Stephen Adkins

Current

• Chief Technology Officer and EVP at Rubicon

Past

• Chief Technology Officer at OfficeVision.com
• Systems Architect at Talus Solutions
• Director, Product Development at Aeronomics Incorporated

• Manager, Operations Research at Aeronomics Incorporated
• Systems Development Project Manager at Aeronomics Incorporated
• Sales and Support Engineer at HiPerformance Systems
• Sales and Support Engineer at Hewlett Packard

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Education

• Georgetown University - The McDonough School of Business
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Industry

Computer Software

Stephen Adkins’s Summary

Long-Term Objective: To build internet-based companies by managing, developing, integrating, and delivering innovative, web-enabled enterprise application suites

Stephen Adkins’s Specialties:

Business Skills: Entrepreneurship, Project Management, Software Development Management, Product Management, Strategic Consulting, Business Analysis, Profit and Loss Responsibility, Hiring and Firing Responsibility
Technical Skills: Architect-level and Senior Developer-level competency in Perl/C/C++/Java, SQL and Database Design (MySQL/Oracle/Informix/Sybase), Web Development (HTML/JavaScript/CSS), Unix (Linux/Sun Solaris/IBM AIX/HP-UX).

Stephen Adkins’s Experience

• Chief Technology Officer and EVP

  Rubicon

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2002 — Present (7 years )

  Chief Technology Officer. It means I do whatever it takes to protect and enhance the integrity of our online service offering, and to develop and deploy new products effectively and innovatively.
  
  We are an internet-based Application Service Provider (ASP) serving the travel industry (hotel companies, rental car companies, airlines, and travel intermediaries such as Online Travel Agents). Our software helps them set their prices intelligently.
  
  I take a leading role in
  * developing a vision and direction for our software,
  * designing and writing our software,
  * designing our databases,
  * testing/installing/operating our software,
  * selecting third party software,
  * specifying the infrastructure, and
  seeing that it all works together in a rapidly advancing set of functionality.
  
  Below is a bio from our website.
  
  http://www.therubicongroup.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164&catid=54&Itemid=91

• Chief Technology Officer

  OfficeVision.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 9 months)

  OfficeVision.com was a company I started with two partners just as the dot-com bubble burst in April 2000. Our funding fell apart before all of the partners had even quit their previous jobs. I was out there. I had done a good bit of business planning and deal making, but now I had to earn a living this month.
  
  Our new concept for an open business ASP quickly turned into consulting with other companies on building ASP's. Ultimately, I became the VP Technology for one of the firms I consulted with during this period.
  
  • Designed, developed, and delivered in 3-1/2 months (concept-to-revenue): a completely ASP-hosted application.
  • Consulted to various clients on ASP issues: technology, development proposals, and security.
  • Wrote business plan, proforma financial statements, and private placement memorandum for an ASP.
  • Negotiated deals with software vendors to integrate, host, and market their software as part of a Professional Services industry solution.

• Systems Architect

  Talus Solutions

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 1998 — April 2000 (2 years 1 month)

  • Led the analysis, design, and development of $3M Airline Revenue Management System base product (sold to Delta Airlines, America West Airlines, others).
  • Led the user interface architecture design, resulting in a 3-tier system with highly configurable, data driven screens and dynamically constructed SQL executed by the application server
  • Led the batch architecture design, involving the design of a light-weight, memory-based object database for maximum total system throughput.
  • Led the application business object modeling using UML (Universal Modeling Language), generating C++ code with the Rational Rose CASE tool.
  • Led the database design using ER/Win, implementing on Oracle 8.0.5 with size ranging up to 1.5 Terabytes.

• Director, Product Development

  Aeronomics Incorporated

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

  April 1996 — April 1998 (2 years 1 month)

  • Managed a portfolio of product development projects, including staffing, scheduling, and budgeting.
  • Steered the product development directions through the merger of Aeronomics Incorporated and Decision Focus Incorporated (DFI) as they became Talus Solutions.

• Manager, Operations Research

  Aeronomics Incorporated

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

  April 1995 — April 1996 (1 year 1 month)

  • Initiated and built the Operations Research Group at Aeronomics to provide our project teams with top analytical skill in forecasting of customer demand and optimization of sales for revenue maximization (i.e. Revenue Management)
  • Recruited and hired staff. Established policies.
  • Designed and built forecasting/optimization tools and subsystems.
  • Executed studies quantifying revenue benefits of Revenue Management. (generally 3%-8% revenue enhancement for >$100M firms)

• Systems Development Project Manager

  Aeronomics Incorporated

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

  June 1993 — April 1995 (1 year 11 months)

  • Led the development and implementation of a $1.8M Revenue Management System for Marriott Hotels.
  System was a client-server analytical decision support system. Client application was built using Powerbuilder on Win95. AIX server ran Informix database (1GB per property) in a distributed, property-based architecture (~300 sites).
  • Led the analysis, design, and development of the forecasting and optimization subsystem of a $3.5M Revenue Management System for National Car Rental.
  Client application: SQL*Windows on Win95. Server: Oracle (150GB) on PyramidOS (Unix).

• Sales and Support Engineer

  HiPerformance Systems

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1989 — 1991 (2 years )

• Sales and Support Engineer

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1991 (3 years )

Stephen Adkins’s Education

• Georgetown University - The McDonough School of Business

  MBA , Business , 1991 — 1993

  • Specializing in information technology management and international business.
  • Consulted to telecommunications firm on capital budgeting for foreign joint-ventures.
  • Analyzed telecommunications industry on corporate, competitive, and government-relations strategies.
  • Awarded full merit scholarship. GPA: 3.8. GMAT: 98th %.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MS , Aeronautics and Astronautics , 1984 — 1986

  • Specialized in computational optimal control theory and flight simulation.
  • Developed flight simulator software using 3D graphics on UNIX workstation for thesis. GPA: 3.6. (on a 4.0 scale)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS , Aeronautics and Astronautics , 1980 — 1984

  • Specialized in digital control and space systems.
  • Won Innovation Award for best senior research project out of 100 students. GPA: 3.5. (on a 4.0 scale)
  • High School GPA: 3.96/4.00; SAT/ACT: 99th%.

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OpenTravel, DrupalCon

•    YAPC::NA 2008 - Chicago, IL
•    Atlanta Perl Mongers

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