Stephen Sklarew

Current

Chief Technology Officer at DubMeNow
Owner at Realfly LLC

Past

Senior Director at Corporate Executive Board
Director at DDLabs
Director at Etensity

Director at Experient Technologies
Manager at Ernst & Young / Cap Gemini

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Education

Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Services

Websites

My Blog

Stephen Sklarew’s Summary

Passionate and creative senior business and technology leader with extensive experience conceptualizing, building, and operating Web-based systems and Mobile apps in start-ups and large organizations. Relentless intellectual curiosity coupled with a keen ability to attract, develop, and inspire managers and staff. Action and detail-oriented professional that enjoys innovative companies that leverage strengths in product development, technology strategy and architecture, software life cycle processes, and Web and Mobile App development and operations.

Stephen Sklarew’s Specialties:

Senior technical team leadership, Business case development, Executive level presentations, Coaching of managers and staff, Technology company due diligence, Strategic partner agreements and relationships, External vendor management, Portfolio and project management, Product management, Web innovation, Financial management, Object-Oriented Design w/UML, Java/C#.NET, Rational’s Unified Process, XP, and distributed development methodologies, Helpdesk, Incident Response, and Change Management

Stephen Sklarew’s Experience

Chief Technology Officer

DubMeNow

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

- Lead the design and development of all technology apps (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, Web, Core) including the agile development process
- Hands-on programming on Blackberry (Java), Core (.NET 3.5), and iPhone (ObjectiveC) apps
- Drive product management activities including building productive user groups, analyzing survey and analytics, defining product roadmap, developing campaigns, and supporting users
- Manage platform integration efforts
- Hire and direct all engineering, quality assurance and support staff and contractors
- Run operations of production systems
Owner

Realfly LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

July 1995 — Present (14 years 5 months)

- Hired local authors to write a seasonal, subscription-based electronic magazine geared towards Virginia fly anglers.
- Developed and operate the VAflyfish platform, which includes discussion threads, news articles, reports, events, ad serving, and email campaigns.
Senior Director

Corporate Executive Board

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EXBD; Management Consulting industry)

July 2002 — June 2008 (6 years )

Sr. Director (CTO), Best Practice Research (2008)
- Lead architecture and strategy for customer-facing applications.

Sr. Director, Product Development and Innovation (PDI) (2006 – 2007)
- Directed the development of a new, highly scalable member-facing Web platform w/60 resources and multi-million dollar budget.
- Head strategy and architecture, development, and maintenance and operations for the firm's member-facing applications.
- Perform technology due diligence on external technology companies.

Senior Director, IT Applications Development (2003 – 2006)
- Partnered with the line to derive the vision, strategy, and plan to build a new Web platform for all core research programs.
- Championed the development of online decision support tools and an online Benchmarking platform.
- Provided portfolio and project management across all applications development efforts
- Managed the Siebel 7.5 upgrade project and critical, time-bound Sarbanes Oxley project.
Director

DDLabs

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

July 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 1 month)

- Managed sales and marketing, project delivery, and financials for eLearning, Wireless and Java solution areas
- Pioneered and led a team of over 40 “virtual” consultants to develop innovative corporate eLearning / knowledge management (KM) platforms.
- Sold and/or delivered technology and/or user experience services to the National Cancer Institute, Teleglobe, National Institute of Health, IW:Learn (United Nations), InterMedia Advertising Group, Etnoteam (Italy), eHealthSolutions, IBM, FilmFour (London), and Network Solutions
- Developed and implemented a business plan to grow DDLab’s knowledge of Java technology using eLearning technology. Interviewed and hired over 15 Java-skilled consultants. Rolled out internal marketing and training programs on Java technology.
- Founded and established a strategic partnership with Multex.com’s Buzzpower product opening up a new revenue channel.
Director

Etensity

(Internet industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

(same as DDLabs above)
Director

Experient Technologies

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

August 1999 — July 2000 (1 year )

- Sold and delivered services to Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fujisawa, Certified Medical Representative Institute, East3.com, Monument Capital, and Churchzone.
- Coordinated the patenting process for Experient’s eLearning product.
- Led the integration of Broadvision’s content management system into Experient’s eLearning platform.
- Directed the product development team including 3 Java developers and 2 User Experience Designers.
- Improved the software development process for the product and services organizations through internal training and implementation of new software tools.
- Lectured on "The Future of eLearning" to Richmond executives.
Manager

Ernst & Young / Cap Gemini

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1996 — July 1999 (2 years 9 months)

- Founded the Java “Just-in-Time” team that delivered training to business consultants in over 5 national offices.
- Led the architecture and development of an on-line credit card management system for Bank of America and Dow Chemicals. Managed a team of 15 multinational consultants to develop the “services” modules of the system.
- Managed a team of 7 consultants to design and develop the “services” modules of an on-line credit card management system for NationsBank and the Department of Defense.
- Developed a “bleeding edge” healthcare knowledge management portal to enhance collaboration, information delivery and retrieval, and support for companies like Columbia hospital.
- Lectured on “Frameworks, Patterns, and Code Reuse for Application Servers” to over 2000 attendees at JavaOne in San Francisco, 1999.
- Spoke on “How Technologists Work with Management to Create a Culture that Embraces Java Development” in a panel forum at JavaOne in San Francisco, 1998.

Stephen Sklarew’s Education

Virginia Commonwealth University

MS , Biology , 1995 — 1996

Master's degree pending
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

1991 — 1995

Activities and Societies:

Founded the Fly Fishing Club