Will Stevenson

a CTO in Shanghai, China

Profile

17+ years of Fortune 500 and Venture-backed Startup experience with 5+ years on the ground in China.
Information Technology and Services | China, CN

Summary

Mr. Will Stevenson is a graduate of SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome in Information Systems. He also holds a Masters Certification from Oracle Corporation in Financial Systems Management.

In cooperation with General Alexander Haig, Maurice Strong and the Ministry of Health to the People's Republic of China, Will developed one of China's premier Pharmaceutical/Medical Surgical Logistics & Distribution e-Commerce platforms to a live pilot in the Haidian District of Beijing.

In the fortune 500 space, Will held the highest Technology Leadership position at a Malcolm Baldrige award winning company. Will's corporate track record there included maintaining 100% employee retention throughout the .com technology industry boom, positive budgetary variance and "raving fans" for customers for over 7 years at 6 tenths of one percent (.6%) of annual revenue.

His leadership and experience in the Technology Industry has been requested in the local community as a Board Member of CPEx (Colorado Performance Excellence). CPEx state-wide programs are dedicated to enabling organizations to succeed through the effective application of the practices embodied in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

In his career, Will has been certified to act as CIO by META Group Corporation, a Gartner Company focusing on information technology and business transformation strategies.

Will is also certified in "Values-Centered Leadership" as expressed by his graduation from The Saltwater Institute; where he learned processes and tools to create a new style of management that capitalizes on the energy and creativity of people by integrating personal values within the core mission of an organizational system.

Will’s experience include a term as CTO for Lifeline Therapeutics during which Lifeline launched their premier product "Protandim" on national television programs 'Extra' and 'Primetime' in support of their Initial Public Offering.
Specialties: Quality as a Business Strategy, Linkage of Processes, Creating IT Market Differentiation, Data Standardization and Taxonomies, Intellectual Property Rights, Software Requirements

Experience

  • Jun 2011 - Present
    Founder, Technology Advisor to the CEO / Jigocity
  • Mar 2010 - May 2011
    Chief Technology Officer (Global) / JigoCity
  • Jun 2006 - Jun 2010
    Chief Technology Officer / Capitis Healthcare International
    Selected achievements at Capitis:
    • Prepared and presented our inaugural keynote address to the Chinese Government on Capitis' role in Healthcare reform.

    • Built the Technology Framework and Taxonomy for China's first international e-Commerce Med/Surg & Pharma API standard.

    • Led our mixed-culture development team on an Agile framework 6-month live deployment in the Haidian District of Beijing.

    • Developed the IPR Strategy for our end-to-end supply chain including USPTO market gap analysis.

    • Aligned the technology for the acquisition of a Malaysia-based Microsoft Gold Certified software company.

    • As acting Vice President of HR, wrote the corporate draft policies and procedures.

    • Grass-root recruited local staff.

    • Led the authoring of Barcoding, HIS & AP/AR/GL API interface standards for Chinese Hospitals.

    • First on-the-ground member of Capitis Leadership team; Full office build-out responsibility.
  • Sept 2004 - Jun 2006
    Chief Technology Officer / Movai Technologies, Inc.
    Movai Technologies, Inc. is a development stage company that has developed DomoDrive™, the first product that transparently restores your optimized system – OS, applications, settings and data – in minutes following any software system malfunction.

    Selected achievements at Movai:
    • Created, Developed and Protected marketability and sustainability for Movai by sole-authoring 3 non-provisional Patent applications for DomoDrive(tm), Movai’s premier product.

    • Developed and implemented Movai’s personal storage management prototype/demo unit.

    • Developed strategic relationships with top Denver Venture Capital firms including iSherpa, Sequel, Wolf and Mobius.

    • After securing Term Sheets, produced Movai’s competitive analysis summary, market requirements, product landscape, is/is-not facts and assumptions, use-case scenarios, and 6-month Agile methodology development plan.
  • 2003 - Jun 2006
    Board Member and Chairman of the Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management Committee / Colorado Performance Excellence
    Will's leadership and experience in the Technology Industry has been requested in the local community as a Board Member of CPEx (Colorado Performance Excellence). CPEx state-wide programs are dedicated to enabling Colorado organizations to succeed through the effective application of the practices embodied in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

    Baldrige recognition is personally awarded by the President of the United States to businesses that are judged to be outstanding in seven areas: leadership, strategic planning, customer and market focus, information and analysis, human resource focus, process management, and business results.
  • Feb 2004 - Oct 2004
    Chief Technology Officer / Lifeline Nutraceuticals
    Will acted as CTO during development stage for Lifeline Nutraceuticals (now Lifevantage), a BioTech firm that produces Protandim, A formula of botanical extracts, Protandim rejuvenates your body's highly effective natural defenses against oxidative stress – the cell damage that significantly contributes to aging.

    Will protected initial development-stage progress by provisioning a thin-margin, high yield IT infrastructure and developed the early-stage Internet eCommerce strategy including hosting and product fulfillment.

    Lifeline launched their premier product Protandim, on national television programs Extra and Primetime to a valuation of $500M.

    http://lifevantage.com
    http://www.protandim.com
  • Mar 1997 - 2004
    IT Manager / OMI, a CH2MHILL Company
    Will has held the highest technology leadership position at a Malcolm Baldrige award-winning company, where he contributed greatly to the company's continuing success. Baldrige recognition is personally awarded by the President of the United States to businesses that are judged to be outstanding in leadership, strategic planning, customer and market concentration, information and analysis, human resource focus, process management, and business results.

    Selected Achievements:
    • Led and Nurtured 11 direct-reporting IT Professionals (100% Staff retention for 7+ years) within a lean $1.4 Million dollar budget (less than 1% of annual revenue) responsible for all international corporate technology needs.

    • Additionally led 23 direct-reporting GIS engineers, software developers and implementers for a $3.7MM direct customer-facing web-enabled Oracle-backed government application with a proforma forecast of $11MM.

    • Developed and coded an Oracle (Oracle Masters DBA Certified) positive-pay EDI application on Solaris to stop the cashing of fraudulent checks during the absence of a full-time DBA.

    • As part of a $3+ Billion dollar enterprise, worked with several dozen cross-organization technology teams to ensure in-margin and on-schedule delivery of technology projects, products.

    • Wove IT and Business objectives by leading the "Strategic Planning for Information Technology" Team.

    • Aligned the IT Vision with the Vision of the Enterprise by developing the 5 year rolling IT Strategy.

    • Focused IT Developments on areas which extended the business and created market differentiation.

    • Maintained Raving Fans for Customers (4.1/5.0 customer satisfaction) by innovating where technology did not exist.

    • Founded the Technology Needs Team, responsible for company-wide IT governance and satisfaction.

    • Embodied a multi-tiered democratic approach toward technology selection.

    • Earned OMI the “Premier Data Consolidation Company in Denver” Award.
  • Jun 1996 - Mar 1997
    Network Manager / IBM
    Selected achievements at IBM:
    • Managed a 500 OS/2 server and 10,000 Windows workstation network spanning the state of California.

    • Wrote production REXX programs to handle processes such as global admin password changes, security profiling, software updates, and system availability reporting for all 10,500 machines in a 4 hour window.

    • Asset manager for entire project.

    • Measured and managed system reliability and guaranteed Service Level Agreements.

    • Maintained sole responsibility over Infrastructure Security.
  • Aug 1994 - Jun 1996
    IT Manager / Fay's Inc.
    Fay's Inc. was the nation's 12th largest drug-store chain at the end of 1995 and the largest operator of super drug stores in the Northeast. After the sale of an office-supply division in mid 1996, it consisted of 273 discount drug stores, almost all in New York and Pennsylvania.

    Selected achievements at FAY’S:
    • Developed production Pharmaceutical Point-of-Sale platforms for retail store locations

    • One of four AS/400 Security Officers for the Enterprise

    • Developed the Corporate Wide Area Network for remote locations

    • Managed communications, cabling and network standards

    • Spearheaded Corporate cabling reconfiguration to managed distribution
  • Apr 1994 - Aug 1994
    Visual C++ & TCP/IP Kernel Developer / Dart Communications
    One of two developers responsible for TCP/IP protocol development, writing to the Winsock interface in Visual C++, under Windows and Windows NT and also designed sample user interface applications and documentation.

    Particularly difficult was that not only the Operating Platform immaturity (Windows NT 3.1) but also the Development Environment (Visual C++ 1.0), which frequently crashed during code stepping and long compile runs.

    This code was rolled into SDK's that were sold to companies like Motorola and Black & Veatch for 'internet enabling' sets of applications that were not previously designed to do so in a day when the internet was not much more than an extension of DARPAnet and browsing consisted of Archie and FTP.

Education

  • 1992 - 1994
    State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome
    Masters of Science in Computer Science
  • MetaGroup
    CIO Boot Camp in Information Technology Leadership
  • Oracle Corporation
    Masters of Database Administration in Technology: Database
  • Saltwater Institute
    Values Centered Leadership in Quality as a Business Strategy

Additional Information

Honors:
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Service: OMI, 2000 Premier Data Consolidation Company in Denver: OMI, 2001
Interests:
Health and Fitness, Martial Arts, Classic Gaming

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