Technology Consultant and Entrepreneur
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Consultant & Owner at Artific Consulting LLC
- Past
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- Allegheny College
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Ed Costello’s Summary
In 1994, I created and managed the team responsible for the technology operations of IBM’s corporate web site, www.ibm.com and was responsible for technology management of IBM’s world wide web and internet operations. I developed and managed applications supporting search, content management, investor relations, and various special events. I either created or co–authored the corporate processes and methods to govern IBM’s presence on the internet, working closely with marketing communications, investor relations, and employee communications. Over five years in this position I gained experience and expertise in building and managing information technology teams and processes, corporate operations and procedures, and international considerations for technology development, deployment and governance.
In parallel I either supported or managed web site operations at three Olympic Games (Atlanta, Nagano, Sydney), and designed and managed operations for several special event web sites.
I am currently available to consult on internet technology development, operations, and strategy.
Ed Costello’s Specialties:
Internet application development and operations,
Internet Strategy and Problem Resolution,
Technology management and operations,
Technology governance
Ed Costello’s Experience
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Consultant & Owner
Artific Consulting LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)
Consultancy focusing on Internet technologies in the New York City metropolitan area. Target clients are small-medium organizations (including non-profits).
Activities include:
- Complex I/T problem analysis and resolution.
- Strategic I/T consulting on internet technologies.
- Internet application and web site performance analysis and tuning.
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Senior Vice President, Technology
netomat
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2001 — June 2002 (7 months)
Managed I/T operations and application development teams at this New York City based startup.
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Senior Consulting I/T Architect
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — December 2001 (11 months)
Worked with clients to review systems architecture and operations in order to improve efficiency of web site applications and operations.
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Senior Manager, Official Web Site, Games of the XXVII Olympiad (Sydney Olympic Games)
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Responsible for content and application development including generation of official results pages for all athletes, sports, and countries. Managed a team of 35 programmers spread across the US, Spain and Australia in the final year leading up to the Games of the XXVII Olympiad (Sydney 2000 Olympic Games). Served as technical liaison amongst IBM, SOCOG, and the International Olympic Committee. Created and executed test plans for dress rehearsals (DR1 & DR2). Managed games-time operations of the official web site, www.olympics.com. Supported the follow-on Paralympics web site. Prepared close-out materials for termination of IBM-IOC contract. Successfully re-deployed all staff throughout IBM at termination of IOC contract.
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Senior Manager, ibm.com technical experience
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1994 — October 1999 (4 years 11 months)
Managed day to day I/T operations for IBM's corporate home page, www.ibm.com. Developed applications, services, and procedures to managed a F100 corporate web site through the rapid growth of the world wide web from 1994 through 1999. Oversaw technology side of IBM's overall web presence working in tandem with the CIO organizations in IBM's multiple divisions. Designed multiple systems infrastructures to support various needs of a corporate web presence. Directly lead a team of 10 "webmasters" and indirectly lead a worldwide team of over 100 professionals responsible for operations or application development of IBM web sites.
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Corporate Webmaster
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 10 months)
In parallel with my formal job, I served in this semi-formal role as IBM's Corporate Webmaster, responsible for developing, managing and policing IBM's web presence (for example determining what web sites got their own domain names, versus being placed on an existing web server).
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Operations Manager, Official Web Site, XVIII Olympic Winter Games (Nagano 1998)
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — March 1998 (7 months)
Managed technical build-out of the systems infrastructure for www.nagano.olympic.org in parallel with primary job as IBM's Corporate Webmaster.
Pre-Games traveled to Nagano, Japan for briefings with on-site team before returning to US to run US operations center in Schaumburg, IL.
Ran US daytime operations of the official web site (www.nagano.olympic.org) during the Olympic Games -
Webmaster, Official Website, Games of the XXVI Olympiad (Atlanta 1996)
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1996 — August 1996 (2 months)
As one of two on-site webmasters for the official web site for the Atlanta Olympic Games I was responsible for coördinating web site support amongst IOC and IBM staff in Atlanta with the primary web site staff in Southbury, CT.
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Information Developer
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1990 — November 1994 (4 years 6 months)
Developed technical documentation for RACF, MVS, and Case/390. Taught introductory classes in object oriented programming on MVS. Introduced internetworking concepts and practices to the mainframe development lab and evangelized the use of the Internet to communicate with customers and developers.
Ed Costello’s Education
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Carnegie Mellon University
MA , English / Electronic Discourse , 1989 — 1991
- Activities and Societies:
- Manager - Communications Design Center,
Writer - Materials Characterization Center, Mellon Institute.
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Allegheny College
BA , English , 1985 — 1989
Minor - Computer Science
- Activities and Societies:
- Association of Computing Machinery,
Editor - The CAMPUS newspaper,
Editor - The Allegheny Review,
Manager - Morrison's Custom Management / Catering.
Additional Information
Ed Costello’s Websites:
Ed Costello’s Interests:
Large scale data analysis and presentation, Visualization of data, Networked application development and operations, Developing markets and exchanges in information fields, AdTech - Advertising and Technology, Privacy and securing the self in an ever-more-connected world.
Ed Costello’s Honors:
Chairman's Award, 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, IBM Corporation, 2000
Division Award, Enterprise Web Management, IBM Corporation, 1998
Division Award, Corporate Communications, IBM Corporation, 1997
Cool Site of the Year, Deep Blue vs. Kasparov, 1997
Ed Costello’s Contact Settings
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