
Social Media, Web Tech, & Business Expertise - Strategist, Technologist, Manager, Problem Solver
Greater Philadelphia Area

Social Media, Web Tech, & Business Expertise - Strategist, Technologist, Manager, Problem Solver
Greater Philadelphia Area
Strong experience as an executive, senior manager, entrepreneur, consultant, and adviser for technology-oriented companies.
Experience in many industries including Web/Internet, Financial Services, Health Care, and Education. Entrepreneurial senior manager and technologist with proven record of predicting trends and capitalizing on them.
Management Consulting, Strategy, Technical Strategy, Startups, Early Stage, and Growth Stage Businesses. Product Management, Product Development, Project Management, IT Architecture, Operations, Business Development, Business Planning. Concept Development, Project Planning, Design, Development/Execution. On-time, and on-budget.
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Acognita specializes in Advanced Social Media and Web Solutions. From strategy, to design, construction, and launch, to ongoing support and moderation of web communities. Social Media and Web Communities enable firms of all types to interact closely with their customers, clients, partners, and/or employees. Web communities are revolutionizing brand management (active 2-way dialog), product development (the voice of the customer), and collaboration (the wisdom of the crowd).
(Management Consulting industry)
May 2001 — July 2008 (7 years 3 months)
Strategy and execution with an emphasis on technology. From startup to expansion, to help you get to the next level. Endy Associates has consulted with a wide variety of start-ups, early-stage, growth, and established companies in the Philadelphia region.
Endy Associates assists clients with management consulting, strategic technology, applications, organization, funding, operations, product management, project management, development, and live production.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 6 months)
Member of the executive team in charge of all product architecture, development, and live production service for this exciting early stage company from initial product design and construction through acquisition of the company by PNC Global Invesment Services (formerly PFPC).
Managed two separate major products (Managed Money Dashboard and Mutual Fund Dashboard) through continuous development and release cycles for 2.5 years. Directly handled all phases of development from concept,to specification, prototyping, coding, test, release, and ongoing production hosting.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Religious Institutions industry)
September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)
Humanity's Team is a global spiritual movement striving to help people focus on oneness, commonality, and tolerance of religious beliefs. HT has over 20 active countries with over 11,000 registered teammates. HT was founded in 2003.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 9 months)
As Chief Operating Officer responsible for all new client implementations, client services, product development, support, and training. As CTO directs the technical architecture and future technical direction of both InfoMC's traditional product, eCura, and their new .NET products.
Grew revenue by 20% in first 14 months and swung from a loss to an 8% profit, even despite the loss of a single large (19%) revenue source. Mostly on the basis of operational improvements, streamlining, and working smarter.
Directly managed a multi-million dollar, multi-year project with the County of Sacramento California for a new Behavioral Health Care Services Management system.
(Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Led the design, development, and delivery for both of DoctorQuality's products, RPM (Risk Prevention and Mangement), QualityCoach for clients such as Horizon Blue Cross;
* Overhauled the product planning, software development and release process to a rigorous, repeatable and reliable process;
* Instituted full leading-edge problem and call tracking system integrated with workflow and new formalized procedures. Comprehensive request management system with full management reports and charts of system status;
* Implemented formal QA process with complete coverage of each release with full tracking of all issues;
* Analyzed requirements of HIPAA legistlation and implemented comprehensive changes in process and procedures for compliance with all HIPAA privacy and security requirements;
* Enhanced all security, system defenses, business continuity and recovery procedures;
* Significant upgrade of all systems to reliable, scalable, state-of-the-art hosted ASP architecture.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
July 2000 — June 2001 (1 year )
Contracted by this stellar startup to develop new service offerings through competitive analysis, strategic development, service definition, project management, development, and launch. Worked with senior executives at key clients like HP. Directly managed the repsonse team for a multi-million dollar RFP with AT&T, and won.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Video Streaming Media Broadcast Management System. Precision Media offered video hosting, streaming, and media management to help businesses leverage online video services to differentiate themselves. We hosted sales videos, demo videos, instructional videos, and live radio stations.
Co-founded, defined strategy and business model, wrote business plan, constructed financial models, and landed initial funding. Setup video streaming service. Sold and serviced relationships.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; USIT; Internet industry)
February 1995 — February 1999 (4 years 1 month)
Managed all production services, project management, technical architecture and site and systems development.
Clients included many fortune 100+ clients including IBM, Adidas, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Toshiba, Prudential, and Deliotte & Touche to name a few.
Grew from inception to over 250 employees nationwide and over $20 million in annual revenues. Acquired 3 businesses. Went public in August of 1999.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1995 — July 1996 (1 year 7 months)
Founded Web Development business and grew to profitability with 12 employees. Built first eCommerce site for Yahoo! and other clients like GE Power Systems and CNET. Merged with MasterSmith Consulting to form US Interactive in July 1996.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1992 — January 1995 (2 years 3 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SEIC; Computer Software industry)
June 1980 — September 1992 (12 years 4 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1980 — June 1981 (1 year 1 month)
BS CE , Computer Engineering, Software, Physics , September 1976 — May 1980
IT, Information Technology, Technical Architecture, Web Services, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Early Stage companies, Growth companies, Business Strategy, Technical Strategy, Marketing, Futurism, Trends, Photography, Macro Photography, Graphic Arts, Visual Design, Web Design Skiing, Sailing, Squash, Baseball, Gliding, Sailplanes, Investing, Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Astronomy, Physics, Cosmology, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Theology, Choral Arts, Barbershop, Harmony, A Cappella, Singing, Flower Gardening, Health, Wellness and Longevity.
Orbius, - Investor / Advisor,
LocalFav, - Advisor,
QuiqMeds, - Investor,
Five Below, - Investor,
Boomi, - Investor,
Caelo, - NEO(Nelson Email Organizer), - Advisor,
Eastern Technology Council, - Member,
Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week, PFEW, - Volunteer, - Company Advisor
Arts & Business Council, - Volunteer,
True Portrait, - Advisor,
Brick Simple, - Friend of Company,
Technology Portals, - Advisor,
Independence Media - Advisor
Humanity's Team, Worldwide - Volunteer,
Barbershop Harmony Society, BHS, SPEBSQSA, - Member,
Bryn Mawr Mainliners, Barbershop Chorus, - Member, Board Member,
Conestoga Crew Club
Arts & Business Council of Philadelphia - Founding member of the Tech Connectors and co-recipient of Volunteer of the Year award for creating and delivering the "Bridging the Divide" program to help teach Arts organizations how to develop strategic technology plans to improve their operations.