JAMES MICHAEL BARRY
24 Glen Gary Drive
Mendham, New Jersey 07945
Home (973) 543-6067 Cell (908) 256-9409 james@jamesbarry.com
http://www.jamesbarry.com

Executive Profile
Senior Executive with experience in building over a dozen software and Internet products from inception to market. One Software as a Service product and one software product have each achieved over $1 billion in revenue. Achievements have included troubled project turnarounds, building successful offshore teams, multi-site software development management, rebuilding a data center, introducing high reliability and measurability in applications, melding technology teams into business driven delivery teams, building agile software methodologies, ability to deliver on time.

EXPERIENCE

Partsearch Technologies
Chief Information Officer New York, New York January 2008 – Present
Managing team of 50 employees in all aspects of company technical operations in a $70 million revenue, venture funded company. Exposed the 10 million part catalog via Web Services to the client base of 30 retailers and several large warranty and service companies throughout the US. Partsearch ships over 1 million packages on behalf of its clients per year.

  • Overhauled the technical infrastructure, including dropping downtime over 90% and increasing response time by over 75% in first 90 days
  • Added phone ordering application info as voice option on 800# to reduce call costs
  • Enhanced ordering rules engine which resulting in $1,000,000 in annual cost savings
  • Extended corporate ordering systems using Web Services embedding parts ordering into external service companies dispatch applications – Business Unit sales up 400%
  • Overhauled website design on corporate retail site increasing sales 60% Year Over Year
  • Instituted Agile Development Environment, relocated corporate data center, introduced new database taxonomy
ADP – Employer Services Roseland, New Jersey      April 2002 – January 2008
Sr. VP Application Development, Payroll and HR Front End Applications August 2003 - 2008  
Management of full lifecycle of products that produce over $2 billion in ADP sales. Products range from newly introduced thin client front end, with fast growth of features; to mature thick client front end application development. Directly responsible for managing a $32 million budget. Managing a direct reporting team composing of 252 developers, architects, testers and analysts and project managers in NJ, Atlanta, India and Brazil along with a matrixed team of over 300 employees.
  • Senior executive running a joint development project between SAP and ADP with a 7 figure development budget across development teams on three continents between the two companies.
  • Directed new Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) serving as the foundation of next generation architecture for hosted input applications within ADP and external vendors to tie their applications to ADP apps.
  • Drove delivery, strategy and specifications on Payroll and HR products both hosted and client server based
  • Rebuilt a SaaS product with features and reliability that drove sales from $25 million to over $1 billion in 5 years.
  • Built new high HR management system across three business units, in 12 months to deployment with multi-tenancy.
  • Increased reliability ASP hosted products from 10’s of outages/month to 99.99 % uptime, while reducing hosting costs over 75% per hosted client.
  • Focused on integration of existing products into hosted solutions that service over 100,000 companies and have 100’s of thousands of users servicing 35,0000,000 + employees.
  • Managed both Java 2EE based and .Net applications connecting to a variety of ADP legacy systems.
  • Introduced project management structure and development methodology that speeds delivery and reduces errors.
  • Envisioned and built a developer portal for exposing Web Services to external partners.
VP Application Development, Internet Applications April 2002 – August 2003 
Managed a team focused on building Internet enabled products enabling ADP to reach the employee users of their products for the first time. Directly responsible for a matrixed budget of $15 million. Managed a portfolio of six software projects with over $70 million in sales generated from the products.
  • Introduced 4 new products to market in first 14 months after coming to ADP.
  • Managed the growth and scalability of the first ADP product to have 1,000,000 end users.
  • Directed from inception to delivery, the 2nd ADP product with 1,000,000 end users.
  • Built direct teams from 14 to 40 in addition to a matrixed team with over 100 additional employees.
  • Increased top line revenue by 10+ million $‘s with initial releases of new products.

Jabber (Acquired by Cisco)
Interim Chief Technical Officer Denver, Colorado      December 2001 – April 2002  
After advising Jabber for 18 months, acted as its interim CTO during a funding stage. Developed with the executive team a new business plan for an XML based messaging system including an instant messaging product. Responsible for getting company protocols XMPP submitted to major standards bodies and accepted by the standard organizations.
 Jabber Advisory Board Member April 2000 – December 2001
Collabnet
Vice President, Products & Strategy – San Francisco, California  December 1999 – Dec. 2001
Founding executive of an Application Service Provider startup that offers a set of collaborative programs for managing all phases of software lifecycle from requirements to code versioning and bug tracking. Built company strategy for turning Open Source development techniques into a repeatable collaborative software development lifecycle methodology.  I was responsible for turning the original two page vision into an enterprise ready Internet hosted product suited for sale to the Global 2000 companies. Managed teams from inception to 35 people. Worked throughout all aspects of the company.
  • Created and presented company's business plan with CEO and Founder and raised $35 million in Series A money.
  • Created revenue stream in first year of over $2 million from a supporting product extracted from the original vision.
  • Company executive responsible for closing major accounts such as HP, IBM and Motorola
  • Created and hired several groups inside company, including product management, support and consulting services.
  • Built company from a handful to over 140 employees.
  • Built and managed team that created visionary outlook technical specifications and for the SourceCast product.
  • Pursued and closed on strategic acquisitions of one company in 2001.

IBM
Senior Product Manager WebSphere – IBM Software Group Boulder, CO July 1997-November 1999
Envisioned plan for WebSphere product line and championed its initial funding and acceptance as a strategy in IBM. Developed and implemented coordinated concept strategy for the WebSphere product line – IBM’s brand for Internet Software. Developed product plans and functional specifications for standard products in the WebSphere family, including a Java based Web Application Server, XML Server, Site Management Server and Personalization Server. Press spokesman for WebSphere brand and IBM Internet Software. Product line exceeded $100 million in sales in its second full calendar year. Managed matrixed teams from 3-100 people in world-wide geography.
  • Designed the high level architecture using Enterprise Java Beans and a common management infrastructure for a unified software family designed for complete Internet capability.
  • Assembled a single unified software strategy from several disparate existing IBM Internet Software products, the strategy launched IBM sales into the Internet segment.
  • Created strategy for “Web-Up” market a new market not currently reached through traditional IBM sales channels.
  • Led IBM team for Open Sourcing of the code of the JSP and Java Servlet portion of the Enterprise Java Bean Specification with Sun Microsystems to the Jakarta part of the Apache Software Foundation.
  • Specifying the addition of XML & XSL capabilities to the server product line.

Http Server Product Manager – IBM Software Group April 1998 – November 1999
Driving core technical specifications for basic Web Server for the Windows NT, UNIX AS/400 and OS/390 markets.
  • Changed the core focus of the http server within IBM from proprietary servers (GO and WOM) to an open software solution in conjunction with the Open Source Apache Group.
  • Co-architected IBM’s move to the Apache Webserver as the primary IBM Webserver.
  • Speaker at industry conferences showcasing the Internet and Internet commerce.
  • IBM Spokesman for WebServers. Featured in many trade journal articles.
Linux and Open Source Strategic Working Group – IBM Software Group July 1997 – November 1999
Strategist for the IBM corporate wide core strategy team for Linux and Open Source. Began IBM’s first organized Linux activities including a mailing list and represented outside Linux speaking engagements for IBM. Initiated and led working group with IBM & Sun Microsystems to release the Java Server Page and Servlet specification to the Apache Jakarta project.

Strategic Acquisitions – IBM Software Group July 1997 – November 1999
Participated in the recommendation and technical due diligence task forces for seven separate IBM acquisition teams. Work included identifying and negotiating with potential acquisition companies, as well as writing the technical briefs.
Senior Internet Consultant – IBM Global Services March 1997 –July 1997
Managed Internet strategy planning and Internet application development consulting projects for IBM clients. Assembled skilled resources and plans to implement projects.
  • Presented project proposals to senior management of Fortune 500 firms.
Neodata (Acquired by EDS )
Internet Product Manager Louisville, Colorado January 1996 – March 1997
Responsible for corporate strategy planning, product specifications, implementing training and new product introductions for the largest fulfillment company in the world. Clients include Wired Magazine, IDG Publications, Ziff-Davis, Time Inc., Simon & Schuster, Nike,US Postal Service and Philip Morris. Managed team of 3 and matrixed 6 EDS employees .
  • Managed introduction and ongoing ramp up of Web commerce site that took over 1,100,000 product orders in last 7 months of 1996 over the Web.
  • Architected process flow for order flow, credit confirmations and customer order acknowledgements into System 390 mainframes directly from Web order forms.
  • Designed functional specifications for extranet that allowed direct supplier update into System 390 mainframes and allowed audited verification.
  • Oversaw the development of call center software used for the personalized response to consumer e-mails direct from call center workstations, with over 250,000 e-mails responded to in first 6 months of call center operation.
  • Developed specific product plans, sales guides and collateral material for new backend Web based product offerings
  • Speaker at industry conferences showcasing the Internet and Internet commerce.
ResNova Software Inc. (Acquired by Microsoft - 1996)
Partner/V.P. Westminster, Colorado and Huntington Beach, California 1994-1996
Responsible for software functional requirements specifications, technical support department as well as indirect sales, distribution channels for a World Wide Web based Collaboration and HTTP Server. Managed from 1-8 employees
  • Hired and trained the technical support department.
  • Managed the alpha and beta testing of over 50 test sites.
  • Developed new distribution channels in Europe, Asia, Canada and throughout the United States.
  • Helped write major contracts for account revenue of over $1,000,000.
  • Speaker at major industry trade shows.
  • Implemented World Wide Web Site for Company including server design.
InfoPort Inc./Innovative Management Services Inc.
CEO Littleton, Colorado 1988-1994
An early ISP and BBS offering industry specific information. Managed 6 people. Speaker at Internet and BBS conferences.
  • Built and operated early Denver ISP with over 2,000 users.
  • Designed and operated industry specific Web site & BBS with over 4,000 users.
  • Developed and presented monthly balance sheets and P & L ‘s for clients totaling over $1,000,000 in monthly cash flow, Created budgets and capital needs analysis’s for five separate corporate boards.
Norrell Health Care District Manager, Branch Manager Denver, Colorado
Tripled revenue, turning units first profit. Presidents Club winner.
Becton Dickinson Immunodiagnostics -Territory Manager Denver, Colorado
Procter & Gamble - Sales Representative Denver, Colorado
Education
University of Colorado, Denver Colorado - MBA - (24 hours complete)
University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado - B.A. Economics
 Technical
 National Speaker at tradeshows and conferences on Services Oriented Architectures and Enterprise Software Development Worked on industry standards, and products based on the following specifications: AJAX, HTTP, SOA, HTML, XML, SOAP,WebDav, Java Enterprise Java Beans, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, JDBC, CORBA, Java 2 EE, XMPP, SAML
 PERSONAL HONORS
IDC board of advisors 2008/9. Founding Board Member, Colorado Internet Chamber of Commerce, and Colorado Internet Professionals; Who’s Who in American West; Who’s Who in Young American Professionals; Who’s Who in Information Technology; ex-President two large homeowner associations; Interfraternity Council President and Fraternity President - University of Colorado; Eagle Scout
INDIVIDUAL
 Married, one child…coaching youth soccer...skiing...digital photography......hiking....travel and of course the Internet