PETER
SORRENTINO
285 Milford Street
Manchester, New Hampshire 03102
(603) 641-0000
psorrentino@sebosis.com
http://www.sebosis.com/members/peter/resume.html
Experience
Sebosis, LLC, Manchester, NH, April 2003 – Present
Sebosis
provides information technology consulting and training. Services include developing information
technology strategies, capabilities and architectures for large, medium and
small businesses. In addition to
strategy development, Sebosis defines and implements initiatives specifically
designed to achieve strategies. Sebosis
philosophy is to formulate and directly link information technology initiatives
to business results. This ensures cost
effective, practical application of information technology.
Sample Projects include:
o Complete
strategy development, process re-engineering and execution of IT services for a
New Hampshire based Real Estate Title Company.
This strategy included migrating their industry vertical enterprise
title system to a new software platform, SoftPro, establish web site presence
& email infrastructure, upgrade telecommunications, update hardware
infrastructure, etc.
o
Analysis, option review and implementation of optimal option
for migrating the paper-based grade school grade reporting system to a new
computer-based grading and reporting system.
This migration included process analysis and re-engineering, determining
initiatives required to implement new process, execute initiatives including
system development in support of the new process, integration of new system
into existing IT infrastructure and documentation & training of users of
the new computer-based grading system.
o
Development of a web presence and online marketing plan for
a New Hampshire real estate broker.
o Development
and management of a web presence in support of a political candidate. The resulting web portal included on-line
campaign contributions, event calendar, volunteer registration and
coordination, etc.
o Analyzed current state, designed
future state, identified gaps between the two, and recommended a roadmap and
implementation strategy for a new software development infrastructure for the leading
technology development and operations outsourcing firm to America’s stock
exchanges.
The
Concours Group, Watertown,
MA, December
1997 – April 2003
The
Concours Group provides integrated management consulting, training and
research. Clients are primarily
executives of large corporations and their direct reports. Services include developing business
strategies and new business models, accelerating core business processes, and
building the technical infrastructure and organizational capacity for high
performance and rapid change.
Engagement Director
As Engagement Director for The Concours Group my primary
responsibly is consulting to Concours clients on a variety of information
technology subjects including technical architecture, IT organizational design,
application strategies, application evaluation and acquisition, application
portfolio management and IT capability assessment and development. Consulting consisted of assessing
situations, analysis, formulating and presenting recommendations and procuring
follow-on projects. In addition to
consulting, Concours research is performed.
Samples reports include: Best Practices in Business Process Outsourcing,
Information Technology Architecture for Today's Business, Application Service
Providers, Focusing IT Professionals on Business Results, Managing and
Exploiting Corporate Intranets, Capitalizing on Enterprise Systems and
Infrastructure, Today's Business Opportunities in Emerging Technology, Applications
Development in the Era of the Internet, Managing the New Infrastructure,
Transforming the Organizational Structure of IT, Business Systems in Real-Time
Development and Web-Enabling Enterprise Systems. A sample of consulting engagements is outlined below.
Digital Products Strategy
& eLearning Thomson Learning, Stamford, CT (Spring
2001 – Spring 2002)
- Developed
plans for a Thomson Learning corporate information technology capability:
principles, processes, positions and organization, metrics and measures
and standard practices and technologies
- Performed a detailed analysis
of synchronous learning product offerings then recommended top
products
- Oversaw the inventorying of
corporate wide electronic products and their attributes: formats,
content, etc.
- Developed and evaluated
several options to make business-unit specific, existing and future
electronic products visible and available throughout the corporation
- Evaluated several
business-unit specific content management initiatives for their fit in
meeting the corporate requirements and for potential consolidation of
efforts
- Provided recommendations on
approaches to cut the corporation wide costs of content management while
breaking down the business unit barriers in order to leverage existing
content
Enterprise Integration
Strategy Development & Business Alignment ING Bank, Amsterdam
(Winter 2000)
- Performed
an analysis of existing intra-business unit (bank) application integration
strategies
- Reviewed and refined business
case for an enterprise application integration (EAI) strategy
- Evaluated EAI options:
in-house and vendor provided
- Presented recommendations and
a roadmap for moving toward a standard EAI strategy
eBusiness: CTO, Strategy
Development and Implementation Cargill, Minnetonka, MN
(Fall 1999 - Spring 2001)
The Concours Group advised Cargill through the development and operations of an eBusiness ventures group. The group’s primary responsibility is to manage a portfolio of agricultural eBusiness entities: wholly owned, partially owned and consortium based. Initiatives in which I lead or was heavily involved include:
- Developed technology principles, practices and
technologies to be leveraged by each portfolio company
- Filled
an interim CTO roll for Rooster.com, one of the core portfolio
companies. Two major revisions of
the Rooster.com web site were designed, developed and deployed
- Consulted
into the technology leaders of several other portfolio companies:
Novopoint and ProvisionX
- Performed
acquisition due diligence of an information aggregation and delivery
company
- Lead
the vendor selection and contracting of a web site development vendor,
oversaw the architecture and software selection processes the vendor
implemented.
- Evaluated,
contracted and oversaw an application service provider / business service
provider for IT operations: PC procurement and support, accounting
systems, collaboration software, intranet and Internet site management,
etc.
- Implemented
via an application service provider a Cargill corporate-wide HR survey
- Fulfilled
the lead technologist roll for the Innovation Acceleration Council
Business and Architecture
Alignment International Paper, Memphis, TN (Winter 1998 - Summer 1999)
- Reviewed
existing technology architectures: physical, information, application and
implementation
- Facilitated the understanding
of business outcomes to drive and map to architectural activities
- Derived options for
strengthening the architecture
- Evaluated the options against
business outcomes
- Presented process,
organizational, performance metrics and technology recommendations.
Enterprise Technical
Architecture Development CompUSA, Dallas, TX
(Spring - Summer 1998)
- Performed
fundamentally the same evaluation, analysis and architectural
recommendations as was done for International Paper, but with more of an
emphasis on the physical infrastructure of their back office
operations.
Visix Software, Inc., Reston, Virginia, July 1993 - August 1997
Visix
produces and distributes the Galaxy Application Environment and the Vibe
Application Environment.
Galaxy is a C and C++ development environment designed for building
applications which require portability, high performance and are functionally
exhaustive. Vibe is a Java based development environment with the functionality
and efficiency of Galaxy. In addition to the products Visix provides a complete
complement of training and consulting.
Vice President, North American Operations (April 1997 - July 1997)
- Responsible
for all aspects of North American Operations including sales of product
license, professional services, and maintenance & support.
- Group consisted of an inside
sales force (telemarketing and telesales), an outside sales force, and
the professional services group of consultants and trainers .
- Executed successful staffing
efforts for inside & outside sales representatives, and professional
services consultants.
- Oversaw the development of
demand generation activities and programs including direct mail
campaigns, attending trade shows, seminars, etc.
- Manage and maintain
executive relationships with Visix customers
Vice President, Professional Services (Dec. 95 - March 97)
- Responsible
to the CEO for worldwide Professional Services comprised of Visix
Training and Consulting Divisions
- Manage staff of twenty-five
consultants and trainers; with responsibility for hiring, firing and
performance reviews
- Direct new and existing
employee training and professional development
- Present "solution
sell" of products and services to Visix major accounts (usually accompanied by the
senior sales executive on the account)
- Evaluate and respond to
detailed Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for quotes and services
- Design, development and
delivery of company training product
- Manage customer
expectations and work in progress throughout consulting assignments
- Develop business relationships
and partnerships with third party consulting organizations
- Develop Professional Services
education program for the sales force, present solution selling and
Services Sales information at Sales meetings
- Interface with marketing to
develop and produce Professional Services literature for sales, public
relations, advertising, and marketing programs
- Profit and loss
responsibilities - achieved services revenue of $5M per year with a 33%
profit margin
Partner Level Consultant (July 1993 - December 1995)
As the Partner Level Consultant for Visix my
responsibilities included coordinating with executive management to ensure our
success by working directly with strategic accounts. Several key accounts are
outlined below.
Trading System
Development J.P. Morgan, New York, London & Paris (June 95 - Dec. 95)
- Directed
development and deployment of new front office International GUI Client
- Consulted to various trading
system development groups within different LOB of J.P. Morgan
- Lead the design of systems with
a focus on: performance, robustness, object oriented design, reusability,
and use of Galaxy
- Lead several live floor error
recovery situations.
Application Architecture
Development EDS-Delco, Kokomo, IN (March 1995 - June 1995)
- Designed
and oversaw the implementation of a kernel set of reusable object
oriented classes intended for widespread use in the development of
distributed graphical user interface oriented programs.
- Mentored a new software
development team in object-oriented design and analysis, C++, and Galaxy
development.
- Architected a new internal
Delco distributed data management system.
- Presented an evaluation of
database access and reporting alternatives.
Trading System
Performance Turning & Troubleshooting
Fuji Capital Markets, NYC (January 1995 - March 1995)
- Evaluated
and recommended changes to a Galaxy developed fixed income derivatives
trading system currently on trading floors in New York City, London, and
Hong Kong.
- Advised in the design of
enhancements to the trading system, as well as a second trading system
being newly developed.
- Trouble shooting problem areas
of functionality: either increasing performance or increasing
reliability.
Developed Environmental
Compliance System Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (March 1994 - January 1995)
- Responsible
for closing and managing this $2.1M deal.
- Lead architect and development
manager of Environmental Management System (EMS); a computer assistant to
ensure Ford's compliance with the Clean Air Act of 1990. Phase I of the
project won the UniForum 1994 manufacturing client server application of
the year.
- Defined functional
requirements, designed and lead the implementation, testing and
deployment of EMS Phase I.
- The project consisted of a
three week proof of concept, followed by the employment of an iterative
development process designed to yield many intermediate pilot programs: a
GUI client for demonstration at an internal Ford environmental
conference, software system for UniForm, beta pilot program to Oklahoma,
Dearborn and other sites.
- This fifteen person effort
leveraged Informix and Galaxy. The system was designed using a dynamic
three-tier architecture.
Trading System Development J.P.
Morgan, NYC (July 1993
- March 1994)
- Designed
and implemented front office graphical UI client programs.
- Consulted to various trading
system development groups within different businesses of J.P. Morgan.
- Helped design systems for
best: performance, robustness, object oriented design, reusability, and
use of Galaxy.
Progress
Software Corporation, Nashua, New Hampshire, July 1991 - July 1993
Progress Software produces
and distributes the Progress 4GL development environment. During my tenure
Progress assigned a twelve-person team to implement their next generation
project, FutureShock. FutureShock is best described as a Java-like development
environment, unfortunately much ahead of its time.
Member of the FutureShock development team
- Designed
and implemented portable GUI classes for an in-house product Object
Oriented Development Environment: "FutureShock"
- Additional functionality of the GUI capability included
a constraint based UI layout sub-system, a synchronization class, drag and
drop, clipboard, object oriented primitive drawing model, and interactor
class patterns.
- Evaluated third party, portable development
environments including Galaxy, OpenInterface, and XVT among others.
- Evaluated the feasibility of and proper use of Galaxy
in implementing the required GUI functionality of the Progress 4GL
- Evaluated third party graphical user interface testing
tools including X-Runner and QA-Partner. Worked with the quality assurance
group to adopt the tool.
The Bristol
Group, Ltd., Londonderry, New Hampshire August
1989 - July 1991
Product Developer
- Designed
and implemented a network license manager. The manager was implemented
using TCP/IP on the Apollo DN platform, then ported to the IBM RS/6000
platform.
- Ported IsoTerm, a DEC VT340 (4 plane color graphics terminal)
from the Sun Sparc/Sun View platform to an IBM RS/6000 running X-Windows.
Xlib, Xt and Motif were extensively used in the implementation. Extensive
redesign was required to best take advantage of X-Windows on the RS/6000
platform.
- The X-Motif version of IsoTerm was then ported back to
the Sun Sparc platform, but using the OLIT OpenLook Toolkit. The X-Motif
version was also ported to the HP-UX platform along with the license
manager.
- Wrote preliminary drafts of user documentation for all
X-Windows versions of IsoTerm as well as the license manager. Worked with
a technical writer through intermediate and final versions; produced the
final product documentation.
- The newly implemented X-Windows versions of products
required my attention in several other ways: trade shows, advertising
development, and customer phone and on-site support.
Graphael, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts February 1987 - August 1989
Fifth employee of this Object Oriented Database Company
- Primary
responsibility as an Application Consultant. The position entailed client
consultations, product utilization planning, proposal writing, software
development, manual writing, and software delivery.
- My first endeavor at Graphael was to lead the port of
G-Base, the Object Oriented Database, from the Lisp Machine platform to
the Lucid Lisp environment on the SunOS platform.
- Additional responsibilities included several language
bindings of the database client interface from lisp to C, Ada, and
FORTRAN.
- The Oracle database was used to both integrate data
between the two databases and as a low level persistence model for a Unix
version of G-Base.
Daniel Webster College, Nashua, New Hampshire
Instructor
of the "Programming in C" course and the “Programming in Java” course.
Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, Massachusetts
Summer
intern 1985, 1986. Between graduate school sessions I developed a Lisp
implemented prototype of a distributed, graphical user interfaced, OPS5
development environment. Also contributed to the development of a frames based
intelligent information database.
Education
Master of Science and Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts.
Technical Summary
Hardware: SPARCStation, RS/6000, HP3000/700,
Mac, Intel-based servers and PCs
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, NT, win32s, Windows 3.1.1,
SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux: Debian, Red Hat.
Network: TCP/IP (Sockets), SOAP, various RPC implementations, Tibco’s
Information Bus (IB), various EAI vendors.
Languages: Java, J2EE, EJB, C++, C, Lisp/CLOS, Pascal, ADA, FORTRAN,
HTTP, HTML, XSL, XML, UML, ER modeling.
Graphical Interface Tools: X-Windows, Windows *, Mac, Motif, OLIT
(OpenLook), GPR, SunView, Xview.
Software Tools: CA-SuperProject, MS-Project, various P2P applications,
PVCS, ClearCase, sccs, cvs, Galaxy, Informix esql, Oracle Pro*C, Visual C++,
Developers Studio, Rational Suite, RUP, phpWebSite, OpenCMS, etc.
Databases: including MySql, Sybase, Informix, Oracle, SQL-Server,
G-Base, Object Store.
Application Experience: Object Oriented Database, Relational Database,
Graphics Class Library Development, Trading Systems, Environmental Law
Compliance System, Learning Management Systems, Content Management Systems,
Application Development Systems, Web Development Systems, Service Base
Architectures, Web Service Architectures, SoftPro, Ambiance, TrueForms.
Industry Experience: Real Estate Brokerage, Title Insurance, Software
Product Development, Bank Trading Applications, Software Consulting, Learning Software,
Information Technology Organizations, Asset Management, Business and Technology
Alignment, IT Management Consulting, eBusiness Strategy Development and
Execution, Software Engineering oriented Training, Object Oriented design and
implementation.