President & CEO at Intrastar Inc. and Owner, Intrastar Inc.
Cincinnati Area
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- functioning as Project Manager / Chief Architect at Republic Beverage Company
- President & CEO at FamilyPlanIt - CompanyPlanIt - ChurchPlanIt
- President & CEO at Intrastar Inc.
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- Chief Information Officer at Selection.com
- Senior Consultant at Travelex
- Lead Developer / Architect at FreeMarkets
- Chief Architect at Financial Market Solutions
- Chief Architect at iWidgets
- Consultant - Server Architecture Team Lead at Cincinnati Financial Corporation
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Jeff Glenn’s Summary
Hands on results driven executive offering over 14 years of experience and success in the design and delivery of cost-effective high performance information technology infrastructures and applications to address complex business problems. Extensive qualifications in all areas of the software development life cycle, from initial feasibility analysis and design, through implementation, rollout, and enhancement. Strong leadership skills combined with expert technical knowledge has resulted in a record of successful, dynamic, highly energized, and focused teams that exceed expectations.
Jeff Glenn’s Specialties:
Core competencies include:
► Microsoft Application Development Expert
► Technology Architecture & Integration
► Leadership & Management
► Business Process Analysis & Design
► Business Intelligence & Metrics
► Business Risk Analysis & Security
► Infrastructure Design & Implementation
► Procurement & Contract Management
► Business Strategy Planning & Execution
Jeff Glenn’s Experience
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functioning as Project Manager / Chief Architect
Republic Beverage Company
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Wine and Spirits industry)
August 2003 — Present (5 years 1 month)
RBC is a 19 state liquor distribution company with over 5000 employees. For the Nebraska branch, Intrastar Inc. obtained the contract to analyze, design, develop, deploy, and support a replacement for the legacy system with a state of the art Microsoft solution (C#, ASP.Net, WinForms, SQL Server, BI, SSIS, SSRS, and SOA). This contract required hiring and managing a team of 10. Reported to the COO.
► Successfully delivered the solution on budget where two previous multi-year projects had failed.
► New application heralded as a complete success and changed month end processing from a 24 hour nightmare into a 45 minute process. Year end processing improved from 2-3 days to around an hour. Office productivity improved from 100% - 3600%
► Solution enabled the company to leapfrog the competition via improved core business processes, sales force automation, office automation, warehouse automation, business intelligence, and new offerings like delivery. -
President & CEO
FamilyPlanIt - CompanyPlanIt - ChurchPlanIt
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)
Architected and built modular website for self-service website creation and provisioning of Family, Company, and Church websites.
► Agile development and motivated startup led to entire project being created and completed in only 3 months.
► SEO optimization has kept this company ranked on the 1st results page since shortly after deployment for “free family websites”.
► Over 18,000 websites currently created and maintained by only two computers and almost no support staff. -
President & CEO
Intrastar Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — Present (8 years)
Intrastar is my consulting company and all of the jobs during this time are engagements that Intrastar has been engaged to perform.
Selection.com
Republic Beverage Company
FamilyPlanIt
TravelEx
FreeMarkets.com
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Chief Information Officer
Selection.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Human Resources industry)
February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)
Develop, execute and support all IT planning and operations for this rapidly growing background checking company utilizing primarily Microsoft technology. This position had staff, budgetary, and contractual authority for all IT and related operations. Reported to the President.
► Provided leadership when the previous CIO and key staff left without any succession plan.
► Reduced staff by 75% by utilizing advanced management tools and optimizing IT.
► Partnered with Dell on iSCSI initiative that saved approximately 84% as documented on the Dell website.
► Reviewed all contracts and eliminated unused and non-essential items. Successfully re-negotiated pricing with a number of vendors and achieving substantial reductions in rent 25% and telecom pricing 54%.
► Aggressive virtualization and targeted enhancements improved system availability to 99.7% and enabled a viable off-site disaster recovery plan. -
Senior Consultant
Travelex
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2002 — February 2003 (6 months)
This contract required analysis, design, and development of a replacement system for the Travel Insurance Services unit. The existing VB.Net project used by Inbound Sales Representative was re-factored to meet new enhancements as well as support online web access by associated agency firms. Web services were also utilized to communicate with third party insurance brokers. Reported to the CIO.
► Took on the lead role mentoring two junior developers to improve overall project efficiency. -
Lead Developer / Architect
FreeMarkets
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FMKT; Computer Software industry)
February 2002 — September 2002 (8 months)
Responsible for leading a staff of 5 through requirements analysis and development of the Item Management module of Free Markets ES next generation sourcing application. FreeMarkets ES was the first stage in a multi-stage project with over 100 (mostly contractors) working to complete this mission critical web application built on Microsoft .Net technology. Reported to the Project Manager.
► The only contractor granted architect status. The other two architects were full-time staff of FreeMarkets.
► Item Management team was the only team that was ahead of project deadlines and was thus assigned to help other teams by building core components that everyone would then utilize.
► FreeMarkets ES Application was heralded as revolutionizing their market niche -
Chief Architect
Financial Market Solutions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Capital Markets industry)
November 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 1 month)
Scope of responsibilities included the design and oversight of 8 developers implementing a Foreign Exchange trading system. The system is composed of twelve modules from order entry and execution, to back office functionality. Reported to the CIO.
► Actively managed the Microsoft relationship gaining direct access to many resources and personnel. Because we were selected as one of a handful of companies as a test case for .Net, SQL, and IIS we were even invited to a kickoff meeting with Bill Gates himself.
► Benchmarks of this C# .Net solution at Microsoft demonstrated the Scalability and Performance in excess of anything previously seen. The application showed that it could handle all foreign exchange traffic in the world.
► Validated that the system would integrate with Deutsche Bank by traveling to London and walking their IT group through our system. This paved the way for further negotiations with the #1 currency trading bank in the world. -
Chief Architect
iWidgets
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)
Led a startup team of 14 in the analysis, design, construction, testing, and deployment of the iWidgets site. Daily interaction and development of processes with Product Development, Systems, Operations, QA, and Marketing to develop and deploy widgets which are similar to web 2.0 features in social sites like MySpace. Reported to the Director of IT.
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Consultant - Server Architecture Team Lead
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CINF; Insurance industry)
October 1996 — October 1999 (3 years 1 month)
Various roles beginning as a developer and quickly moving into the Server Architecture Team Lead role. This position was primarily focused on managing the Server Architecture Team and coordinating with the project office and the other team leads on this project that had over 170 people working on it. The end client, Cincinnati Financial Corporation, is a multi-billion dollar insurance company with over 3,000 employees that needed to update their entire commercial insurance business.
► By forcing key issues to be dealt with by building consensus and escalating when necessary the project was saved from a number of disastrous choices. The ability to successfully navigate the hostile politics and achieve consensus was demonstrated many times.
► Because the system successfully demonstrated architectural solutions created by the Server Architecture Team those components were approved for corporate wide re-use.
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Jeff Glenn’s Interests:
Evangelical Christianity (Barna.org - TheTruthProject.org), Microsoft Windows,Tennis
Jeff Glenn’s Groups:
www.Grassfire.org,www.buckeyefirearms.org,www.mrc.org,Cincinnati .Net User Group
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