Objectives

Provide direction, leadership, and team-building, helping the entity focus on change. Clarify new directions, create and implement strategic and tactical plans. Identify opportunities, guide product development and deployment cycles, and employ contemporary technologies to strategic advantage. Primary focus: Retail and Entertainment, Media, & Communications sectors.

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Executive Summary

Executive level management, technology innovation and development, I/T professional services, sales and marketing experience. Selected accomplishments:

• Founded several software and services companies, including the largest Retail Industry software company in the US at the time. Line responsibilities included product development and support, product delivery, and systems integration.
• Experienced with managing business growth & development, and with product development & support. Created Recruiting, Professional Development, and Marketing Departments; created and managed several eCommerce, Manufacturing/Distribution/Retail and Health/Pharmaceutical professional services practices; created and managed revenue streams; developed and published software development methodologies.
• Well-versed in contemporary multi-tier, collaboration, and Internet technologies, as well as media and new media technologies; accomplished at conceptualization and architecture of complex business systems; and creating and managing teams to successfully design and build the systems.
• Experienced with software development and integration, with special emphasis on Internet Technologies and e-Business/e-Commerce and on the Retail/Distribution and Media/Entertainment/Communications Industries.
• Created interactive television technology and a new paradigm for television audience measurement; participated in industry standards development groups for interactive advertising and advanced media; created a patent portfolio for a variety of digital cable/television technologies and methods.
• Taught Entrepreneurship and Innovation graduate courses as Adjunct Professor of Management at Penn State Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies. Also taught undergraduates at The Philadelphia Center.
• Published articles and delivered seminars on a wide variety of technology and business issues, most recently (1/29/06) delivering the Keynote Address to the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) Annual Convention.