Joseph di Paolantonio

Current

• Blogger/Analyst at InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.
• President at InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.

Past

• Strategic Consultant: SOA, MDM & Agile at IAS
• Strategic Consultant: SOA, MDM & Agile at International Asset Systems
• Executive Director at Williams Companies

• Executive Director at Williams Communications
• Executive Director of Professional Services at Williams Communications Solutions
• General Manager, CapTech IT Services at Capital Technologies Integration, Inc.
• Director of Operations at CapTech
• General Manager at Capital Technologies/CapTech/SiteROCK
• Project Manager at Capital Technologies
• Project Manager at Oracle Corporation
• General Partner & Operations Manager at Montara Magic
• Program Manager for Component Reliability & System Reliability Lead for Gravity Probe B and SOHO/MDI at Lockheed Missiles & Space
• Program Manager for Component Reliability & System Reliability Lead for Gravity Probe B and SOHO/MDI at Lockheed
• Program Manager for Component Reliability & System Reliability Lead for Gravity Probe B and SOHO/MDI at Lockheed Palo Alto Research Labs
• President at SyReCon
• Program Manager, System Engeineering/Risk Management for AN/MSR-T1 & NATO OASIS at Martin Marietta Corporation
• Manager of System Engineering at Thiokol Corporation
• Research Technician at SES, Inc.

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Education

• UC Berkeley
• University of Arizona
• University of Delaware

• King's College
• Malvern Preparatory

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog
• Twitter
• Main Corporate Site

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Summary

I have over 25 years of project and program management experience leading to increasingly responsible positions within organizations ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to multi-national, diversified Fortune 100 firms, providing leadership and change management. I have brought together technologists and business people to define goals, understand needs, and develop requirements. Some highlights from my career include:

*Process & business focus, proven through managing 5 P/L as companies or units within Fortune 500 firms
* Track record in building and leading high performance teams to deliver results on time with high levels of customer satisfaction
* Demonstrated effective team management including working with diverse groups, mentoring, and creating a supportive environment while unafraid to roll-up my sleeves and get the job done
* Experience with 24X7 customer support & operations, outsourcing, high-end professional services and training
* Delivering solutions to customers in Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Food & Entertainment, Government, Hardware & Software OEMs/VARs, Healthcare, Logistics/SCM, Publishing, Telecommunications and Transportation

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Specialties:

Information Management, MDM, SOA for SMB, Global 2000, Higher Education & Government organizations; Open Source Solutions; SaaS; Linking traditional PM with Agile development & Community Direction; Strategy for remote users and distributed workgroups; Architect for Decision Support Systems, Collaboration, Wireless/Mobile, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, eCommerce & Portals; Impact of Enterprise Data Models, Business Processes, Information Flow & Interoperability

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Experience

• Blogger/Analyst

  InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.

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

  August 2004 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  In addition to my other duties with InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc. I work in the role of a blogger/analyst for The TeleInterActive Press covering open source solutions in the area of data management & analytics and supporting the teleinteractive lifestyle. I track and research changes and trends in the open source business environment & technical solutions including
  - full BI Suites
  - ETL/EAI/ESB/REST/SOA
  - Database technologies optimized for DW
  - Collaboration solutions
  - Mobile & Wireless enterprise systems

• President

  InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.

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

  June 2000 — Present (8 years 4 months)

  IASC provides strategic consulting, professional and hosted services for Open Source Solutions. Sample Projects for which I was Project Manager include MDM/SOA/Agile for IAS - see below, Wireless Logistics System for BART, Open Source BI Consulting, Data Warehousing for Contra Costa County EHSD, Decision Support Architecture for Vyvx, and eBusiness Infrastructure for WCS.
  
  * Act as blogger/analysts for open source solutions & management of distributed teams
  * Achieved 40% ROI through process analysis of sales/marketing tactics and adopting supporting technology infrastructure
  * Generated $19.9M in revenue, exceeding target of $10M by implementing CRM /BI for cross-business unit sales referral program throughout multi-national
  * Developed SLA and monitoring methods for the TeleInterActive Network’s hosing open source applications for SMB customers

• Strategic Consultant: SOA, MDM & Agile

  IAS

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  See International Asset Systems

• Strategic Consultant: SOA, MDM & Agile

  International Asset Systems

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

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  At our customer, International Asset Systems USA Limited (IAS), I worked closely with the Chief Architect, creating the Master Data Management strategy and updating the Services Oriented Architecture for SaaS delivery of their products. I also coached the product management, Professional Services and distributed software development teams in Agile software development as customized for IAS from our IASC 8D™ PM methodology.

• Executive Director

  Williams Companies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WMB; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1998 — July 2000 (2 years)

  The Williams Cos. was 40 operating companies with three business units: Energy, Pipelines and Communications. I led business model changes and internal IT infrastructure readiness with one result being cross-business revenue increase of over 90% over target.
  
  * Co-chaired the cross-business-unit eBusiness Governance Board
  * Presented to 250 senior executives of The Williams Cos. live and via video conferencing, on the Business Strategy, Business Process Impact, and cross-sales opportunities of the eBusiness Infrastructure
  * Led business process reengineering and change management efforts
  * Served as a liaison/mediator between business unit CIOs, business partners, and corporate IT executives
  * Created and promoted ROI and cost benefit analysis of IT projects to executive cabinets

• Executive Director

  Williams Communications

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

  August 1998 — July 2000 (2 years)

  I worked directly with the CIO and EVP of Marketing to develop internal business process changes with supporting IT infrastructure to create cross-business unit opportunities through data integration and interoperability.
  
  * Direct customer liaison for Cisco Systems' Net Readiness program in conjunction with Williams Network
  * Direct customer liaison to Sun Microsystems for the 4H ASP hosting business
  * Worked with Williams strategic sales on cross-product sales of energy, bandwidth and professional services to a major health care provider in the Northeast

• Executive Director of Professional Services

  Williams Communications Solutions

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WMB; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1998 — July 2000 (2 years)

  I worked directly with the CEO to change corporate strategy from included value-added engineering services to profitable professional services to offset the commoditization of PBX and network equipment sales.
  
  * Promoted from regional to national Professional Services head
  * Engagement manager for multi-million dollar customers and business partners, including Kaiser Permanente, Cisco Systems and Concentric Networks
  * Strategic consultant to regional GMs and sales executives on business strategy change
  * Provided training to sales personnel on consultative methods and services selling

• General Manager, CapTech IT Services

  Capital Technologies Integration, Inc.

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

  July 1995 — July 1998 (3 years 1 month)

  * Doubled Earned Income in each of two successive fiscal years
  * Negotiated and closed CapTech’s first multi-year, full outsourcing contract
  * Business Time’s list of top 100 fastest growing privately held companies in the Bay Area for three years running
  * Developed Specific Consulting Methodologies which provide both a market focus and a viable work plan
  * Defined innovative IT Service offerings and solutions that help Customers achieve their business needs and goals
  * Provided an effective approach to IT solutions deployment that leverage and enable technologies for maximum strategic results
  * Worked with HR to create Infrastructure: Matrix Organization, Employee Orientation, Consultants’ Manual and Sales Training
  * Work with Sales, Operations, Practice Directors and Technologists to facilitate contract close and delivery
  * Track FY98 Budget to within 2% on Earned Income for first six months and beat Operating Profit objectives each quarter

• Director of Operations

  CapTech

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

  July 1995 — July 1998 (3 years 1 month)

  Capital Technologies Integration, Inc. was started in 1993 to provide Unix System Administration services under the Team Model. As Director of Operations, and later General Manager of CapTech IT Services, CapTech added MS Windows Administration, DBA Services, Training, Software Configuration Management, Focused Projects and full Outsourcing; growing CapTech IT Services by ten fold in under a year, and developing support for sister company’s, Foglight, enterprise performance management software. I joined Capital Technologies Integration, Inc [a.k.a. Capital Technologies and CapTech] as a project manager or "principal" in July of 1995. I was promoted in February of 1996 to Director of Operations and in January of 1997 to General Manager. See General Manager position at CapTech for accomplishments.

• General Manager

  Capital Technologies/CapTech/SiteROCK

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

  See positions for Capital Technologies Integration, Inc, Capital Technologies, and CapTech

• Project Manager

  Capital Technologies

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

  July 1995 — July 1998 (3 years 1 month)

  I joined Capital Technologies Integration, Inc [a.k.a. Capital Technologies and CapTech] as a project manager or "principal" in July of 1995. While in this position I managed projects involving sendmail, internet connectivity, Oracle Databases, Data Warehousing, System Administration Outsourcing, Data Center Site Surveys, and IT Operations Strategies for customers including Cisco, Miller-Freeman, Barclay's Bank, Quantum, Sun Microsystems, Chiron, The Well and Delta Dental. I was promoted in February of 1996 to Director of Operations and in January of 1997 to General Manager.

• Project Manager

  Oracle Corporation

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

  December 1993 — July 1995 (1 year 8 months)

  I worked with the Consulting, Worldwide Support and Software Engineering groups to roll-out Oracle products internally, including Oracle Office at HQ and Asia-Pacific [and the PPP infrastructure to support it], Oracle Mobile Agents, Oracle VLDB/MPP and Oracle Web Services; constructed one of the first internal web sites at Oracle; became an Oracle Master and sendmail professional.

• General Partner & Operations Manager

  Montara Magic

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Food Production industry)

  June 1990 — December 1993 (3 years 7 months)

  I founded Montara Magic with Dan Winkler, funded through the sale of our motorcycles, to produce four variations of my chocolate sauce recipes: nocciola nectar, amaretto ambrosia, crème de charisma, and mystical mocha. Customers included Williams-Sonoma, Draegers, and local stores in 8 states on two coasts.

• Program Manager for Component Reliability & System Reliability Lead for Gravity Probe B and SOHO/MDI

  Lockheed Missiles & Space

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  January 1988 — December 1991 (4 years)

  Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab, see listing for 1988-1991, is a part of Lockheed Missiles & Space Division.

• Program Manager for Component Reliability & System Reliability Lead for Gravity Probe B and SOHO/MDI

  Lockheed

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  January 1988 — December 1991 (4 years)

  Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab is part of Lockheed Missiles & Space, which is a division of Lockheed, now Lockheed Martin.

• Program Manager for Component Reliability & System Reliability Lead for Gravity Probe B and SOHO/MDI

  Lockheed Palo Alto Research Labs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  January 1988 — December 1991 (4 years)

  I worked with Stanford University, NASA, and other organizations on concept development, prototyping, astrophysics research, and emerging computer technologies. As the program manager for component reliability, I led a team of electrical and mechanical engineers in developing engineering analysis and laboratory test methods for component and part reliability. As the System Reliability Lead for the Gravity Probe B and the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI), I led the system analysis, mathematical modeling and risk assessment efforts. SOI and the MDI Team are part of an international collaboration to study the interior structure and dynamics of the Sun. The MDI team was responsible for the design and fabrication, and now for the operation, of the MDI instrument on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. Gravity Probe B is the relativity gyroscope experiment to test two extraordinary, unverified predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

• President

  SyReCon

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  1983 — 1988 (5 years)

  High-Tech Consultancy specializing in Process Development, Risk Management and Custom Software Packages. Developed the first software implementations of Objective Bayes: BayLife and RAMSIM. Customers included Westinghouse Marine Div, UC Berkeley Space Science Lab Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, Western Gear FSD, BMY, US Army TACOM, and NASA Marshall.
  
  * Led over 200 physicists and engineers to solve inconsistent launch test results of a specilized weapons system
  * Awarded three SBIR Phase I grants (in conjunction with Ernie Eason of Failure Analysis Associates, and Phil Beseuner, an independent consultant), and one Phase II grant

• Program Manager, System Engeineering/Risk Management for AN/MSR-T1 & NATO OASIS

  Martin Marietta Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  1981 — 1983 (2 years)

  As program manager for System Engineering and Risk Management for the AN/MSR-T1 electronic warfare training system, I worked with system and design engineers integrating HP1000 computers and advanced EW/ECM measurement into a trailer truck for field assessment of pilots in extreme electronic warfare battlefield scenarios. As program manager for System Engineering and Risk Management for the NATO OASIS, I provided the system architecture, mathematical models, and led the black-box system specifications and RAM teams for this advanced C3I center using DEC VAX/VMS computers and a wide variety of communications, control, command and visualization equipment and processes.

• Manager of System Engineering

  Thiokol Corporation

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ATK; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  1979 — 1981 (2 years)

  I recreated three groups that hadn’t existed at Thiokol since the Apollo program landed men on the moon: Reliability & Risk Management, System Safety, and Maintainability/Availability. I led the fight, and won, to discard military standard methods for these analyses as unsuitable for limited production units, with life outcomes based upon bernoulli trials; leading to the release of flight and test data for all solid propellant rocket motors ever flown by NASA for use in developing new, Bayesian analysis methods for rocket motor design and test. I was awarded a letter of commendation from the International Satellite Organization for my work on Intelsat IV. I was awarded a letter of commendation from Hughes for my project management methodology development; developed system architecture and mathematical models for STS space shuttle self-destruct system and STS SRB parallel ignition system.

• Research Technician

  SES, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  1978 — 1978 (less than a year)

  SES, Inc. [now a part of Royal Dutch Shell] develops and produces advanced photovoltaic energy systems. As a Technologist working with John Florio, PhD, I performed research into novel methods of Copper Sulfide creation on Cadmium Sulfide, and statistical analysis of related life extension.

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Education

• UC Berkeley

  CEEU, Computer Science, Business, Applied Mathematics, September 1984 — August 1988

• University of Arizona

  CEEU, System Engineering, Reliability, Applied Mathematics, September 1979 — August 1984

• University of Delaware

  Graduate Work, Physical Electro-Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, September 1978 — June 1980

• King's College

  BS, Chemistry, Mathematics, Philosophy, 1973 — 1978

  Majored in Chemistry (ACS certified). My work on a second major in Philosophy was interrupted when my thesis adviser went missing. My thesis topic was "Use of Platonic Themes as a Framework for Technical Ethics". Minors in Philosophy and Mathematics.

  Activities and Societies:

  EgellocsgniK, Chemistry Society, Math Society

• Malvern Preparatory

  HSD, Academics, 1969 — 1973

Additional Information

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Twitter
• Main Corporate Site

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Groups:

ACM, PMI, IEEE, DAMA, TDWI, Churchill Club, OracAlumni, AgileAlliance, Open Source Think Tank

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•    PSVillage
•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    ORCL (Oracle) Alumni
•    Tweeple
•    The Mural Community
•    Pentaho - open source business intelligence
•    BayAPLN