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Corey is a business and IT professional with over 32 years experience delivering business solutions. Corey is a hands-on leader who is highly skilled in all areas of IT management including software development, project management, infrastructure management, business continuity planning, IT strategy, team leadership, mentoring and staff development.

Corey has over 17 years as a serial entrepreneur in both an Internet start up company and the financial industry.

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Corey Prator

CEO & Founder of Rent Your CIO™
(713) 702-0391
cp@RentYourCIO.com
Houston, TX 
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Summary of Experience

Business and Management Skills
  • Business process reengineering, design and development
  • Best practices implementation
  • Managing client relationships in software and services
  • Statistical analysis of business data
  • Executive-level presentations and communications
  • Entrepreneurial experience bringing software products to market
  • Contract administration
  • Inventory systems
  • Purchasing systems and international procurement
  • Accountant
  • HR Pay and Benefits Systems
  • Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese; conducted business in South America
Technical Skills
  • IT Project Management (certified)
  • Led Software Development Teams
  • Software Development Architecture
  • Current, hands-on Web-based software development
  • SQL Server Database development
  • IT Infrastructure management

Experience Detail

CEO and Founder - Rent Your CIO™ 2006 to Present

Rent Your CIO™ provides senior IT professional services to small and medium-sized companies around Houston, TX.  As CEO and founder, Corey performs all business development, project management, project and service delivery, and recruits the senior IT talent to staff client's projects.

Managing Director -Revenew International - 2000 to 2006
  • Developed statistical sampling techniques for performing data analysis, resulting in incremental audit recoveries of over $2.4 million on over 300 contract compliance audits performed.
  • Developed and analyzed business models comparing supplier’s actual versus contracted pricing which recovered $500K last year.
  • Experienced in data extraction and business data analysis from a variety of legacy and ERP systems including SAP, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, and Oracle. Includes analysis and cleansing of data for download to SQL database and proprietary software. Performed analysis of 40+ Fortune 500 clients with $800 Billion in business activity and volume of 50 million transactions across 70+ systems.
  • Balance of strong business and technical orientation with demonstrated ability to integrate diverse software technology to solve business problems, resulting in reducing project cycle time by 50%.
  • Extensive planning and project management experience yielding a consistent record of delivering complex projects on schedule and budget. Never missed a project schedule deadline in product delivery.
  • Broad background in all stages of application development including, requirements definition, system analysis, design, programming, and implementation. Defined, developed, and implemented Revenew’s proprietary AP audit workflow technology and web-based reporting tool.
VP Content Technology – ProcureNet 1997 - 2000
  • Lead research, development and implementation of content technology for ProcureNet, a $100 Million (and profitable) B2B e-commerce company.
  • Chief architect for two of ProcureNet’s key technologies, Common Language Generator, an Artificial Intelligence-based cataloging tool, and the web-based catalog search engine, code named Scottsdale which enabled parameter-driven web-based search of over 250,000 cataloged parts sold to the DOD.
  • Accountable for planning, communicating and implementing the Content Technology strategy and vision.
  • Industry expert in the domain of Content Technology and parametric catalog searching. Requested public speaker for various industry groups and standards organizations such as API’s CIMIS.
  • Managed three development projects overseeing IBM Global Services totaling over $1MM and a team of 17 developers to integration of ProcureNet’s Common Language Generator with IBM’s Net.Commerce solution. Applied best practices in project management and software development to estimate, schedule, execute and monitor projects. Completed all projects within budget, time and specifications.
  • Personally developed and brought to market, in 3 months, a web-based industrial catalog search engine that IBM Global Services estimated would have taken their team one year and $2.5MM to deliver, saving the company $2MM and 9 months of time to market. That product is still in commercial use today
Shell Oil Company 1978 - 1997
Project Manager
  • Managed Shell’s material cataloging project to standardize 270,000 corporate material item descriptions at 11 separate facilities, based on emerging industry standards, and using the very latest in artificial intelligence cataloging software, and desktop computing.
  • Led a team of 15 programmers and business professionals to migrate legacy mainframe procurement and contract systems to an enterprise-wide client server environment used by 250 SCM users world-wide.
  • Led a team of 25 programmers and an annual budget over $1MM, responsible for developing and implementing changes to Payroll and Benefits systems affecting 142 sub-systems.
International Procurement Lead
  • International procurement and contract administration for exploration and drilling services for Shell’s Brazilian subsidiary located in Rio de Janeiro. Negotiated several million-dollar local procurement contracts in Portuguese
  • Procurement contract compliance. Liaison to Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, to manage compliance of procurement contracts with the risk contract.
Administrative Manager
  • Administrative manager for Shell’s exploration office in Asunción, Paraguay. Supervised Purchasing, Accounting, HR and Administrative Services, and local office staff in a Spanish-speaking office.
Accounting
  • General and cost accounting for oil refining and chemical plant. Developed several software applications that automated accounting and inventory analysis, resulting in reducing staff work by 1 FTE in our department.

Entrepreneurial Experience

  • Co-founded a profitable start-up, Hummingbird Software Corporation, in 1992
  • Developed FreeFORM, an artificial intelligence software product used to standardize material catalogs.
  • Handled all technical aspects of sales calls. Sold FreeFORM to major corporations such as Texaco, Conoco, Shell, and McJunkin.
  • Performed technical and business process consulting to many companies in their evaluation and planning of electronic catalog and electronic commerce systems. Some of clients include Texaco, McJunkin Corporation, Van Leuwen Pipe & Valve, Westbrook Manufacturing, Government Services Canada, Electronic Data Systems - Defense Enterprise Integration Services (for the National Institutes of Health), and EDS-Maintenance Systems Integration.
  • Sold all intellectual property rights of FreeFORM to ProcureNet in 1997.

Software Technical Skills

  • Current hands-on experience in over 20 programming languages and methodologies, such as .Net, ASP, C#, VB, ADO, Data Analysis, Systems Analysis and Design, Mainframe, PC, and client-server development, MS SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office development using VBA, Prolog, Rexx, Xedit, Windows Server Operating Systems since NT 3.5, and VM/CMS.

Education

Patents

  • US Patent 6892185, E-Commerce Information Translation Communication Protocol

Languages

  • Fluently speak, read, and write Spanish and Portuguese. Conducted business for 5 years in South America: Brazil & Paraguay.
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