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Business Development
 | Identifying potential business development partners |
 | Negotiating long-term, multi-million dollar strategic partnerships with large and small Internet
companies |
 | Establishing relationships with content providers |
 | Identifying and negotiating hardware, software and service agreements for
technology infrastructure |
Business Analysis
 | Extensive review of many business plans in consultation with business, angel investors
and venture capitalists |
 | Performing business and technical due diligence
on many companies in financial services, supply chain software, durable medical devices,
fasteners, mixing systems, organic LEDs, industrial fibers, education and gaming systems |
Senior Corporate Management
 | Active participant in many corporate strategic decisions including
direction setting, fiscal planning, non-technical issues, human resources,
IPO considerations, capital funding, etc |
Product Management
 | Served as a product manager of Cricket Graph for almost a year while at Cricket
Software |
 | Directed the product management department while at Reality
Online |
Technical Management
 | Lead the recruiting efforts to staff engineering departments interviewing
many hundreds of applicants |
 | Met the challenges of both small and large engineering departments having
successfully managed budgets in excess of $3 million |
 | Established department and corporate environments for such things as quality, vision,
communication and priority |
 | Strategically utilized external technology resources to better serve both
engineering and other departments |
Technology
 | Provided strategic technology direction for companies since 1992 |
 | Helped evaluate and implement content and e-commerce solutions since very
early days of the web |
 | Established security policies and procedures |
 | Modern world wide web technical concerns such as development platform,
advertising, external hosting, capacity planning and production
infrastructure |
 | Building deep, rich, dynamically generated content web site |
 | Programming languages: C/C++, PERL, SQL, VB, Java, JavaScript |
 | OS: Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux |
 | Check out what I am currently doing at Temple
University's Fox School of Business by visiting my Temple website.
I am a fellow in the eBusiness
Institute and an active adjunct professor. |
 | Developed and taught a class for two semesters on innovation at
Temple. The class guided student's through four phases of product
lifecycle including idea development, creating an executive summary,
pitching an idea and developing a prototype. |
 | Currently volunteer teaching decision making to prison inmates instructing
one-on-one,
in front of up to 20 prisoners or in front of new volunteers learning about
the program. Visit the Thresholds organization website
for more information. |
 | Spoke for a number of sessions as part of a lecture series conducted by b3
magazine called the b3 Networking
Conferences. Check out my PowerPoint presentation
here. The b3 magazine is currently out of business. |
 | Helped develop and helped teach a class on technology planning to area
arts organizations as a volunteer, through a program offered by The
Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia. The sessions
were taught in the fall of 2002. |
 | Guest lectured to a Temple University class on eBusiness.
Check out my PowerPoint presentation here |
 | Sat on a few panel discussions at various trade events while at Reality
Online and InteliHealth |
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