James H. Comstock 720-***-****
************@***.***
www.linkedin.com/in/jimcomstock/
Littleton, Colorado 80120
Summary
An executive team player who thrives on managing companies, sales,
marketing, information technology, software development, operations, and
technical and support teams throughout the world to provide reliable and
effective technological, operational and customer solutions supporting
corporate initiatives and strategic goals.
Currently I'm focused on augmented marketing, lead generation,
qualification and sales automation leveraging analytics and big data. As
a bridge translator among Marketing, Sales, Operations, Technology and
Finance, I've been focusing on how to solve what I've found to be a
universal challenge of designing processes and systems to increase
revenue and profitability using a measurable approach and growing the
people (customers, vendors and employees) to thrive. I've been doing this
using CRM systems, Marketing Automation systems, Business Intelligence
systems as well as the Contact Centers, Fulfillment Operations, Web
Analytics, Speech Analytics and Technology to make it all happen.
I build high performance cultures leading to dramatic improvements in
quality and profitability increasing company productivity and success
which has enabled me to:
. Build several media and Internet companies including operations,
sales, marketing, technology, financial
. Create business plans for both internal focus and investor
presentation
. Develop plan for the enterprise to invest appropriately in
strategic and operational systems
. Attract, retain, motivate and focus top quality teams through
coaching, reward, recognition, and by example
. Design, sell and implement solutions to complex cross-functional
problems
. Align business needs with solutions in high pressure, rapidly
evolving and complex environments
. Balance short-term tactical and long-term strategic requirements
while matching capacity to business projections
. Assimilate new environments, industries, challenges and teams
quickly with an eye to global cultural differences
. Combine business experience, technical acumen and financial rigor
to make build versus buy decisions
Professional Experience
FulCircle, Inc. - COO/CTO - Marketing Execution & Intelligence BPO 2011 -
Present
. Strategically reposition company from commodity contact centers &
fulfillment to marketing boutique BPO offering lead generation,
qualification, sales, customer service and the analytics for
optimization
. Develop and implement products, pricing, processes and measurements to
provide profitability emphasis
. Establish strategic partnerships to develop products and improve
service levels and gross margins
. Provide vision for company and redirected marketing messaging
. Direct business development efforts and resulting product design,
pricing and implementation
. Support sales and marketing efforts, both internal and external, to
reposition company in industry
. Focus operations, technology and account management to improve
customer satisfaction and growth
. Create financial metrics and build incentives to motivate and engender
organizational change
National Cinemedia - Senior Director Operations - Fathom Events and
Meetings Division 2008 - 2011
. Developed and implemented products, pricing, processes and
measurements to provide profitability emphasis
. Initiated vendor acquisition and management initiative to improve
service levels and gross margins
. Provided vision for company and presentations for other executives,
sales efforts and team members
. Coordinated business development efforts and resulting product design,
pricing and implementation
. Assisted in sales and marketing efforts, both internal and external,
to reposition company in industry
. Directed operations, technology and theatre support for consumer and
business events
. Created financial projections, budgets, project plans and metrics to
build teamwork and focus efforts
BHTV / boomcloud - COO / CTO - Internet media & video discovery social
shopping network 2006 - 2008
. As a founder started company and built team.
. Provided vision for company and presentations for other executives,
advisory board, partners and investors
. Secured key revenue, marketing, technology and investment partners
. Created financial projections, budgets and project plans to ensure
appropriate resource allocations to strategic and tactical solutions
Cdigix - COO / CTO / CFO - Internet music & video for college student
entertainment & education 2002 - 2006
. Deployed service at over 75 leading universities while redesigning
product to include both education and entertainment oriented content
starting from the first customer
. Spearheaded new product and revenue streams including sales and
marketing programs for implementation
. Developed budgets and implemented changes to operations and product to
enable a savings of over 300% per university
. Operated redundant and fault tolerant hardware environments through
heterogeneous, clustered operating systems
. Deployed robust and resilient network infrastructures with caching
nationwide
. Outsourced project modules to Indonesia, Hong Kong and India
integrating with US personnel
. Provided vision for company and presentations for other executives,
board of directors, partners and investors
. Created financial projections, budgets and project plans to ensure
appropriate resource allocations to strategic and tactical solutions
. Built entire staff and managed them with goals, rewards, recognition
and by example
Qwest Digital Media - COO / CTO - Internet meetings & events for business &
entertainment 2001 - 2002
. Turned around the company to improve service delivery success rates by
over 60% in the first three months. Delivery success rates climbed
from 34%, to 98%, then to over 99.8% in the next 3 months, and then
finally to 99.999% in February, all while reducing staff levels
. Saved in excess of $3.6 million annualized and developed a culture of
results and accountability for over 250 people
. Directed a distributed broadcast media operation with studio and
editing facilities, data centers and staff in Nashville, Washington
D.C., Denver and Los Angeles.
. Worked with hardware, software and services vendors to design a new
network and systems architecture through building modules and buying
others for an integrated digital asset management system distributed
geographically
WarpRadio - COO / CTO / President - Internet radio distribution for
traditional radio stations 2000 -2001
. Revamped operations to reduce the average time to implement from 4
months to 1 resulting in an over 400% improvement in revenues while
reducing operating costs by 5%
. Built a technical support organization from scratch that supported
over 500 radio stations in every state of the US as well as Canada,
Europe and Australia
. Implemented robust and resilient network infrastructures connecting
all radio stations to listeners around the world
. Designed and implemented service metrics and a compensation plan to
reward excellence
RMI.NET -- CTO / VP & GM Technology & Operations - Internet service & CLEC
telephone company 1998 - 2000
. Redesigned and automated the entire infrastructure of the company,
while remaining at 32% under operating budget and using only 20% of
the planned capital budget. This resulted in a cash-flow savings of
over $2.5 million in the first year with a projection of several times
this in future years
. Partnered with hardware and software vendors to obtain over $35
million in vendor financing for the network and systems build-out
. Helped the company grow to over 100,000 customers and expanded from
a regional provider in Colorado to 11 additional western and mid-
western states.
. Managed redundant and fault tolerant hardware environments as a
telecommunications CLEC and an ISP
. Implemented Oracle, Portal and Clarify, CRM and ERP
. Coordinated customer and technical support organizations dispersed
throughout the country by implementing shared procedures enforced
through a common systems environment and distributed call center
Intergram, Inc. - CTO / VP- International FAX & integrated
telecommunications 1998 -1998
. Restructured operations in Europe, Hong Kong, Australia and the USA to
save an annualized $1.5 million in just 5 months, including service
delivery with customer and technical support
. Implemented corporate operations procedures worldwide with associated
service level goals and incentives
. Deployed redundant and fault tolerant hardware environments which
could operate stand-alone or in mesh through robust and resilient
network infrastructures
. Integrated, traditional, teleconferencing and FAX
telecommunications strategies
Williams Teleconferencing - CTO / VP - Audio & video conferencing with FAX
1995 - 1998
. Built the development and support group from 8 people to 53 as company
grew from $13 Million to $35 million
. Performed due diligence and integration of 3 acquisitions with a
combined value of over $1 billion, including the infrastructure
integration of an $800 million telecommunications system integrator
with over 200 branch offices in the US and Canada
. Implemented robust and resilient network infrastructures for
telecommunications, teleconferencing, video conferencing and bulk FAX
. Implemented Informix, and PeopleSoft, CRM and ERP with Vitria
middleware
. Developed a new corporate systems & data architecture to facilitate
these and future acquisitions and changes
. Reengineered 2 divisions and directed the change integration effort in
the USA, Canada and the UK
. Automated and managed an audio and video conferencing support center
with over 150 operators
MCI Consumer Markets -- Senior Manager MIS - Consumer Division 1994 --
1995
Cap Gemini America -- General Manager Consulting Operations 1992 -- 1993
Price Waterhouse -- Senior Manager Consulting -- Telecommunications
1990 -- 1992
Telcor - VP / Branch Manager Software Development 1987 -- 1990
Global Systems -- VP, Marketing, Sales & Operations 1986 -- 1987
Softsearch, Inc. (GE Energy Enterprises) -- VP, Marketing & Sales 1984 --
1986
CompuServe, Incorporated - Various Executive, Technical, Training, Sales &
Marketing Roles 1974 -- 1984
Education
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio -- BS Computer Science, BA Math & German --
Year abroad -- University of Salzburg, Austria
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas -- MBA studies