Bob Stewart

Current

• Founder at VitalLock

Past

• CEO at ESRIA, Inc.
• Director of Consulting Services at ICST
• Chief Technology Officer at Verified Person, Inc

• Chief Technology Officer and Founder at CyberMedica
• Chief Technology Officer and SVP Engineering Group at CMGI, Inc.
• Chief Technology Officer Internet and Networking Group at Motorola, Inc.
• Founder, Chairman & CEO at Maine Multimedia
• Founder, Chairman & CEO at Advanced Visual Communications, Inc.
• Production Director at American Angler

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Bob Stewart’s Summary

Bob Stewart is the Founder and Chairman of VitalLock - The Privacy Company. Over the past year Bob led the boutique development services of enterprise scale rich Internet applications (ESRIA) for high-profile, media and consumer sites including; Adobe, Boeing, BT, CBS, CNET, Disney, Facebook, Fidelity, Gomez, Hyundai, Intuit, Kodak, NFL, Ribbit, SearchMe, Times Mirror and other public and stealthy Web 2.0 startups.

Stewart served as Internet Chief Technology Officer of Motorola's $1B Internet and Networking Group where he earned Motorola's highest information technology technical ladder rank of Strategic Adviser Technical Analyst and Webmaster of eTAC the Gartner acclaimed electronic Technical Assistance Center.

Bob has performed technology due diligence for a number of venture capital firms in North America and Europe for whom he has at times served as an interim Chief Technology Officer to select portfolio companies. Bob has also been involved, both as an investment adviser and a transition manager, in substantial M&A activity including a $220M merger with BellSouth and a $290M acquisition from Compaq.

Bob also earned global recognition as Chief Technology Officer for CMGI portfolio companies Planet Direct, CMGI Solutions, Zip2 and MyWay.com.

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become." - Jim Rohn

Bob Stewart’s Specialties:

Rich Internet Application and cloud technologies. Strategist skilled in: product and customer development including social media, community building, publishing, portals, viral syndication, privacy and security, coaching/management development, outsourcing analysis, merger integration, public speaking, and technology due diligence.

Bob Stewart’s Experience

• Founder

  VitalLock

  (Consumer Services industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  VitalLock (http://VitalLock.com) is the 'Swiss Bank' of digital asset protection and inheritance planning.
  
  LegalLock further extends attorney-client privileges to your digital assets.
  
  EchoLock will deliver securely encrypted backup and archival services.

• CEO

  ESRIA, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  April 2007 — March 2009 (2 years )

  ESRIA - Enterprise Scale Rich Internet Applications with offices in San Francisco, San Jose CA and Cambridge MA.
  
  Brought together expert knowledge of Rich Internet Applications with capabilities for visual design and usability consulting to deliver effective online experiences.
  
  Led the development of enterprise scale rich Internet applications for high-profile media consumer sites including Adobe, Boeing, BT, CBS, CNET, Disney, Facebook, Fidelity, Gomez, Hyundai, Intuit, Kodak, NFL, Ribbit, SearchMe, Times Mirror and other public and stealthy Web 2.0 startups.

• Director of Consulting Services

  ICST

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2006 — March 2007 (8 months)

  Led all professional consulting, custom development engagements, online marketing and business development activities. Facilitated the establishment of iCST as an United States US General Services Administration GSA scheduled Department of Defense DoD defense contractor and Defense Security Services DSS National Industrial Security Protocol NISP cleared facility. Customers included Dale Carnegie, State of Maine Ethics Commission, Liberty Mutual Insurance and the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command SPAWAR.

• Chief Technology Officer

  Verified Person, Inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Led all government level deep-background screening and data-centric identity verification technology initiatives for tier-one funded Verified Person, Inc. a leading provider of risk management and fraud protection information solutions chaired by John Sculley the former CEO of Apple Computer and PepsiCo.
  * Led the integration of the Taleo staffing WebTop Applicant Tracking System effectively creating two-tier channel currently delivering 60% of 2006 bookings.
  * Created technology platform shelf resulting in systemic efficiencies enabling inorganic venture funded growth capitalized by the valuation creation of service pricing arbitrage evidenced by market share growth.
  * Planned and negotiated comprehensive ($3M) IT outsourcing and Development/SQA off-shoring to a Software Engineering Institute Capabilities Maturity Model Level 5 (SEI-CMM5) Indian partner. Included Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) as well as a predefined Service Level Agreement framework with performance penalties.

• Chief Technology Officer and Founder

  CyberMedica

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2000 — September 2005 (5 years 3 months)

  Principal of privately held pre-revenue B2B Internet ASP platform providing SOA web-services to reduce the cycle times for the drug and device discovery industries.
  * Identified and executed application systems for payments based, recurring revenue, transaction business targeted at small to mid size organizations.
  * Partnered with World Health Organization's Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review to grant over 500 licenses worldwide improving human subjects protection in clinical trials.
  * Established profitable professional services organization delivering consultative sales pipeline of ensured solution fit.
  * Developed ASP suite of drug and device discovery process acceleration software.
  * Patented key business processes.

• Chief Technology Officer and SVP Engineering Group

  CMGI, Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; cmgi; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1999 — June 2000 (1 year )

  Led development, operations, service provisioning of private-label, flexible, co-branded consumer content portals MyWay.com and Zip2.com. Performed due-diligence and served as an investment advisor and a transition manager of a bi-coastal staff of over 150 professionals for M&A activity including a $220M acquisition from Bell South and a $290M acquisition from Compaq. Defined and developed architecture for media object scalability and championed on-the-fly proxy servers for wireless and broadband content delivery including a viral syndication model.
  * Achieved both Media Metrix Top 100 site and Top 25 Portal site rankings.
  * Accommodated a 1500% service growth to accommodate 750,000 BellSouth.net customers.
  * Drove availability to 99.98% by deploying the (then Worlds Largest) Oracle parallel server (OPS) database and web server farm.
  * Established Research and Development operations for next gen scalability.

• Chief Technology Officer Internet and Networking Group

  Motorola, Inc.

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

  September 1997 — June 1999 (1 year 10 months)

  Named Internet Chief Technology Officer by Motorola ING’s Director of Quality Tom Nolette, led Strategy PMO for $1B consolidated Internet holdings of Motorola Internet and Networking Group during the period when Motorola won the Malcolm Baldridge award.
  * Directed Motorola ING’s Information Systems Program Management Office with fast-turn 30 day project phases.
  * Lead Total Customer Satisfaction teams improving top-box customer satisfaction scores by over 400%.
  * Earned highest possible Information Technology technical ladder ranking of Motorola Strategic Advisor Technical Analyst.

• Founder, Chairman & CEO

  Maine Multimedia

  (Media Production industry)

  1993 — 1994 (1 year )

  Value added reseller of digital video edit suites. Media-100 and Adobe Premiere on Apple VAR based systems. Developed CableLabs compliant advanced CART switching systems for cable television headend insertion of MPEG1. Invented, breadboarded and coded in assembly systems for encoding and decoding digital data on the vertical blanking interval signal using Motorola microprocessors.

• Founder, Chairman & CEO

  Advanced Visual Communications, Inc.

  (Publishing industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year )

  Value added reseller of digital prepress equipment for Apple and AGFA. Ingram, Meresel and TechData distributor. Adobe authorized training.

• Production Director

  American Angler

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  1985 — 1992 (7 years )

Additional Information

Bob Stewart’s Interests:

Intention, Quantum Spirituality and Now Consciousness OWNED PATENTS & PUBLICATIONS US Patent WO0065463 – ELECTRONIC PEER REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF SCHOLARLY WRITINGS iSDLC – Integrated Systems Development Life Cycles by Robert E. Stewart – http://OpenSDLC.org

Bob Stewart’s Groups:

Shriner and 32º York Rite Master Mason, State Certified Firefighter II, FEMA Certified First Responder, Certified Advanced Open Water Diver and Surf Rescue Boat Captain, Former Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technician

•    StreetTech
•    VLAB
•    IASE
•    ASSODIGITALE - www.assodigitale.it -
•    Harvard Jobs
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Link-United States Marines (1300+/Connected Yahoo Group)
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    LInked Business Strategists
•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    Information Security Community
•    Maine Entrepreneurs
•    Startup Specialists
•    CyberSource
•    Biotech & Pharma Professionals Network
•    Extreme Thinking
•    Startups and Entrepreneurs Get Funded
•    New England Venture Community
•    Scottish Rite
•    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
•    Shriners on the Internet
•    CMGi Alumni
•    Adobe RIA Group - for developers and fans of Flex and AIR
•    Masonic Network
•    Authorize.Net
•    TalentHook User Network
•    Esria
•    TED: Ideas Worth Spreading
•    VenCorps
•    Seth Godin's Triiibes.com
•    Ultra Light Startups
•    Maine Tweetup
•    International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
•    Maine Marketing Association
•    O'Reilly Open Source Convention OSCON
•    e-LEGAL
•    Maine IxDA
•    MTUG
•    Mainebiz
•    Global Security Challenge (GSC) - Innovation in Security
•    Maverick Sellers, Sales People who are selling better than A-Players
•    Cloud Security Alliance
•    Maine Software Developers
•    Employment Background Check
•    CIC: Cambridge Innovation Center Clients and Alumni
•    Executive Search Network - AESC / BlueSteps
•    New England Consumer Technology Innovators & Entrepreneurs
•    ST.EN - Start-ups & Entrepreneurs
•    BlueSteps Executives

Bob Stewart’s Honors:

Massachusetts Software Development Council, Panelist - Seybold Seminars, Compaq Channel Partners Symposium, Cisco CIO Summit Panelist, EMC Bioinformatics Panel, New England Graphic Arts Association ADSPO Trade Show and Conference, VUEPOINT Conference, Apple Distributor VAR Council, Kodak Electronic Printing Services, AGFA Seminars.

RESELLER ALLIANCES & RELATIONSHIPS
EMC Development Partner, Cisco Channel Partner, IBM Software Partner, Microsoft Certified Developer Partner, ACI 4D Developer Partner, Merisel Distributor, Ingram Premiere VAR, Tech Data Dealer, Newer Technologies VAR, Apple Macintosh VAR, Compaq VAR Partner, Netscape Gold Developer Partner, Apple Newton Pioneer Developer.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINER & INSTRUCTOR
Adobe Training Partner, AGFA Training Alliance, Quark, Compumation, Kodak KEPS, Varityper Linotype-Hell, Leaf, DayStar, Sony Video, Data Translation, Radius Video, WGBH, Kodak, L.L. Bean, EMS, Espo Litho, Apple Computer, Microsoft Education.

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