Danny Boice

Current

Chief Technology Officer at CommuniClique

Past

Executive Vice President at Pantheon
Managing Director at The Jaxara IT LTD
Founder & CEO at Jaxara

Director Of Technology at ASCII
Software Architect/Engineer at Musicmaker.com

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Education

James Madison University - College of Business
DeMatha

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Industry

Computer Software

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Danny Boice’s Summary

Danny Boice is a proven thought leader experienced in building and managing global software development and systems integration departments responsible for the conception and implementation of high-visibility, mission-critical systems for varying organizations from Fortune 500 to Small and Medium Sized Businesses. Boice has a rare blend of technology expertise and business acumen.

Danny's most recent venture is CommuniClique which he founded and serves as their Chief Vision Officer. CommuniClique is a SaaS team communication tool which provides old school (phone, email) and new school (VoIP, Screen to Screen, IM) communications tools in an easy to use fashion to non-technical teams of people. CommuniClique helps teams communicate more efficiently no matter where they are.

Prior to founding CommuniClique, Boice founded and headed Jaxara, which owned and operated global application development and systems integration centers. Boice successfully exited Jaxara in 2006 via acquisition.

Other engagements have included EVP of Pantheon and Director of Technology at ASCII. Both positions included managing teams responsible for large, mission critical system development. Clients during both positions included but were not limited to FedEx, Microsoft, Ingram Micro, Dell, Comcast, eBay and more.

Early in his career, Boice was employed as a software engineer at Musicmaker.com where his team was the first to utilize SOAP/XML in E-Commerce.

Last, Boice has been a featured speaker and panelist at several Technology Events and Tradeshows. He has also been featured in Baseline, CRN, Silicon Valley Journal, Business First, Yahoo Finance, Business Journals, News Forge, MIT High Tech Journal and many more.

See recent press here - http://www.dannyboice.com/press.html

Danny Boice’s Specialties:

- Voting Member of Asia Pacific Chamber of Commerce
- Voting Member of American Chamber of Commerce
- Multi-Visit P1 Private Investor Visa for Bangladesh (2nd only to Diplomats)
- Member, Northern Virginia Technology Council
- Member, Greater Washington Board of Trade
- SearchToOwn, CommuniClique Board of Directors

Danny Boice’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

CommuniClique

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

CommuniClique is a SaaS product that let's users talk, meet and share documents using nothing but a web browser. Further, all calls are archived in MP3 format and all online meetings are archived as streaming video files.

I built the first version of the product myself back in 2005.

Now I oversee product development including a team of developers, testers, analysts and architectures in the US and India.
Executive Vice President

Pantheon

(Computer Software industry)

May 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 9 months)

- P&L responsibility for global application development and implementation departments
- Managed an offshore development center with developers, testers, analysts and architects that Pantheon owned and operated and that I built prior to acquisition
Managing Director

The Jaxara IT LTD

(Computer Software industry)

2002 — January 2009 (7 years)

This was an offshore, wholly owned subsidiary of Jaxara and then Pantheon after the acquisition.
Founder & CEO

Jaxara

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2002 — May 2006 (4 years 1 month)

- Co-founded company in 2002.
- Named Top 25 Technology Companies in Washington DC Area for the last 2 years.
- Opened global development centers on 4 continents.
- Engaged Fortune 500 clients including Knight Ridder.
- Initiated $1mm initial private offering in 2005.
- Increased valuation from $0 to $7mm.
- Implemented Agile development methodologies globally.
- Created and patented Plyometrx; a proprietary, agile, global software development methodology.
- Created and patented Jaxara Primers; a revolutionary method of “priming the pump” on software projects.
Director Of Technology

ASCII

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1999 — May 2002 (2 years 7 months)

* Created savings of ~60% by migrating software development offshore and implementing Extreme Programming to increase efficiency and decrease release time.

* Coordinated projects with Fortune 500 firms including, Ingram Micro, eBay, Dell and Microsoft.

*Analyze, discuss, draft and present technical specifications and requirements for software design and architecture

*Provide analysis and recommendations about the robustness of content management systems implemented by content delivery systems

*Participate in and report on standards-setting activities such as Open Source/Linux, SOAP/XML, etc.

*Work collaboratively with various core technology teams to define, document and develop systems and components

*Meet with computer hardware manufacturers to analyze and review value added reseller channels and various vertical markets

*Provide technical support to major distributors such as Ingram Micro, Synnex, Tech Data, D & H, etc.
Software Architect/Engineer

Musicmaker.com

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

November 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 1 month)

* Database architecture, design and development. This includes design of complex data models, advanced data structures, extensive experience with Oracle 8x/9x, MySQL, SQL Server 2000 and advanced SQL and Transact-SQL expertise.

* Object-oriented architecture, design and development with emphasis on the design and development of application frameworks, class libraries, use of design patterns, etc. An extensive background in OO (Java, C++, TCL/TK)

* Web application architecture, including extensive experience developing web applications with standards-based technologies (HTML, DHTML, Javascript, etc.), partitioning of business logic web-based solutions, etc. Worked for many years designing and developing web-based, n-tier systems ideally with Microsoft as well as Open Source technologies, with a history in related technologies such as J2EE, Perl, TCL/TK, etc.

Danny Boice’s Education

James Madison University - College of Business

1997 — 2000
DeMatha

1993 — 1997

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Danny Boice’s Interests:

offshore software development software as a service, entrepreneurism, charity, bangladesh, software process improvement, test driven development, development best practices, software product management, baseball, private equity, fund raising, snowboarding, new technology, real estate