Tim Ventura

Current

General Partner at BPO Automation Group

Past

Principal at E-Business 2.0
Project Manager at AAG, Inc.
E-Commerce Project Manager at Wireless Conceptions

Project Manager at Telecommunication Systems
E-Commerce Project Manager at AT&T Wireless
Department Manager at AT&T Wireless
Telecommunications Systems Analyst at Verisign
E-Commerce Systems Analyst at Alpine Machine

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Education

Cascadia College
Sun Microsystems
SPS College

Whatcom Community College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Tim Ventura’s Summary

Dynamic, results-oriented Manager w/ 14 years of technical & leadership expertise in desktop software, e-commerce, and wireless telecom industries.

Work in futurism & emerging technologies has been featured in national print media (including Wired & Slashdot) and television programs (Science, History & natl news syndicates).

Tim Ventura’s Specialties:

project management, general management, programming, writing, etc...

Tim Ventura’s Experience

General Partner

BPO Automation Group

(Real Estate industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Duties involve business development, managing customer acquisition & integration, overseeing daily operations, and general oversight of customer accounts to ensure the integrity of their data & software functionality.
Principal

E-Business 2.0

(Internet industry)

July 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Project Management & E-Commerce consulting, with a focus on Web 2.0 integration and E-Commerce Content Management Systems deployment.

Project Management work involves leading virtual & cross-functional teams of client employees, out-source & near-source contractors, and vendor integration resources. PM role follows PMBOK & SDLC best practices from project initiation through operations handoff, including financial planning & budget oversight, resource allocation & management, planning and oversight of infrastructure additions, systems integration oversight & review, virtual & cross-functional team management, metrics/statistical reporting.

Strategic marketing work includes media production, budget & resource allocation, ad-placement, branding, metrics & statistical analysis. Systems experience includes numerous client projects in both Microsoft & Unix/Linux/Open-Source environments, with Ruby on Rails, PhP, MySQL, and Java/J2EE platform expertise.
Project Manager

AAG, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 4 months)

Responsibilities include financial planning & budget oversight, resource allocation & management, planning and oversight of infrastructure additions, systems integration oversight & review, virtual & cross-functional team management, metrics/statistical reporting using accepted SDLC & PMBOK methodologies.

Achievements include planning & deployment of web-portal, e-commerce, and integrated multimedia content-management & database systems for high-traffic (2 million per annum) online portal.
E-Commerce Project Manager

Wireless Conceptions

(Telecommunications industry)

January 2004 — February 2005 (1 year 2 months)

Responsibilities included include project financial planning & budget oversight, reporting customer-usage & churn metrics, planning & managing e-commerce & web-portal deployment, managing vendor relationships & e-commerce integration, outlining cost-benefit and ROI analysis, and developing/implementing employee training curriculum.

Achievements included implementation and integration of E-Commerce systems, integration of vendor database and digital satellite OSS retail systems, planning and deployment of customer-support portal customer-care systems, overseeing legacy systems integration using the SDLC and PMBOK methodologies and leading virtual & cross-functional groups.
Project Manager

Telecommunication Systems

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TSYS; Telecommunications industry)

September 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for managing Wireless E-911 report automation project using the SDLC & PMBOK methodologies. Led virtual & cross-functional development and Change Control Management teams to meet stakeholder specifications. Oversaw systems integration with OSS pipeline, legacy telecom systems, and E-911 call-routing applications.

Additional responsibilities included process refinement & streamlining, and developing end-user training curriculum & documentation. Successful project completion resulted in report-automation for 1000+ participating E-911 call-centers.
E-Commerce Project Manager

AT&T Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AWE; Telecommunications industry)

March 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Responsibilities included project & team management resulting in the successful deployment of 50 million+ visitor E-Commerce portal in FYI 2001.

Led virtual & cross-collaborative development & Change Control Management teams to ensure project completion within stakeholder specifications. Managed systems-integration with order-fulfillment, billing, provisioning, and legacy OSS systems pipeline using accepted PMBOK and SDLC methodologies.

Additional responsibilities included maintenance & release schedule oversight, requirements and capacity planning review, and weekly executive reporting on sales volume trending, traffic flow analysis, marketing impact, and content-delivery effectiveness.
Department Manager

AT&T Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AWE; Telecommunications industry)

March 2000 — March 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for managing a 400-person provisioning department spanning two regional call-centers and resulting in the deployment of 15 metro-markets across 7 states to exceed 150,000 customers in FYI 2000.

Technical responsibilities included vendor & internal systems integration oversight and planning-control, Corporate & FCC standards compliance-review, and uptime, capacity, and scalability requirements compliance review. Responsible for managing complete hardware & process overhaul for OSS-systems pipeline.

Additional responsibilities included weekly executive reporting and metrics, Change Control Management team participation, process refinement & streamlining, training curriculum development & documentation, and virtual/cross-functional troubleshooting team management.
Telecommunications Systems Analyst

Verisign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1997 — March 2000 (3 years 1 month)

Responsible for coordinating LNP Troubleshooting for over 100 participating CLECs with an average traffic volume exceeding 1 million customer ports per day and resolving systems issues related to the NPAC, Service-Order Administration, LSMS, STP, and SCP network nodes.

Additional responsibilities included process refinement & streamlining, developing training and troubleshooting curriculum, coordinating virtual/cross-functional troubleshooting teams to resolve issues with LNP, Caller-ID, Roaming, and Billing Support systems.
E-Commerce Systems Analyst

Alpine Machine

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — March 1997 (1 year 3 months)

Responsibilities included E-Commerce portal design, testing, and deployment in accordance with the SDLC lifecycle. Primary tasks included web-application development and OSS database systems integration and Multimedia content-management, order-fulfillment, billing, and manufacturing OSS pipeline systems design & integration.

Achievements included successful portal deployment resulting in 10,000+ customer pre-orders FYI 1996.

Tim Ventura’s Education

Cascadia College

Certificate , E-Commerce Architecture & Administration , 2002 — 2002
Sun Microsystems

SCSA , Solaris Certified System Administrator , 2002 — 2002
SPS College

BA , Business & Mass-Media Communications , 1998 — 2000
Whatcom Community College

AAS , Associates (Transfer) , 1992 — 1994