48 Tulip Ct
Burlingame, CA 94010
(home)650.342.7520 
(mobile) 650.533.0831
(email) michele@iacovone.net

Michele J. Iacovone	
Objective	Technical leadership position in a dynamic organization where I can leverage my technology and management experience to help shape and successfully grow the organization.	
Summary	Results driven senior technologist.  Proven track record in building highly available and scalable enterprise solutions.  Experienced in building high-performance engineering/consulting teams while delivering consistent achievement of budget and revenue objectives in diverse business environments including high growth, start-up and turn around organizations. Strong combination of technology, management and communication skills applied across a number of industries: telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceutical and printing/publishing.	
Technical Skills
	•	Software architecture, object-oriented analysis, design and programming, web application development, systems management.
•	Java, Servlets, EJB, CORBA, JDBC, RMI, n-tier architecture, UML, XML, Tuxedo, WebLogic, WebMethods, Netscape Application Server, C++, C, HTML, Perl, SQL, UNIX (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX), NT/2000.	
Experience
  	Collabria, Inc.                                                               San Mateo, CA
May 1999- July 2001
Chief Technology Officer /VP of Research & Development
•	Responsible for defining, implementing and managing the technology strategy of a $40M eBusiness start-up focused on the printing industry.
•	 Defined Collabria’s technology roadmap and transitioned the systems from Microsoft-based technologies to an enterprise-class J2EE, Unix, and Oracle based platform.
•	 Architected and managed the development of PrintCommerce a highly scalable, flexible and internationalized eProcurement platform for Print.  
•	 Created the R&D organization to support technology objectives including hiring of all key personnel and establishing all R&D processes, methodologies and tools.
•	 Managed a 40+ employee organization (Architecture, Development, QA, Documentation and Web Operations) while maintaining high retention, productivity and morale.
•	 Closely worked with Business Development and the Field organization to define and implement major OEM partnership and opportunities.
•	Managed the R&D organization through a 50% budget reduction with continued support for core business objectives and 100% retention.	

  
 	BEA, Inc.                                                                           San Jose, CA
April 1998 – May 1999 
Practice Manager, Western US 
•	Responsible for management of West Coast sales for BEA’s Professional Services business. 
•	Managed BEA’s top tier Western accounts including E*Trade, Amazon.com, Wells Fargo and Genentech.
•	Grew services revenue for the region from approximately $200K/quarter to a $15M/year run rate.
•	Responsible for both sales and delivery, managing over 35 consultants and partners.
•	Closely worked with Sales to identify, scope and deliver service opportunities and to also support large product deals in the pre-sales cycle. 
•	1998 – achieved 250% quota performance.
•	1999 - achieved 180% quota performance.
•	 Worldwide top performing PS Sales Manager for two consecutive years.
•	Recipient of the BEA President’s award 1999.

May 1996 – April 1998	
Principal/Senior Consultant
•	Professional Services Architect for BEA’s premier accounts and partners.
•	E*Trade – Played a pivotal role in the definition and implementation of E*Trade’s new architecture based on Netscape Application Server and BEA’s Tuxedo.  As an integral part of the architecture team at E*Trade, participated and led several projects including Mutual Fund Center, Destination E*Trade, E*Trade Australia and E*Trade Sweden.
•	The Gap – Designed and implemented a solution to provide mainframe connectivity to a retail store application developed in Forte’ using BEA Connect SNA.
•	Sun Microsystems – Designed a BEA Tuxedo-based HA (High Availability) solution leveraging Sun HA and PDB clustering technology.  Managed a team of consultants responsible for the implementation of the solution.
•	Recipient of Top Consultant Award for two consecutive years (1997 and 1998).	

	McKesson/HDS, Inc.                                                    Scottsdale, AZ
October 1994 – May 1996
Architect/Technical Lead
•	Senior technical member of responsible for the design and development of pharmaceutical transactional systems.
•	Designed and implemented an object oriented OLTP system to support NCPDP claim adjudication.  The system was developed in C/C++, using Oracle on Solaris.
•	Managed 5 software engineers to develop a second release of the system including integration to an MVS-based payment system using Brixton SNA Server.
•	Developed MFC/C++ client/server applications to support Patient Assistance Programs.	
	Titan Systems, Inc.                                                Westborough, MA
February 1991 – October 1994
Senior Software Engineer, Client/Server Division
•	Technical Lead for Titan’s Network Management development team.  Developed a CMIP-based solution for delivering interoperable trouble ticketing system.  Responsibilities included defining software architecture and managing the engineering team.  Systems were developed in C++ on HP/UX using Sybase databases.
•	Developed next generation client/server applications for GTE’s Access Customer Gateway (ACG) initiative.  Applications included a trouble ticketing system, a billing gateway and an equal access provisioning system. Systems were developed in C/C++, HP/UX using Informix databases.

June 1989 – January 1991
Software Engineer
•	Developed simulation program to test the clutter filtering capabilities of a weather radar system (TDWR) being developed for the FAA.	
Education	Boston University	Boston, MA
•	BS, Electrical Engineering, 1989.
•	MS, Computer Engineering, (in progress).	
Languages	Fluent in English and Italian. Conversational Spanish.