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Paul Reed
Bio – Executive VP, Consulting Services
As Executive
Vice President of Consulting Services, Paul leads a seasoned team
of practice directors, consulting managers, technical architects,
project managers and technical developers.
He has 23 years
of IT industry experience including roles as Senior Manager / Director
/ VP of consulting services, Director of IT, Director of Sales and
Marketing Systems, QA Director, Senior Developer, DBA, Systems Administrator,
etc. with firms such as Price Waterhouse Coopers, Millennia Vision
/ Quovera, AlphaSoft Services, Brightware Software, Organic Online,
PharmChem Laboratories, Guardian Industries, Peabody Floway International,
NCR Corporation, and Great American Federal Savings and Loan.
Paul’s
industry experience includes Financial Services, Commercial Software,
High Tech / Discrete / Process Manufacturing and Biotech. Previous
clients include Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, State Compensation
Insurance Fund, Nestle Foods, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Cisco Systems,
Nortel Networks, 3Com Corporation, Stanford University, Blockbuster
Video, Downey Savings and Loan, Santa Fe Pacific Gold and others.
Paul graduated
with honors (Cum Laude) from San Diego State University with a B.S
in Information Systems and Business. He is a PMP certified project
manager from PMI. He has significant SDLC experience using Coopers
and Lybrand’s Summit D and Summit PM, Oracle Corporation’s
AIM, and Rational Software’s Rational Unified Process (RUP)
methodologies.
He has managed
a broad spectrum of projects including:
- Multi tier
web and e-commerce development
- ERP and CRM
3rd party package implementations
- Full lifecycle
SDLC RDBMS applications
- Rules engine
and AI based solutions
- Enterprise
client server and legacy development, deployment and maintenance
- Enterprise
Application, Integration (EAI) solutions
- QA planning
and testing (white / black box, automated testing, test bed regression,
etc.)
- Numerous
strategic and architecture assessments, feasibility studies, strategic
technology requirements and technology selection engagements including
RFI / RFP development, product review and scoring, licensing contract
negotiation, SLA development, etc
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