Information Technology Cover Letter

CTO and Co-Founder

Summary

Cover Letter

CurrentLocation US: Wyoming, OH

Industry

Internet / Web / E-Commerce

Information Technology

Compensation

Current: $120,000 to $130,000

Desired: $70,000 to $80,000

WillingtoRelocate Y

PreferredLocations

Travel Availability Less Than 25% Travel

MyPerfect Job A position where completion of the project objectives is more important and unnecessary encumbrances can be identified and resolved. A challenging environment where responsibilities require flexibility and there are performance-based advancement opportunities.

DesiredTitle Open

- Software Developer and Manager

Cover Letter

I have over 22 years of excellence in the areas of Information Technology and Business Administration that include: Software Development, Integration Consulting, Project Management and Executive Management. Some of my significant accomplishments include: Promotion from Software Developer to Director of Technologies at American Express where I worked with senior executives. Designed, developed and deployed American Expresss first secure Internet-based card processing system. Co-authored an international standard that Fortune 1000 companies use to conduct business securely over the Internet. Pursuant to co-authoring this standard and promoting it overseas, being invited to speak with Leonard Nimoy on CNBCs The Next Wave. Election as a lifetime fellow on the North American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded a software company and led it through two placement offerings. Holding Board and Board officer positions on three Boards of Directors, including the international standards body mentioned above. This Board was comprised primarily of executives including: American Express, Boise Cascade, Dell Computers, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Office Depot Oracle and WW Grainger. Managed over a hundred programmers on a $90 million technology re-engineering project.

I am at my current employer since I founded it in 1997 to its current maturation point and want to now apply my skills to another challenge. Ive held my last jobs 10 and 5 years respectively and excelled and can do this for your company. I am available for either full time employment or contract assignment. My salary requirements are negotiable depending upon opportunity. My current salary is: $126,000, but during the sale of the company, weve decided to not pay the officers to establish a more solid P&L. Sincerely, David A. Liggett

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Resume

In over 22 years in the Information Technology and Business Administration fields my work experience includes: software development, systems programming, field sales, customer consulting and project and executive management.

Background Summary

My strongest skills lie in the areas of: project leadership, technical architecture and direction, software development, product deployment, systems integration and client consulting.

Business Experience

Enabling Business Technologies

(EBtech)

Formerly EPIC Systems, Inc

. (EPIC) Phoenix, AZ (1997-Present)

Principle of Enabling Business Technologies

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Founded EPIC Systems and lead the company through capital acquisition leading to the eventual sale of EPIC to EBtech.

Provided development and deployment of commercial software applications that have a retain value from R&D of over $2 million. The customer base was comprised of U.S. and International companies, including: American Express, Barnes and Noble, Boise Cascade, General Dynamics, International Paper, Motorola, and a variety of others.

Lead the company in commercial product development and deployment

Developed of two of our three product lines.

Negotiated an agreement with Motorola that permitted their sale of EPIC products.

American Express

(Amex) Phoenix, AZ (1988-1997)

During ten years at American Express, I was promoted from Software Developer to Director of Technologies, responsible for product development and technical direction for the Corporate Business Services division.

Director of Technologies

Responsible for development and deployment of Amexs technical roadmap for Business eCommerce for the divisions that marketed their offerings in:

Corporate Purchasing Card,

Business Point of Sale,

OBI an international standard for online procurement.

Provided acquisition support with technological due diligence.

Deployed business applications supporting the technical roadmap consistently under budget and ahead of projected timeframes.

Provided Technical Consulting for key Amex clients on the B2B implementation initiatives.

Technology Advisor

As an adjunct to my responsibilities of Director of Technologies I sat on the steering committee that devised Amexs technology road map.

Prior Work Experience

Prior to being recruited as an outside consultant at American Express, I held a variety of Information Technology positions in Cincinnati OH and Phoenix AZ. Which includes:

Fifth Third Bank

Square D Corporation

Cincinnati Technical College

The Kroger Company

Macro

GTE Health Systems

IBM (consultant)

Technical Background

Detailed Skills Experience

OS/VS1, DOS/VSE, OS/MVS and MS DOS 12 years

Unix (Solaris and AIX) 9 years

NT and associated Window O/Ss 6 years

C 2 years

COBOL 12 years

BAL (mainframe Assembler) 8 years

ColdFusion 5 years

HTML 6 years

Sybase 2 years

IMS 2 years

DB2 4 years

Oracle 1 year

SQL Server 3 years

Access 8 years

CICS (Command and Macro), 10 years

EDI X.12 3 years

TCP/IP, UDP 6 years

SSL (SSLeay primarily) and X.509 (digital certificates) 1.5 years

XML 1 year

B2B protocols (OBIEDI, OBIEDIFACT, OBIXML and cXML) 6 years

HTTP Servers (IIS and Netscape) 6 years

ISO8583 (Point Of Sale protocol) 5 years

OLAP (ROLAP and MOLAP) 2 years

Education

Miami University, Oxford (1978-1980) V two years towards a BS in Systems Analysis.

Babson Center for Executive Education V Six quarterly courses on Business to Business e-Commerce (student teacher for three quarters)

Awards, Honors and Professional Affiliations

AMEX: 1995 Entrepreneurial Achievement Award

BizTalk: OBI Consultant

RosettaNet: OBI Liaison

ECCMA: Corporate Project Lead for UN/SPSC Standard development with D&B

UDDI: Technical Advisor

Author: Trade publications: Electronic Commerce World, ecp.nl and iSource

Open Buying on the Internet:

o Chaired Specifications and Compliance work-groups for two years

o Co-author and founding member

References

Personal

Tom Lewis 5994 Rollingsfjord Dr., Liberty Township, Ohio 45011 513-***-****, abp8nz@r.postjobfree.com

Chris Oliver, Scottsdale, AZ, 602-***-****, abp8nz@r.postjobfree.com

Professional

American Express (Vice President and co-worker): David Masse,, ME 800-***-****, abp8nz@r.postjobfree.com

American Express (retired, my former boss): Larry Mather,, ID abp8nz@r.postjobfree.com.

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Contact Information

David A Liggett

2 Rolling Hills Drive

Wyoming, OH 45215

US

email abp8nz@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 513-***-****

Industry: Internet / Web / E-Commerce

Industry: Information Technology

City: Wyoming

State: OH

Zip: 45215

Country: US

Date: 20030305

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