Managing Director/Founder at Volunteams.org
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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- Managing Director/Founder at Volunteams.org
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- IT Strategy Architect at Embarq
- Chief Technical Officer at LightThread, LLC
- Tech Spec I at Sprint
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Vince Vaughan’s Summary
Vince Vaughan, a former IT strategist for a fortune 300 company, has spent over 15 years in various leadership roles managing teams, projects and launching organizations. His purpose of holding these roles is to build enterprise value through thinking and acting strategically as well as fiscal responsibility. In doing this, he has shown acumen for constituting and developing high performance teams, designing and executing competitive technical practices, and reducing costs in situations of market change. Some of the specific roles he held are as Strategist, Chief Technical Officer, Managing Director and President.
Vince attributes his success to belonging to a community of empowered people through rigorous training and practices. He has authored processes for design and development of Web applications, spoken at industry leading conferences, and led initiatives connecting business mission to results. All of these efforts have consistently produced increased customer satisfaction and higher enterprise value.
Vince has dedicated himself to continuous education. He began by attending UMKC with a focus on history while working full time for a fortune 100 company as an ecommerce team leader. He cemented his technical expertise as a certified programmer for the Java 2 platform. He has spent the last year in the study of business leadership and strategies for the design of new practices in a fast, radically changing marketplace. Part of this study involved learning and practicing distinctions for team building, linguistics, philosophy, history, coordination, collaboration and business organization and structure.
His values of strength through community are reflected in the launching of Volunteams.org, a non-profit, Section 501(c)3, organization dedicated to funnel passionate and professional people of Integrity to the causes that need them. He was also founder of LightThread, a successful social media agency.
Vince Vaughan’s Specialties:
Brainstorming as a process, Listening, Volunteering, Startup consulting, iPhone Development, Android Development, Palm Pre Development, Mobile Application Design, Mobile Application Solution Architecture.
Vince Vaughan’s Experience
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Managing Director/Founder
Volunteams.org
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (5 months)
Volunteams.org is a non-profit Section 501(c)3 organization that recruits professional people of integrity to help give time, energy and resources to causes they are passionate about.
We work with flagship partners, other non-profit organizations and offer help from people who wish to volunteer their skills in marketing, organization and technology.
Coupling volunteers with our flagship partners is the lifeblood of the organization.
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IT Strategy Architect
Embarq
(Public Company; EQ; Telecommunications industry)
December 2005 — October 2009 (3 years 11 months)
Responsible for eCommerce domain architecture for Embarq. Duties include Application Rationalization planning and Roadmap construction for removing 4 million dollars from IT budget. Also responsible for Research and Development for new technologies implemented in the eCommerce domain. Also responsible for recommending various technologies, meeting vendors, and drawing blueprints related to Social Networking, SOA, Portal infrastructures, CRM and online ordering/bundling.
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Chief Technical Officer
LightThread, LLC
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
July 2008 — May 2009 (11 months)
Founded and launched organization with 4 other professionals skilled in technology, marketing, sales and finance. Deeply involved in creating operational efficiencies, writing business plans, collaborating on narrative and making the startup come to life.
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Tech Spec I
Sprint
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; S; Telecommunications industry)
January 2000 — May 2006 (6 years 5 months)
Application Architect responsible for end-to-end software design and implementation of new functionality for http://www.sprintbmo.com, the local business Web arm of sprint.com. Functionality included a integration into legacy systems, content managment (leveraging both Vignette and Interwoven at various times), and a personalized user experience leveraging WebLogic Portal connecting to an Oracle Back-end database.
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Vince Vaughan’s Interests:
Education, Reading, Philosophy, Linquistics, Business, Mobile Application Design & Development, Helping Others
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