Chip Vanek

Dynamic, hands-on Engineering Manager with proven experience in building teams and
creating dynamic websites. Success creating innovative systems in tight
collaboration with users and sponsors within well managed budgets and timelines.

Highlights

10 months as VP Engineering for a high traffic Bible site with a focus on building a Web2.0
rework for the same core site audience (8 Million unique users per month).

• Defined a plan and built a team to create a semantic web oriented Bible experience.
  

• Build a highly automated infrastructure for both the existing site and new read/write site.
  

9 months as VP Engineering of a social giving network startup that is focused on connecting
donors to interesting local nonprofits and accelerating the revenue collection of these nonprofits.

• Took a team initially in crisis and lead them to deliver a quality and innovative site.
  

5 months as SalesForce consultant for Genentech integrating of a business critical SalesForce
patient reimbursement management application with McKesson and other vendors.

• Joined a project in crisis and delivered a effective vendor integration solution.
  

1 year as VP Engineering of a medical social network startup that is focused on the clinical,
business and personal needs of America's 1 million practicing Physicians.

• Pragmatic hands-on leadership of a energetic team of experts in the creation of a dynamic site.
  

• Maintained company focus on the process and data needs of key partners and advertisers.
  

4 years as MIS Director of a fast growing EDA Software startup, fast pace development of
operational systems for Magma's explosive growth (200 to 860 in 4 years). Deep hands on role in
constant evolution of operational systems; sales, support, product management, and finance.

• Leveraged on-demand services and outsourcing along with the recruitment of key in-house
  

resources to deliver highly cost effective and innovative business operational services.

4 years as CTO of an innovative Web CMS startup, designed and developed a powerful AJAX &
web services framework optimized for self-service sales and marketing automation.

• Created solutions for global collaboration of corporate marketing and alliance partnering.
  

• Managed software development projects that incorporated outsourced IT resources, tight
  

timelines, open source software components, and dynamic implementation cycles.

8 years as IT Service Manager & Architect with Hewlett-Packard, diverse experience as a
driven technology leader and solution designer at this global information technology powerhouse.

• Initiated and drove IT programs that delivered highly visible business operational value.
  

• Marshaled multiple raw projects out of HP Labs into customer delivered products.
  

• Defined Corporate Architecture role to guide HP $300 million internal IT infrastructure budget.
  

• Lead the technical delivery architecture of a $250 million joint initiative with Microsoft.
  

Built a team to reengineer a large maturing website (BibleGateway.com) with over 10MM active users per month.

Defined a plan and recruited a team to deliver to a highly ambitious feature roadmap. Used a weekly agile software delivery cycle to show results for the key stakeholders and to refine the new site requirements. Delivered reusable results to meet the evolving needs and changing business leadership teams. Built out large scale data center and cloud operational environments.

• Lead the team in using the latest Ruby on Rails techniques to enable stability and extensibility.
  

• Used a focus on specification and testing to ensure stability and cost effective maintainability.
  

• Led the design of an eBook conversion pipeline to marshal content into the new site.
  

• Built an automated Amazon AWS based infrastructure for existing 100 Million page view site.
  

• Explored NoSQL alternatives (Redis, MongoDb, ..) to support the new user post oriented site.

Took a group in crisis and created the focus and activities that allowed them to work as an effective
team. Developed the plans and processes that enabled a bi-monthly agile software delivery cycle.
Focused rapidly evolving business ideas into a stable, secure, and engaging site.

• Lead the team in using the latest Ruby on Rails techniques to enable stability and extensibility.
  

• Used a focus on specification and testing to ensure stability and cost effective maintainability.
  

• Led development of tight integration with SalesForce, Zuora, EventBright, Twitter, & FaceBook.

Joined during the final phase of a large project were little critical integration development had been
started. Defined and supported the technical development of these interfaces at lightning speed.

• Jumped in and worked the project out of a deep whole of missed expectations.
  

• Mentored and supported a diverse team of inexperienced developers, analysts and testers.
  

• Sharpened my already deep experience with SFDC apis and the apex development.
  

Recruited and lead a team of Ruby on Rails "rock stars" to evolve an initial prototype into a rock
solid destination social network exclusively for the clinical and lifestyle needs of US Physicians.

• Used bi-weekly releases and a focus on reuse to incorporate rapidly evolving business ideas
  

into a stable, scalable, secure, extendable, and engaging user generated content site.

• Incorporated the latest Rails oriented tools and techniques to deliver user functionality quickly.
  

• Used a focus on specification and testing to ensure stability and cost effective maintainability.
  

• Maintained active experimentation of key web scaling and infrastructure management
  

technologies to ensure the site will always be ready for growth.

Created an engaging integration between Salesforce.com and key support & R&D processes. Delivered visibility of customer commitments, customer engagements, and key metrics to manage the software quality and rapid addition of new capabilities into Magma's products.

• 750-seat integration of SFA, Customer Service, and Product Development became an award winning customer success story for Salesforce.com and key Magma operational system.
  

• Recruited an amazing team to enhance the system and provide proactive support during Magmas explosive growth of R&D and support engineers in India, China, Korea, and Israel.
  

• Developed a strongly Web 2.0 oriented customer support portal using Ruby on Rails with tight Salesforce.com integration that is critical to managing support costs and issues visibility.
  

• Drove the outsourced implementation of SAP to support; revenue recognition, order management, & core financial operations of this $200MM software company.
  

• Enhanced the initial SAP implementation by hiring key resources and creating key FI/CO reports and processes to enable the CFO's goal of a global 5-day period close.
  

• Deep SaaS integration experience; Combined Salesforce, Intraware, & SAP into a tightly integrated and easy to use software license delivery and product quoting system.
  

Created an innovative web services product focused on self-service collaboration. Delivered one of the first AJAX based collaboration platform similar to what drives Web2.0 sites today.

• Proved the flexibility of the product by quickly creating solutions that included: adventure travel, photo sharing, resort operations, and associations membership management
  

• Gained insights into the value of funding, marketing, operational support, and technology that are required to create a successful software product to a diverse set of customers.
  

• The Windows/Linux hosted web product supported: RSS, XML, RDF, SOAP, XML-RPC, LDAP, SMTP, AJAX UI, and scaled via federation and automated software distribution.
  

• Deepened my existing Linux, BSD, win32 system skills with hands-on use of Apache, C, Java, Python, Perl, Php, Zope, mySQL, jBoss, .NET, Exchange, and other open-source products.
  

Drove the sales effort of HP sales teams in Federal government. Delivered turnkey solutions for the Dept of State, IRS, US Army, PTO, Defense IS Agency, and others

• Designed a collaborative sales operations & partner management system to coordinate the operations of joint HP & Microsoft sales and consulting team.
  

• Created HP Labs technology prototypes to aid the sales effort of HP with Dept of Defense (DARPA & DISA). Well exceeded my quota with the win of a $130 million services contract.
  

Strategically launched an innovative program to coordinate IT architecture across HP IT to effectively integrate rapidly emerging Internet commerce technologies. This was a self-initiated activity that became a model for a new central IT role (Enterprise Architect).

• Performed gap analysis for enterprise IT projects and provided architecture review consulting for IT teams worldwide. I reviewed evolving products from WebMethods, Ariba, I2, Manugistics, Tibco, Oracle, Seibel, BEA, WebLogic, Vitria, CommerceOne, Active Software.
  

• Initiated and managed a cross disciplinary program to accelerate the adoption of software technologies created by HP Labs. Promoted technologies with product divisions and rising funding for "eat your own dog food" projects within HP. Drove the customer release of Changengine and AdminFlow. Broaden awareness of eSpeak, an early web service.