CEO at Apollo Capital Associates LLC
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- CEO at Apollo Capital Associates LLC
- Senior Consultant at Group50 Competitive Business Consulting
- Past
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- CEO at Apollo Capital Associates. LLC
- Principal Software Engineer/Architect at NeighborCare, Inc.
- Strategy & Planning Leader at IBM Global Services
- Senior Consultant/IT Architect at IBM Global Services
- Principal Software Engineer at HealthObjects
- Education
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- Richmonds University
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Sid Bursten’s Summary
With a background as a software consultant in a variety of industries, in consulting organizations ranging from small to the largest in the world, I bring expertise, energy, enthusiasm and effectiveness to every assignment.
Some organizations rigidly separate the roles of architect and business analyst, but I am most productive when these boundaries are fuzzy, and I participate in both the requirements and analysis and the architecture of the solution.
My resume (downloadable from www.sid-bursten.com) demonstrates:
* Years of business strategy and management consulting experience, including technical and strategy consulting positions with IBM Global Services
* Strong communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
* Ability to develop effective and persuasive proposals
* Skilled in schema-development, data mapping, interface workflow diagramming and process engineering
* Effective acquisition and organization of data, delivery of results and identification of business implications
* Independent leadership of day-to-day client communications
* Effective work in team-based environments
* Lasting relationships with clients and internal staff
Specific experience includes:
* Leading JAD sessions
* Gathering requirements
* Conducting Use Case and work flow analysis
* Outlining business rules
* Developing domain object models
* Recognizing gaps and trends
* Visualizing the impact of a solution across an enterprise
* Understanding how a solution will integrate with emerging technologies
And since I've done it all, from developing a commercial computer language to inventing new ways of solving corporate accounting problems, from coding to full-system architecture, in team sizes of one up to thousands, I command the respect of my peers, reports and clients.
Sid Bursten’s Specialties:
My strength as a software architect is that I am not only adept and developing solutions for complex business problems, but I am a skilled business analyst who quickly becomes an expert in the business domain, effectively gathers and prioritizes requirements, and achieves buy-in from management, users and developers for the planned solution.
Sid Bursten’s Experience
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CEO
Apollo Capital Associates LLC
(Real Estate industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Apollo Capital is an Asset Management firm specializing in purchase, renovation, financing and resale of foreclosed homes, which are purchased in bulk from distressed lenders. Apollo Capital also offers wealth-building strategies for individuals and companies
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Senior Consultant
Group50 Competitive Business Consulting
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Group50 Competitive Business Consulting is a nationwide organization providing top-tier consulting services to small and medium-sized businesses, particularly in business processes, manufacturing, supply chain and distribution. Mr Bursten heads up the IT Services Practice, helping companies align processes, software and IT infrastructure to business objective, eliminate bottlenecks and improve customer services. He specializes in conducting an efficient, effective "Company Physical" to help companies identify areas to concentrate on to achieve highest ROI on process and software improvement.
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CEO
Apollo Capital Associates. LLC
(Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2009 (2 years)
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Principal Software Engineer/Architect
NeighborCare, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NCRX; Computer Software industry)
July 1996 — October 2005 (9 years 4 months)
Architect of the innovative financial system for institution-pharmacies. I not only to created a flexible and efficient object-oriented financial, general ledger, claims and pricing system but solved 2 problems of all healthcare systems:
1) Healthcare providers cannot routinely expect full payment on all invoices, and shortfalls are not "bad debts"
2) Workers in healthcare are prone to 1-sided transactions that unbalance ledgers.
I solved them both.
(Note: From 1999 and 2003 I was a consultant at Albion International, senior consultant/IT architect at IBM, and Strategy & Planning Leader for the global software outsourcing division of IBM, before being rehired by Neighborcare.)
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Strategy & Planning Leader
IBM Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
July 2001 — June 2002 (1 year)
Strategy & Planning Leader of competency development, global software outsourcing division with headcount of about 30,000 people.
* Developed process analyses and methodologies to enhance engagement team performance
* Audited architecture to ensure plans met business objectives
* Created documentation and presentations to support and justify expenditure
* Acted as overall project manager for 120-person team, maintaining centralized workbooks to monitor all budgets and personnel allocations to projects, tracking all product development initiatives
* Coordinated and advised managers of the seven major competency areas: Methodology, Systems, Architecture, Metrics, Intellectual Capital Reuse, Tools and Transition & Transformation -
Senior Consultant/IT Architect
IBM Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — July 2001 (1 year)
As Senior Consultant/IT Architect in the Customer Relations Management Practice:
* Was member of global architecture team for worldwide rollout of IBM's Siebel CRM deployment
* Analyzed and documented requirements for interfacing with legacy systems and central geo/enterprise data warehouses
* Designed change-request process for large, multi-team development project at power and gas retailer
* Worked directly with stakeholders from CEO to CRM users to shepherd adoption of proposals through to adoption and implementation
* Mentored IBM developers in graphical workflow mapping to improve development of global transaction hub for order processing among all IBM divisions across all countries. -
Principal Software Engineer
HealthObjects
(Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
Sid Bursten’s Education
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Richmonds University
MBA , Business , 1976 — 1980
Additional coursework at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Manitoba
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Real Estate Finance & Investment Society
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