About me

Welcome to my personal musings. In 2002 I gave up my career in lower Manhattan and moved my family to Essex, Vermont. My wife Jane and I are now 75% complete getting our four adult children through the University of Vermont! That could be mission complete, but I have another emotional driver.

In 2007, I started on a controlled vocabulary quest. My work has been helping companies attain top line revenue growth through the use of a controlled vocabulary and search. In 2012, my vendor agnostic framework of content/data/information is adding value in defining business intelligence, enterprise content management and SharePoint™ initiatives.

My appetite for enterprise vocabulary started in 1981, I was the night-shift computer operator for Dun and Bradstreet in Stamford, CT. I was the guy responsible for moving bits and bytes around on mountable drives and tapes. Everything was neat and tidy back then, in the days when information had order.

I am looking to join a firm that sees technology value gaps caused by multiple vendors and delivers on the value of SharePoint™ for enterprise data integration, business intelligence and alignment to functional processes and activities.

Here is what I can bring to your team:

QUALIFICATIONS - Solution facilitation experience in enterprise, finance and client facing systems.

  • Business and technology value focused, with extensive experience with CIO, CFO, CMO and line of business owners.
  • Confident, conscientious and creative team member, with proven communication skills and the ability to effectively manage time and resources.
  • Track record of understanding complex customer needs and identifying solutions that help customers achieve their goals and objectives

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Self-employed
January 2008-Present

I am an enterprise taxonomist utilizing process frameworks, business intelligence, taxonomy and metadata. I developed a common sense framework and vocabulary of business processes and an ICANN registered semantic network focused on taxonomy, information architecture and access and control that is aligned to functional business processes and activities.

Strategic Account Manager
The Hackett Group
January 2007-January 2008

Hackett is a leader in SG&A research, advisory and business process benchmarking.  During my tenure with Hackett I managed the largest clients in the mid-west.  I cultivated client relationships and managed accounts through consultative processes to leverage Hackett’s retainer based advisory and benchmarking services.

Account Director/Team Leader
Gartner Inc.
June 2004-January 2007- Chelmsford, MA
April 1996-October 1999 New York, NY

During my tenure at Gartner I managed the largest brokerage accounts in New York City including Salomon Smith Barney, Bear Sterns and Paine Webber. In January of 2004 I joined Meta Group which was acquired by Gartner in 2005.  Reunited at Gartner, I was moved to the technology solutions team out of Lowell MA.  I managed technology solution companies: Sapient, Boston Consulting Group and GE Healthcare.

Account Director
Cambridge Technology Partners, New York, NY
October 1999-May 2001.
I managed New York City client relationships throughout life cycle of custom applications development.

Sales Executive
Apparel Computer Systems-Paragon, New York City
1989-1999

Account Manager that sold ERP, Warehouse and piecework payroll system and EDI to global apparel and footwear manufacturers and importers. Sample clients include; Bally of Switzerland, Timberland and Salvatore Ferragamo.

Computer Operator
Dun and Bradstreet, Stamford, CT
1981-1986

Operated 5 IBM VM/MVS mainframes. Ran JCL based batch jobs, printers and SDLC based communications devices that serviced clients in a time-share environment.

Education:

Simmons College – Nov. 2010
Boston, MA
Taxonomies and Controlled Vocabularies Certificate

Champlain College-2009
Burlington, VT
Online Marketing Certificate

UMASS Lowell- 2007.
HTML/xHTML

Developers Certificate in Adobe Suite – 2009
Developers Certificate in Dreamweaver  – 2008

Gartner University
Stamford, CT
Value Selling- multiple certificates

Norwalk State Technical College 1982-1984
Norwalk, CT

Central CT State University
New Britain, CT 1980-1981