team Lead
Defense Intelligence Agency
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1991 — April 1994 (2 years 9 months)
- Led aggressive rapid prototype development of sophisticated graphical user interface within a Motif-based UNIX X-Windows client-server environment.
- Coordinated and performed comprehensive system installations at customer field sites worldwide—both at LAN and WAN levels, improving on original load procedures through effective shell-scripting and thereby reducing installation time, travel costs, and customer start-up costs.
- Interviewed, evaluated, and recommended new employees. Developed hands-on training program designed to make new-hires productive from their first day and subsequently able to advance rapidly in competency.
- Achieved a Top Secret security clearance based upon a Special Background Investigation.
William (Bill) J Davis’s Education
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Aurora University
BS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1990
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William (Bill) J Davis’s Interests:
Soccer is my passion, biking is my exercise of choice.
William (Bill) J Davis’s Groups:
Omicron Gamma Alpha, Woodridge Soccer Association
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Motorola Past & Present
William (Bill) J Davis’s Honors:
* InformationWeek 500: 20 Great Ideas Award. #1 in the Web 2.0 category for Social Revolution 2007: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805645
* Motorola BRAVO Award for outstanding global implementation of single sign-on connection from Motorola to United Way, 2004
* Motorola BRAVO Award for outstanding global implementation on the My Motorola portal site, 2003
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