Guy Cortesi

Guy Cortesi

CIO at eSolve Solutions, Inc. gcortesi@esolvesolutions.com

Albany, New York Area

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Education
  • State University of New York at Albany
  • East Tennessee State University
  • Clarkson University
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Industry
Information Technology and Services
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Guy Cortesi’s Summary

Guy J. Cortesi, Ph.D., is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and one of the co-founders of eSolve Solutions, Inc. and is currently Manager of System Support/Information Systems for Bechtel, Inc. at Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc. (BPMI) in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Plant Program. Over the past 30 years, he has held various engineering, leadership, and management positions at companies including IBM, Texas Instruments, Fairchild/Schlumberger, and Apple Computer/ADIA. He received a Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1977 from Clarkson University, and an M.B.A. in 1983 from East Tennessee State University, and a Ph.D. in 2001 from the University at Albany. Guy currently teaches at the University at Albany in the Graduate School of Computer and Information Science, where he has 10 years experience as an adjunct professor. His dissertation/research topic is the "Relation of Communication Channel and Task on Group Composition, Participation, and Performance in Virtual Organizations." Guy has a strong interest in personal computing, information technology, and the effective use of computers and technology in virtual environments. Website: http://home.nycap.rr.com/cortesi

Guy Cortesi’s Specialties:

Areas of expertise includes IT decision systems, organizational development using effective technology, virtual organizational theory, networking technology, web page authoring and Internet technologies, PC skills, and general MIS.

Guy Cortesi’s Experience

  • Vice President/Chief Information Officer

    eSolve Solutions, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    2007 — Present (2 years)

    ■ Responsible for providing all IT systems and services for this virtual organization, which uses web-based virtual work environment that allows a pool of contract workers to work anytime/anyplace.
    ■ Developed websites, IT servers, overall infrastructure using variety of Open Source systems and tools based on Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) suite and a host of collaboration tools.
    ■ Selected, procured setup all mobile, client, and server hardware and software. Developed complete market/business plans, customer proposals, product offerings, performed all work necessary to launch company as a fully incorporated business; ready to conduct business with focus on energy industry.

  • Adjunct Instructor - Graduate School of Computer and Information Science

    University at Albany

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    1998 — Present (11 years)

    Teacher of 9 evening graduate classes (3 credit hours) 20+ students per class. Subject matter relates to Information Technology and Policy, Network Design, Web Page Development, Internet Technologies, PC Applications, information technology planning and policy.

  • Manager User Services

    Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc.

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Construction industry)

    2007 — 2008 (1 year)

    Responsible for managing transition activities to migrate document management systems and other services to Pittsburgh, PA, as part of company-wide plan to downsize Schenectady location of 100 users/move operations to PA.
    ■ Responsible for providing user services to remaining Schenectady site users. Managed work planning/implementation of downsized facility, reduced from 120K sq. ft., to 33K sq. ft. Staff includes 7 workers in the Schenectady site. (I am not planning to relocate to Pittsburgh, despite being offered a position at that location).

  • Manager, System Support

    Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc.

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Construction industry)

    2002 — 2007 (5 years)

    Managed all information Systems support activities for 880+ employees located at five sites including Schenectady, NY and Pittsburgh, PA. Staff included 17 network administrators, help desk personnel, support specialists, contract workers.
    ■ Provided systems/network support for 90+ MS Windows Servers, storage and backup, and LAN/WAN connectivity.
    ■ Maintained 1800+ Windows XP client PCs and engineering workstations for general purpose and engineering use.
    ■ Oversaw all budget activities ($3M budget), new equipment/systems design, evaluation and procurement, all system security, and training.

  • Supervisor, Office Automation

    Bechtel Plant Machinery Inc.

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Construction industry)

    1989 — 2002 (13 years)

    Responsible for developing, delivering technologies/systems for all areas of Office Automation for Schenectady site location with 355 engineering and business users. Responsible for 9 direct reports.
    ■ Led team efforts responsible for procurement/installation of 1000+ Macs and PC's, and network using Novell Netware servers.
    ■ Responsible for R&D resulting in installation, evaluation, testing and configuration of next-generation computing OS and Office productivity and engineering applications.
    ■ Performed application evaluations/installations using automated tools, developed applications using Visual Basic, MS Office Macros, JavaScript, and MS Access. Installed Word perfect Office E-Mail and planned UNIX business management system network, acted as UNIX Administrator and PC CSSO.
    ■ Lead for process Improvement Team, member of Single/Unified Web team, the CD-ROM encryption team, MS Office productivity suite team, Desktop/ServerOS team efforts.

  • Project Engineer

    General Electric

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Financial Services industry)

    1988 — 1989 (1 year)

    Responsible for design/testing of Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) and testers for naval Reactors Program. Responsible for advanced development investigations regarding current networking technology, optical storage technologies, displays and other systems to used in future I&C equipment.

  • Principle Engineer/Engineering Product Manager

    Schlumberger Technologies/Fairchild

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Semiconductors industry)

    1986 — 1988 (2 years)

    Designed/developed automatic in-circuit and functional test equipment using SUN Unix workstations and servers.
    ■ Managed hardware/software efforts of 9 engineers, worked on next-generation testers.
    ■ Installed, networked, supported PC’s and Macs for in-house use; computer site coordinator.

  • Staff Engineer

    IBM

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

    1985 — 1986 (1 year)

    Performed engineering efforts regarding testing of IBM mainframe computer systems. Wrote assembler and BASIC test programs to support this activity.
    ■ Assisted in overall networking/communications of systems including design of network boards for testers.

  • Group Leader/Engineering Section Manager

    Schlumberger Technologies/Fairchild

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SLB; Semiconductors industry)

    1983 — 1985 (2 years)

    Responsible for electrical circuit design/development of Automatic In-Circuit Test Equipment. Managed hardware and software efforts of 7 engineers – hiring, salary, budgeting, planning and overall managerial responsibility.

  • Integrated Circuit Design Engineer

    Texas Instruments

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

    1977 — 1983 (6 years)

    Designed, supported circuit boards, wrote assembler software, managed 3 engineers/technicians.

  • Integrated Circuit Design Engineer

    Texas Instruments

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Semiconductors industry)

    1977 — 1983 (6 years)

    Designed, supported circuit boards, wrote assembler software, managed 3 engineers/technicians.

Guy Cortesi’s Education

  • State University of New York at Albany

    Ph.D. , Information and Computer Science , 1995 — 2001

    Dissertation/research topic was the "Relation of Communication Channel and Task on Group Composition, Participation, and Performance in Virtual Organizations."

  • East Tennessee State University

    MBA , 1979 — 1984

  • Clarkson University

    BS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1973 — 1977

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Guy Cortesi’s Interests:

Strong interest in personal computing, information technology, and the effective use of computers and technology. Technical authority on Virtual Organizations and virtual work environments, based on work completed as part of Ph.D. including dissertation research focused in this area. Play guitar and piano.

Guy Cortesi’s Honors:

Management Awards:
■ In recognition of proposing, securing, procuring, installing and implementing new PC technology.
■ For work in support of Y2K program.
■ In support of TSO in resolution of a serious PC problem.
■ Planning/executing Mac to Intel transition at MAO.
■ To establish MAO’s next generation Intel Microcomputer/Windows 95 systems.
■ Recognition of in support of MAO’s network activities.

BPMI Recognition Awards: Recognition Awards:
■ Network Infrastructure Upgrade ■ Contribution to the install of HP Workstations in TSO
■ Outlook/Exchange Implementation ■ Contribution to MIPS effort
■ MS Windows 2000/XP Upgrade/Rollout ■ $2500 time and material savings for repair of MAO PC components
■ Security Self Assessment Completion ■ Expeditious assembly, distribution and installation of 86 Mac II si’s at MAO

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