Devin Holmes

Current

Project Lead at Business Executives for National Security
CEO at StartUpers.com

Past

Consultant at Cisco Systems
Chief Operating Officer/President at YUDU Media
Consultant at McGraw-Hill Companies

Director of Business Technology Solutions at New York Times Company
Professional Services at OneSoft Corporation
Management Consulting at Andersen Consulting / Accenture
Management Consulting at American Management Systems
Information Technology at Key Corporation

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Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School
London Business School
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

St. Stephens School
Ashbury College

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2 more...

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Devin Holmes’s Summary

I have over 15 years of technology experience in a variety of roles at start-ups and large corporations building innovative business-driven technology-savvy organizations. I have led software development and professional services teams globally as well as held executive management team positions at YUDU Media, The New York Times Company and OneSoft Corporation. Most recently, I was engaged as a consultant at Cisco Systems to help IT and Marketing executives in a $1Billion initiative. Leveraging both my fast-paced startup experience and a mature organizational focus, I understand how to bridge the gap between technology and business while delivering measurable top line and bottom line results.

I have two MBA’s and a BS in Engineering from top global educational institutions, have dual Italian and US citizenship and am fluent in English and Italian.

Devin Holmes’s Specialties:

Technology Strategic Planning, Product Management, Product Marketing, Project Management, Program Management, Internet Strategies, Marketing Strategies, Management Consulting, Data Warehousing, Organizational Design, Process Improvement/Re-engineering, New Media, Publishing, Media, E-Commerce, Online Media, Executive Management, Startups, Seed Funding

Devin Holmes’s Experience

Project Lead

Business Executives for National Security

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Business Executives for National Security, a nationwide, non-partisan organization, is the primary channel through which senior business executives can help enhance the nation's security. BENS members use their business experience to drive our agenda, deliver our message to decision makers and make certain that the changes we propose are put into practice. BENS has only one special interest: to help make America safe and secure.

Starting on June 1, 2009, I will be leading the effort to build a portal for returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan to help them re-integrate into society. Our goal is to create a transparent, reliable network to enable veterans, their families, communities and support networks to identify, evaluate and engage the resources needed to enable veterans to successfully reintegrate into society.

I plan to make sure that we bring to bear the best ideas from the worlds of social networking, content portals, online job training & job boards and make sure that I leverage my experience of the last 15 years to lead this project. Our success will be defined by actively engaging veterans in providing them access to a catalog of services (Federal, State, NGO & Private Sector), social media & networking features, job training, job postings and other features as the project progresses.

If you are interested in learning more about the project, please contact me directly.
CEO

StartUpers.com

(Internet industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)

Current Project: Co-Founder/CEO at Startupers.com
Privately Held ; 1-10 employees ; Internet industry
November 2007 – Present (1 year 2 months)

StartUpers! - The Jobsite for Innovative Tech Startups
Consultant

Cisco Systems

(Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

March 2008 — September 2008 (7 months)

Enterprise Business Intelligence Re-Organization

• Hired to re-align Marketing focused IT into the Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) unit
• Managed EBI teams to define new organizational structure, roles, responsibilities and methodologies
• Helped create EBI new business development value proposition and sales presentation
Chief Operating Officer/President

YUDU Media

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)

We're Not Just Another Tech Company

Instead, our media expertise shapes everything we do. At YUDU Media we understand the particular pressures, challenges and strengths of today's media companies. That's because we are one. The YUDU Media team has five years experience creating digital editions for the publishing industry.

As more readers turn to the Internet for their news and information, media companies need to keep up. And that's where we come in. We deliver media solutions to help you forge valuable online connections with your existing readers, while widening your audience, and your advertising base, around the world.

About YUDU Media
YUDU Media is a privately held company with offices in London, Boston and Clitheroe, Lancs. YUDU Media is dedicated to bringing innovative solutions to the media industry to help companies grow and make money in the online world.
Consultant

McGraw-Hill Companies

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year)

Company is focused on Technology and Marketing Strategies as well as Business/Technology Organizational improvements

McGraw-Hill Client Project deliverables included:
• Created technology strategy for marketing department Salesforce.com implementation
• Developed external marketing partnership strategy to increase customer retention
Director of Business Technology Solutions

New York Times Company

(Public Company; Newspapers industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years)

The Director of Business Technology Solutions focuses their respective groups on delivering comprehensive solutions to their customers' needs. They are responsible for managing relationships, projects, portfolios along with supporting systems, delivering and analyzing data. They are also responsible for creating valuable external relationships with key vendors and partners to further enhance their service offering. These Directors are the 'go to' people.
Professional Services

OneSoft Corporation

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years)

OneSoft provided a next-generation, sell-side e-commerce software technology and application service platform for Global 10000 companies building Internet revenue channels and managing their Internet customer interactions and relationships. OneSoft software was available as an enterprise-type license or application service with the support of a global network of system integrators and application service providers.

OneSoft offered its customers the best-of-class in industry standard XML-native Internet software that could be rapidly and cost-efficiently scaled to meet the needs of the largest enterprises. At the time, OneSoft's patent-pending technology platform, OneSoft OneCommerce, was the only e-commerce software infrastructure optimised and architected to enable rapid application deployment, real-time business intelligence and iterative evolution of site functionality.
Management Consulting

Andersen Consulting / Accenture

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)

The Process Excellence Group of experts specialized in architecting and designing world-class business processes. The group used leading tools and techniques in process design that were applied across a broad spectrum of business processes and industries. The business architects optimized the relationship between process and the other components, technology, strategy and change management, of the business solution.

The Capability Modeling and Simulation (CMAS) Group of experts within Process Excellence applied modeling and simulation techniques to provide the most powerful form of capability and process prototyping available in the industry today. These approaches allowed clients to test the process and conduct “what if” scenarios – enhancing benefits, reducing delivery timelines and costs, and mitigating risk. This end-to-end business capability modeling was used to balance business performance and resource requirements and identify and manage implementation risks.
Management Consulting

American Management Systems

(Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)

AMS is an international business and information technology consulting firm that combines technological innovation, forward-looking eBusiness strategies, and management services with the market-leading systems of our strategic partners to create high-value business solutions. We bring deep vertical market expertise to help clients in telecommunications, finance, insurance, healthcare, federal, state and local government, and utilities address the unique challenges they face.

The results are more than solutions that increase revenues, enhance market share and improve efficiency. They are also solutions that help clients redefine their organization and their relationships with customers, suppliers, and even competitors to realize new business opportunities and succeed in the digital economy.
Information Technology

Key Corporation

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)

Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation's largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $90.7 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. The company's businesses deliver their products and services through branches and offices; a network of approximately 2,200 ATMs; telephone banking centers 1-800-KEY2YOU (1-800-539-2968); and a website, Key.com, that provides account access and financial products 24 hours a day.

Devin Holmes’s Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

MBA , Executive Global Program , 2005 — 2007
London Business School

MBA , Executive Global Program , 2005 — 2007
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

BS , Industrial and Management Engineering , September 1990 — December 1994

Activities and Societies:

Phi Kappa Theta
St. Stephens School

1987 — 1990
Ashbury College

1983 — 1987