Joseph di Paolantonio

Current

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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Joseph di Paolantonio’s Summary

Over my career, my roles include executive, primary researcher, principal investigator, program & project manager, line & organizational manager, strategic consultant and entrepreneur at startups, F100, large & small companies. I've worked in the energy, renewables, aerospace, telecommunications, and information technology industries. My expertise is in data analysis, system engineering, Bayesian statistics, the R project, data warehouses, business intelligence, master data management, SOA, WOA, data mining, predictive methods, and very large databases (VLDB). My talents include team building, mentoring, and effective process development. My interests include open source, agile, green business, clean technology, distributed workgroups, complex systems, smart grids, database technologies, enterprise information integration, and using data to solve real-world problems. 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

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Specialties:

Smart Grids, Complex Systems, Information Management, MDM, SOA, Open Source Solutions, SaaS, Linking traditional PM with Agile development & Community Direction, Strategy, Enterprise & System Architecture

Joseph di Paolantonio’s Experience

President

InterActive Systems & Consulting, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)

IASC provides strategic consulting, professional and hosted services for Open Source Solutions for data management & analysis. 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.

(Public Company; 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