Joseph Fung

Current

• Managing Director at The Burgiss Group

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Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Joseph Fung’s Summary

Mr. Fung has served various roles in product development, corporate IT, and consulting. Prior to The Burgiss Group, Joe was CTO at Ness Technologies USA, a multinational IT services firm. Joe’s work helped customers gain competitive advantages through innovative uses of technology. One customer, a VC backed startup, built a next-gen product for the customer care contact center market. They won industry awards, incl.: CTI Magazine’s Product of the Year 1997, CTI Editor’s Choice 1998, and Computer Telephony Magazine’s Best of Show for Fall 1997.

Prior to Ness, Joe was founder of Farpoint Systems, a company providing consulting and commercial software products. Joe created ScriptView and AppExpert, products for users of Borland Intl’s market leading Paradox. ScriptView was awarded the Reader’s Choice Award by readers of Paradox Informant Magazine for 3 years, starting in 1991. In 1994, AppExpert won the Databased Advisor Magazine Readers Choice Award for Best Paradox Third Party Addin for 1994 and was subsequently acquired by Borland.

During his career, Joe has won industry recognition. At Farpoint, two projects for PSE&G, the Northeast’s most profitable public utility, were highlighted by ComputerWorld and Databased Advisor magazines. In 1989, heading CIBC’s US Ops PC applications development, Joe was recognized with the company’s General Managers Award for excellence and team collaboration.

Mr. Fung has served on various software advisory panels. He is the author of two computer books and has contributed to many periodicals. Joe has been interviewed by publications such as Infoworld, PCWeek, ComputerWorld, Network World, Home Computing Magazine, and Wireless Week. Joe has spoken at conferences incl. Microsoft’s TechEd, Sun’s JavaOne, KMWorld, Borland’s Developer Conference, Internet World, DCI, and at Johns Hopkins University. In 1992, Joe was invited to the Borland Developer Conference advisory board and became its chair the following year.

Joseph Fung’s Specialties:

Bringing together current and new technologies in interesting ways that enable competitive advantages and enable or expand new markets for businesses and product lines.

Joseph Fung’s Experience

• Managing Director

  The Burgiss Group

  (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

  Senior management position responsible for development of the product and web service (SaaS) offerings for the private equity and alternative asset class.
  
  In his position, Joe drives the company's technical vision, strategic technology initiatives, and product architecture that has lead to the transformation, extension, and expansion of the firm's market-leading product line. In addition to "hands on" direction of the product development initiatives, Joe is responsible for IT operations and infrastructure for the firm.

Additional Information

Joseph Fung’s Websites:

• My Website

Joseph Fung’s Interests:

Conferences and Public Speaking 2002, Internet World Wireless 2002/Pocket PC NY conference, mobile development, .NET. 2001, Global Leadership Summit for the University of Maryland and the Center for Creative Leadership, leveraging collaborative technologies and managing distributed teams. October 2000, Internet.com/AtNewYork.com, panel on mobile technology. September 2000, Johns Hopkins University, mobile technology. June 2000, Sun’s JavaOne conference, mobile eBusiness and wireless applications. 1999, KMWorld’99 in Dallas and at DCI’s Explorer, Knowledge Management and Enterprise Information Portals. 1998, Microsoft’s TechEd conference, scalable n-tier development. 1997, Microsoft TechEd conference, Java, COM. 1996 and 1997, Microsoft Developer Days III, Microsoft Developer Days’97, and the Microsoft VJ++ Developers Conference, Internet and Java development. 1991-94, Borland Developer Conferences, various database development topics.

Joseph Fung’s Groups:

•    Executive Suite
•    Stevens Alumni Association
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    TEN - Top Executives Net
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    IT Governance
•    VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    New York Venture Community
•    Cloud Computing
•    Hi-Tech Ventures & Startups
•    SOA Group
•    Software as a Service (SaaS) Group
•    ERA = Cloud-PaaS-SaaS-Web 2.0
•    NYC Web Developers

Joseph Fung’s Honors:

Databased Advisor Magazine Readers Choice Award for Best Paradox Third Party Addin - 1994

Paradox Informant Magazine Reader’s Choice Award - 1991 thru 1993

CIBC, General Managers Award - 1988

Author
"Paradox for Windows Essential Power Programming" (Prima Computer Books, 1993)

"Delphi In Depth Power Techniques from the Experts" (McGraw Hill, 1996)