The Entrepreneur

Stephen Glines


145 Foster St.
Littleton MA 01460
(978) 633 - 3460
sglines@industrialmyth.com

Accomplishments
Author of 5 books, business developer & Technical Manager
  • Listed in:
    • Who’s Who in Science & Engineering
    • Who’s Who in America
    • Who’s Who in the World.
  • Nominated by Inc. Magazine as Entrepreneur of the Year 1990
  • Entrepreneur in Residence I-Group/Softbank 2001
Expertise
Business Development, Marketing
Academic
2002 - 2005

Middlesex Community College

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

Professional
1999 -
Industrial Myth & Magic
(legends, myths & fairy tales for the new millennium)

Creative Director

  • Public Relations for authors & experts
  • Custom book & catalog publishing
2005 - 2007
OpenClinica

V.P. Operations

  • Developed Business Plan & Executive Summary
  • Developed Financial Plan
  • Developed Operations Plan
  • Managed IT infrastructure
  • Recruited Senior Management & Board Members
  • Presented plan to major Investment Banks & VC firms
  • Deal size $10 Million
2003
Wheels TV (consumer automotive cable TV network)
V.P Business Development
  • Developed Business Plan & Executive Summary
  • Developed Financial Plan
  • Managed IT infrastructure
  • Recruited Senior Management & Board Members
  • Negotiated deal with major Law Firm & Big 8 Accounting firm for postponed compensation
  • Successfully presented plan to major Investment Banks & VC firms
2002
Ubiix Systems (Consumer & Industrial micro-computer device)

Founder, Business Development & Technical Management

  • Developed Functional Specification
  • Developed marketing plan
  • Presented technical plan to potential investors
  • Recruited Senior Management & Directors
1999-2001
Proximy Networks (Internet based Content Delivery System)

Founder, Business Development & Technical Management

  • Developed prototype network & infrastructure
  • Developed Business Plan & Executive Summary
  • Developed Financial Plan
  • Developed & Filed Provisional Patent 
  • Recruited Senior Management & Board of Directors
  • Negotiated deal with major Law Firm & Big 8 Accounting firm for postponed compensation
  • Successfully presented plan to major Investment Banks & VC firms
  • Deal size $5 Million
1999
Infolibria (Internet Based Content Delivery System)

Technical Architecture & Management

  • Developed Design Documents for a private Content Delivery Network
  • Managed implementation through prototype
1999
Akamai Technologies (Internet Based Content Delivery System)

Technical Architecture & Management

  • Developed Functional Specification for a massively parallel transaction processing (accounting) system for a giga-scale Content Delivery Network
  • Successfully presented concept to investors
  • Managed implementation through prototype


1985 – 1999

Information Systems Consulting Service (Contract IS management)

Founder: Business Development & Management

  • Managed multiple & simultaneous design & implementation teams from 2 to 20 members each
  • Managed 3 full FASB audits for a $20 Million/yr Company
  • Managed IS for 2 companies on the INC 500
  • Managed IS for 2 “Best of Boston” companies
  • Sample Clients & Projects included:
    • Netezza – Systems Design Consultant – architecture of high volume crossbar SAN with integrated database operators
    • NSC Corporation - Interim Information Systems Director
    • CFR Corporation - IS Management, Designed and Deployed & Managed (3 full audits) a full FASB accounting system (lease management)
    • New England Independent Medical Exams Inc. –Designed, Deployed & Managed a full Medical/Legal billing system
    • Berger Instruments, Boston MA - Interim Information Systems Director
    • DAG Corporation - Migrated users from Legacy system to client server system. Installed Internet gateway.
    • Addison Wesseley Longman Publishing - 100+ gigabyte Data Warehouse
    • Vianet Data Communications - Unix based EDI network.
    • Information Access Center - Unix and Network Administration including www, ftp & firewall administration - 100 Unix based systems
    • Bose Corporation - Unix and Network support during SAP deployment
    • Lau Technologies, Acton MA - interface between MS Windows and Sybase DBMS 
    • InfoSoft International, Boston MA - Penta Typesetting output to SGML text conversion system for a CD-ROM publisher
    • NASA, Langley Field, Columbus OH - Real-time process control system for an experimental very high temperature furnace.
    • Kronos Corporation, Waltham MA - System of polling multiple remote intelligent time clocks
    • Ziplink - Architect an e-mail gateway supporting ~4 million accounts.
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1984 - 1985     
Atex Inc. (Word Processing Software Developer)

Senior Product Manager for Systems Software



1983 - 1984
Wakefield Software Systems (bar code data collection)

Technical Writer/Systems Architect



1980 - 1983
Logistics Systems Inc. (automated vehicle routing systems)

Porting Manager



1979 - 1980
MIT Sloan School of Management – Systems Dynamics Group
Teaching & Research Assistant (Economics & Systems Dynamics)


Publications & Academic Endeavors
Books:
  • Co-Author: Using Unix, Que (March 1994), 964 pages, ISBN: 1-56529-2 (multiple editions)
  • Author: Inside SCO Unix (2nd Edition), New Riders Publishing (August 1993), 818 pages ISBN:1-56205-183-0
  • Author: Downsizing to Unix, New Riders Publishing (August 1992), 506 pages,  ISBN: 1-56205-074-5
  • Co-Author: Inside SCO Unix, New Riders Publishing (March 1992), 728 pages, ISBN: 1-56205-028-1
  • Author: Seven Days in Fiji, ISCSpress (February 2006), 98 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4116-8649-6
Other Technical Publications:
  • Contributing editor: Patty Seybold's Unix in the Office (edited news section)
  • Contributing editor: Sony Monison - on DEC (Ultrix)
  • Contributing editor: Altos World (column: PANIC!)
  • Contributing editor: Unix Review (column: Famous Last Words)
Classes Taught:
  • Introduction to Computer Applications, Middlesex Community College, Bedford & Lowell MA (multiple sessions 15 week class)
  • Introduction to Networking & Web Server Security and Administration, Middlesex Community College, Bedford & Lowell MA (multiple sessions 15 week class)
  • Unix System V Release 4 System Administration (1 week), DataPoint Corporation, San Antonio TX,
  • Introduction to Unix for engineers and programmers (1 week), ADE Corporation, Newton MA
  • Introduction to C, Advanced C Programming, New England Telephone (1 week - multiple sessions)
  • Introduction to Unix & Shell Scripting,
    • New England Telephone (1 week - multiple sessions)
    • TRW Data Systems, Dallas (multiple sessions)
    • Memorial Hospital, Gulfport MS
  • Unix System Architecture for Programmers, INFORT Company, Moscow Russia (1 week)
  • Network & Unix Design & Administration (1 week), Memorial Hospital, Gulfport MS
  • Integrating real-time process control equipment in an SCO Unix Environment (1 week) ADE Corporation, Newton, MA


Education
MIT (Business & Economics)


Other
  • Littleton Rotary Club (President 2005-2006)
  • Littleton Democratic Town Committee member (treasurer)
  • Stone Soup Poets (member, Board of Directors)
  • Provisional Patents
    • Locating nearby Copies of Replicated (or distinct) Internet Servers using the anycast IP addressing method to access DNS Servers for Implicit Route Discovery
o        The use of a lock and key-like interface to determine characteristics of power distribution on a direct current power bus



References available on request