CIO at Goodwill of Central Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona Area
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- CIO at Goodwill of Central Arizona
- Past
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- Director IT Special Projects at Conoco Phillips
- CTO at ePlace.com
- CTO at Gazoontite
- VP of Technology / VP of Development at WebMD
- VP Technology at Direct Medical Knowledge
- Director of Technology at Trident Data Systems
- Systems Engineer at Trident Data Systems
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
- National University
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- Industry
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Neal Goodrich’s Summary
Significant accomplishments in leveraging technology to exceed strategic goals. Extensive successful track record in leading an organization through rapid growth and expansion and in IT organizational turn-around.
Neal Goodrich’s Specialties:
- Developing and establishing strategic technology vision
- Hiring, leading, developing, and managing an outstanding IT organization
- large web and IT project architecture, design, budgeting, scheduling, managing
- Data center, telecommunications, and network design
- Enterprise application infrastructure
- Vendor management
- Buy, build, outsource, decisions
Neal Goodrich’s Experience
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CIO
Goodwill of Central Arizona
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
Goodwill of Central Arizona (GCA) an independent community based non-profit of more than 2200 employees that generates funding primarily though a retail division of 40 stores with annual revenue of $70 million. This revenue funds a workforce development division spread across 12 locations that serves more than 12,000 clients each year in career development and training, workforce rehabilitation, and youth and senior services. GCA also operates two charter high schools for at-risk youth and more than 40 federal, state, and local contracts for social services and job placement and training.
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Director IT Special Projects
Conoco Phillips
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COP; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 11 months)
Lead the infrastructure services group (network, database, system management, integration services) for the development and testing of a large multi-million dollar retail management system designed for Circle-K retail stores.
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CTO
ePlace.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2000 — February 2001 (4 months)
A wholly owned subsidiary of Tosco Corp. (former owner of Circle-K stores). Created a unique cyber-cafe brand (The ePlace) and opened a prototype in Phoenix. Developed unique kiosk and hardware / software platform with planned deployment of 1000+ units inside Circle-K stores. Utilized VSAT technology for Internet access. Dissolved when Phillips Petroleum and then Conoco Corp. acquired Tosco Corp.
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CTO
Gazoontite
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Startup multi-channel retail focusing on breathing healthy and allergy free products. 5 Stores across US and retail web site and catalog business.
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VP of Technology / VP of Development
WebMD
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; hlth; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 9 months)
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VP Technology
Direct Medical Knowledge
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)
January 1998 — February 1999 (1 year 2 months)
VP of Technology for a startup which provided comprehensive information to persons with medical conditions. Created innovative technology to search a vast collection of articles and publications to create customized "book" for a persons medical conditions, age, gender, etc.
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Director of Technology
Trident Data Systems
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
March 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 11 months)
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Systems Engineer
Trident Data Systems
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Defense & Space industry)
October 1990 — October 1994 (4 years 1 month)
Member of the technical staff involved in the development of a multiple technical and systems management projects.
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