Paul Olstad

Current

Director of Web Services at Shavlik Technologies

Past

Engineering Manager: Wall Street Journal Digital Network at Dow Jones
Web Manager at Park Nicollet Health Services
Web Developer / System Administrator at Honeywell

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Education

Brown College
Valley City State University

Recommended

10 people have recommended Paul

Connections

80 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Paul Olstad’s Summary

Seasoned IT professional with twenty years of experience in Information Technology with emphasis on web technologies, application development, strategic planning, enterprise architectural design and personnel management. Expertise in the areas of organizational development, application development and business innovation through the use of new technology.

Paul Olstad’s Specialties:

Personnel and Organizational Management, Application Development, Web 2.0, salary arbitration, budgeting, Enterprise Architecture, ASP.NET, Coldfusion, Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Tools, UNIX

Paul Olstad’s Experience

Director of Web Services

Shavlik Technologies

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Responsible for the planning and execution of Shavlik Technologies ongoing web presence. Work cross-functionally with marketing, sales, product development, finance, and IT to realize the Shavlik web presence. Implement software as a service ( Saas ) on the Internet harnessing the latest in Cloud computing technologies to help drive new efficiencies.
Engineering Manager: Wall Street Journal Digital Network

Dow Jones

(Public Company; DJ; Publishing industry)

July 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Manage a software engineering department consisting of 17 engineers focused on development of the MarketWatch.com website. MarketWatch.com is a Financial News web site which is one of the Wall Street Journal Digital online properties. MarketWatch focuses on financial news and current stock information that is a sought after source by more than 10 million unique visitors per month averaging more than 200 million page views.
Web Manager

Park Nicollet Health Services

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1999 — 2007 (8 years )

Manage application development team consisting of six direct reports in a Healthcare company.

* Manage application development projects to improve business processes and increase revenue.

* Serve as a company mentor for web techniques like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts, XML Web Services, ColdFusion development, data modeling, ASP.NET development, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX and other related technologies.

* Architect of an E-Commerce solution that has resulted in more than $1M dollars revenue to date.

* Served as Software Architect and Project Manager for The Coaching Application. It has enabled Park Nicollet to create revenue streams resulting in over $500,000.

* Successfully Implemented a Learning Management System (LMS) and integrated course ware for various sources such as Microsoft.

* Promoted Web Standards and overall development guidelines at Park Nicollet by authoring a document called "PNHS Web Development Guidelines".
Web Developer / System Administrator

Honeywell

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

June 1989 — August 1999 (10 years 3 months)

Developed web applications using relational databases and various web application servers. This includes the entire scope of project management: Initial gathering of requirements from customer, project scheduling, development, documentation, training, deployment and support. Major projects include a multi-purpose tracking system for task lists and helpdesk tickets, a web survey tool and a performance assessment system.