Kevin Lacobie

Kevin Lacobie

Summary of Experience

Business and Management Skills

IT Infrastructure Management
Executive-level presentations and communications
Financial Analysis and Management
Strategic Planning & Development
Managing business and client relationships

Technical Skills

Software Development Architecture
Web-based software development
IT Infrastructure management
SQL-based development projects
Data Warehousing

Industry Experience

Energy
Accounting/Taxation
Technology
Education

Experience Detail

President - Agoric Source 2002 to Present

Founder and President of a boutique software consulting firm, with a world-class client base, including Reliant Energy, Degussa, Spectra Energy, and Duke Energy. Our company of 7 senior consultants leads software development projects involving accounting and financial applications, with a speciality in corporate tax, e-commerce and data warehousing/business intelligence applications.

Interliant, Inc. - 1998 to 2002

Senior Manager, software development responsible for managing product and commercial software development projects at Interliant, such as our co-development of Lotus' Domino Instant! Host, and a similar product (code-named Nutley) that was intended for the Microsoft Exchange platform. The latter was spurred by a $10 million investment from Microsoft. Worked closely with Microsoft product managers in Redmond during the early definition and design stages. Other development projects included managed messaging environments, system monitoring, and customer reporting portals. Helped launch AppsOnline.com, an innovative "rentable applications" service.

Director, Software Development responsibile for all software development projects at the Houston office, including internal projects as well as product development. Contributed significantly to developing and maturing the software development team (25 developers in total) and their software development processes. Led several Java, XML, and SQL-based development projects, creating pricing, billing, credit card processing, and automated invoicing web-based invoice presentment applications. These applications were distinguished in their simplicity of design, rapid development times, and low maintenance requirements compared to Interliant's legacy applications.

Director, Information Systems strategy, business process improvement, and management of enterprise-wide systems. Guided the successful implementation of Oracle Financials, Onyx CRM, and a custom-developed enterprise application integration framework, as well as worked closely with the Accounting and Finance departments to improve their processes and analysis capabilities.

Lotus Consulting 1997 - 1998

Contract Project Lead for several large enterprise and international projects. Clients including Ernst & Young, Sampoerna, Bank Bali (the latter two in Indonesia), CANTV and PDVSA (Venezuela). Specialized in architecting large-scale Notes networks in corporate environments, while mentoring a young software development staff.

Texas Source Group, Inc. 1995 - 1997

Senior Consultant and Manager in charge of a staff of 5, overseeing internal and clients' systems administration and software development needs. Managed a multi-server Notes environment, Microsoft NT, Ethernet, and Wide Area Network.

Project lead, designer, and major developer (in C++ and SQL) of distributed web crawler application, code-named NationBase. Increased it's search quality from 33% to 99% of web documents found and processed, and speeded up overall processing by 90%. Also, continued in a consulting role for clients' Notes architecture and application needs.

Agoric Enterprises, Inc. 1991 - 1995

senior consultant/co-founder involved in all aspects of contract negotiation, customer liaison, requirements analysis, and development tasks of this small, independent consulting firm. Negotiated with Sun Labs to gain a contract to develop electronic markets for computational resources, which led to my co-founding of Agorics, Inc. (www.agorics.com).

Futron Corporation 1991 - 1993

Project Manager Performed project management successfully in a harsh environment (under contract to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 1992-1993); successful at translating between non-technical users and technical staff regarding user requirements, changes, technical risks, etc. Managed a staff of 10 programmers and technical writers.
Furthermore, performed as a "matrixed" team member on other projects, including research for NASA's Office of Commercial Programs.

George Mason University - Department of Economics 1991

Instructor/Researcher Taught junior and senior level courses in economics; researched and developed a computational system for the simulation and exploration of emergent economic processes, aimed at explaining the emergence of barter, money, and the phenomenon of prices.

School of Allied Health and Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch 1985 - 1987

Faculty Associate Responsible for establishing a Hospital Information System for educational purposes. Included analysis, purchase, and installation of hardware and software, and programming (Informix/SQL and C), maintenance and support of the evolving system. Early work in networking - evaluating, purchasing, and installing Ethernet and Starlan LANs, both hardware & software. This led to a couple of published works on modifying the DOS of that time for network use (see "Publications" below)

Education

George Mason University: 1990, Master of Science, Department of Economics; thesis on computational modeling of microeconomic systems.
University of Houston: 1984, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, minor in economics.

Community Involvement

Board of Directors, Houston Area Model United Nations
Board Member, Ten Thousand Villages Houston, Inc.
Board Member, Weekley Family YMCA
youth soccer coach, Weekley Family YMCA

Publications

"A Thought Paper on the Economics of Data Warehousing", here.
"Economics of Strategic Planning", in Space Economics (Washington, AIAA: 1993).
"Economic Assessment of the VITASAT Small Satellite" (Rosslyn, VA, Volunteers in Technical Assistance:1991).
with Lawrence Stern and Zenon Zygmont, An Assessment of Potential Markets for Small Satellites (Fairfax, VA, Center for Innovative Technology: 1989).
"User-Friendly Piping on a PC", Computer Journal, December 1987.
"Designing User Services for a PC Local Area Network (LAN)", 3rd Annual SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group - Computing Services), Conference, September 1987. /li>
with Beth Anderson, "Curriculum Improvement Project: Health Information System Simulation" (Galveston, Galveston College: June, 1987).