Rick Gansler

Current

• Director of Internet Operations at CenterWatch, a division of Jobson Medical Information

Past

• CTO at EstateWorks
• Director of Technology at Satoria Interactive
• Professional Services at MS2

• Principal Solutions Architect at Granitar
• Applications Architect at Thomson Financial
• Consultant at Boardwalk Software (Self-employed)
• Software Engineer at Turning Point Software
• Software Engineer at Layered, Inc
• Software Engineer at Quinsept, Inc.

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Rick Gansler’s Summary

Rick Gansler is the Director of Technology at CenterWatch, a division of Jobson Medical Information. His responsibilities include management of the development and support teams, and management of the production systems as well as the company's technology infrastructure. Some development projects are done in-house (where Rick is very hands-on), while others are outsourced and off-shored.

Prior to joining CenterWatch, Rick was the Chief Technology Officer at EstateWorks where he led the company's technology team. EstateWorks provides software to many of the nation's largest and most prestigious banks (such as Bank of America; Merrill Lynch Trust Company) and law firms (Tarlow Breed; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati). The EstateWorks product is a highly secure hosted web application providing workflow and customized CRM for Trust and Estates groups.

Prior to joining EstateWorks, Rick held leadership positions with several prominent application development companies. He was an Applications architect and Development manager for Thomson Financial in their First Call division. At Thomson Financial, Rick led development projects for leading financial clients including Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, and Salomon Smith Barney. In this role he completed projects including architecting and managing the global deployment of web server systems to deliver the FirstCall product to the Asian financial markets, as well as the development of localized products for Japan and Latin America.

Rick has also served as Director of Technology at Satoria Interactive, a web application and design firm, and Principal Solutions Architect with Granitar, a leading internet consultancy.

Rick has extensive programming experience and has published several articles in technology journals. He received a bachelor’s in Computer Science from Boston University 1985.

Rick Gansler’s Experience

• Director of Internet Operations

  CenterWatch, a division of Jobson Medical Information

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Rick Gansler is the Director of Internet Operations at CenterWatch, a division of Jobson Medical Information. His responsibilities include management of the development and support teams, and management of the production systems as well as the company's technology infrastructure. Some development project are done in-house (where Rick is very hands-on), while others are outsourced and/or off-shored. Currently there is an in-house staff of six, and projects ongoing with three external consulting firms.

• CTO

  EstateWorks

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

  February 2002 — May 2007 (5 years 4 months)

  Roles/Responsibilities: system architecture, management of projects and 10 person development team, hands on programming/debugging, corporate infrastructure, production system support, sales, meetings with client executives, budgets, hiring/firing, disaster recovery plan.
  
  Architected, led team and did extensive hands on programming as company developed EstateWorks, an enterprise-class web based case management and CRM application for the Trust & Estates groups at law firms and banks. The product includes workflow with a customizable checklist, document management, data entry forms, custom reporting and executive dashboards, document assembly, and integration with other eight third party applications.
  
  EstateWorks is hosted at a data center managed by IBM. The application uses ASP and SQL Server, XML and XSLT.
  
  EstateWorks has more than 50 clients, including Bank of America, Ropes & Gray. Some (e.g. Merrill Lynch, BofA) have included professional services projects.

• Director of Technology

  Satoria Interactive

  (Internet industry)

  October 2001 — February 2002 (5 months)

  Externally focused: pre-sales, proposal writing, schedule estimation, technical design, project & team management, programming (C++, Perl., XML/XSLT, ASP, JavaScript, SQL). Internally focused: management/troubleshooting/planning of infrastructure systems.

• Professional Services

  MS2

  (Internet industry)

  February 2001 — September 2001 (8 months)

  Worked with clients to track/automate their Project Life Cycle. Managed deployment of server & client app, conducted training in classroom setting. Worked in close coordination with Sales team.

• Principal Solutions Architect

  Granitar

  (Internet industry)

  April 2000 — January 2001 (10 months)

  Analyzed client needs, responded to RFPs, estimated costs, wrote architecture documents and Statements of Work. On NYTimes.com project was architect, interacting with engineers, QA, client.

• Applications Architect

  Thomson Financial

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  June 1997 — April 2000 (2 years 11 months)

  Applications Architect
  On team that created DTD for exchange of research and analytic data; presented at meeting with firms such as Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Salomon Smith Barney.
  
  Senior Product & Project Manager for International Development
  Managed team of six programmers. Designed, managed development/deployment of financial web app with Japanese ui and data. Managed development & deployment of web farms for Hong Kong/Singapore/London enabling migration of users from Windows program to web product. Coordinated project to unify code base of English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese versions. Coordinated communication and traveled between Boston and Tokyo offices/teams.

• Consultant

  Boardwalk Software (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1992 — June 1997 (5 years 6 months)

  Development, project management, business/process consulting
  
  Scientific American Medicine
  Project 1: CME software: C++ for Mac/Windows; extensive code sharing.
  Project 2: Web version of apps from project 1.
  
  Polaroid
  Debugged printer driver, spooler, and RIP for high-end printer
  
  MIT
  Custom FTP app for MIT IS group to create internet based installers for MIT’s 4000 MacOS users
  
  Lotus
  Project 1: Japanese 123/Mac: Coded i/o of Japanese file formats, multi-byte character sets
  Project 2: Lotus Notes API: wrote sample code, developer doc. Wrote sample app to transfer data from Notes to Apple Newton. Worked closely with Apple to recruit 3rd parties to implement products using Notes API for Mac. Presented at LotusSphere '96, Apple WWDC ’96
  
  DEC
  Project 1: Coded in C++ to provide Mac access to VMS servers, improve performance, fix bugs
  Project 2: Automated & manual testing scenarios, and reported over 200 bugs
  
  JVC
  Developed MacOS software for CDR burner in C++

• Software Engineer

  Turning Point Software

  (Internet industry)

  1989 — 1992 (3 years)

• Software Engineer

  Layered, Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1987 — December 1988 (1 year 5 months)

• Software Engineer

  Quinsept, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1985 — August 1987 (2 years 1 month)

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