Timothy Platt

Current

• Chief Strategy Officer at The Novum Institute
• Board Member and Advisor at Ethical Friends
• Strategic Internet and Information Technology Consultant (Self-employed)

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Past

• Webmaster / Internet Coordinator at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• CEO/Senior Consultant at InfoMed Consulting
• Director of Graduate Medical Education Research (serving as director for all clinical research) at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center

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Education

• University of Connecticut
• University of Connecticut
• Stevens Institute of Technology

• Stevens Institute of Technology

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Non-Profit Organization Management

Timothy Platt’s Summary

General business experience:
* Project and program development and reengineering under stringent deadlines.
* Strategic planning and alignment analysis.
* Single point of failure identification and risk analysis and mitigation.
* Business development center (BDC) and customer relations management (CRM) development and optimization with key performance metrics determination and tracking.
* Leads provider performance analysis and optimization.
* Business analysis and planning.
* Cost/benefits analysis for build/buy decisions for open source and proprietary solutions.
* Developing training/technical support.
* Multiple industry experience.
* International and multi-cultural work experience.

Online for Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites, Bulletin Boards, eNewsletters, Web 2.0 and other channels:
* Full life-cycle web site design, development and management.
* Developing and monitoring e-marketing campaigns.
* Search engine optimization (SEO)/search engine marketing (SEM).
* Information architecture, systems management.
* Manage front-end design and formatting for major web sites and intranets.
* Maintain quality and web optimization of web site images.
* Manage foreign language content (Spanish and French) on web sites.
* Maintain web site HonCode and TRUSTe certification.
* Manage web site projects and quality assurance testing.
* Manage e-marketing and email newsletters.
* Manage e-mail marketing, search engine marketing and ranking strategies, CRM strategies and web statistical analysis.

Timothy Platt’s Specialties:

Experienced in general information technology management, developing systems that align with strategic plans and priorities, and business model. Web designer and developer with strong leadership and team building skills. Experienced in content management, online privacy, eMarketing, including e-mail marketing, search engine marketing and ranking strategies, CRM strategies. Experience developing branding, and eMarketing, eCommerce strategies that coordinate with print and other media.

Timothy Platt’s Experience

• Chief Strategy Officer

  The Novum Institute

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Philanthropy industry)

  September 2007 — Present (11 months)

  The Novum Institute (http://www.novuminstitute.org) will provide the framework for a whole new paradigm for entrepreneurial and innovation incubation borne from the real needs of innovative ideators and knowledge builders nascent in every community around the world. The Institute will champion the restitution of collaborative consortiums and develop and promote best practices. By creating new epicenters for the specific advancement of ethics and integrity in business development, The Novum flagship will lead the charge on cultivating localized entities that mirror the core ethos and drive education, innovation and commercial enterprise drawn from sustainable models. As a Not For Profit we depend on donations from Social Entrepreneurs who believe we need powerful change at the heart of business enterprise to accomplish true sustainable efforts.

• Board Member and Advisor

  Ethical Friends

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  March 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Ethical Friends (http://www.ethicalfriends.com) is a social networking organization that focuses on the needs of the Nonprofit and Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) world. It provides a space where employees, members, contractors and consultants, and supporters of these organizations can come together to network, and to share ideas and leads. Ethical Friends, itself a nonprofit-oriented organization, has as its mission the creation of opportunities for people of shared interest to come together to build a community in which they can create and share best of breed solutions to problems held in common. Ethical Friends has as its vision, the goal of helping all Nonprofits and Non-Governmental Organizations participating, in advancing their missions and achieving their visions.
  
  * Authored mission and vision statements, as outlined above.

• Strategic Internet and Information Technology Consultant

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2005 — Present (3 years)

  * Business, marketing and service-offering monetization planning for pre-launch startup offering local marketing-based web services to wireless and hand-held user community, working with senior management and staff.
  * Served as CIO for $400 million retail business: developed integrated software systems for managing their business, set up a new business development center (BDC), measured performance of all leads sources and optimized to double closing ratio (double sales rate from leads), negotiated development of new web sites and upgrade of phone system. * Managed production of e-commerce and e-marketing web sites in several industries.
  * Supervised production of informational web site and portal development projects. Managed program and project portfolios.
  * Developed strategic planning and policy, business model planning, mission and vision statements, brand management and cross-channel marketing strategies.
  * Provided training and training programs, and mentoring.

• Webmaster / Internet Coordinator

  The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2000 — August 2005 (5 years 1 month)

  * Managed front-end design for 8 web sites and intranet, worked with web editors, admins in over 100 offices in US and Canada.
  * Reorganized information architecture, bringing search engine positioning on Google into top 5 for queries "leukemia" and "lymphoma" and into top 12 (from approx. 240) for "myeloma" - a major objective.
  * Managed and edited foreign language content (Spanish and French).
  * Maintained web site HonCode and TRUSTe certification. Negotiated 86% discount on TRUSTe fees below usual.
  * Oversaw all web editor/admin privileges.
  * Managed high volume public queries and help requests for web sites, BBS.
  * Initiated taskforce on spam, provided technical support to CIO and taskforce; saved Society from loss of key online revenue sources.
  * Saved over $500,000 in project savings and loss prevention.* Raised more than $5,000,000 in online donations (placing in top 1% of non-profit web sites) and raised over $5,000,000 of event registrations online in one year.

• CEO/Senior Consultant

  InfoMed Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

  May 1995 — August 2000 (5 years 4 months)

  * Supervised information analysis and training services to a variety of industries including major law firms, development corporations and start-ups.
  * Provided project and program development, analysis and reengineering.
  * Developed and evaluated internet and intranet resources.
  * Designed and developed web sites.
  * Developed resources to effectively reach and retain new clients.

• Director of Graduate Medical Education Research (serving as director for all clinical research)

  Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  August 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 4 months)

  * Developed and ran systematic, comprehensive research programs for twelve clinical services and subspecialties, and for hospital center as a whole.
  * Successfully passed twenty departmental and institutional accreditation reviews in five years.
  * Brought hospital center from having no organized clinical research to having approximately two hundred fifty ongoing projects.

Timothy Platt’s Education

• University of Connecticut

  Ph.D., Biobehavioral Science/Behavior Genetics, 1985

• University of Connecticut

  MS, Biobehavioral Science, 1981

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  MS, Mathematics, 1972 — 1975

• Stevens Institute of Technology

  BS, Unified Physical Sciences Program, 1969 — 1973

Additional Information

Timothy Platt’s Interests:

developing new networking contacts, new career opportunities, aligning online resources with business plans, strategic planning, building and fixing things

Timothy Platt’s Groups:

* E-Commerce Designer Program, New Horizons Computer Learning Centers.
* UNIX/C/C++ Certificate Program, Pace University.
* Member of Technology Executives Network Group (TENG).
* Member of International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
* President of Board, 530 4th Street Housing Cooperative.
* Member, Park Slope Civic Council, Brooklyn, NY
* Intensive Spanish program, Proyecto Lingüístico Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala.
* Working knowledge of Spanish, reading knowledge of French.
* Outward Bound School, Winter Course, Hurricane Island, Maine.
* Former member (7 years) New York City Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee (NYC-REMAC).
* Former member Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) Dealer Advisory Group.

•    Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network member
•    eOffice member
• Forbes.com New York City Group member
• Forbes.com Entrepreneurs member
•    Connecting-Managers member
•    Ballochmyle Advisory Board for Executives member
•    New York Metro InfraGard member
•    OpenNetworkers.info member
•    Networlding member
•    Worldwide Management Consultants member
•    International Network of Social Entrepreneurs member
•    Friends of Finland member
•    Global Business Analysts member
•    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) member
•    International Networking Speakers and Coaches Assoc member
•    Six Degrees (Staffing Only) member
•    Networking pros member
•    LatitudeU member
•    Novum Institute Innovators member
•    LI Socials member
•    China Networking Group member
•    GroupLinked.com member
•    Web 2.0 Mapping and Social Networks Meetup Group member
•    Friends of Pangea Day member
•    Africa - All Things Business member
•    Career & Workforce Management Solutions member
•    Green member
•    After the Invite member
•    Singapore Open Networkers member
•    brandhackers member
•    Social Update.TV member
•    Swiss Business Club member
•    Friends of Philippines member

Timothy Platt’s Honors:

* Painter with work represented in group and single artist shows.
* Member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research and academic honors society.
* Published author in peer reviewed journals.

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