Work Portfolio for Tom Sawyer & Associates, Business and Technology Consultant & Strategist

Major Engagements:

Gateway Canyons, LLC Grand Junction Colorado

Provided management consulting services for a new luxury destination resort in western Colorado.

• Assisted in the development of a 10 year financial forecast by designing and implementing a financial model of resort operations and worked with Controller to integrate the forecasting model into budgeting and financial review processes.
• Assisted management in developing system requirements and selecting a vendor for the implementation of a comprehensive property management systems solution.

Guardian ProStar, Inc. Grand Junction, CO

As Chief Technical Officer, led this software and services company to commercial status serving the utility industry.

• Chief Technology and Management Consultant developing GIS/GPS technologies and services and field support strategies for this emerging GIS technology company.
• Developed concept of operations, technical specifications and requirements; hired development staff and created commercial software and services offering. Named inventor on several related patents.
• Managed company technical operations from inception to successful completion of commercial projects within target market.

Mover's Suite Software, LLC Grand Junction, CO

As President, led this software company from start-up stage to market-leader position in vertical moving industry software market.

• Led company from concept to operational status.
• Guided company through start-up, "angel" and debt financing.
• Built sales and marketing organization from the ground up.
• Developed next-generation enterprise software application suite that has received industry recognition as best-of-breed and to commercial acceptance (sales to customers).

Western Regional Networks Denver, CO

As President of this regional Internet service provider, assigned to roll-up and sell consolidated ISP operations to a strategic buyer.

• Directed the merger and operational consolidation of three Colorado regional ISPs.
• Led the re-engineering of operations.
• Completed the consolidation of billing, accounting and service delivery infrastructures.
• Positioned the company for sale, negotiated and finalized multi-million dollar sale of the operation to a strategic buyer.

Filehaven.com – Intessera Technologies Group, a TCI Company Denver, CO
Founder & CEO, then Vice President of Business Development

• Raised capital, founded and managed the development of FileHaven™ an Internet service firm that provided data storage "by-the-slice" to on-line subscribers. FileHaven™ was a pioneering Application Service Provider (ASP) offering.
• Sold FileHaven.com to Intessera Technologies Group, a subsidiary of the cable giant, TCI, then served as VP of Business Development for related product line.

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Fortune 100 Corporate Experience

 

Lockheed Martin Aerospace, Denver, CO
Director – Integrated Technology & Telecommunications – Titan IV Missile Program

• Managed large, multi-location corporate I/T environment with 7,000 end users and an annual operating budget of $30M.
• Information Technology project lead for Project Challenge, a comprehensive two year business process re-engineering of the Titan IV missile program.
• Awarded the Denver Aerospace Information Technology 'Outstanding Achievement of the Year' award for concept development, management implementation and sale of enterprise integration project to the U. S. Air Force.

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And, along the way, Tom...

• Developed an integrated CRM architecture for a high-end Colorado destination resort.
• Served as Chief Technology and Management Consultant to create a commercial WI/FI roll-out for a WI/FI services company.
• Led a real estate MLS company in developing a web-based ASP Multiple Listing Service (MLS) managing a primary development subcontractor.
• Developed new business opportunities for and sold a public messaging delivery concept to Denver Regional Transit Authority (RTD) for an I/T consulting firm.
• Represented a Wireless Point-of-Sale developer in negotiations with Skytel Mexico in Mexico City and provided software and hardware vendor management consulting services for the company as they integrated their product with Skytel messaging infrastructure.