Charles Johnson

Current

• Founder and Managing Member at Verve X3, LLC

Past

• COO/CFO at Texas Systems & Controls
• Owner at Island Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
• Controller/Treasurer at Central Pipe & Supply Company, Inc.

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Education

• University of Denver

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Charles Johnson’s Summary

We are committed to bringing a customer focused, team oriented, process driven perspective to your business. We are certain these basic values will increase your bottom line and secure any investment you make in the future of your business. It doesn’t matter if you are a small company, an up-and-comer, privately held or a Fortune 500 enterprise. To utilize technology to gather, secure, and apply information to better understand your customer's ever changing needs, to keep your staff focused on continuously improving the products and services you provide, and to do so in ways that improve the reliability of your performance are the fundamental survival skills necessary in any market, local or global. We can help.

You decide the benefit of our services! Pay out of pocket expenses plus only those fees associated with deliverables or milestone passage for which you decide, in your sole discretion, whether or not to accept. So far, our bottom line is taking care of itself.

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Charles Johnson’s Specialties:

Web-enabled business application development - Community, eCommerce, Promotional sites. Business Consultation - Business Plans-start-up and recurring; Sales & Marketing Strategies and Execution; Business Process Analysis and Management Systems. Support systems involving Project Management, Financial and Managerial accounting. Consult on contractual issues pertaining to sales, purchasing, real estate and banking, and legal issues pertaining to human resource management and employment contracts.

Charles Johnson’s Experience

• Founder and Managing Member

  Verve X3, LLC

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

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Responsible for core business functions and overall management of organization.
  
  Qualified with over 25 years experience owning, managing or consulting to managers of companies.
  
  I apply very broad and deep knowledge of all business functions and exceptionally precise analytical skills to support reliable planning and positive results over the long term, while intelligently maneuvering through immediate and unforeseen market disruptions and other challenges. I have "a compass is better than a map" mentality and so, have refined a very small, focused set of principals absolutely essential to building integrity business practices.

• COO/CFO

  Texas Systems & Controls

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  October 1995 — March 2005 (9 years 6 months)

  Prior accounting systems consultant client. Hired as Controller. Advanced to V.P. Operations, then to Executive V.P. then to COO/CFO
  
  Involved in every aspect of company providing leadership and innovation to grow company revenues ten-fold.
  
  Complex business providing engineering, project management and fabrication to domestic and international purchasers of custom engineered skid-mounted equipment and electric heaters utilized in power generation, petrochemicals, and on and offshore production platforms.

• Owner

  Island Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1991 — September 1995 (4 years 6 months)

  Specialized in supporting resellers and end-users of Great Plains Accounting and Great Plains Dynamics software including custom product modification as holder of Certified Developer and Certified Consultant for both products. Serviced approximately 50 clients with intermittent needs and a few as ongoing part-time Controller or for on-going application design and programming.
  
  Highlight of software development activities:
  
  For a major title company: bridged transactions captured with custom software running on PICK-based mini-computer supporting 17 offices and 200+ users to Great Plains Accounting on Novel server. Used PICK-native languages, Advanced Revelation and Btrieve interface. After completing initial project in very short time frame, retained as contract programmer over the next five years to enhance HUD pricing sheet application still in use today.

• Controller/Treasurer

  Central Pipe & Supply Company, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  October 1981 — March 1991 (9 years 6 months)

  Company went through the tumultuous 80's,
  averaging 50M annual sales to major oil & gas exploration companies.
  
  Started as Manager of Purchasing, Plant and Equipment supporting end-finishing plant.
  
  Introduced automation to company beginning with Apple /// computers and canned applications. Implemented accounting system automation, GAAP method changes dramatically altering quality and accuracy of inventory management function.
  
  Self-taught programming starting with D-Base II. Purchased Pick-based minicomputer, design, wrote and implemented many functions, especially inside sales sourcing and quotation.
  development.
  
  Promoted to Controller/Treasure in four years.
  
  Company sold in 1991.

Charles Johnson’s Education

• University of Denver

  BSBA , Finance and Accounting , 1978 — 1981

Additional Information

Charles Johnson’s Interests:

Photography (PhotoSensate.com), Web Research, Community Oriented Web Sites Spirtuality, Language Arts

Charles Johnson’s Groups:

Science - Cogprints subscription is subjects matching any of: "Artificial Intelligence", "Complexity Theory", "Human Computer Interaction", "Language", "Machine Learning", "Behavioral & Brain Sciences", "Decision Theory", "Philosophy of Language", "Philosophy of Mind", Psychophysics"

•    University of Denver Alumni

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