Bob Stewart

VitalLock

VitalLock

VitalLock is a cloud platform and API for free private and secure encrypted online safe deposit box for storage and delivery of vital (video image text account link) messages in real-time or upon verification of disability, detention, death or date.

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Beta

Mr. Stewart is currently Chief Executive Officer of ESRIA, Inc. located in San Jose, San Francisco and Cambridge and develops Enterprise Scale Rich Internet Applications (ESRIA) for software, Web 2.0, Fortune business and high-profile media consumer sites.

Mr. Stewart served Malcolm Baldridge award winning Motorola's $1B Internet and Networking Group, during his tenure the head of Motorola quality named him Internet Chief Technology Officer while he personally earned Motorola's highest information technology ranking of Strategic Advisor Technical Analyst for his role in directing cross-functional teams to develop highly secure and federally audited Internet-centric, encrypted communications systems.

Mr. Stewart was Chief Technology Officer for John Sculley's Verified Person deep background screening concern located in New York City where he led, reorganized and outsourced development and quality operations to India. Bob web-service enabled Verified Person's multi-terrabyte data warehouse service providing market arbitrage efficiencies which effectively catalyzed hyper growth for their customers.

Stewart was also Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of CyberMedica Stewart was the original Chief Technology Officer and a Vice President at CyberMedica before he purchased the company's intellectual property portfolio and remaining assets in 2002. CyberMedica improves responsible research around the world and participates as standards provider of peer-reviewed infrastructure platforms for technology to deliver secure open-systems for collaborative scientific research for biotech and pharmaceutical discoveries worldwide.

Prior to CyberMedica, Stewart was an investment advisor with a number of venture capital firms in North America and Europe. He has also been involved, both as an investment advisor and a transition manager, in substantial M&A activity including a $220M acquisition from BellSouth and a $290M acquisition from Compaq (now HP).

Stewart also earned global recognition as Chief Technology Officer for CMGI's portfolio companies Zip2 and MyWay.com, which was ranked a 'Top-25 Portal' during his tenure. Stewart was responsible for all aspects of software and platform development, operations, engineering, research, corporate information technology and product technical delivery for CMGI's personal portal business units where he managed a worldwide staff of over 180 professionals.

Bob's entrepreneurial spirit started several technology services companies in the early nineties. Before that he served for several years as the Production Director of then family owned, national magazine American Angler and book publisher, Northland Press, Inc. which he joined shortly after serving the Marine Corps following his completion of studies in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of New England.

Employer:	Esria, Inc.
Position:	CEO
Time period:	February 2008 - Present
Description:	$10MM Developer of Enterprise Scale Rich Internet Applications. Managed a staff of forty (40) developers in an innovative software development studio specializing in the rapidly emerging technology of Rich Internet Applications. Developed solutions for Management Dashboards, Internal Business Applications, Guided Selling and Self Service Applications by combining expert knowledge of Adobe Macromedia Flex, Flash, ActionScript, and AIR development with capabilities for visual design, to deliver highly usable and effective online experiences. * Grew revenues by 50% quarter over quarter for the past four quarters. * Delivered RIA solutions for Adobe, Boeing, BT, CBS, Cisco, CNET, Disney, Fidelity, Gomez, Hyundai, Intuit, Kodak, Quatern, Ribbit, SearchMe, Yahoo and others.

Employer:	CMGI MyWay & AltaVista Zip2
Position:	CTO & SVP Engineering & Development
Description:	CTO & SVP Engineering & Development of the Personal Portal Group

Employer:	Grace-Hunt, LLC. — MA, United States
Position:	Business Development
Description:	Microsoft Gold Level Systems Integrator of Microsoft’s ERP and CRM product lines. Held regional business development responsibilities for Northeast New England representing Microsoft Dynamics products including CRM, SharePoint, Axapta, Navision, Great Plains and Solomon. Sourced, sold and oversaw the provision of consulting, licensing, implementation, configuration, training and support. * Created an integrated marketing campaign generating over $5MM in pipeline in first 90 days.

Employer:	CST2000, LLC d/b/a iCST, South Portland, Maine
Position:	Director of Consulting Services www.i-CST.com
Time period:	December 2005 - November 2007
Description:	Led consulting and offshore development engagements, including marketing and business development activities for iCST, a New England region IT systems, software development and professional staffing concern. iCST is a United States Department of Defense cleared facility and defense contractor and as such the details of projects and work products are at minimum confidential.

Employer:	Verified Person, Inc., New York, NY
Position:	CTO
Time period:	December 2004 - November 2006
Description:	Developed technology initiatives for tier-one funded Verified Person the company is a leading provider of Risk Management and Fraud Protection Information solutions. VP is Chaired by John Sculley the former CEO of both Apple Computer and Pepsi. VP was formed to solve a key issue within today's economy - the ability to validate that individuals are, in fact, whom they present themselves to be. Customers closed during my tenure include; FBI, Wackenhut, Taleo, Yellow Roadway, ADP, and Wal-Mart. • Developed a billion record data warehouse, data mart and operational data store containing identification and verification information including, credit header, criminal, sex offender, professional licensure, terrorist and employment-related data. • Led all aspects of engineering and offshore development of a variety of distinct information services targeting individuals, businesses and government entities. • Developed www.VPassure.com a B2B solution for conducting pre-employment background screens as well as recurring workforce due diligence checks. Including; Sex Offender, Identity Verification, Federal Criminal, Education and Employment Histories, Professional Licensure and Certifications, Motor Vehicle Reports, Credit Reports, Civil and Bankruptcy Records, Workers Compensation, Office of Inspector General Exclusion, General Services Administration, Exclusion Terrorist Watch list and Drug Screening. • Developed www.VPid.com an B2C identity self-verification tool aimed at building trust in the digital world. The service addresses online users' desire for an enhanced level of comfort and safety when communicating and transacting via the Internet. VPid was designed to address the needs specific to transaction-based online communities, such as: dating and personals, social and professional networking and auctions.

Employer:	Cybermedica Foundation, Kennebunk, Maine
Position:	Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director
Time period:	December 1999 - November 2005
Description:	A venture funded ($12M) B2B Internet start-up providing an application service provider platform to speed cures to market for the drug and device discovery industry. Key member of the executive management team before personally securing all intellectual property rights including trademark and patent rights from the Chapter 7 estate of cyberMedica, Inc. where I held the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer position during its pre IPO flare and demise in 2001. Subsequently founded the closely held not-for-profit private Cybermedica Foundation. Recruited renowned human ethics champion Dr. Greg Koski as Chairman and together have improved responsible human research throughout the world by gifting to humanity the entire application service provider software platform for integrated collaborative research, funding and grants management, institutional review board management, clinical trials management and peer-reviewed document publication. We engaged the foundation with the US State Department, The American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and the World Health Organizations' Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER) and have distributed over 300 licenses worldwide providing an auditable, peer-reviewed clinical technology infrastructure. • Assisted in all aspects of initial financing and challenged with the development and deployment of corporate infrastructure and applications. Positioned corporation for capital markets due-diligence and federal electronic, physical and personnel audits. • Created the product by facilitating requirements gathering processes with leading pharmaceutical companies, IRB’s and institutions, mapping out complex regulatory processes and synthesized scientific discovery processes inherent in the drug and device discovery process to create a roadmap of technologies necessary for the successful implementation of bioinformatics and administrative systems to accelerate the discovery process while ensuring regulatory compliance. • Drove the use of Rational’s suite of tools to create and peer-review UML use case scenarios in the development of an XML framework for a completely secure auditable and flexible graphical rules based workflow engine including recursive auditing, shared key field level encryption, intellectual property management, secure authorization and data scalability into petabytes. • Additional cross-functional responsibilities include strategic business planning and development oversight of vendor selection and management process, contract and licensing negotiations, project management, change management strategies, senior level recruitment. Established the professional services organization delivering the consultative sales component ensuring product solution fit. Administered $10,000,000 budget and direct the due diligence of all IT related areas.

Employer:	Planet Direct, MyWay and Zip2, CMGI, Inc. Andover, Massachusetts
Position:	Senior Vice President Engineering & Development and Chief Technology Officer www.myway.com
Time period:	December 1998 - November 2000
Description:	Originally hired as the VP of Development I rapidly took on responsibility for all technical aspects of CMGI’s Internet portal business units whose customers included Compaq, Bell South, the UK’s Trinity Mirror Group, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, The Denver Post and over 100 other major newspapers. I led the development, operations and portal application service provisioning of private-label, flexible, co-branded consumer content and portal functionality. I was responsible for networking, platform architecture, datacenter infrastructure, datacenter operations, customer service, data warehousing and analytics. As CTO I also regularly performed technology due-diligence and served as an investment advisor and a transition manager of a bi-coastal staff of over 150 professionals for M&A activity including a $220M acquisition from Bell South and a $290M acquisition from Compaq. • Worked closely with Marketing to develop a dynamic portal object management system and a modular content assembly system that allowed people to move, rank and scale content from diverse sources making each use of the portal more efficient and relevant achieving both Media Metrix Top 100 site and Top 25 Portal site rankings. Defined and developed architecture for media object scalability and on-the-fly proxy servers for wireless and broadband content delivery including viral syndication. • Accommodated business growth from 150 to over 1000 ASP customers including a 1500% service growth over a two (2) week period to accommodate 750,000 BellSouth.net customers. Drove availability to 99.98% by deploying the (then Worlds Largest) six-way four quad processor node, clustered Oracle parallel server database farm running in advanced multi-master replication, EJB mid-tier farm and 64 server IIS web farm while establishing a 24x7x365 Network Operations Center to respond to internal service level agreements, escalation processes and perform frequent iterative code pushes to the test and production server farms. • Unified warring-tribes of development and engineering reducing turnover 90% while improving code push throughput, reduced defects and reduced staffing while securing intellectual property from identified key holder individuals with a system of cross training, peer-review audits and documentation and implemented key personnel retention effort improving productivity by 150%. • Direct reports included the: VP Systems Architecture & Engineering, VP Strategic Development, VP Platform Development, VP Global Operations, Director of Information Technology, and Director of Quality and Program Management.

Employer:	Motorola Internet & Networking Group, Mansfield, Massachusetts
Position:	Advisor Technical Analyst and Internet Chief Technology Officer www.motorola.com
Time period:	December 1997 - November 1999
Description:	$1B consolidated Internet holdings of the Motorola Communications Enterprise. Directed Motorola ING’s Information Systems Program Management Office with fast-turn project phases. Led highly matrixed NA, LA, EMEA and ASIA\PAC cross-functional teams to develop and deploy Motorola's next-generation multilingual business-to-business systems in support of e-commerce, software unbundling and customer service efforts for the Vanguard networking and cable data product lines. Worked extensively with in-house council to ensure international regulatory compliance and expand intellectual property portfolio. • Lead a TCS team improving top-box customer satisfaction scores. Earned the highest possible individual Information Technology HR track technical ladder ranking of Motorola E10 Strategic Advisor Technical Analyst. Named Internet Chief Technology Officer by Motorola’s then Director of Quality Tom Nolette during the period when Motorola won the Malcolm Baldridge award. • Recommended, acquired and implemented Broadvisions comprehensive content management and community based customer relationship and channel profiling portal for Motorola ING’s very first CRM efforts with single sign-on and a unified and updated look-and-feel for the customer facing Internet and partner extranet. • Developed Motorola’s eTAC (electronic Technical Assistance Center) in support of Total Customer Satisfaction TCS initiatives with Motorola’s Strategic Services Marketing Group. Gartner’s DataQuest group exclaimed “eTAC rivals Cisco’s web services portal.” This system was designed to feed service orders to call center IVR service entitlement and escalation queues, integrated with Clarify logistics and online ordering via a custom configurator interfaced with Oracle ERP to just-in-time manufacturing of devices containing software licenses and support contracts. • Selected assignments included: Specified hardware and software, achieved buy in with corporate standards bodies to evaluate and recommend solutions, facilitated acquisition, uncrated, installed, setup, configured and administered three tiered B1 secure, forward and reverse proxy, x509v3 LDAP authenticated, e-commerce and DMZ firewall implementation, with Oracle on HPUX K-Class backend data infrastructure running HPUX Virtual Vault least trust operating system tied to an EMC storage sub-system with a Veritas robotic tape backup in Motorola’s datacenter and NOC.

Employer:	Motorola Strategic Services Marketing, Mansfield, Massachusetts
Position:	Contract Webmaster and Program Manager for Oxford Global Resources, Boston MA www.oxfordcorp.com
Time period:	December 1996 - November 1998
Description:	Abridged: Developed designed and implemented a single sign-on environment for Motorola’s disparate business units and channel partners using x509v3 certificates with an LDAP directory server structure serving SSL pages via Netscape servers executing Broadvision software including custom scripting to achieve seamless integration. • Received personal accolades from Gartner’s DataQuest subsidiary on this project. • Roadmapped synthesized needs, roles, responsibilities and documented workflows. • Offered full time employment upon completion of contract and security clearance.

Employer:	VRmedia Internet Publishing Corporation Kennebunkport, Maine
Position:	Founder and President / SYSOP and Webmaster
Time period:	December 1994 - November 1997
Description:	Abridged: Founded Southern Maine’s first B2B Internet service provider. Internet website sales, design, development and hosting for 100+ businesses including interactive development for mixed-media cable television, CD and print. • Pioneered Internet, Print, Video, Kiosk and CD-ROM content production. • Awarded New Hampshire Departments of Travel and Tourism contract. • Charter Membership in the Netscape Gold Developer Partner program.

Employer:	Maine Multimedia Corporation Kennebunk, Maine
Position:	Founder and President / Engineer and Developer
Time period:	December 1993 - November 1995
Description:	Abridged: Founded value added reseller to cable television marketplace of high capacity fault-tolerant networked media servers with advanced predictive cache for digital video signal delivery into cable-TV networks avails (e.g. CNN, ESPN, USA). • Developed hardware switching, playback, trafficking, and billing systems. • Developed assembly language serial bus interfaces for signal switchers. • Developed a CableLabs compliant database system for cable insertion.

Employer:	Advanced Visual Communications, Inc. Portland, Maine
Position:	Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
Time period:	December 1991 - November 1994
Description:	Abridged: Apple and Compaq VAR, Ingram, TechData and Merisel distributor and consultancy of digital imaging, prepress, production, printing and publishing systems. Customers included L.L. Bean, AGFA, Eastern Mountain Sports and printing firms. • Achieved first year sales of $1,000,000 on $10,000 bootstrap capital. • Appointed to Apple Computer’s Distributor Value Added Reseller Council • Managed beta testing programs for Kodak, AGFA, Scitex, Apple and Adobe.

Employer:	Northland Press, Inc. North Conway, New Hampshire
Position:	Production Director and IT Manager
Time period:	December 1985 - November 1992
Description:	Abridged: Pioneered electronic and desktop publishing of deadline driven monthly magazine production and work products including editorial, advertising, design and prepress of books and the award winning national consumer magazine American Angler. • Developed circulation management, accounting and promotion database systems. • First ever customer of Kodak’s PhotoCD for 200 line screen color separations. • Negotiated printing services contracts, managed dealer and newsstand distribution.

University:

University of New England

Books:	http://OpenSDLC.org
Patents:	US Patent WO0065463 – ELECTRONIC PEER REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF SCHOLARLY WRITINGS

Awards:

Media Metrics Top-25 Portal