
V.P. Marketing @ Strategic Information Technology (SIT)
Toronto, Canada Area

V.P. Marketing @ Strategic Information Technology (SIT)
Toronto, Canada Area
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — Present (6 years 6 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 4 months)
Merger and Acquisition and strategic technology consulting. Working with various associates, I guided executives on potential acquisition candidates in addition to online marketing strategies.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Co-Founder (along with Britt Johnston) of a company that was based on open source technologies such as MySQL, Apache, PHP, and Perl. It was successful, from an industry award perspective, but failed to turn a profit. The company was owned, wholly, by Progress Software Corporation.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Worked with senior management to scout and analyze potential acquisition and business development opportunities.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Business development and marketing role exploring new markets for InSystems. Played pivotal role in the merger of InSystems and FastForms ensuring that major business processes were integrated.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)
January 1996 — March 1998 (2 years 3 months)
Merger and acquisition scouting and analysis.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PRGS; Computer Software industry)
August 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 5 months)
Senior pre-sales role at Progress Software.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
May 1993 — August 1993 (4 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1992 — April 1993 (5 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1987 — March 1990 (3 years 1 month)
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CCUR; Computer Software industry)
June 1981 — March 1987 (5 years 10 months)
Support deployment of Concurrent Computer Coropration minicomputers using OS/32 or a Unix variant, across Canada.
Engineering Technologist , Electronics, Software , 1978 — 1980
1973 — 1977
Pragmatic Marketing Attendee
Presidents Club - AT&T (1987)
Presidents Club - Progress Software (1993)
Award of Excellence - Strategic Information Technology (2003)