Chief Information Officer at Gathr.Me
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Chief Information Officer at Gathr.Me
- Chief Operations Officer at OptNow
- Business Infrastructure Consultant at Palmer Digital Media, LLC
- Past
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- Chief Information Officer at OptHome
- Teacher / IT Consultant at Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
- Senior Vice President at Putnam Investments
- Director at Avery Dennison
- Sr. Manager at Fidelity Investments
- Project Manager / Consultant at Universal Software Associates
- Programmer/Analyst at GenRad
- Advanced Programmer at Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Education
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- University of Massachusetts at Lowell
- Drury High School
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Steve Palmer’s Summary
Information technology executive with a wide range of experience in applications development and service delivery disciplines. Held executive positions at global corporations and prominent firms such as Putnam Investments, Avery Dennison and Fidelity Investments, and has a successful history of setting and managing IT strategy and security. Obtained Bachelors of Science in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts -- with a concentration in statistics - and accomplished post graduate work in computer languages and database methodology. Now, designing and implementing applications for PaaS/SaaS; such as Force.com, Google App Engine and Amazon AWS.
Steve Palmer’s Specialties:
Strategic Planning, Applications Development, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations, e-Commerce, integrating SaaS/Cloud, Shared Financial Services, Contract Negotiations, IT Consolidations
Steve Palmer’s Experience
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Chief Information Officer
Gathr.Me
(Internet industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Gathr.me is a digital portal to manage your online presence.The platform is designed to allow users to bring together all of their email accounts, social networks, instant message services, RSS feeds, and passwords into one easy to manage space.
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Chief Operations Officer
OptNow
(Executive Office industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Patent Licensing and Service Company
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Business Infrastructure Consultant
Palmer Digital Media, LLC
(Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
I design and implement business infrastructures, which may include data models, workflow, e-commerce, technology re-engineering, contract negotiations, virtual staffing and implementing Salesforce.com, Google Apps, and financial applications.
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Chief Information Officer
OptHome
(Privately Held; Real Estate industry)
June 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 10 months)
Set growth strategy for product planning, e-commerce applications and service delivery
Assembled platform of hosted .NET applications linked to firm-wide SQL databases
Integrated numerous software services (SaaS) and leveraging cloud computing resources
Optimized website, CRM, property sales tracking, and real estate agent valuations
Driving leads through SEO, PPC, Salesforce.com, social networking and traditional media -
Teacher / IT Consultant
Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Design industry)
April 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 3 months)
Eighteen month sabbatical to teach in Norfolk Public School (2004-2006).
Constructed IT strategy and capital budget plan for strategic initiatives – health care organization.
Orchestrated RFP Responses for opportunities with infrastructure management – consulting firm. -
Senior Vice President
Putnam Investments
(Public Company; MMC; Financial Services industry)
May 1996 — April 2004 (8 years)
Responsible service delivery 24x7 through a multi-site staff of 150 and budget of $50MM
Delivered stable infrastructures for call centers serving 15MM shareholders, 2,400 retirement plan sponsors, 100’s of institutional clients and 7,000 employees -
Director
Avery Dennison
(Public Company; AVY; Consumer Goods industry)
July 1988 — May 1996 (7 years 11 months)
Matrix reporting to CIO and CFO; directed large P&Ls with large staffs in multiple locations
Avery International and Dennison Manufacturing merged in 1991. Led benchmarking and financial analysis that established the IT consolidation business case, and then delivered it
Negotiated enterprise hardware, software and services deals, including IBM, EMC, Xerox, Comdisco, AT&T, MCI, BT, RSA Secure-ID, MSA / McCormick & Dodge / Dun & Bradstreet.
Traveled frequently among U.S. and European offices and manufacturing plants, working with business leaders, staff and vendors to advance corporate initiatives -
Sr. Manager
Fidelity Investments
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
December 1982 — February 1988 (5 years 3 months)
Led application/systems teams to solve processing incidents 24x7 and implement corrective actions, that drastically reduced outages and run-times.
Championed code-level efficiencies, file conversions, data storage, and I/O improvement on critical path processing; flaws were identified, re-coded, tested and implemented quickly.
Managed Quality Assurance, infused controlled reviews, established Change Management policy. -
Project Manager / Consultant
Universal Software Associates
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1982 — December 1982 (9 months)
Led consulting groups to deliver custom applications development projects and 24x7 support. Hired by Fidelity Investments due to my success across the technology teams and during incident recoveries.
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Programmer/Analyst
GenRad
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
November 1980 — April 1982 (1 year 6 months)
Re-designed and enhanced Inventory, WIP, Labor Utilization and Engineering Cost Systems. Implemented curriculum to teach structured programming and design.
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Advanced Programmer
Liberty Mutual Insurance
(Privately Held; Insurance industry)
June 1979 — November 1980 (1 year 6 months)
Designed and developed On-line State Review System for Auto/Home rates used in 182 offices. Delivered programming and support for secured Online Check Writing applications.
Steve Palmer’s Education
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University of Massachusetts at Lowell
BS , Mathematics , 1975 — 1980
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Drury High School
1971 — 1975
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Steve Palmer’s Interests:
Cross country trips, all-electric cars
