James Howard Scott
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Talented, results-producing professional with a proven record of accomplishment in planning and
leading comprehensive Internet strategies in support of business goals and objectives. Deep technical
knowledge combined with business consulting chops results in expertise directing the creation of
complex, dynamic, enterprise portal solutions and steering the execution of e-Business programs.
Demonstrated success driving growth in markets through implementation of key projects as well as
business process improvements and cost reductions. Solid leadership skills; able to build and guide
top-performing teams. Adept at communicating with top management, vendors, partners and internal
departments to coordinate overall efforts. Excellent presentation skills.
leading comprehensive Internet strategies in support of business goals and objectives. Deep technical
knowledge combined with business consulting chops results in expertise directing the creation of
complex, dynamic, enterprise portal solutions and steering the execution of e-Business programs.
Demonstrated success driving growth in markets through implementation of key projects as well as
business process improvements and cost reductions. Solid leadership skills; able to build and guide
top-performing teams. Adept at communicating with top management, vendors, partners and internal
departments to coordinate overall efforts. Excellent presentation skills.
 | e-Business Enterprise Strategy | |
| Client (Internal / External) Management | |
| Business Process Development | |
| Vendor and Off-shore Management | |
| Internet Development & Management | |
| Team Building & Leadership | |
| Program and Portfolio Management | |
| J2EE / SOA / XML Technical Experience | |
| Fortune 10/100 Consulting Experience | |
| Budgeting and Planning | |
| C-Level Communicator | |
| Development Methodology Expertise | |
PROJECT MANAGER, 2005 – 2008
TERADYNE, INC. – Boston, Massachusetts
Define strategy for and develop, execute, and manage comprehensive e-business plan designed to transform the
customer facing as well as internal corporate portals. Communicated with customers, management, business units,
internal IT departments, partners and vendors to coordinate overall effort in accordance with corporate goals. Played
integral role in product development activities as well as day-to-day project management.
Selected Contributions:
TERADYNE, INC. – Boston, Massachusetts
Define strategy for and develop, execute, and manage comprehensive e-business plan designed to transform the
customer facing as well as internal corporate portals. Communicated with customers, management, business units,
internal IT departments, partners and vendors to coordinate overall effort in accordance with corporate goals. Played
integral role in product development activities as well as day-to-day project management.
Selected Contributions:
- Led nine-month portal architecture and business capabilities review project, including business needs, process
improvements, and a detailed vendor analysis of major portal ecosystems. - Planned and managed $1-million migration (BEA to Oracle 10g AS) and upgrade (identity management,
entitlements, authentication, and infrastructure) as a result of that study. - Instituted a cross functional e-Business user group for the governance for the IT/Business Portal Roadmap
- Managed multiple large off-shore partners
- Wrote RFPs and RFQs, gathered requirements, vendor analysis
CONSULTANT II, 2002 – 2005
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS– Waltham, Massachusetts
Helped define and design as well as managed the development of a highly complex, enterprise-wide best of breed
portal for Verizon’s DSL and Fios customers. Integration points included aggregating services such as POP e-mail,
account and billing, help and problem tracking, customer web publishing tools, and VOIP product packages using
web services. Worked with Director of IT and Business on competitive portal strategy and was a key contributor in
expressing and deploying Verizon’s online partnership strategy with AOL, MSN and Yahoo. Helped setting annual
department goals.
Selected Contributions:
VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS– Waltham, Massachusetts
Helped define and design as well as managed the development of a highly complex, enterprise-wide best of breed
portal for Verizon’s DSL and Fios customers. Integration points included aggregating services such as POP e-mail,
account and billing, help and problem tracking, customer web publishing tools, and VOIP product packages using
web services. Worked with Director of IT and Business on competitive portal strategy and was a key contributor in
expressing and deploying Verizon’s online partnership strategy with AOL, MSN and Yahoo. Helped setting annual
department goals.
Selected Contributions:
- Managed at least five major portal releases per year
- Gathered requirements, defined, designed and managed the execution of multiple point solution websites for
various other lines of businesses - Interim QA Manager for seven months
- Met or exceeded aggressive annual department G&O
- Implemented Enterprise-wide Service Oriented Architecture, saving 60% on development and maintenance
costs
TECHNOLOGY MANAGER, 2000 – 2001
SENIOR TECHNOLOGY ANALYST, 1999-2000
DIGITAS – Boston, Massachusetts
Worked with account executives to develop complex portals, web sites, Internet marketing campaigns and promotions
for Fortune 100 relationship clients. Managed a staff of 7-10 technical employees and junior project managers,
including responsibility for performance goal setting and evaluations, technical mentoring, and managing multiple
activities and tasks. Responsible for setting and meeting client expectations.
Selected Contributions:
SENIOR TECHNOLOGY ANALYST, 1999-2000
DIGITAS – Boston, Massachusetts
Worked with account executives to develop complex portals, web sites, Internet marketing campaigns and promotions
for Fortune 100 relationship clients. Managed a staff of 7-10 technical employees and junior project managers,
including responsibility for performance goal setting and evaluations, technical mentoring, and managing multiple
activities and tasks. Responsible for setting and meeting client expectations.
Selected Contributions:
- Managed a $5M/year program of portal projects for our client, General Motors (Pontiac & GMC brands)
including CRM and back office integration - Managed over 30 projects per year, from SOW to test and deploy.
- Co-managed key client relationships (accounting for 30% of company revenue) with VP
- Successfully deployed a worldwide network of international American Express websites which had been
localized into several European and Asian languages.
SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST, 1998 – 2000
(WEBMASTER/EXTRANET MANAGER)
MERCURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS – Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Worked within a team environment to carry out a full range of Internet marketing communication functions. Provided
direct support to Marketing and Product Managers.
Selected Contributions:
(WEBMASTER/EXTRANET MANAGER)
MERCURY COMPUTER SYSTEMS – Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Worked within a team environment to carry out a full range of Internet marketing communication functions. Provided
direct support to Marketing and Product Managers.
Selected Contributions:
- Demonstrated immediate talents upon hire and excelled quickly to become recognized by management as
key member of the marketing communications team. - Wrote and deployed an online marketing collateral content management system.
- Developed event registration process via the web and assisted in communicating those programs.
- Complete re-architecting and repurposing of the external facing corporate website, including investor
relations partner integration.
SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST, 1996 – 1998
(WEBMASTER/INTERNET MANAGER)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Worked for the Director of the Faculty of Arts and Science Computer Center, as well as with eminent Harvard deans
and their committees to develop Harvard’s initial Internet systems and processes.
Selected Contributions:
(WEBMASTER/INTERNET MANAGER)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Worked for the Director of the Faculty of Arts and Science Computer Center, as well as with eminent Harvard deans
and their committees to develop Harvard’s initial Internet systems and processes.
Selected Contributions:
- Developed on-line housing lottery system for the Dean of Admissions
- Managed build of a secure system to present grades on-line for Dean of Arts and Sciences
- Contributed to on-line course development systems
- Taught two semesters of Web Development at Harvard Extension School
- Selected and mentored intern students from the Computer Science Department
SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST, 1994 – 1996
(WEBMASTER/INTERNET SPECIALIST)
CONTRACTOR, HUGHES AEROSPACE (STX)
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (NASA) – Greenbelt, Maryland
Staff position at The National Supercomputing Center under contract with Hughes.
Selected Contributions:
(WEBMASTER/INTERNET SPECIALIST)
CONTRACTOR, HUGHES AEROSPACE (STX)
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER (NASA) – Greenbelt, Maryland
Staff position at The National Supercomputing Center under contract with Hughes.
Selected Contributions:
- Managed web servers; developed web pages; wrote scripts for converting Gopher data to HTML.
- Produced WWW interface which allowed remote scientists to submit programs to run on Cray and Convex
supercomputers - Supported science staff converting code to specialized high-performance vector code
SCIENCE DATA ANALYST II, 1987 – 1994
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE (NASA) – Baltimore, Maryland
Support of international staff Astronomers using remote sensing data reduction routines and Hubble Telescope
instrumentation techniques. Programmed scientific data reduction packages.
Selected Contributions:
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE (NASA) – Baltimore, Maryland
Support of international staff Astronomers using remote sensing data reduction routines and Hubble Telescope
instrumentation techniques. Programmed scientific data reduction packages.
Selected Contributions:
- Published original research.
- Contributed to NASA standard data reduction libraries.
- Trained junior data analysts.
Education & Credentials
Agile Project Management Certificate, June 2007 ASPE Technology, Boston, MA
Business Consulting Certificate, 2005 Northeastern University, Boston, MA
MBA Certificate, 2004 Tulane University, Baton Rouge, LA
Project Management Professional (PMP), 2002 Project Management Institute (PMI)
Computer Science, 1993-6 University of Maryland Catonsville, MD
Bachelor of Science Degree, Astronomy, 1986 State University of NY, Stony Brook, NY
Business Consulting Certificate, 2005 Northeastern University, Boston, MA
MBA Certificate, 2004 Tulane University, Baton Rouge, LA
Project Management Professional (PMP), 2002 Project Management Institute (PMI)
Computer Science, 1993-6 University of Maryland Catonsville, MD
Bachelor of Science Degree, Astronomy, 1986 State University of NY, Stony Brook, NY
Recent Technologies
 | Java/J2EE | |
| JSP | |
| Enterprise JavaBeans | |
| Struts |
| SOA | |
| ESB | |
| Web Services | |
| BPEL |
| BEA Weblogic | |
| Vignette/Epicentric |
| Oracle 10g Application & Portal Server | |
| IBM Websphere |
| Source Control | |
| UML/RUP | |
| Various SDLCs | |
| Agile (Certified) | |
| Oracle CoreID | |
| Oracle Identity Management | |
| LDAP | |
| Netegrity Siteminder | |
| Single Sign On (SSO) | |
| Oracle 11i e-Business Suite Integration |
| Enterprise Content Management |
| Global Search |
| RSS |
| Rich Media |
| HTML | |
| Javascript |
| Apache/Netscape Webservers | |
Director of Engineering, 2008 – Present
ITA Software – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Formed and developed an Application Architecture group which is responsible for GUI (Java/Ajax) through messaging
(XML/SOA) to the application and DB layers (Oracle). ITA is a world leader in Airline/travel websites, powers Orbitz,
and is developing the first modern end-to-end booking and reservation engine for the airline industry.
Selected Contributions:
ITA Software – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Formed and developed an Application Architecture group which is responsible for GUI (Java/Ajax) through messaging
(XML/SOA) to the application and DB layers (Oracle). ITA is a world leader in Airline/travel websites, powers Orbitz,
and is developing the first modern end-to-end booking and reservation engine for the airline industry.
Selected Contributions:
- Ensured Transactional integrity (database and inter-system XML messaging)