Resume

• 2004

  Ph.D.

  Computer Information Systems

  Elected to Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science Honor Society). Member IEEE and ACM.

• 1996

  Tetra International (acquired by Sage)

  Maidenhead

  England UK

  Began as E.V.P.

  Product Development with responsibility for engineering

  QA

  documentation and localization. Reorganized problematic business units into single functional organization. All areas were IS0 9002/TickIT certified. Formed the first product management department at Tetra. Key member of team that led to Tetra’s successful IPO. Set up offshore development in South Africa.

  E.V.P.

  Product Development

  Tetra International (acquired by Sage)

  Davie

  FL

  Responsible for software architecture

  cloud services

  web properties

  analytics

  and product development.

  CTO

  HurricaneStore.com

  Fort Lauderdale

  FL

  Cunard Lines – Performed study and analysis to recommend direction for their CRM and back office systems

  which ultimately included Seaborn Lines and parent company Princess Cruise Lines.Resulted in consolidation of back-office operations

  improved workflow

  and consistent processes across the lines.\nFlorida Power & Light – consulted on their Smart Grid project. Research on comparative Smart Meter projects. Business process analysis for Smart Meter service unit. Potential Big Data storage and analytics options using Hadoop.

  Principle Consultant

  4P Partners

  Inc.

  San Jose

  CA

  Tetra’s ERP software is deployed in over 60 countries in 17 languages. In early 1999

  Tetra became part of Sage Group plc.\nIn May 1998 appointed President

  Tetra International with responsibility for all functions in the U.S.

  including sales

  marketing

  professional services

  and support. Continued as Executive Vice President of Product Development. Appointed to the board of directors after Tetra’s public floatation in November 1997.

  President

  Tetra USA

  Tetra International (acquired by Sage)

• 1994

  Adobe

  Queralyze

  LLC

  4P Partners

  Inc.

  Chordiant Software

  Inc.

  San Jose

  CA

  Responsible for development

  quality assurance

  documentation

  training

  and localization for all Frame products. Multi-platform development for Windows

  Mac

  Unix

  and NeXT. After Adobe acquisition

  managed publishing products FrameMaker

  PageMaker

  InDesign

  and the remainder of the Aldus portfolio.

  VP Engineering (Frame)

  VP Publishing Engineering (Adobe)

  Adobe

  IEEE

• 1990

  Symantec

  HurricaneStore.com

  Troy University

  Online

  Primarily teach graduate courses in Project Management

  Information Systems

  analytics

  and global business. Developed the new Project Management graduate curriculum.

  Lecturer

  Sorrell College of Business

  Troy University

  Vantive was the leading provider of integrated software for CRM

  sales

  field service

  quality

  and help desk functions. Vantive was acquired by PeopleSoft in 1999 (now part of Oracle).

  Vantive (acquired by PeopleSoft

  now part of Oracle)

  Novato

  CA

  Started as Dir. of Engineering. Promoted to GM with complete P&L responsibility for the Project Management business unit

  including international markets. Shipped Time Line 5 (PC Mag Editor's Choice). Created new products Time Line for Windows/Mac and GuideLine.

  General Manager

  Project Management Group

  Symantec

  Dallas

  TX

  Responsible for all aspects of development for the web-based software suite. Queralyze offers a SaaS educational product suite designed to help students actively improve in the areas of research and writing. Multi-level analytics are generated for instructors and administrators. Our current technology stack is AWS Lambda using Javascript

  Express

  and Redux. Database is AWS Aurora. We operate in an agile (SCRUM) environment.

  VP Engineering & CTO

  Queralyze

  LLC

  Joined CHRD when private and was part of the IPO team. Created financial services application group. Identified and successfully integrated first acquisition; White Spider Software in New Hampshire. Arranged offshore development with Tata in India.

  Chordiant Software

  Inc.

• 1988

  Etak Inc.

  Vantive (acquired by PeopleSoft

  now part of Oracle)

  Worked with customers to design solutions using Etak's desktop GIS mapping software.

  Etak Inc.

  MBA

  Business / Marketing

  Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma (Business School Honor Society)

• 1975

  BA

  Math / Computer Science

• HTML 5

  IPO

  HTML

  Mergers

  Management

  Software Development

  Quality Assurance

  Strategic Planning

  Web Development

  Mergers & Acquisitions

  Process Development

  JavaScript

  Web Applications

  CRM

  Offshore Software Development

  XML

  SDLC

  Knowledge Management

  Analysis

  Project Management

  Sherman

  Steven