James Barry

Current

CIO at Partsearch Technologies

Past

V.P. Application Development - Payroll and HR Software Develoment at ADP
Interim CTO & Advisory Board Member at Jabber
Vice President of Strategy at CollabNet

Senior Product Manager at IBM
Senior Product Manager - Internet Products at Neodata
Vice President at ResNova Software
President at InfoPort

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Education

University of Colorado

Recommended

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Connections

335 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Website

James Barry’s Summary

Results-Driven Senior Executive with proven skills in delivering brand new software products from inception to over $1 billion dollars in revenue, turning around troubled software projects and driving game changing innovation with technology. Experienced with building and motivating teams from brand new startups startups to technology giants, all wrapped around a very agile software methodology that delivers solid products rapidly to the marketplace. Experienced with building and executing strategic plans, diving deep on technology when needed, and I am also very comfortable in a sales situations.

From large companies like IBM and ADP to startups like CollabNet and ResNova, I have delivered 12 new Internet based software and Software as a Service (SAAS) products to the market. These products included an early commercial http Sever (1994), a commercial Website with over 1,000,000 online orders (1996), IBM's first Java Application Server (1998), 2 different 1 million + user business automation Internet products (2002-2003), and two Software as a Service (SAAS) products with over 40,000 companies using them. Besides these products, I have been involved driving corporate business strategy in every company I have been involved with. Assembly and management of large disbursed team with a variety of reporting relationships - direct and indirect to achieve high quality product delivery.

In addition to the management and building of software teams I have been involved as an executive tasked with large strategic sales and partnerships. These have included signing multiple top 10 technical companies to strategic funding rounds as well as signing them as multi million $ customers. In addition I led teams with negotiating partnerships between 2 Global 250 companies that resulted in a 9 figure revenue partnership at stake.

James Barry’s Specialties:

Management of large scale IT projects, motivation of software engineers to achieve rapid development goals, highly scalable software project development, innovative corporate IT driven business strategies that drive profitable business revenue. Technical negotiator on 9 figure strategic deals.

James Barry’s Experience

CIO

Partsearch Technologies

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (10 months)

Manage Software and Web development teams, in addition to the IT support and hosted infrastructure. Partsearch has created the only industry standard Master Parts Catalog with over 8 million unique parts, and a parts-specific virtual supply chain across hundreds of major brands and multiple product categories.
V.P. Application Development - Payroll and HR Software Develoment

ADP

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; adp; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2002 — January 2008 (5 years 10 months)

Manged a direct team of over 250 employees including software developers, analysts, project mangers and testers who deliver 11 frontline applications that generate over $2 billion in ADP sales annually. From Internet delivered apps, to client server packages, these applications include the largest Internet delivered application in the world, PayeXpert. Negotiate and manage external strategic development partnerships for ADP from the techncial team. My teams have built a distributed SOA environment involving both internal and external Web Services to drive adoption of our platforms.
Interim CTO & Advisory Board Member

Jabber

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 8 months)
Vice President of Strategy

CollabNet

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1999 — December 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Worked with Founder and CEO to built product strategy, raise $38 million in Venture Capital and help sell the initial enterprise customers for new startup company.
Senior Product Manager

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ibm; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1997 — December 1999 (2 years 10 months)

Built strategy, obtained funding and launched the WebSphere product line including the management of the first three releases of WebSphere Application Server. Brought in open Source Apache Web Server to replace Proprietary Web Server, the first commercial use of Open Source at IBM. Served as strategist on Linux committee that went to CEO and launched Linux at IBM.
Senior Product Manager - Internet Products

Neodata

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — March 1997 (1 year 3 months)

Built largest e-commerce site at that point on the Web for a direct marketing company with over 1,000,000 orders taken in 1996. Built subscription fulfillment sites for over 75 magazines including Ziff Davis, Conde Nast, IDG and Wired Magazine.
Vice President

ResNova Software

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1993 — January 1996 (2 years 7 months)
President

InfoPort

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1988 — August 1993 (5 years 1 month)

James Barry’s Education

University of Colorado

BA, Economics, August 1975 — May 1979

Activities and Societies:

Delta Upsilon Chapter President, Interfraternity Council President, Student Alumni Board,

Additional Information

James Barry’s Websites:

My Website

James Barry’s Interests:

I have an interest at speaking at technology gatherings. I have chaired a national SOA conference and spoken on numerous topics concerning building Internet applications, collaborative development, and implementing Services Oriented Architectures.

James Barry’s Groups:

The Industry Standard
Executive Suite
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
CIO Executive Network
High Tech Industry Executive Network
HR-XML
iPeerGrid
Jobs In Colorado
Innovative New Product & Service Innovators & Inventors
Ex ADP'ers
ADP - Automatic Data Processing and subsidiaries
CIO Exchange
Automatic Data Processing Alumni Group
Warranty Management Solution Providers
Technology Executives