Aaron Abend

Current

• Co-Founder, Managing Director at Recombinant Data Corporation

Past

• Co-Founder & President at Viapoint Corporation
• Managing Director at Intersect Technology
• Principal at Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath

• Founder & President at CallBack Software
• Application Developer at Metaphor Computer Systems
• Programmer Analyst at Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb

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Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School
• Middlebury College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Aaron Abend’s Summary

Data Warehouse Strategy & Architecture for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Aaron Abend’s Specialties:

* Software Development
* Development of database systems to support translational medicine
* CTSA Planning (for the Clinical and Translation Science Awards Consortium)
* Data warehousing architecture, design and development
* Healthcare data and hospital database systems
* Business Intelligence
* Database tuning, ETL and systems integration
* Supporting open source platforms from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) including i2b2, Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside

Aaron Abend’s Experience

• Co-Founder, Managing Director

  Recombinant Data Corporation

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

  March 2001 — Present (7 years 3 months)

  Recombinant Data Corporation develops data warehouse strategies and solutions for leading healthcare and life sciences organizations with the goals of finding new cures and treatments, improving the quality of care for patients and effectively managing the cost of providing that care.
  
  Recombinant focuses on two areas: 1) Clinical and translational research and 2) Quality reporting systems.
  
  Our projects cover the full range of tasks, including planning, designing, building, and deploying large scale data warehouse systems, enterprise reporting and business intelligence systems.
  
  Recombinant supports i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) an NIH-funded National Center for Biomedical Computing. The i2b2 Center is developing a scalable informatics framework that will support clinical and translational research data and the vast data banks arising from basic science research in order to better understand the genetic bases of complex diseases.

• Co-Founder & President

  Viapoint Corporation

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2002 — December 2005 (3 years 9 months)

  Viapoint's mission is to make information easily accessible and useful to PC users by organizing the resources they need to accomplish their work.
  
  Viapoint helps you find content through its integration with Google Desktop Search and other programs.

• Managing Director

  Intersect Technology

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 11 months)

  System and database architect on a variety of projects. Projects ranged from data warehouse architecture and development to Palm-based software development. Customers included Partners Healthcare, IMN Inc, Envoy Worldwide, Veridiem, Akorri Systems, Gillette, and Simbex.

• Principal

  Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath

  (Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 2000 — February 2001 (1 year 2 months)

  Developed new business lines for PRTM, including a CRM practice and an e-business practice. Provided strategic advice to major online B2B exchanges.

• Founder & President

  CallBack Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1985 — January 1997 (11 years 5 months)

  Created CallBack, one of the first multiuser CRM products. Pioneered Opportunity Management, data synchronization, and marketing campaign management. Implemented over 40 major systems. Vertical industries included information services (Gale Group, Proquest), energy (NStar, Illinova, Yankee Gas), and business-to-business catalog sales (PC Connection).

• Application Developer

  Metaphor Computer Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  March 1984 — September 1985 (1 year 7 months)

  Created the first applications using client server computing. Specialized in financial reporting applications. Developed the first data warehouse with Ralph Kimball and Katherine Glassey.

• Programmer Analyst

  Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 1982 — March 1984 (1 year 7 months)

  Created software applications to help bond traders track customer relationship management activities.

Aaron Abend’s Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School

  MBA, Managing Change, Entrepreneurship, 1980 — 1982

• Middlebury College

  BA, Political Science, September 1973 — June 1977

  Activities and Societies:

  Middlebury College Alumni Association Communications Committee

Additional Information

Aaron Abend’s Websites:

• My Company

Aaron Abend’s Interests:

Downhill skiing, saber fencing, rock climbing (trad 5.8/sport 5.10), soccer, ultimate frisbee, guitar

Aaron Abend’s Groups:

Middlebury College Alumni Association, Board of Directors (2005-2007)
Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Center (BATEC), Industry Representative

• Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
•    metaphor computer systems member

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