sameer patel

Current

Advisory Board Member, Co-Chair: E2.0 Strategy and Planning Track at Enterprise 2.0 Conference
Advisor at Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
Managing Director at SpanStrategies

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Past

Director, Technology Strategy Consulting Group at LiquidThinking
Practice Lead, West Coast Tech Strategy Consulting Group at marchFIRST/ USweb/ Mitchell Madison Group

Education

Boston University - School of Management
Babson College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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sameer patel’s Summary

Lead teams and engagements that focused on:
Business Transformation via Social Computing Constructs and Technology
Needs Assessments (Voice of Field/Customer/Partners)
Rapid Prototyping and Validation
Business, Technical and Operational Feasibility and Risk Mgmt
Product Strategy, Application Selection and Vendor Sourcing
Specifications and Tech Hand off
Group P&L Responsibility

sameer patel’s Specialties:

Business Execution via Social Software for Sales, Channel, Marketing and Supply Chain
Technology enabled Sales & Marketing Operational Efficiency
Intranet/Extranet/Community Planning Sourcing and Execution
Open Source and Commercial Technology Strategy, Operational Planning and Roll out
Outbound Marketing - Email, RSS, Real-time networks and Content Syndication
Brand Execution and Product Development

sameer patel’s Experience

Advisory Board Member, Co-Chair: E2.0 Strategy and Planning Track

Enterprise 2.0 Conference

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)
Advisor

Open Source Digital Voting Foundation

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Managing Director

SpanStrategies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

Founded in 2001, SpanStrategies is an integrated consulting practice that focused on Enterprise Community and Collaboration between employees, partners and customers. We focus on user needs assessments, execution planning and technology strategy, risk mitigation and adoption. We generally work with Business Units such as Sales and Marketing, HR and Channel as well as IT managers who own intranets and extranets.

Our team members and network have lead engagements for organizations such as Global Dosimetry Solutions, Mirion Technologies, Ingres, IST, BitTorrent, Mazda, HP, McKesson HBOC, Sun Microsystems, W.M Wrigley Jr., Sabre.
Director, Technology Strategy Consulting Group

LiquidThinking

(Management Consulting industry)

September 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 4 months)

LiquidThinking was an Internet Consulting firm that focused on technology enabled business solutions consulting, interactive design and development. The firm led large scale strategy and design engagements for companies such as WM Wrigley JR. Co., Asera and Sun Microsystems.

Responsible for technology strategy and Client relationships for high profile customers such as Asera and Wrigley. Voted employee of the month in 3rd month of employment.
Practice Lead, West Coast Tech Strategy Consulting Group

marchFIRST/ USweb/ Mitchell Madison Group

(Public Company; MRCH; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 2 months)

marchFIRST was a Chicago based $1B+ Internet Consulting firm. I had the opportunity to build a technology strategy practice within the strategy consulting group that focused on 'how' to execute large scale commerce and community initiatives. The objective of my group was to 1) define, validate and align business objectives with technology solutions and 2) mitigate business, operational and budgetary risks for our customers and 3) create the ground work and business development for follow on technology sale and deployment.

Responsible for delivery and client relationships for customers such as Sun Microsystems, Grupo Televisa, NextStage Entertainment, and McKesson, plus a number of venture-backed start-ups.

sameer patel’s Education

Boston University - School of Management

MS - MIS , Management Information Systems, Knowledge Management , 1998 — 1999
Babson College

BS , Triple Major: Corporate Finance, Securities and Economics