Manager Vice President

PAUL W. JENSEN

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Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122 ****@*******.***

EXECUTIVE PROFILE

Technology executive with unique ability to transform information assets into profitable products and services.

Chosen to turn around underperforming technology projects and organizations. Creates strong teams and

cross-functional collaboration that delivers superior results. Expert problem solver that thrives on solving

technical and business challenges. Performs quality work and completes it on time, on budget. Deep expertise

in Legal, Accounting, Regulatory, Human Resources, and e-Learning business segments.

EXPERIENCE

SIMBIONIX USA, INC., Cleveland, OH 2009 to Present

Privately equity backed provider of education and simulation products for medical professionals and industry.

General Manager, Medical Education Division

Profit and loss responsibility to define and build new education division to double company s revenue over next

5 years.

Identified opportunity to create and monetize social networks of physicians by leveraging existing

competencies in medical procedure training and simulation and relationships with medical

associations and medical device manufacturers.

Launched first ever medical procedure training application for the iPhone and i Pad on Apple iTunes

store.

Shutdown underperforming custom courseware business with minimal impact to existing business

and customers.

WOLTERS KLUWER, INC., Chicago, IL 2006 to 2009

A $4.6 billion, 20,000 employee global leader in information services and publishing.

2008 2009

Vice President of Global IT Strategy Management

Responsible for improving IT efficiency and effectiveness across a diverse enterprise composed of 24 different

operating units. Managed a $4.6 million budget and 4 direct reports.

Identified $15 $23 million in annual IT savings by optimizing IT operations, rationalizing over

3,500 IT applications, and improving technology management.

Established a first-time, enterprise-wide governance process to manage and prioritize $47 million in

global IT projects.

Piloted application portfolio optimization in Business Intelligence (BI) applications. Identified 56 BI

applications used across the enterprise and proposed standardizing on 9.

2006 2008

Vice President of Content and Platform Manage ment

Develop enterprise-wide strategies and business priorities for content and online delivery systems.

Planned and specified next-generation online platform for 13 legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory

business units worldwide.

APLIA, INC., San Carlos, CA 2002 2004

Private equity backed start-up delivering innovative, W eb-based e-learning products for higher education.

Vice President of Engineering

Responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and expanding a fee-based, interactive e-learning system.

Turned around unsuccessful 6-month effort to stabilize platform in 8 weeks, increasing mean time

between failures from 10 minutes to 99.99% uptime .

Rapidly identified and fixed both logic and configuration errors;

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Solved network availability/response time by archite cting a new content delivery network

with 99.995% availability and an average first byte response time to .2 seconds without

increasing hosting costs.

In the first 24 months, more than 120,000 students paid for the service. The average user

signed in 3.4 times per week for 23-minute sessions.

Implemented an XML-based content production process to cut problem set production time by 50%

without increasing support costs.

Employed contextual design to create customer-focused profiles to improve product usability.

Implemented new interface that slashed user training time and improved customer retention.

MINDGARDEN.COM, Redwood City, CA 2000 2002

Early-stage start up offering Web-based delivery and administration of complex industrial and organizational

psychological assessments.

CEO / President

Responsible for providing broad leadership to pioneer and deploy new online assessment technology.

As contractor to two Fortune 100 companies, developed two customized assessment solutions.

Created XML-based language and tools for defining, delivering, and scoring assessments.

Cut assessment encoding time 95%, from 80 to 4 hours, slashing costs and enabling content

experts to efficiently revise assessments based on performance feedback.

Introduced new features enabling multiple delivery methods as well as the ability to scrape user

interfaces to enable rapid customer customization.

Negotiated partnering agreements with W eb service providers and organizational consultants to

create and deploy web-based services.

THOMSON CORPORATION 1988 1999

One of the world s largest information companies active in financial services, healthcare, law, science/

technology, tax & accounting sectors. Today it is known as Thomson Reuters.

1998 1999

General Manager / Thomson Learning, Foster City, CA

Chief Technology Officer / Int l Thomson Publishing, Belmont, CA 1997 1998

Responsible for developing and implementing shared product technology strategy for seven operating

companies with more than $650 million in aggregate annual reven ues.

Gained early Internet entry by writing business plan and securing $20 million investment.

Started new enterprise to develop W eb-based e-learning products with full responsibility for

marketing, development, production, technology and operations;

Successfully launched 30 products and captured 500 customers in first six months.

Championed investment in common software application resold by six independent operating

companies. ROI achieved in less than 2 years with $1 million in annual operating savings.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Roles included Chief Technical Officer / Chief Information Officer (1993 1997) / Vice President of

Product Systems (1990 1993) / Manager of Technology Development (1988 1990) at THOMSON

CORPORATION; Software Engineer (1986 1988) at COMPUTER COGNITION; Programmer/Analyst

(1984 1986) at PHOTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATES; and Systems Analyst (1979 1981) at LIGHTING

SCIENCES.

EDUCATION

MBA Columbia Business School Columbia University New York, NY 1997

Management Science/Mathematics University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA

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