Vice President Technology Services

John P. Hudak

Leadership

Transformative technology business leader and enterprise solutions provider. Effective

management of sales, customers, delivery, and infrastructure. Broad executive-level technology

consulting experience and business acumen. Directly accountable for bringing in business, driving

margins, and successfully delivering elegant, high quality, technology solutions to fortune 10-1000

CIO’s.

Broad business background- enterprise application and OS/systems development, government

sales, contract negotiation, technology team building/staffing, T2/T3 sustained engineering, and BPO.

20+ years delivering hi-visibility software projects and directly managing organizations, projects,

and initiatives from 8 - 250 engineers in scope. Proven leadership building a strong, highly skilled

technical organization that can enable the business. Proven results turning around technology teams.

12+ years full-time hands-on designing, developing\coding, testing, and shipping world-class

solutions on behalf of Microsoft for billions of users. Key contributor on core feature teams, directly

responsible for some of the most visible customer facing features in the Windows 98 – Windows 8

releases.

5+ Years providing executive level consultation services, positioning small businesses for

success.

Proven ability to evaluate and develop technical staff; assess intellectual assets, and minimize

risks.

Strong communication and documentation skills; able to present critical information to

executives, stakeholders, and clients just as effectively as communicating with engineering teams and

support staff. Ability to influence & sell to employees, customers, and key stakeholders.

Results delivering complex, technical, projects that require collaboration & cross-group

coordination.

Proficiency to assimilate feedback from sales, marketing, executives, clients, developers,

program managers, usability analysts, and other stakeholders to determine effectiveness and priority.

Diverse experience shipping software solutions across verticals- Software, E-Commerce,

Financial, Manufacturing, Automotive, Publishing, Logistics, Government, and Health IT in various roles.

Experience

Vice President Technology Services

Applied Decision Technologies

Deluth, GA (2013 – Present)

Partnership arrangement, providing business coaching, technology sales, & product delivery.

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Position involves management of a 17 person off-shore product delivery team, developing a big-

data supply chain optimization and demand forecasting ERP product. Directly accountable for

RFP’s/sales, designing and engineering revenue generating features in the product, & customer

contract fulfillment.

Responsible for all aspects of product development (business requirements gathering, product

road-mapping, feature design & database architecture, mobile mockups, group program management,

setup of multi-national DEVOPS infrastructure, build engineering, technical mentoring, and whatever

else is required to ensure the business is well positioned to bring a world class, highly competitive ERP

Suite to market using a blended-rate staffing model.

Principal Vice President Solutions Delivery

Amovius, LLC

Melbourne, FL (2012-2013)

Travelled and provided executive IT consultation services to CIO’s and directors at major Fortune 10 &

Fortune 1000 clients including GE Water & Power, Hewlett Packard, NASCAR, and NERC.

Responsible for standing-up a government sales department with assistance from the SBDC and

HPES. Developed federal contract sales vehicles including GSA MAS Schedule 70, Alliant SB, and the

VA T4 IDIQ pipeline. Prepared government solicitations, developed business credentials, prepared

responses to RFP/RFQ’s, and implemented government marketing & sales plans.

Personally prospected, nurtured, and closed 2.5 million in new revenue opportunities within the first 6

months, putting two feature teams to work and creating 10 new engineering jobs for 2-4 years.

Managed a turn-around effort for a 40 person software development, IT staffing, and T2\T3 support

organization. Promoted from Director of Development to partner / VP of software solutions delivery,

further overseeing key commercial accounts, as well as external C-level customer communication.

Successfully downsized operations, rewrote company contracts (MSA’s, SOW’s, etc…) and transitioned

the company staffing model over to a contingent, virtualized on-shore workforce to lower operating

costs, drive wider margins, and improve both talent acquisition and employee satisfaction.

Further served in an interim COO capacity reporting to CEO; helping to manage the day to day

business- revenue, marketing, sales, accounting, recruiting, facilities, payroll, HR, and sales.

Opened a full-desk IT staffing office, brought in business, hired account managers, performed technical

interviews, recruited and staffed major IT shops like Carnival Cruise Lines and Assurant.

Successfully drove initiatives and authored employee training materials to modernize all verticals of the

software delivery process throughout the SDLC. Authored and delivered slide decks for monthly all

hands meetings. Stood up a new office and modernized all IT and development infrastructure.

Principal Software Development Engineer In Test Lead (IV)

EBSCO Industries

Birmingham, AL (2011 – 2012)

Developed a high availability SAAS mobile product and a web service platform for STM publishers.

Implemented continuous integration & enterprise-wide automation initiatives that enabled the business

to react more quickly to customer requests, and release software with a higher level of confidence.

Effectively reduced development time by 1/3rd, saving 1.25 million dollars annually.

Rolled-out automated command line builds, test tools & automation, static code analysis tools,

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automated integrations and deployments, gated check-ins, UI automation, test harnesses/frameworks,

virtualized test environments, software prototyping tools, distributed test execution and management

systems, issue tracking, code coverage processes & coding standards.

Built a strong DEV & SQA organization from the ground up. Mentored SDET’s in technologies to further

product capabilities and deliver better results by fully utilizing development tools.

Set internal educational curriculum; drove testing and employee development initiatives. Setup triage

meetings. Established product health reporting system & quality metrics, code review process,

development guidelines, employee review metrics, etc. and proved the effectiveness to the business.

IC lead work included developing an in-memory browser rendering testing framework using Trident and

Web Kit in C++ and C#, along with building a publics repository.

Microsoft Software Development Engineer / Various Roles

Microsoft Corporation – User Experiences: Windows Device & Networking, Digital Media Division(s)

Redmond, WA (1999 – 2011)

Windows 8

Managed cross-team quality initiatives on behalf of Microsoft (Windows/Win-Phone, Surface).

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Managed cross-company communication & development efforts with major industry IHV’s.

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Prepared technology prototypes of leading-edge consumer technologies for Windows GM’s.

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Designed, developed, tested, and shipped the new Metro control panel and charms bar in

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Windows 8. Enabled new streaming A/V scenarios implementing DLNA and UPNP.

Enabled NFC and Wi-Fi Direct scenarios that enabled new user tap-to scenarios such as

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enabling mobile payments in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Key contributor delivering the

first working NFC user mode device driver in conjunction with NXP Semiconductors.

Participated in the development of the first WFD class driver in conjunction with Atheros.

Developed modern APIs in the Windows Runtime for developers, and designed certification

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tests for SDK’s and IHV’s to ensure reliability and standards compliance (NDEF, PCI DSS).

Duties involved assuming multiple roles, including preparing weekly progress reports and

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feature demos for executive managers in Windows reporting up through Julie Larsen Green.

Directly responsible for delivering and signing off on key features for Windows public release.

Windows 7

Ship-it-award and promotion received for delivering Windows Device Stage during the Windows

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7 release, new features which had wide impact for customers and OEM’s.

Served as the Windows DNM Division Accessibility Tenet Champion.

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Developed a Device Simulation Framework to verify complex state machines.

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Windows Vista & Windows Logo Kit

Promotion received for work on the Windows audio team delivering the new audio control panel,

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volume control, speaker setup wizard, ringtone editor, and mobile features in Windows.

Developed Windows logo certification tests for audio hardware and multimedia devices.

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Windows XP

On feature team that developed USB audio capabilities in Windows. Developed device

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simulation tools to verify USB devices work properly when plugged in.

Conducted employee evaluations for direct reports. Interviewed new hires.

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Windows 98/ME/SE/2000

On feature team that enabled streaming playback in Windows Media Player, and the timeline

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based digital editing engine that powered Windows Movie Maker. Worked with Robin Speed to

optimize audio/video playback & capture performance for the Windows 98/2000 release.

Developed a CD shimming system for the Windows SE release that recognized driver disks

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supplied by IHV’s so as to provide users a better experience when installing A/V devices.

DirectX 8

Ship-It award and promotion received for writing DirectShow sample apps in the DXSDK.

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Other/Various Experience

CEO All Hands Enterprise Solutions – Technology consulting services firm.

CEO, RAVETEK Corporation- Owner of a start-up delivering software solutions for the state.

Director of Development, AIBM Corporation- Managed product strategy, technical staff, and software

development at a small start-up developing a digitizer for a point-of-sale application.

HIT Mobile Technology Consultant - Health IT product development experience evaluating competing

products and coding an EPCR / NEMSIS 3 mobile application for ruggedized tablets that facilitates

medical billing.

Programmer Lead, DB Pros- Lead a small team developing a bar code application.

Datacenter Computer Operator, AMP- MVS Data Center Operator (Access Clearance Level 4);

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Supported various systems in a fast paced Fortune 500 company data center and assisted with Y2K

migration using JCL and CA7 working on an IBM 3590.

Technical

Proficient in both application and systems programming. Imperative, declarative, procedural,

functional, and object oriented programming using modern languages- C# (primary), C/C++, F#,

Java J2EE, MSBUILD, and WWF. Legacy experience: VB6/VB.NET/J#/PERL/Scripting

Ability to coach various development methodologies and engineering best practices- waterfall,

agile/scrum, and extreme programming.

Microsoft infrastructure technology specialist with hands-on experience rolling out the very latest

technologies and services (Server 2014, DHCP, DNS, RRAS, WDS, Active Directory, Replication,

Hyper-V, System Center 2013, SharePoint/Project/Exchange 2013, TFS & Visual Studio 2013,

Power shell, etc.). Ability to design, configure, and operate multi-site, technically complex,

software engineering environments, networks, and labs.

Enterprise automation and quality assurance specialist. [WINIDE, Visual Studio 12, Source

Depot, RAZZLE, SVN, TFS 13, MSBUILD 4.5.1, TAEF, WTT, DSF, Product Studio, MITA,

XACC, Magellan, TDMS, SQL & Web Deploy, Telerik]

Knowledge of Windows internals. User mode and Kernel mode debugging. Real-world

development experience with a wide range of SDK’s, APIs, Runtimes, and Deployment Models.

[.NET, WINRT / Metro Apps, WIN32, COM/DCOM, MFC/ATL, DirectX, DDK/HCK]

Experience delivering cloud, web, & mobile solutions on Windows, Android, & IOS, using the

latest technologies. [IIS8, ASP.NET, MVC 4, SQL 2014, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript]

Product development experience with data and customer analytics, business process

optimization, demand forecasting, big-data, and distributed systems. [ETL, NOSQL, Vectorwise,

Hadoop]

Experience with a broad range of hardware standards, formats, protocols, transports, and

technology stacks. [WOA, USB 3.0, MTP, HTTP, UPNP, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Wi-Fi Direct, WLAN,

MPEG2, DLNA, NDEF]

Product design & planning experience at all levels- finding efficient development workflows,

evaluating new technologies, applying design patterns, componentization, contracts, and

ensuring development teams work sustainably and with respect for best practices, and sound

architecture. [Visio, Project, Word, Excel, Mock-up Tools]

Quantifiable results putting together effective training materials/sessions for Program Managers,

Developers, and Testers to improve operational efficiency and raise the bar.

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