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Joe is a senior technologist with over 15 years of experience in the
computer field, having served in various roles such as a
architect/designer, project manager, and developer. In his senior
management role, Joe has an influential role with steering Ness
USA's (formerly Blueflame, Inc.) strategic directions. As chief
technology officer at Ness, he is charged with keeping Ness "at the
bleeding edge of technology so that Ness can keep its clients at the
leading edge." With an interest in technology and architecture, his
goals include leveraging emerging technologies for clients'
competitive advantage; predicting industry trends and analyzing major
movements ("keeping Gartner honest and accurate"; "future-proofing"
Ness solutions); providing internal consulting and advisement to Ness
architects and designers; and influencing new and high risk
technology engagements. [Note: Ness, a multinational IT services
firm with global IT assets, acquired Blueflame in the fall of 2001.
(http://www.ness-usa.com)]
Joe has a key, public external facing role at Ness. He interfaces with
strategic marketing to build industry and customer mindshare for
Ness's innovative technology solutions via his speaking engagements
at technology and business conferences; serves as the public
spokesperson for technology; and also influences the overall direction
of Ness marketing. Joe also liasons with strategic vendors, such as
Sun and Microsoft, and has served on various technical boards over
the years. During his career, he has been quoted in industry
publications, such as PCWeek, Infoworld, ComputerWorld, Network
World, Home Computing, and Wireless Week. Joe works with the
Ness sales organization to advise new, key prospects on Ness' value
proposition and technology solutions.
Joe has won industry recognition and awards for his independent
commercial software ventures and consulting engagements. He has
also served on the board of advisors for Internet startups such as
industry first-mover ePromos.com.
Joe routinely speaks at conferences around the country on subjects
such as: Mobile Computing, Distributed Computing, Knowledge
Management, Database Strategies, and Web Technologies. He
serves on various advisory boards and panels and is often called on
to participate on design review teams of major software publishers in
search of critical feedback on their products.
Joe started at Blueflame as it's director of technology in 1997. During
his tenure, Blueflame has transitioned from offering traditional
client/server services to productized service offerings that include
multi-tier distributed applications and Internet technologies. In his
tenure, Joe was instrumental in implementing Blueflame's first
corporate information portal, knowledge management system; and
initiating the web scalability and performance testing competency.
Joe has a track record for delivering solutions that leverage new
technologies and frameworks to provide time-to-market benefits and
best-of-breed solutions for clients. Many of these projects have won
awards or have been the subject of magazine articles.
Selected Project Management and Development
Lead a Ness project team that worked with the executive
management and technical staff of a venture-capital backed startup
firm to build a next-generation commercial product for the enterprise
customer care and call center market. The product, CCPro, won
various industry awards, including: CTI Magazine's Product of the
Year 1997, CTI Editor's Choice 1998, and Computer Telephony
Magazine's Best of Show for Fall 1997. CCPro was a multi-tier, multitechnology
development effort that leveraged advanced component
technologies using Java, C++, and Visual Basic to build highperformance
services, graphical scripting tools, and
management/monitoring consoles.
In 1992 and 1995, spearheaded two projects at Farpoint Systems that
were highlighted by ComputerWorld and Databased Advisor
magazines. AESOP and AESOP for Windows were developed for
PSE&G, the Northeast's most profitable public utility, to promote a
large scale energy conservation plan for its 250,000 industrial
customers. "What PSE&G is doing with technology is probably on the
cutting edge," said one PSE&G customer. At the time of the article,
AESOP had saved the utility approximately $30 to $60 million in plant
construction costs.
In 1989, awarded the General Managers Award by the Senior Vice
President and General Manager of CIBC-Oppenheimer. Recipients
are recognized for excellence and team collaboration for significant
contributions toward achieving the corporate mission. As an assistant
vice president in charge of US Operations applications development,
led the development of the Customer Profitability Model, an EIS
system that helped CIBC achieve high profitability by identifying and
focusing business on the top 15% of corporate customers.
Commercial Software Successes
Joe's background not only includes work in consulting and corporate
IT, but also in the highly demanding commercial software publishing
world. Joe is experienced in the fast paced world of startups and
commercial software development.
In 1989 and 1994, successfully conceived, developed, and shipped
two award-winning commercial products in Internet time (in pre-
Internet days). The first, ScriptView, went on to win the annual
Paradox Informant Magazine Reader's Choice award for best tool in
its category for each year from 1991 through 1993.
In 1994, developed and launched AppExpert for Windows, an add-on
to Paradox, designed to make it easy for novices to create database
applications with little or no programming. Innovative concepts such
as a visual component repository, programming wizards, and an
architecture for hooking in third-party extensions, were designed into
AppExpert. AppExpert won the Databased Advisor Magazine
Readers Choice Award for Best Paradox Third Party Addin for 1994.
AppExpert was so successfully received that it was acquired by a
major software vendor within the first several months of its launch.
Journals and Publications
Joe contributes his ideas and insights to various industry publications.
Over the years, he has written numorous articles and editorials about
technology. Some highlights:
"Data Access Options with VJ++," 1997 cover story in Microsoft
Interactive Developer
Delphi In Depth (McGraw Hill, 1996). Power Techniques from the
Experts. Co-authored his book with a group of leading database
developers.
Paradox for Windows Essential Power Programming (Prima
Computer Books, 1993). Topics in his 18-chapter book include query
and reporting techniques, leveraging DLLs, and code optimization
techniques.
1991-95, contributed articles on various topics—including database
development techniques, OLE, intuitive ser interface design, and Web
technologies—for Paradox Informant, Delphi Informant, and
Databased Advisor, the leading trade magazines for the Paradox,
Delphi, and dBase products.
Presentations
Joe speaks annually at key industry conferences and has lectured
audiences in the U.S. and Great Britain. He also presents issues and
topics to executives at Ness's quarterly CIO Breakfast. Highlights
follow:
In February 2002, Joe addressed the Internet World Wireless
2002/Pocket PC NY conference. His presentation discussed
developing applications for the mobile enterprise with the .NET
framework.
In the Spring of 2001, served as an expert panelist on the topic of
leveraging collaborative technologies for a discussion on managing
distributed teams at the Global Leadership Summit for the University
of Maryland and the Center for Creatlive Leadership (ranked #1 by
BusinessWeek for executive and leadership development programs).
In October 2000, participated as a key panelist in
Internet.com/AtNewYork.com's panel on mobile technology.
In September 2000, spoke about mobile technology at Johns Hopkins
University.
In June 2000, invited to speak about mobile eBusiness and wireless
applications at Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco.
In 1999, spoke about Knowledge Management and Enterprise
Information Portals at KMWorld'99 in Dallas and at DCI's Explorer in
New York City and Washington, DC.
In 1998, spoke about scalable Microsoft Transaction Server
development to 1,200 developers at Microsoft's annual TechEd
conference in New Orleans. The prior year, he gave talks about Java
and COM at the TechEd conference in Orlando.
In 1996 and 1997, presented "Developing Internet Applications" and
"Building Client/Server Applications with Java" at Microsoft Developer
Days III, Microsoft Developer Days'97, and the Microsoft VJ++
Developers Conference.
1991-94, gave technical presentations and keynote pre-conference
tutorials about database technologies at each of the annual Borland
Developer Conferences. In 1992, appointed to the Borland Developer
Conference advisory board as a member. In 1993, named the
chairperson for the advisory board for the following year's conference.
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Recent Specialties:
Mobile computing
Knowledge management
Distributed computing
Internet technologies
Component architectures
