DENNIS D. McDONALD, Ph.D.

email: ddmcd@yahoo.com

 

 

OBJECTIVES

Participate in the management of dynamic, growing, and innovative systems and organizations.

Develop and lead projects that transform business through the intelligent integration of new technology and optimized business processes.

 

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Growing, managing, and administering a startup consulting firm (80 employees at peak) that specialized in project management, system integration, and business/technology alignment.

Planning and managing a range of strategy, quantitative research, project planning, database construction, system consolidation, data conversion, and system implementation projects, often with staff and project participants working in multiple locations.

Experience working internationally, including France, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Egypt.

Experienced user of various software tools including MS FrontPage, Artemis (project management), PerfectTracker (software testing and bug tracking), SalesMetric (sales force automation), Lotus Notes, MS Access, MS Word, MS Project (client), MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint. Blogging tools: Squarespace and WordPress.

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Currently: Self Employed Consultant with interests in project management, process improvement, information technology, and intellectual property management. Current projects include the Web 2.0 Management Survey (http://www.ddmcd.com/survey/ ).

 

Vice President, Technology Consulting Associates LLC, Atlanta GA, July 1999 - August 2005. Elected Member (managing partner) 2002.

  • Managed projects, developed services, prospected, sold work, performed overall company management, administration, and financial control. Hired, trained, reviewed, and terminated staff.

  • Upgraded company’s web based business prospecting system and procedures. Managed web publishing for internal company and project communications.

  • Planned and implemented business plans addressing utility, government, telecommunications, call center, voice response systems, and other target markets.

  • Managed relationship building with corporate IT departments in support of business process automation (BPA) and related IT department-oriented consulting services.

  • Managed system integration projects and planning/assessment projects, including development of business cases for IT-internal and IT-external initiatives.

 

Senior Principal, Technology Solutions Company, Chicago, IL, 1997-1999.

  • Consulted on requirements for insurance customer service management systems and call center consolidation (Hong Kong and New Jersey).

  • Consulted on insurance company IT department business strategy, project justification and selection, and project management methods.

  • Created a strategy, business plan, and implementation plan for a major computer manufacturer’s internet based publishing of engineering documentation.

 

Vice President, Reed Technology/Online Computer Systems, Germantown, MD, 1988 – 1996.

  • Planned, sold, and managed multimedia, CD-ROM, imaging, bibliographic and custom text retrieval systems to government agencies, corporations, and publishers (U.S. and Europe).

  • Analyzed and planned internet commerce strategy for an electronic publishing business.

  • Planned, sold, and managed electronic publishing projects for commercial clients including truck, appliance, and automobile manufacturers.

  • Implemented networked electronic retrieval systems to support parts and service operations.

  • Developed and managed partner relationships with computer manufacturers, portable device manufacturers, and software companies.

 

Manager, Aspen Systems Corporation, Rockville, MD, 1986 – 1988.

  • Developed and marketed consulting and technology expertise related to HTML and electronic publishing to commercial publishers.

  • Consulted on application of document management systems to management of marketing research information. Clients included Pepsi-Cola and Kraft Foods.

 

Vice President, King Research Inc., 1978 – 1986. Applied research and statistical methods to contract research related to:

  • Statistical indicators of scholarly research and communications.

  • Publishing industry adoption of new technology.

  • Collaborative development of networked medical knowledge databases.

  • Use of technology to promote dissemination of educational research to local health practitioners.

  • Libraries, photocopying, and copyright.

  • National information policy.

  • Satellite delivery of research publications to academics in developing countries.

  • Management of copyright and industrial design protection in motion picture industry, and textile industry (comparison of U.S. with France, England, and Sweden).

 

EDUCATION

MLS/PhD, Library and Information Science, University of Maryland, 1973/1979. Earned National Science Foundation support for research on mathematical modeling of publishing in astrophysics and cancer research.

BA Psychology, Ohio State University, 1971. Emphasis on research methods and clinical psychology.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Recent “White Papers” are available here: http://www.ddmcd.com/white-papers

“Mergers and Acquisitions: What Executives Should Know About IT,” article published in May 9, 2003 Issue of DM Direct Newsletter. Web Link: http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=6731

“Copyright Can Survive the New Technologies,” reprinted in Modern Copyright Fundamentals, Ben H. Weil and Barbara Polansky, Editors (New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985)

“Public Sector/Private Sector Interaction in Information Services,” in Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 17, Martha E. Williams, editor (White Plains, New York, Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982).

International Study of Copyright of Bibliographic Records in Machine-Readable Form, with Eleanor J. Rodger and Jeffrey L. Squires (Munich, K.G. Saur, 1983).

Scientific Journals in the United States, with Donald W. King and Nancy K. Roderer (Stroudsburg PA, Hutchinson Ross Publishing Company, 1981).

 

OTHER

Currently Co-Moderator of the LinkedinBloggers group and co-founder of The Podcast Roundtable (www.podcastroundtable.com )

Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Served (1990-1996) on Board of Trustees of Alexandria Country Day School, Alexandria, Virginia.

Presented testimony on national information policy to U.S. Congress on behalf of Information Industry Association.

Co-founder of Washington Copyright Round Table.

 

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