
Co-Founder, Co-Owner at CyborgSavvant
Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Co-Founder, Co-Owner at CyborgSavvant
Fort Collins, Colorado Area
In 2003 I could see the major impacts that new technologies were having and were going to have on the music industry. Ready for a change for a steady diet of corporate software management, I started Savvant Music to find a way to influence the impending revolution in the music industry in a way that would result in an industry that is more fair to artists and that enables the best music to reach people who really care.
Not wanting to completely abandon my technical roots (nor their lucrative rewards), I created a division of the company called Randel Consulting Services where I can offer technical consulting services in the areas of software engineering process improvement, software quality, software engineering management and estimation.
I also work part time at QSM Associates (qsma.com) where I do business development and technical consulting.
Software engineering, CMMI assessment and process improvement implementation, internet marketing, internet technologies, on-line music, live music, customer loyalty and support.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
CyborgSavvant is a marketing services company that provides fixed price packages to small businesses that want to enter into the world of new media advertising, viral marketing and permission marketing. We provide JumpStart services to get you started and then train your staff to maintain OR we can provide on-going maintenance and marketing promotional activities for your small business on an on-going basis. See http://cyborgs.com for more information, and read our blog for ideas on getting started, even if you just want to DIY.
(Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
We help solve the toughest deadline and budget challenges on software projects, through use of state-of-the-art software measurement and estimating tools combined with techniques from modern negotiation science. We’ve been helping our clients achieve this for over 15 years.
(Entertainment industry)
September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
Savvant Music is an on-line music discovery filter and artist promotion service. We also offer consulting in the software engineering and IT.
Our Vision
Ensure that talented musicians are heard and rewarded through aggressive promotion, cooperative management and cutting-edge technology.
We build strong partnerships between Savvant Music and our artists in their successful promotion, development, funding and risk taking.
Randel Consulting Services is a division of Savvant Music offering software engineer process improvement and quality improvement consulting to software development and IT companies with a drive to make improvements toward the achievement of their company goals.
We offer expertise in implementation of improvements identified in CMMI assessments, excellence in software estimation, and a broad range of software engineering management skills. We also offer expertise in hi-tech customer service and software engineering around extremely large data sets.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
April 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 8 months)
R&D Section Manager at HP Openview, and internal consultant to HP's Openview software division on software process improvement and software quality.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
June 1981 — August 1997 (16 years 3 months)
Software engineering manager for teams working on software packaging, software integration, usability and installation, development of software tools, software process improvement, quality improvement and system administration.
Worked as software engineer in Unix kernel and commands, Basic, Pascal C, C++, firmware, networking and security.
1981 — 1983
B.S. , Computer Science and Computer Engineering , 1977 — 1981
music, cycling, skiing, jazz, guitar, woodwinds, rock and roll
Pho and Future of Music and SXSW, XTec