Robert Felps

Current

CTO/VP Consulting at WW Third Rock, Inc,.

Past

VP/Consultant at WW Third Rock, Inc.
IS Consultant to IBM at WW Third Rock, Inc.
Technical Consultant and Project Manager at WW Third Rock, Inc.

Technical Project Manager/Consultant to IBM at WW Third Rock, Inc.
Internet Consultant/Webmaster to IBM at WW Third Rock, Inc.
Founder/Owner/Operator at Internet Travel Mall
DCE/DFS (DSS) Consultant and Subject Matter Expert to IBM at WW Third Rock, Inc.
Software Consultant to Dazel Corporation at WhamTech, Inc.
DFS Specialist to IBM at TAD Technical
Product Specialist at Convex Computer Corporation
Network/IT Manager at OpenConnect Systems
Systems Analyst - Mainframe Computer Support at AT&T

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Recommended

7 people have recommended Robert

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Robert Felps’s Summary

A dynamic, project executive and internet/web strategist able to meld technology to the needs of business, creating and managing strategic, innovative solutions that improve the bottom line. A natural leader with demonstrated success in directing large, diverse, cross-functional and virtual teams to analyze business needs and design & deliver complex, technical solutions on-time and under budget. Strong collaborator and facilitator, skilled at leveraging formal and informal networks and influencing executives and decision makers to obtain results. Consistently documents best practices and graciously mentors teammates.

Passionate about utilizing the Internet and web to improve collaboration, reduce costs and improve overall effectiveness and efficiency.

An Internet evangelist since 1988 and a web evangelist since 1994. Ok, I was on Arpanet earlier, but let's just not go there!

“Robert accomplishes more in a day than a competent, peer worker accomplishes in a week and yet he makes the people around him want to excel.” – Pat P.

"Robert has the ability to understand the business, envision the solution, then collaborate across all teams to implement the solution for less money and time." Bill K.

Robert Felps’s Specialties:

• Strategic Leadership
• Technology and Business Strategy & Integration
• Project recovery / rescue
• High Risk/Impossible Projects
• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Process Design & Automation
• Executive Negotiation
• Solution Design/Implementation
• Global/Japan/China Culture
• Customer Satisfaction
• Business / IT/IS Operations
• E-Commerce Systems
• Web/VUI Design/Implementation
• Enterprise Integration
• Prototyping
• Data Migration

Robert Felps’s Experience

CTO/VP Consulting

WW Third Rock, Inc,.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)

WW Third Rock is expanding its focus from Internet and web consulting to include small and medium business solutions. We're working on new solutions to help small and medium businesses become more focused, productive and profitable and effectively utilize technology to get ahead of their competition. If you want to accelerate your growth and increase your profits call us for a free consultation.
VP/Consultant

WW Third Rock, Inc.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 1995 — February 2009 (13 years 5 months)

Third Rock® creates web solutions for your business' ever expanding presence in the world. We are a consulting firm focusing on complete web solutions. We offer web site design, web site development, web site maintenance, web site re-design, e-commerce (on-line stores, shopping carts), web applications, on-line databases, search engine optimization (SEO), Internet marketing, technical consulting, and process automation.

If you are seeking an honest, reliable and skilled firm to create your on-line presence we are here for you.

Third Rock also provides technical staffing services. Clients include IBM, the State of Texas and small businesses. We are an approved State of Texas Historically Underutilized Business (HUB). If you need honest, responsible, reliable and skilled workers we will help staff your projects with the proper professionals. If you are a contractor or consultant who wants to take more money home, we pay you more than the competition on the same bill rates.
IS Consultant to IBM

WW Third Rock, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — April 2008 (7 years 4 months)

Directed world-wide software business partner and channels special projects to insure timely and cost effective solutions.
• Analyzed world-wide needs, defined processes and requirements, designed solution and managed implementation of world-wide partner revenue system, saving $525K.
• Redesigned processes and automated content management to reduce staff and decrease time to publish for Certification web site.
• Led world-wide requirements analysis and managed delivery of partner contact management application.
• Implemented life cycle process to stabilize & deliver releases on-time for SW sales & mktg copy db.
• Led integration project across geo and functional lines to support Japanese and Chinese in partner management systems, saving $4M.
• Worked with global e-commerce groups to improve business processes and implement enhancements to increase business partner satisfaction.
• Directed overall IS operations, maintenance, support. Created DOUs, SLAs and annual budgets.
Technical Consultant and Project Manager

WW Third Rock, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years)

Directed major corporate project to merge the IBM, Lotus and Tivoli business partner programs into the worldwide PWSW program.
• Directed business partner program teams from 17 geographies and corporate systems.
• Analyzed business needs, defined requirements and designed processes for a single worldwide business partner management system including web, profile, and e-commerce, saving over $4M.
• Led development team to design, develop and deliver enterprise system in record time with limited resources utilizing extreme programming, xml data structure and web interface.
• Managed enterprise application integration across 12 functional and 17 geographical teams, including CRM solution. Including Single Sign-On/Enterprise ID integration, XML with integrated rules processing and modular application services design (pre-SOA).
• Consulted with management on technical budget and directed overall IS operations, maintenance and support. Created DOUs, SLAs and annual budgets.
Technical Project Manager/Consultant to IBM

WW Third Rock, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)

Managed the project to implement a new web/database application for the worldwide Professional Certification Program.
• Assumed responsibility of an over budget, behind schedule effort. Completely reworked the project plan, coordinated implementation, hosting and migration, saving $250,000+ and delivering 6 months early.
Internet Consultant/Webmaster to IBM

WW Third Rock, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — January 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Managed the web education and marketing initiatives for the software business partner (BP) program.
• Analyzed business needs, designed, implemented and maintained integrated web-based emailing solution, saving $1.1M. Introduced closed loop marketing (web analytics) to identify click-thru rates for campaigns.
• Worked with 8 brand groups to capture requirements. Created IBM Worldwide Professional Certification web site in half the scheduled time, saving over $150,000.
• Designed, created and implemented the worldwide software BP web site, BP Education Catalog site, Internet Based Education site w/24,000 pages and interactive online testing and qualification system, saving $1.5M.
Founder/Owner/Operator

Internet Travel Mall

(Entertainment industry)

February 1995 — February 1997 (2 years 1 month)

Started, designed and operated the first Internet travel directory.
• Created and maintained travel directory web site.
• Promoted and marketed the business via the web and traditional mediums.
DCE/DFS (DSS) Consultant and Subject Matter Expert to IBM

WW Third Rock, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Developed and instructed DFS course and led corporate marketing web based education and training initiative.
• Designed and led development team to create online distance learning web site, saving over $500,000.
• Created “DFS in an hour” installation software to increase sales of DCE/DFS; made into a software product.
Software Consultant to Dazel Corporation

WhamTech, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1994 — February 1995 (5 months)

Created quality assurance and release control process for software products reducing software defects by 15%.
• Introduced worldwide web for internal source code, documentation and training use, saving time and money.
• Served as Director of Customer Support as needed. Offered Director position and stock options.
DFS Specialist to IBM

TAD Technical

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

October 1991 — October 1994 (3 years 1 month)

Provided testing for the AIX Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Distributed File System (DFS) project.
• Created application to test DFS, resulting in over 100 defects being corrected in DFS and DCE before release.
• Developed distributed applications to test AIX DCE DFS, providing development with valuable stress, performance and customer simulation test suites and data, saving over $500,000 in development costs.
Product Specialist

Convex Computer Corporation

(Computer Hardware industry)

January 1990 — October 1991 (1 year 10 months)

Provided tier II technical support for networking, UNIX administration, utilities and programming.
• Analyzed needs, designed and implemented knowledge management system to resolve problems efficiently.
• Worked with customers to better utilize their system investment, increasing customer satisfaction and retention.
• Created standardized ConvexOS production release process, reducing defects in future releases.
Network/IT Manager

OpenConnect Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 1988 — January 1990 (1 year 11 months)

Managed operation, maintenance, and support of all TCP/IP computers, software and network equipment.
• Consulted to executives and marketing on UNIX/networking standards related to products.
• Created centralized network administration suite to manage 28 variations of UNIX/TCP/IP computers.
• Analyzed requirements, designed and developed a product release control system to automate and standardize the build process across 28 UNIX platforms. Reduced software defects per release by over 20% and developer coding conflicts by over 60%.
Systems Analyst - Mainframe Computer Support

AT&T

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

December 1984 — March 1988 (3 years 4 months)

Provided system support for real-time and networking components on nine UNISYS 1100 computers.
• Selected for executive fast track program to become executive management. Worked with Division Manager and General Manager to streamline data center operations and reduce costs.
• Re-designed migration processing and daily operations processing to reduce errors and increase productivity.
• Automated daily processing, saving $500,000/yr in operations, increased customer satisfaction and availability.
• Analyzed needs, designed & developed a capacity planning, performance tuning and systems analysis tool, increasing system throughput to highest attained in the world on Unisys mainframes, saved $4M/yr. Bell Labs adopted for all installations.

Robert Felps’s Education

The University of Texas at Austin

1980 — 1984

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Robert Felps’s Interests:

Strategic analysis and planning of business needs into viable technical applications. Business analysis to refine processes to be more efficient and automated. Automation of processes to reduce costs and increase productivity. Traveling, snow skiing, water skiing, snorkeling, boating and racquetball.