Post Merger Integration – Technology Strategy & Planning – Part 2
Once a detailed transition or integration plan is created, efforts at this point should...
- Employee Bio
Kevin has over 25 years of industry and consulting experience with expertise in the management and development of technically complex application systems and IT strategy development. Kevin also has detailed technical knowledge in Internet technologies, systems and data privacy and security, multiple-tier environments, enterprise applications, and technical architectures. In addition to technology expertise, he is experienced in the organizational design and management of technology focused firms and external-facing activities such as business development, writing for industry periodicals and speaking at industry events.
His technical expertise includes knowledge of the following technologies:
• Proficiencies: IT Strategy, Systems and Data Privacy Expert, Systems and Application Integration, Software Engineering & Delivery, Internet architectures, Multi-tiered Architecture, Client-Server Architecture, Networked Computing Architecture, Web Services, XML-RPC, SOAP, J2EE, XML, FIX, OFX, Microsoft .NET, Windows SDK, MFC, COM / OLE, DCOM, ActiveX, UML, Client/Server Architecture, Logical and Physical Data Modeling, Compiler Design, TCP/IP, Together/J, Rational Unified Process, ERWin, ANT, ebXML, Message Oriented Middleware, Web Application Security, Online Privacy
• Content Management Systems: Interwoven, Zope/Plone, Plumtree, etc.
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, C#, Python, 80x86 assembler
• Application Servers: WebLogic, ATG Dynamo, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss
• DB: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL ServerLife prior to Optaros:
• Director of Professional Services, US based software company specializing in Web Application Security
• CTO and Founder of Verteris, a software company serving the legal community
• CTO, Delivery Services for Viant, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in Internet technologies
• Vice President, Technology Solutions Company, a Chicago-based IT Strategy and Systems Integration firm where he was responsible for directing the technology practice.Publications:
Kevin has a BS degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. His is has also held the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) designation since 2005. He spends his spare time with his family and writing and recording songs.
• “BEA Weblogic 8.1”, software evaluation for VARBusiness magazine, February 2004
• “Linux Partner Page”, a monthly column on open source published in VARBusiness magazine, 2004.
• “The Zope Book”, Chapter on Advanced DTML, New Riders Press, January 2003.
• “Internet Application Architecture”, distributed at EC Expo, March 1997
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Post Merger Integration – Technology Strategy & Planning – Part 1
In general, when a company is acquired, there are two primary directions in which the new...