Vaughn Bullard

Current

CEO & Founder at Bullard Acquisitions & Holdings, Inc.

Past

CEO, Founder at eCocoModo, Inc.
Senior SOA Solutions Architect at AmberPoint
Lead ValueWeb Architect at IBM Global Business Services

Project Manager/Software Development Manager at Keane
Principal Software Engineer at BTG
CEO at Javant Software, Inc.
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Software Engineer at Mystech
Software Engineer at Analytical Services, Inc.
President at Digital Direct Wholesalers
Software Engineer at SELF EMPLOYED CONSULTANT

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Vaughn Bullard’s Summary

I'm a sort of Jack-of-all-trades. I've been in basically every type of development and IT management position over the past 18+ years. I've actually been programming professionally and non-professionally since the early 80s. I've had exposure to basically all modern and "ancient" development methodologies, languages and operating systems. In addition, I write and edit technical books and articles in English, German and Italian.

I'm also a Mac OS fanatic, "eco-Freak", Standards editor, Open Source supporter and contributor. I'm an "idea man" and a quick study on most things technical. I've got an entrepreneurial spirit as well-I was the kid with the lemonade stand, lawn care business and ran two successful businesses as an adult.

I grew up in Europe, but graduated high school in Chicago. This was because I was a military brat, raised by an US Army Officer father and DoD civilian accountant mother, in Germany. I come from a long lineage of military men. I still have relatives in Germany that I visit often. As a result, I have learned many languages and experienced many cultures. I have traveled extensively across the world (My passport is actually full!).

My somewhat offbeat and atypical background affords me an ability to approach problem solving unconventionally. I have never been a "Yes Man" and always give my clients an honest opinion, whether it is the popular opinion or not. Although quite introverted and shy in my personal life, I am outgoing professionally with no problems speaking to small groups or in front of hundreds of people.

In my spare time (with what little I have :) ), I enjoy playing the guitar, piano, shooting firearms, landscape architecture, watching movies and cooking fanciful dishes. I enjoy posting articles about technology on my blog as well. I have a strong commitment to fitness and nutrition, running an average of 35 miles per week.

Vaughn Bullard’s Specialties:

Author & Editor of Technical Books, Standards and contributor to many Open Source projects,"Extrarius Lingua Heuristicus", XML, Java/J2EE, C#/.NET, Web Services, SOA, PHP, ORDBMS, Oracle, MySQL

Languages - (Cat. by strength)

* German (read, write, speak)
* Italian (read, write, speak)
* Danish (medium fluency - read, write, speak)
* Spanish (light fluency – speak, read, write)
* French (light fluency – read, speak, write)
* Dutch (light fluency – read)
* Hindi (light fluency – speak)

Vaughn Bullard’s Experience

CEO & Founder

Bullard Acquisitions & Holdings, Inc.

(Internet industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

I am the CEO of Bullard Acquisitions & Holdings, Inc. The goal of BAQH is to be a parent company for many of my entrepreneurial ventures. The portfolio includes:

* eCocoMarket, Inc.
* The Bullard Consulting Group
* Decadent Cookies, Inc.
* Visentia, Inc.
CEO, Founder

eCocoModo, Inc.

(Environmental Services industry)

July 2008 — October 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Currently the CEO and Founder of eCocoModo, Inc. - a technology and design company dedicated to the application and innovation of ethical environmental principles in the hardware, software and design industries.

Customers include:
* Accelerated Information Management
* National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration
* National Archives & Records Administration
* Viderity, Inc.
Senior SOA Solutions Architect

AmberPoint

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

2005 — July 2008 (3 years )

As a Senior Consultant for AmberPoint, I had the challenge and pleasure of working many small, medium and large scale projects across the world. In this position, I played a diverse set of roles, including training and consulting, in many different enterprises and organizations implementing SOA solutions in their enterprise. Most notably, these include:

* Lead ESM Architect for the SOA Foundation Managed Service Provider (CSC & DISA'S NCES Program)

* ESM Architect for DISA's Early Capabilitiies Baseline

* AmberPoint ESM Architect for SKAT's (Denmark's Internal Revenue Service) SOA Systemodernisierung (Systems Modernization) project.

* AmberPoint ESM Architect/Trainer for Victorian Transport Authority, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Hyderabad, India

* Technical Editor, OASIS WSDM Standard V1-1.1 and 2-1.1 MUWS Specification

* Technical Editor, OASIS WS-BPEL V2.0 Primer
Lead ValueWeb Architect

IBM Global Business Services

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

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

I was the IBM Software Development Manager and Architect for the Value Web Capabilities Roadmap toolset for an instrumental government customer. The Value Web toolset is the key integration toolset for visualizing all of the government customer's enterprise architecture.

I also led the design and development of the Value Web toolset, a semantic web visualization toolkit. It allows an organization to decompose itself into a series of semantically linked, machine-readable hierarchies.
Project Manager/Software Development Manager

Keane

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; KEA; Information Technology and Services industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

I was the Keane Project Manager, Project Technical Lead and Project Software Development Manager in support of a 10+ year government O&M Software Development & Systems Integration Program.

I also provided hands-on integration of multiple heterogeneous systems. Technologies integrated include Microsoft Exchange, Java applets, Java applications, Java Server Pages, Java Servlets, Active Server Pages, WebSphere, VisualAge for Java, Lotus Domino, WebLogic, Microsoft Access, Sun ONE Studio, Business Objects, Oracle, and Sybase.

As the Software Development Manager, I also led the team of 24 project members to an SEI Level 3 CMM certification. As Technical Lead, I also architected a new enterprise application infrastructure using J2EE.
Principal Software Engineer

BTG

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

I was a Lead Software Engineer with two primary responsibilities:

* Requirements gathering and systems design for the E2C airborne correlation system.

* I also developed an enterprise class tool called Tracker-a system that allows multiple groups to track and share requirements through a Web-based user interface, built using Java Servlets, Open source technologies, and XML sitting on top of a database framework. Customers for Tracker included Titan Systems Corp, IBS, JDISS, Office of Naval Intelligence-28.
CEO

Javant Software, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )

As president of my own company, I developed many different web-based systems using "J2EE"-based technologies. Most notably I played roles for many different organizations.

* Chief Technology Officer, SuccessTrade Securities, an online securities brokerage firm in Washington, DC

* Developed five systems for the US Government using subsets of XML, Java, Cold Fusion, and Oracle.

* Developed a self-installing Java Swing Classes Installer using Netscape SmartUpdate technology for Synergy Solutions. This effort was in support of baselining Java Swing classes for MDITDS deployed web applications.

* Web-based systems for numerous commercial and government customers

* Instructor, Learning Tree International

* Author "Essential XUL Programming" Wiley & Sons, Publishing Inc.

* Instructor, George Mason University
Senior Software Engineer

Lockheed Martin

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

As the Lead Software Developer, I piloted and developed the FLUENT translation application using Java Servlet (now J2EE) technology for a government customer, using Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). This system allows a user to type in an English query term and returns “notions” of that word in several different languages. This allows the user to include these notions into a large grouped search query against foreign language search engines on the Internet. These languages were sometimes returned in many different languages. When they were returned in a language other than the user’s native one, that hit was then translated into the user’s native language, or language of choice. The user interface developed for this system enabled a high level of transactions processing behind the scenes without inconvenience to users.

In addition, I played multiple roles in support of the government customer's organization:

* Web Developer
* User Interface Designer
Software Engineer

Mystech

(Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )

I along with another colleague developed the EUROWEB, also known as the Informational Knowledgebase for Europe, for a government customer in support of the Summit of the 8 (G7+1), using Perl 5.004, Java, SunOS, HTML, and Sybase11 technologies. The Summit of the 8 brings the heads of state of the world’s largest economies together to set global economic policy. EUROWEB allowed analysts in the field to get up-to-the-minute information using Web-based technologies. It is a high-end document management system that allowed analysts to input analytical information into the system. The analysts in the field would then be notified immediately of the new information via e-mail. This extremely secure system performed flawlessly over wireless encrypted modems and was 100 percent operational during the live run during the Summit of the 8, even when traditional means of communications failed. In fact, for two days the only way to get finished analytical information was through this system.
Software Engineer

Analytical Services, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

I developed and maintained the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office’s Home Page for Analytic Service’s computer services support contract. The JSF Vision is to be the model acquisition program for joint service and international cooperation and to develop and produce an affordable next generation Strike Fighter Weapon System and sustain it worldwide. It is the largest acquisition program ever in the history of the Department of Defense. As this was one of only a handful of public (at the time) web sites developed for the Department of Defense, it was extremely high profile, requiring 100% 24/7 performance.
President

Digital Direct Wholesalers

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year )

I ran a computer hardware and software distribution business that supplied many customers throughout the Washington DC area and beyond, and I piloted customer support and online sales through a website, that I developed to gain more market share. Major customers included the IRS, Martin Marietta, Turtle Beach and Mantech International.
Software Engineer

SELF EMPLOYED CONSULTANT

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

1989 — 1993 (4 years )

I was a part-time contractual software developer for Mac OS-based applications. These applications included DreamHouse Designer 3D and HyperLaserDisCue, among others. I gained tremendous knowledge of operating systems, machine (other than computers) languages, PASCAL and C programming languages. Many interfaces used XCMDs and XFCNs.

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Vaughn Bullard’s Interests:

Playing Guitar, Playing Piano, Music Composition, Landscape Architecture, Do-it-yourself projects, Cooking, Travel, Foreign Languages, Firearms

Vaughn Bullard’s Groups:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, National Rifle Association, North American Cartographic Information Society, International Institute for Software Testing