Joseph Wortmann

Current

Owner at Cogitavi (Sole Proprietorship)
EVP and Owner at The Iron Door Company

Past

Senior Vice President and Founder at ComFrame Software Corporation
Senior Vice President at Awarix
Vice President and Founder at Emageon

Software Architect and Founder at ComFrame
Software Architect at Group 8760
Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader at Bear Creek Technologies
Software Engineer at Macess
Platoon Leader at United States Army

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
United States Military Academy at West Point

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Joseph Wortmann’s Summary

I am an executive with a breadth of experience in operations, sales, marketing, technology, and product development. I specialize in innovation and change leadership. I have success as both an entrepreneur and intrapreneur. I relish the opportunity to make a real difference, both in the success of the corporation and in the lives of the people I interact with.

I am a self-starter that neither requires nor desires large amounts of oversight. I enjoy working at small companies where flexibility (chaos?) reigns, and have spent my time working at and founding start-ups since I left the Army. I find the dynamic environment offered by a small organization invigorating.

I have worked in the defense, insurance, telecommunications, information services and medical industries. Of these, I have enjoyed the medical industry the most; the products in the medical industry truly impact the lives of those that use them, often at the time of their greatest need.

Joseph Wortmann’s Specialties:

Vendor relations, product marketing, technical sales, DICOM, PACS, medical imaging, HL7, Java, XML, server clustering, software architecture and design, OOA/OOD, computer storage, computer networking, Linux

Joseph Wortmann’s Experience

Owner
Cogitavi (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Cogitavi is a vehicle for the technical and management consulting that I engage in from time to time.
EVP and Owner

The Iron Door Company

(Building Materials industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

The Iron Door Company (TIDC) is a distributor and wholesaler of wrought iron residential doors.

I serve TIDC as a member of the board of directors and as the EVP, with direct responsibility in Sales and Marketing.
Senior Vice President and Founder

ComFrame Software Corporation

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

May 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 7 months)

- Responsible for the creation and executive management of a new business unit dedicated to the delivery of business solutions in the areas of finance, operations and human resources.
- Led the ComFrame consulting team at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama.
- Led the definition of an organizational restructuring positioning ComFrame for exponential growth.
Senior Vice President

Awarix

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

January 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 4 months)

- Led the re-architecture of the core server product, resulting in more than a 1000% increase in stability.
- Led the design and implementation of Awarix's automated continuous build process, resulting in a decrease of more than 90% in build time.
- Led the development of Awarix's deployment and upgrade technology and process, resulting in a decrease of more than 70% in deployment time and a decrease of more than 95% in upgrade time.
- Led the optimization of Awarix's map creation process, resulting in a decrease of 66% in map creation time.
- Led the development of Awarix's first high-availability architecture.
- Led the service operations team, responsible for the technical configuration, deployment and support of Awarix's customers.
Vice President and Founder

Emageon

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; EMAG; Medical Devices industry)

December 1998 — December 2004 (6 years 1 month)

Vice President of Technical Strategy: September 2003 - December 2004
- Led Technical Sales effort resulting in greater than an 80% win rate for engaged accounts.
- Responsible for technical innovation based upon extensive field experience.
- Responsible for the management of primary hardware vendors, to include selection and certification of new vendor equipment.

Vice President of Systems Engineering: January 2002 - March 2003
- Led the Systems Engineering team to three new product releases within a 10 month period.
- Responsible for the architecture, design and development of Emageon's hardware platform.

Vice President of Architecture: December 1998 - December 2002
- Led the architecture and design of Emageon’s first, second and third product lines, currently the foundation of Emageon’s UltraStructure product line.
- Developed the industry-leading toolkit and framework for medical imaging.
Software Architect and Founder

ComFrame

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

December 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 1 month)

- Consulted on, led the design and developed a clinical image viewing system for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center.
- Designed and built the initial software development standards and processes.
- Grew the company, with the other co-founders, from 3 personnel to over 10.
Software Architect

Group 8760

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

April 1997 — November 1997 (8 months)

- Led the development team for a web-site management product with an inception to customer delivery time period of less than 6 months.
- Transitioned the development team from a structured programming C shop to an object-oriented C++ shop.
Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader

Bear Creek Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 1995 — March 1997 (1 year 5 months)

- Designed and developed the core traffic measurement framework used in all other products.
- Led the development team for a traffic reporting product. The initial installation of this product was both on time and budget and was the most successful installation that the company had experienced up to that time.
Software Engineer

Macess

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

July 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 4 months)
Platoon Leader

United States Army

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

June 1991 — May 1994 (3 years )

Airborne, Air Assault, Ranger

Joseph Wortmann’s Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

EMS , Management of Techonology , 2005 — 2006

This is an MBA equivalent course of study with an emphasis on managing technology and technological change in today's business enviroment.
GPA: 4.0/4.0
University of Alabama at Birmingham

MS , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002

Concentration in networking
GPA: 4.0/4.0
United States Military Academy at West Point

BS , Computer Science , 1987 — 1991

Graduated in top 5% of class (Academic standing)
Dean's List: 8 out of 8 semesters
GPA: 3.73/4.0

Activities and Societies:

G4, Band, Genesis, Navigators