Entrepreneur/CEO
Provo, Utah Area
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- Founder & CTO at PRT Solutions
- President and Evangelist at DevUtah
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- 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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Phil Burns’s Summary
Phil Burns’s Specialties:
Over twelve years experience managing, designing, and developing solutions for a variety of business environments. 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 general business applications. I also have extensive experience working and dealing with customers, project costing, project design / management.
Phil Burns’s Experience
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Founder & CTO
PRT Solutions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
With the objective of turning the internet into a functional database, PRT Research builds extremely robust analytic engines capable of massive scaling. Our current developments include a data acquisition engine that allows us to convert websites to their core meta data and a business intelligence engine that processes multiple data sources including the blogosphere, wikipedia and several other sources. Our analytics engine allows us to build extensive business and market intelligence based on these data sources.
Our initial product, SEO Monopolist, automates SEO research and combines internet and blogosphere data in the analytics process. It is the first end to end SEO management system and provides enterprise level web page analytics and several other services. -
President and Evangelist
DevUtah
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
DevUtah is an Organization created with the intention of changing Utah. Our goal is 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 current projects include Geek Dinners, Code Camps, Mind Camps and soon a cross-platform/technology magazine written by local technologists.
Check out http://www.devutah.com for more information on our projects. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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