Scott Rhodes Resume

Scott Rhodes
1040 Avenue Of The Americas
24th Floor
New York, NY 10018
212-512-0567
Scott@Metamorphic.com

SUMMARY

Senior executive with over 15 years management experience. Specializes in converting a company’s strategic advantage into a real business. Has operating business experience, start-up experience, board-level, contract and legal, business-modeling, sales and technical experience. A seasoned manager with a strong record in building businesses and teams, getting products to market on time, and selling new products and ideas to customers and investors. Domestic and international experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Veotag

2006-present

New York , NY

Founder and President

Founded this new company and put together the management team to run the company. Brought in more than $3MM in investments from outsiders and insiders for this video annotation company. The company has been recognized as a market leader by industry pundits and is installed in many Fortune 100 accounts. The company has 50 corporate clients and is growing. Developed corporate strategy, and managed all aspects of the business.

METAMORPHIC COMPUTING CO.

1994-2006

New York , NY

Founder and President

Created and marketed the company’s partnership-based practice and software products that have generated six-figure annual revenues from utilities, universities and manufacturers. Also consulted to turn around failing companies, managed software development and participated in board-level decision making for clients in a variety of industries.

Clients included:

veotag , founded and put together the management team of this company
Electra , a provider of Financial Services reconciliation software, technical services and board member.
InfoTech , a provider of Telecomm research, jointly developed ROI tools for the telecomm industry.
Instructional Systems Corp. , a provider of CRM software to the call center industry: acted as company CTO; managed a $2 million project from concept to marketplace implementation that eventually won Product of the Year from Call Center News. Became a partner and a board member of the company.
Financial Performance Corp. , a provider of banking and real estate software; acted as company CTO; resurrected a customer management software project that had been floundering for years; built a prototype that resulted in several million dollars in venture capital for the company
Westergaard Online , a publicly held investor relations firm: acted as company CTO; created a new service and business model for company’s equity information service; generated yearly sales of $1 million.
Dun & Bradstreet : developed an expert system for risk-analysis, allowing insurance companies and banks to make better credit decisions faster; also developed a software platform allowing German, French and Italian customers to correctly identify companies in their markets, which resulted in $10 million in incremental revenue for the client
PaineWebber : created a plan for migrating data and applications away from mainframes; wrote RFP that client used to hire successful bidder

MULTEX SYSTEMS, INC.

1993-1994

Jersey City , NJ

Director of Product Management

Responsible for bringing to market a derailed product that delivered institutional research to clients’ desktops. Managed staff of 15. Completed programming, quality assurance and documentation projects on time and on budget. Resulting revenues made the product the most successful in the company’s history.

INFORMATION BUILDERS, INC.

1982-1993

New York , NY

Technical Director

1989-1993

Developed software architecture used for the development of FOCUS products for HP, Bull, AS400 and other environments. Became the founding head of the Tandem FOCUS division; designed, developed, tested, packaged, documented and distributed products that went from zero to $3 million in annual revenue within two years. Managed a staff of 15 direct and 10 indirect reports and all contact with Tandem and its customers.

Senior Scientist

1988-1989

Was promoted into this position, which was created especially for me. Researched with salespeople and customers the feasibility of creating FOCUS application environments for a variety of platforms. Wrote a business plan analyzing new markets that advocated the creation of six new divisions; senior management approved the plan. Interviewed and hired the heads of the divisions, which grew to generate $15 million in annual revenue within two years.

Unix Programming Manager

1985-1988

Co-founded this division. Headed the development of FOCUS for Unix platforms. Completed project and brought the product to market on time and under budget. Created a language translation program that reduced the development time for a line of application development environments called FOCUS from approximately 15 man-years to weeks, which made it practical for the company to pursue smaller markets profitably. Managed staff of 20.

IBM Programmer

1982-1985

EDUCATION

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

1981-1982

Graduate research in Physics

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

1980-1982

Graduate study in Physics

OHIO UNIVERSITY

1976-1980

Bachelor of Science degree in Physics

OTHER

Honors : Eta Kappa Nu (National Electrical Engineering Honorary), Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honorary)

Languages : Spanish, French, German; some Italian, Russian, Japanese

Patents : Patent pending application for NONDESTRUCTIVE SELF-PUBLISHING VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM (#60/791,292). Wrote a patent for Adaptive Simulated Annealing (abandoned).