John O'Brien III

Current

• Founder at Deals4.Us (Group Deal Site in Beta)
• Founder at Twapper Keeper (Twitter Archiving Service)
• Special Assistant to the Agency Director at US DoD / Business Transformation Agency

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Past

• Co-founder at Twangu (Group Buying / Deal Marketplace)
• Program Executive Officer, Enterprise DOD Supply Chain Systems at US DoD / Business Transformation Agency
• Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer at US DoD / Business Transformation Agency

• Senior Delivery Manager at MTS Allstream
• Senior IT Manager at JDSU
• Manager at Bearing Point
• Senior Consultant at PTC
• Design Engineer at E-One

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Education

• University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
• University of Florida

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John O'Brien III’s Summary

At night, focused on web / mobile start-up ventures that leverage the emerging social graph / platforms.

By day, focused on the delivery of custom build and ERP based projects in support of improving DoD procurement business operations.

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12 years experience architecting, developing, and deploying web-based applications and capabilities to transforming the way Private Sector and Federal Government organizations do business.

Focused on pushing the limits of technology, aggressively meeting the needs of the business / customers, containing cost, and meeting schedules.

Industry expertise spans high tech, automotive, heavy equipment, discreet manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace & defense, government, and consumer goods.

Functional business expertise in engineering, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain, and personnel management.

Active Top Secret Clearance

John O'Brien III’s Specialties:

Web 2.0 / social networking platform integrations (Facebook, Twitter); Payment platforms (Paypal, Amazon); Telephony platforms (Twilio); Imaging services (ShrinktheWeb); Location based services / Geo (FourSquare, Google); Authorization (OAuth); LAMP / PHP / MySQL / JQuery; Infrastructure;
Online marketing on social platforms (acquisition, retention, viral loops); Extensive experience with commercial business applications (ERP, PLM, CAD/CAM, Business Intelligence, etc)

John O'Brien III’s Experience

• Founder

  Deals4.Us (Group Deal Site in Beta)

  (Internet industry)

  May 2010 — Present (3 months)

  A beta site for businesses to launch tons of group deals and give customers more awesome group deals than they can handle. Provides a "craigslist" of group deals between businesses and consumers. Heavily leverages Facebook's new social widgets and LIKE buttons.
  
  Soft launch in May 2010.
  
  More info on company - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/deals4-us

• Founder

  Twapper Keeper (Twitter Archiving Service)

  (Internet industry)

  July 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Start-up Twitter platform application that allows for users to archive and organize tweets based upon #hashtags, keywords, and @persons. Includes an API for creating custom applications that leverage archive engine and capabilities for extracting data to do external analysis.
  
  Used heavily by academic orgs, conference leaders, and marketing departments.
  
  Responsible for all aspects of development, support, and marketing.
  
  Currently funded by grant from Joint Information Systems Committee - http://twapperkeeper.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/jisc-funded-developments-to-twapper-keeper/
  
  More info on company - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twapperkeeper
  
  [As of 07/2010, Twapper Keeper has saved 10,000 archives, 320 million tweets, and is ingesting ~4000 tweets / minute]

• Special Assistant to the Agency Director

  US DoD / Business Transformation Agency

  (Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2008 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Recruited into a term appointment within the DoD as one of the first Highly Qualified Expert (HQE) appointees under a Congressional program established to attract experts with state-of-the-art knowledge in fields of emerging importance to the Department.
  
  Hired specifically to lead IT business transformation priorities within DoD with focus on defining and evolving technical architectures of enterprise applications.
  
  Under current role, responsible for leading high profile projects at direction of agency director.
  
  Current focus is on transforming the way DoD does procurement leveraging emerging ERP platforms by:
  
  - “federalizing” Oracle's Advanced Procurement / iSupplier capabilities to support DoD procurement and supplier invoicing
  
  - build out and marketing of a prototype supplier facing portal to provide visibility across n-number of ERPs and single sign from portal to ERPs

• Co-founder

  Twangu (Group Buying / Deal Marketplace)

  (Internet industry)

  July 2008 — December 2009 (1 year 6 months)

  A Facebook Verified App and Top 50 Fbfund winner that enabled users to setup group buys for products they want to buy and allowed vendors to bid on the team's business (think: aggregate spend + reverse auction).
  
  Responsible for development, deployment, and marketing of application on top of Facebook platform.
  
  Shut-down at end of December 2009.
  
  Company information at http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twangu

• Program Executive Officer, Enterprise DOD Supply Chain Systems

  US DoD / Business Transformation Agency

  (Government Agency; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Led implementation of custom developed enterprise sourcing and supply chain business systems to support DoD procurement and interface between suppliers / vendors. Managed $70M annual budget and over 200 employees.
  
  - Drove evolution to leverage SOA for emerging business capabilities to standardize integrations, minimize point-to-point interfaces, and lower integration costs.
  
  - Developed and published repeatable methodology for rationalizing capabilities and technologies to be implemented within DoD’s corporate layer, focusing on ensuring proper mix of centralized and decentralized IT capabilities.
  
  - Led strategy and implementation of sourcing business intelligence (BI) capabilities to provide decision support to Department’s procurement executives.

• Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer

  US DoD / Business Transformation Agency

  (Government Agency; Executive Office industry)

  November 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Managed investment and technology decisions, including applications, services, and networks. Responsible for all technology decisions for DoD enterprise business systems and ensuring secure operations of BTA owned networks / systems and enterprise DoD systems. Managed $10M annual budget and headcount of 25 people.
  
  - Established and led establishment of agency information security certification & accreditation team ensuring secure operations of DoD enterprise business systems.
  
  - Led Air Force and Navy technology assessment and cost / schedule base-lining for custom Human Resources System program designed to support more than 2.5M users, subsume 50+ legacy systems, and interface with more than 150 external and legacy systems.
  
  - Implemented lean IT operations team by eliminating non-value added processes and reducing overall IT labor cost by 50%, freeing additional resources for other DoD transformation initiatives.

• Senior Delivery Manager

  MTS Allstream

  (Public Company; MBT (TSX); Telecommunications industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Sold and managed service delivery and product solutions to improve and streamline engineering & supply chain processes and systems.
  
  - Provided global support for JDS Uniphase Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, ensuring compliance with SLA, implementing ITIL processes, and ensuring engagement profitability.

• Senior IT Manager

  JDSU

  (Public Company; JDSU; Telecommunications industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

  Managed development and deployment of PLM and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) processes and systems. Chartered with improving collaboration and effectiveness of global design community and internal / external manufacturing parties.
  
  - Deployed secure B2B portal to communicate with contract manufacturers and suppliers, providing real-time access to engineering data throughout product lifecycle, improving data timeliness from 2-3 days to ~1 hour.
  
  - Implemented system capabilities and controls to ensure auditable corporate compliance with governmental export regulations for technologies of national security interest.
  
  - Developed and deployed PLM web and file replication architecture improving end-user UI performance by 50-90% and increasing speed of engineering file data access by 10-60X.
  
  - Introduced and executed various in-sourcing and out-sourcing hosting and support strategies to ensure efficient operations. Reduced annual operating costs by $1.5M in Year 1 and an additional 25% in Year 3.

• Manager

  Bearing Point

  (Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Sold and managed implementation for engineering design and process management solutions across numerous verticals.
  Engagements focused on process reengineering, software configuration & customization, and deployment.
  
  - Managed two-year implementation of Matrix One PLM solution for JDS Uniphase within $8M budget. Deployed and architected centrally hosted solution to facilitate engineering and manufacturing collaboration in support of new product introduction, engineering change processes and lifecycle of bill of materials / drawings / specifications. Implemented solution across 15 global sites (2000+ users) and integrated with corporate ERP and design tools.

• Senior Consultant

  PTC

  (Public Company; PMTC; Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Managed implementation and deployment of PTC’s product development and product data management software at customers’ sites. Focused on engineer-to-order / assemble-to-order and data management solutions.
  
  - Engaged over 50+ customers to implement software, ensuring appropriate business process reengineering, rapid ROI, and thorough knowledge transfer to users and administrators. Primary customers included Harris Corporation, General Motors, Silicon Valley Lithography, Paccar (Peterbilt / Kenworth), Timberjack and Airtran Airlines.

• Design Engineer

  E-One

  (Privately Held; Automotive industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

  Designed custom emergency vehicles, including fire trucks and airport rescue vehicles, to support new product offerings and custom requirements.

John O'Brien III’s Education

• University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

  Masters , Business Administration , 2006 — 2008

• University of Florida

  BS , Mechanical Engineering , 1990 — 1995

Additional Information

John O'Brien III’s Interests:

start-ups, web 2.0, biz dev, social networking, social media, e-commerce, facebook, twitter, twilio, foursquare, gowalla, geo, mobile, platforms, applications, apps

John O'Brien III’s Honors:

[HONORS / PRESS / MENTIONS]

/* Twangu - Group Buying */
Top-50 Finalist in Facebook's Venture fbFund 2009
http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=249
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=84440649573

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/16/online.shopping.china/

http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/deals/strength-in-numbers-scoring-a-group-deal/

/* Twapper Keeper */
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_your_tweets.php

/* Call My Wall */
http://blog.twilio.com/2009/09/phone-in-your-facebook-status-with-call-my-wall-.html