Kes Wold

Current

• Founder, Owner at Wold Consulting, LLC
• Corporate Secretary at DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force)

Past

• Account Manager at Kavi Corporation
• Service-Direct Consultant II at Merant (formerly Intersolv, now Serena)

Education

• Oregon Health and Science University
• Southern Oregon University
• Portland State University

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Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Kes Wold’s Summary

With a background in IT consulting and project management, I'm helping the Board of Directors for non-profit organizations "do more with less" by utilizing technology (such as collaboration software and online tools) to reduce operating costs and make the most out of limited resources (both financial and personnel) without getting in the way of achieving organization goals.

Kes Wold’s Specialties:

Non-profit technical standards organizations, event management, project management, account management, running a virtual office.

Kes Wold’s Experience

• Founder, Owner

  Wold Consulting, LLC

  (Privately Held; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

• Corporate Secretary

  DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force)

  (Non-Profit; Computer Networking industry)

  March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

  With almost 5,000 active members representing 39 countries and nearly 200 organizations, the Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) is the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable management initiatives and standards. Check us out at: http://www.dmtf.org
  
  As Corporate Secretary I'm responsible for managing operations and administration of the organization as well as providing secretariat services. I help set the agenda, assist in running Board meetings, am responsible for budget, finance, accounting, and membership activities, and maintain and support the Web site and Kavi software. There's even time to deal with logistics around travel and events such as conferences.

• Account Manager

  Kavi Corporation

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

  November 2000 — March 2007 (6 years 5 months)

  Kavi is the leading provider of enterprise-class solutions for standard-setting organizations. Over 120,000 users representing 10,000 companies operate in Kavi-powered standards organizations.
  
  As an Account Manager I was responsible for existing customer accounts as well as building positive long-term relationships with new clients; working closely with internal project managers and engineering teams to see that solutions were delivered as advertised and our customers were satisfied; I consulted with customers in a technical selling situation, dealt with pricing and basic contract negotiations, and supported the Sales team by providing technical assistance and proposals for new sales.

• Service-Direct Consultant II

  Merant (formerly Intersolv, now Serena)

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SRNA; Computer Software industry)

  July 1998 — November 2000 (2 years 5 months)

  Intersolv merged with Micro Focus in 1999 to form Merant, which was later acquired by Serena. Serena is the world’s largest software company focused exclusively on helping companies solve the problems-and leverage the opportunities-created by software change management. They can be found at: serena.com
  
  While at Merant I provided platform-wide solutions for Fortune 500 corporations as a Certified Software Professional. During engagements at client sites I Installed and configured our suite of PVCS applications; delivered formal presentations, product demos, and hosted meetings with project leaders and management teams; I also trained and certified their project teams.
  
  I was independently managed and required to solve problems in a variety of environments under tight schedules while traveling on short notice. I also served as a PVCS Answerline rep providing tech support for our other consultants as well as troubleshooting advanced client issues.

Kes Wold’s Education

• Oregon Health and Science University

  OGI School of Science & Engineering, MST 2001 — 2002

• Southern Oregon University

  BS in Human Communication, Minor in Computer Information Systems , 1994 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Inter-Residence Council (Educational Programs Coordinator), One Week Early counselor.

• Portland State University

  1995 — 1996

Additional Information

Kes Wold’s Interests:

Physical: mountaineering, snowboarding, hiking, backpacking, camping, international travel (next stops: Morocco, Brazil (or Argentina), Tanzania, China.) Mental: A daily cover-to-cover reader of the WSJ (except for the opinion section), personal financial planning, micro economics, history of the Middle East, current news and politics.

Kes Wold’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch