Summary of Professional Qualifications

• Wide range of experience from highly technical to supervisory and executive.
• Strong ability to bridge the gap between technology and business so that business requirements are accurately translated into technology solutions and the cost/benefit of emerging technology is clearly communicated to executive management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Currently act as CIO for 9 area small businesses.
• Demonstrated ability to manage personnel.
• Experienced and effective in leading cross-organizational groups to define and support enterprise-wide technology plans.
• Proficient technical ability in a variety of programming languages and operating platforms.

Professional Experience

President
Sequoya Technologies Group, LLC
July 2002 – present

• Founded the company, developed a business plan, and hired staff.
• Average of 80% annual growth over the last 4 years.
• Responsible for all phases of budgeting and financial management.
• First company in the region to develop and offer a web-based, enterprise-type managed service model for small business.
• Personally responsible for acting as Chief Information Officer for 9 regional small businesses with approximately 75 smaller, active clients.

Sr. Analyst and Consultant
Digital Strategies, Inc.
December 1989 – July 2002

• Met with clients to perform requirements analysis for new systems, modifications, and integration of existing systems.
• Responsible for designing solutions involving new software development and integration with vendor-supplied hardware and software components.
• Responsible for hands-on technical programming and implementation of system solutions.
• Acted as project leader with teams of client personnel to establish information architecture.
• Developed communications software that enabled daily publication of mutual fund listings in the Wall Street Journal.
• Designed and implemented software for AG Edwards that permitted their transition to a new real-time transaction processing system without the need to re-design several thousand OLTP applications.

Supervisor of Operations and System Software
Oklahoma Gas & Electric
February 1987 – August 1989

• Responsible for hiring and supervising a staff of 18 operations and systems programming personnel.
• Managed 24x7x365 operation of 2 corporate mainframe sites and a statewide proprietary network of 500 terminals and 1000 users.
• Assisted in defining budgets and managing expenses for the operation of a $10M information infrastructure.
• Led company-wide task force to design and implement a standardized, multi-host corporate network based on TCP/IP. (Note that this was in 1987 when most networks were proprietary.)
• Developed disaster restoration procedures that reduced recovery time from 24 hours to 3.
• Developed OLTP traffic routing software that increased system reliability and provided terminal device independence for application programmers.

Other supervisory and senior level technical positions
Oklahoma Gas & Electric, 1978 – 1987

Education

• Franklin Pierce College, BS in Computer Science
• University of Oklahoma, 3yrs Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Numerous vendor-specific courses in operating systems, programming languages, and operations.

Community Service

Board member
American Red Cross NH West Chapter, Keene, Dec 2005 – present

Sequoya Charitable Donation Program
Developed a charitable giving program that provides in-kind donations to numerous area non-profits chosen by Sequoya's clients.