Founder, President, and Social Systems Architect, OpenTeams LLC
Houston, Texas Area
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- Founder, President, and Social Systems Architect at OpenTeams LLC
- Past
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- Founder at Gratitude.net
- Co-Founder and Vice President at Stewart Automotive Research, LLC
- Electronic Commerce Technical Manager at AMVESCAP
- Associate specializing in Business Technology at McKinsey & Company
- Independent Contractor at Compaq
- Corporate Systems Architect at U.S. Delivery Systems, Inc.
- Founder at FreightNet (Sole Proprietorship)
- Financial Systems Engineer at USArbour Financial Corp.
- Client-Server Consultant at BSG Alliance
- Education
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- Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
- Rice University
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Tory Gattis’s Summary
Passionate entrepreneur and evangelist dedicated to enabling the next generation of adaptive, innovative, open, entrepreneurial and engaging organizations based on Management 2.0. McKinsey Consulting alum.
Tory Gattis’s Experience
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Founder, President, and Social Systems Architect
OpenTeams LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)
OpenTeams is web-hosted collaborative software to enable The Entrepreneurial Organization: less bureaucratic, more innovative, more adaptive, and more engaging - operating more like the Silicon Valley ecosystem internally, with more transparency to get the right talent to the right opportunities at the right time.
On a technical level, OpenTeams reinvents the wiki in an easy-to-use 3-pane interface like Outlook email and newsfeed readers that people are familiar with, making it far easier for non-techies to learn and use. On a functional level, OpenTeams has the flexibility to be used for project collaboration, blogging, social networking, community building, and knowledge management, but its main use is as an innovative initiative development environment, where people can post an idea and collaboratively develop it with a self-organizing team, eventually finding executive sponsorship and execution. Launched May 2007. -
Founder
Gratitude.net
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 6 months)
Web site where people could pose questions/challenges and give 'gratitude tokens' to the best answers/solutions. Similar business model later succeeded as Yahoo Answers.
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Co-Founder and Vice President
Stewart Automotive Research, LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Automotive industry)
May 1999 — May 2004 (5 years 1 month)
Technology startup of Rice engineering alumni dedicated to improving the cost, quality, & cycle time of lightweight/high-strength aerospace composites and plastics to meet automotive industry requirements, resulting in better safety, fuel efficiency, and an order of magnitude cost reduction in tooling for new models. Handled all non-technical aspects of the business, including financial and business planning. Worked under three different $2M/3-year NIST ATP federal research grants.
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Electronic Commerce Technical Manager
AMVESCAP
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AVZ; Investment Management industry)
April 1998 — May 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Technical leader of electronic commerce activities for AMVESCAP and all of its subsidiaries globally, including the AIM and INVESCO mutual fund companies, with a combined total of 4000 employees and $250 billion in assets under management. Worked with the director from marketing to develop Internet, intranet, and extranet strategies. Managed a 20+ person department to implement those strategies. Hosted six web sites and a global intranet from our data center in Houston. Speaker on Extranets at the IDG Internet Commerce Expo in San Francisco (6/98). Series 7 financial industry training.
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Associate specializing in Business Technology
McKinsey & Company
(Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; McK; Management Consulting industry)
June 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 11 months)
Strategic management consulting with a focus on information technology.
·Guided a large pharma client through a $100 million Year 2000 systems project to come in on schedule and under budget with minimal risk
·Conducted a comprehensive process and systems reengineering study for a retail energy marketer, including gas and risk management systems selection
·Designed an IT-related new business entry strategy for a major telecom client, including analysis and selection of a best-fit acquisition candidate
·Redesigned the trading process for a large energy marketer, with a focus on creating an architecture for an integrated multi-commodity trading system strategy along with a multi-year transition plan
·Conducted an applications architecture diagnostic for a large credit card bank, including the mapping of applications and processes, an assessment of functionality gaps and constraints, and recommendations of application portfolio enhancements to provide new strategic capabilities. -
Independent Contractor
Compaq
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
February 1996 — May 1996 (4 months)
Assisted in application development for Compaq’s public internet site, as well as transfer of internal corporate applications from Lotus Notes to a private intranet.
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Corporate Systems Architect
U.S. Delivery Systems, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
July 1995 — November 1995 (5 months)
Technology planning and systems architecture for a $350 million/year NYSE-listed same-day delivery company. Designed two LANs and a secure nationwide TCP/IP WAN through the Internet to connect >130 locations based on Microsoft Exchange email and groupware on NT server. Developed a financial forecasting model in Excel to assist in acquisition consolidations.
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Founder
FreightNet (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
February 1995 — July 1995 (6 months)
Developed an interactive computer application for the Internet to match up shippers and carriers in the truckload and less-than-truckload long-haul trucking industry. The system allows shippers to fill out an electronic bill of lading form for bidding by carriers. Wrote dynamic HTML CGI scripts in Visual C to interact with MS SQL Server on Windows NT. Spent a significant amount of time researching the freight transportation industry in general and the trucking industry in particular.
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Financial Systems Engineer
USArbour Financial Corp.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
February 1994 — February 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Developed a client (VB) - server (C on WinNT) collateralized mortgage obligation analytics system. Implemented distributed parallel processing of CMO analysis requests over multiple servers, including DEC Alpha RISC servers running Windows NT. Developed simplex method linear optimization techniques for portfolio optimization. Built and trained a multi-layer neural network for economic forecasting. Assisted with the development of a custom mortgage-backed security prepayment model. Built various tools for CMO structuring as well as reverse-engineering. Designed and developed a fully object-oriented asset/liability portfolio strategy simulator in C++. Primary application development tools: Visual C/C++, Visual Basic, MS Excel, MS SQL Server. Supervised three programmers with masters degrees in computer science.
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Client-Server Consultant
BSG Alliance
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1992 — February 1994 (1 year 3 months)
Developed Tuxedo C services for real-time natural gas trading on a Sequent Unix system. Helped create and implement rollout plan to upgrade BSG internally from Lotus Notes v2.0 to 3.0. Developed several Lotus Notes databases, including research and creation of one on business process reengineering. Created a complex set of Excel spreadsheets for project cost estimation. Provided PowerBuilder help line support.
Tory Gattis’s Education
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Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
MBA , Entrepreneurship, Operations Research , 1991 — 1993
GPA: 3.85 / 4.0 scale.
GMAT: 770 / 800, 99 percentile.- Activities and Societies:
- Jones Scholar (Top 10%), Speros P. Martel Full Tuition Merit Scholarship.
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Rice University
BSEE , Comp Engi, Managerial Studies , 1987 — 1991
Concentration: Computer Science and Engineering.
Graduated Cum Laude
President’s Honor Roll, seven semesters
Shell Companies National Merit Scholarship
L. J. Walsh Scholarship in Engineering.
GPA: 3.7 / 4.0 scale.- Activities and Societies:
- Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society), Eta Kappa Nu (National Electrical Engineering Honor Society), Advocate and Parliamentarian - Will Rice College, Chairman - Will Rice Physical Improvements Committee, Chairman - Will Rice Renovation Committee, Representative - University Computer Planning Committee.
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Jones Graduate School Entrepreneurs Organization (JGSEO)
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