Phil Burns

Current

• .Net Engineer/Architect at Seeking Contracts/Positions

Past

• Technology Director at LaneLinks Technologies
• Owner/Chief Architect at PRT Research
• President and Evangelist at DevUtah

• Chief Operations Officer at Provo Labs
• Contractor, Project Lead at Sentry Financial Corporation
• Contractor, Sr Architectural Engineer at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Sr Software Engineer at Avysta Software
• Owner at The Gatherers
• Systems Developer at Aspen Distribution Services
• Information Manager at United States Air Force

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• My Website
• Utah Preppers

Phil Burns’s Summary

Experience Summary:
Over fifteen years experience managing, designing, and developing solutions for a variety of business environments for both the desktop and the web. My focus has been in business process automation systems. I have extensive experience in CRM/ERP, Shipping/Receiving, EDI, Warehouse Management, Bar-Coding, RF Systems, TCP/IP and multiple business and web applications. I also have extensive experience working and dealing with customers, project costing, project design / management.

Community Leadership:
• Organized and Hosted the “Utah Bloggers Blood Drive” in July 2008
• Created and hosted the monthly “Utah Facebook Developers Garage” in August 2007
• Organized WordMob.com and brought Seth Godin to Utah to speak in May 2007
• Organized and hosted the “Utah Bloggers Conference” in 2006
• Organized and hosted Utah’s first and several subsequent “Utah Geek Dinners” in 2005 - present
• Organization Officer for the Utah County .Net Developers Group in 2004-2005

Phil Burns’s Specialties:

Extensive back-end business solution development, .Net architect and programmer, SAS Development using strict OOP techniques, Expert understanding of SEO and search algorithms, Extensive experience with social media and community building, Building enterprise business applications

Phil Burns’s Experience

• .Net Engineer/Architect

  Seeking Contracts/Positions

  (Internet industry)

  November 2009 — Present (1 month)

  Laid off due to company closure from economic impact, I am currently available and seeking contracts or employment opportunities on projects utilizing .Net. My expertise is in back-end business development using SAS models. While I am capable of front-end ASP.Net development I generally prefer to leave that to the experts and work behind the scenes. If you need a strong engineer to build your business system, please feel free to contact me!

• Technology Director

  LaneLinks Technologies

  (Internet industry)

  June 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 6 months)

  LaneLinks Technology built techinical solutions for its parent company which did backhaul management for private fleets. My responsibliites included architecture design and implementation. Prior to the company having to shut down due to economic reasons we had just completed a large project which created a community based Private Fleet Marketplace. For this project I designed a completely new data access system utilizing XML and invented a 4GL programming system. This 4GL system reduced development time of the actual product by over 60%.

• Owner/Chief Architect

  PRT Research

  (Internet industry)

  July 2006 — June 2008 (2 years )

  PRT Research designed technologies to turn the internet into a database. We had three major research and data acquisition engines, a mass anonymous proxy spidering engine capable of turning any webpage into semantic data, an RSS source processing system capable of managing any RSS data source such as the blogosphere. We also developed an extensive Business Intelligence engine that does analytic processing on data from the internet and blogosphere – and other data sources – to analyze activity and determine trends. Our products include an SEO Automation system, a white label Google AdSense system and categorized feeds of the blogosphere. At its peak, PRT employed 13 people doing consulting work and internal project development. As owner, I managed all employees and projects and designed and built our blog indexing engine.

• President and Evangelist

  DevUtah

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 10 months)

  DevUtah was an Organization created with the intention of changing Utah. Our goal was to foster a non-(technical)Denominational Community in Utah, bring together Utah Techies in a social environment, create further understanding of other technologies and to hopefully create and nurture many business relationships.
  
  DevUtah's projects included Geek Dinners, Code Camps, Mind Camps and several conferences.

• Chief Operations Officer

  Provo Labs

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

  October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)

  Provo Labs, formerly Infobase Ventures, is an Internet Incubator owned by Paul Allen. Our goal is to create at least one new business per quarter and build a successful management team to run it.
  
  My responsiblities include exploring and evaluating technology opportunities, creating relationships with technologists around the world, technical staff recruitment and building new companies.
  
  My work with Provo Labs is fascinating and exciting. Our primary objective is to maintain a core team of professionals capable of rapidly creating and deploying technology and business. We are also focussed on being able to quickly create a top notch management team to grow our startups. If you are interested in joining one of our teams, contact me or check out our website at http://www.provolabs.com

• Contractor, Project Lead

  Sentry Financial Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  October 2002 — September 2005 (3 years )

  Lead Designer and Architect for TeamWork, an N-Tier Lease Management CRM written entirely in VB.Net. Responsibilities include assisting the CIO with Project Management, Leading the Design (both software and database) Team, and Leading the Architecting Team. TeamWork is a complete replacement system for 3 commercial software packages intended to manage all aspects of Sentry’s business (Accounting, Payroll and Leasing).   TeamWork is an OOP based application using VB.Net and SQL Server for database access. It manages all aspects of corporate Leasing and has a comprehensive Accounting package which includes Invoicing, Cash Receipts, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. Its architecture requirements included an Internet ready Business Layer and a Web Service ready Data/Business Layer.

• Contractor, Sr Architectural Engineer

  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  June 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  Publications Information Network (PIN), Lead Engineer.
   PIN was designed to replace several mainframe and legacy applications for the LDS Church’s Curriculum Department. It was written entirely in Visual Basic 6 and is a multi-tier Windows based application able to utilize Oracle, SQL Server, and Access databases. It is responsible for the approval and management life cycle of all Official Church publications. I was brought in to ensure the project, which was 2 years behind schedule, would be releasable within the following six months. My responsibilities included re-designing and re-writing the data access and business layers and designing and writing a GUI Management interface to manage all data binding and appearance tasks for all forms in PIN. PIN was released on time and is now a very stable and strong application in the process of being deployed worldwide.

• Sr Software Engineer

  Avysta Software

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 5 months)

  Senior Architect in the development of Visual Front Office (VFO), a Customer Resource Management (CRM) application. VFO is an extremely large application designed for several hundred concurrent users. It includes 12 projects, over 100 forms, and several thousand lines of code. It is a multi-tier application designed to work with Oracle, SQL Server, and SQLBase databases in an MTS and Citrix environment. My team succeeded in meeting several extremely aggressive deadlines, sometimes requiring 120-hour workweeks, to get the product to market. My responsibilities included Assistant Lead of the backend design/development team, Lead of design and programming of the installation software using InstallShield, Lead Programmer for the “Contact Center” which included Accounts, Tasks, Appointments, and Contact Management. Revenue generated by VFO peaked at 3 million per year before Avysta was dissolved.

• Owner

  The Gatherers

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1998 — April 2000 (1 year 6 months)

  The Gatherers was a consulting company focusing on advanced applications development and dynamic business solutions. I often worked in partnership with Bottom Line Services of North Carolina. We developed several applications covering a wide spectrum of business management including shipment building RF systems, traveling salesman inventory systems, Medical Records management, and several office management applications. Well-known customers included Corning Glass, General Marble, Hamilton Beach, Warner Lambert, Fuji Film and the SC Dept Mental Health. All programs were developed with VB 6.0 using various database platforms.

• Systems Developer

  Aspen Distribution Services

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

  March 1997 — August 1999 (2 years 6 months)

  In an OS heterogeneous environment, was responsible for design and development of all Windows based solutions. Projects focused on augmentation of their warehouse management system, generally in EDI and shipping applications. Major accomplishments included: Development of an automated EDI generation system that converted non-EDI files into full EDI transactions delivered via Internet mail. Implementation of Compliance Labeling requirements and a complete RF system to build compliant shipments. Full report creation, generation, and scheduling system to replace Crystal Reports. Customer Service calls/issues management and tracking system. HR management and several other small scale projects. All programs were developed in VB 5\6 using Access, Informix or SQL Server as a database with ADO and MTS where appropriate.

• Information Manager

  United States Air Force

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

  January 1992 — April 1996 (4 years 4 months)

  Primary Duties included supporting all squadron computer systems and providing data management for the squadron. Completely automated a previously manual office with VB 4\5, developing databases, spreadsheets and forms for all functions of the Information Management Offices. Several of these solutions were adopted Air Force wide. Received high recognition’s within the Air Force and was given an Honorable Discharge.

Additional Information

Phil Burns’s Websites:

• My Website
• Utah Preppers

Phil Burns’s Interests:

Societal Engineering, Social Systems, Social Networking, Digital Identity, Web 2.0, RSS, Cellular Geolocation, Internet Reputation, Attention, New Technology, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Hobby Farms, Gardening, Settlers of Cataan, International Adoption

Phil Burns’s Groups:

DevUtah, Utah .Net Users Group, Utah County .Net Users Group, CTO Breakfast, Provo Labs, EntrepreneurConversations

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