John G. Norman

Past

• Data Warehousing Architect at McKnight Associates
• VP of Engineering at Elytics
• Senior Developer at Veritas Medicine

• Principal / Senior Developer / Architect at Cambridge Incubator and Related Companies
• Director, Computers in Composition and Literature at The Ohio State University

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Education

• Harvard University
• Grinnell College

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Industry

Computer Software

John G. Norman’s Summary

John G. Norman offers a unique combination of technology vision and engineering leadership, having served alternately as VP of Engineering and CTO to two Boston-area software startups, one which provided back-end software to Fortune 500 companies, and the most recent of which created an innovative patented and patent-pending system to automate personal referrals for employment.

John G. Norman’s Specialties:

* Technology consigliere
* Management of small software development teams
* Specific technologies: J2EE/Java (WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss), Ruby and Ruby on Rails; relational databases (Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL), multidimensional databases (Hyperion Essbase, Cognos), standard tools (source control, Rose, major IDEs, JUnit), the cloud (esp. AWS/EC2).

John G. Norman’s Experience

• Data Warehousing Architect

  McKnight Associates

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — July 2003 (7 months)

  Designed and implemented business intelligence interfaces, reports, and dashboards and data access for a major national "quick service restaurant" collection of brands. Platform: Oracle Application Server 9i, Oracle Discoverer. Engaged in constant customer communication, rapid development, and prompt delivery.

• VP of Engineering

  Elytics

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2002 — January 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  As VP of Engineering at Elytics, I was responsible for software product delivery, and managed a team of ten engineers. Was the technical point of contact for two of our largest customers, both Fortune 500 companies. Personally refactored all relational database code to handle the idiosyncrasies of different SQL implementations.

• Senior Developer

  Veritas Medicine

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year )

• Principal / Senior Developer / Architect

  Cambridge Incubator and Related Companies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 3 months)

• Director, Computers in Composition and Literature

  The Ohio State University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; OSU; Higher Education industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

John G. Norman’s Education

• Harvard University

  PhD , English and American Literature , August 1984 — May 1992

  Research and writing on the impact of new medical discoveries and practices on English writing.

• Grinnell College

  BA , English Literature , 1978 — 1982

Additional Information

John G. Norman’s Interests:

Product design and development, entrepreneurship, learning to play piano.

John G. Norman’s Groups:

Entrepreneur's Organization, Boston WebInno, Boston Ruby Group.

•    Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Harvard University Alumni
•    Grinnell College Alumni
•    Boston Ruby Group
•    CIC: Cambridge Innovation Center Clients and Alumni

John G. Norman’s Honors:

Fellowships and scholarships for my doctoral work; teaching awards from Harvard and Ohio State; authored patents.

John G. Norman’s Contact Settings

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