Senior Consultant at WelchmanPierpoint
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Senior Consultant at WelchmanPierpoint
- Past
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- Product Manager at World Bank
- CTO & Managing Director at Forum One Communications
- Systems Engineering Project Manager at UUNET
- Volunteer in Chad, Africa at Peace Corps
- Software Engineer at Schlumberger
- Education
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- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Maryland College Park
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David Hobbs’s Summary
David Hobbs’s Specialties:
Product management, technical project management, content management systems (CMS), integration, technical management, consensus-building, relationship management, multilingual, client relationship management
David Hobbs’s Experience
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Senior Consultant
WelchmanPierpoint
(Partnership; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Consult with large institutions on Web Operations Management, specializing in web team organization (especially Web Product Management http://bit.ly/webprodmgr).
As the most technical member of WelchmanPierpoint, steer client CMS adoption processes for major web sites:
• Detail complex requirements, including unique content re-use, sub-site standardization, systems integration, measurement, and auditing needs
• Drive CMS vendor selection processes
• Run acceptance pilots, carefully uncovering and documenting issues in meeting an organization’s unique requirements
• Develop metadata standards
• Plan migrations, from executive level support to web team resource availability and technical readiness
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Product Manager
World Bank
(Internet industry)
2003 — February 2008 (5 years)
Product manage the content publishing system that hundreds of users across the 30+ units of the Bank use to manage over 1,000 World Bank sites and publish content in 20+ languages (currently with over 100,000 pieces of content).
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CTO & Managing Director
Forum One Communications
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
• As Team Manager, managed an interdisciplinary team of ten employees.
• As Portfolio Manager, responsible for the profitability and client satisfaction of a portfolio of projects.
• Directly managed a variety of high profile projects, primarily for technically complex sites including the World Bank Research site
• As CTO, dramatically improved the quality of internal IT and LAMP-based (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP) managed hosting. Also rotated through as on-call Linux systems adminstrator -
Systems Engineering Project Manager
UUNET
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years)
• Project managed UUFAX, an internet-based faxing solution, from initial phases to stable production environment. Also project managed the Branded Dial product from initial conception to first customer delivery.
• Coordinated Y2K certification, deployment, capacity planning, and international fax delivery quality.
• Modeled worldwide IP fax delivery for capacity planning.
• Interfaced with other teams such as marketing, sales, sales engineering, installation, training, technical support, server operations, network operations, vendors as well as the core international technical team across Europe and the U.S. -
Volunteer in Chad, Africa
Peace Corps
(Government Agency; International Affairs industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years)
Taught very basic management techniques to an agricultural cooperative of 1,000 members (including helping to keep their profit and loss records in Arabic and French), a collection of neighborhood water committees, and a trash collection group.
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Software Engineer
Schlumberger
(Public Company; SLB; Oil & Energy industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Software engineer programming the graphics in C / X Windows / Motif of a multi-layer mapping system used for oil exploration.
David Hobbs’s Education
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Georgia Institute of Technology
MS , Computer Science , 1990 — 1992
Wrote (with Ron Arkin) "Dimensions of Communication and Social Organization in Multi-agent Robotic Systems," published in Animals to Animats 2, 1993.
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University of Maryland College Park
BS , Computer Science , 1986 — 1989
