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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
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| Oxcyon's executive management team represents a collective expertise of industry veterans who are committed to building a better mousetrap. We have seen what has worked, and more importantly what hasn't worked. Together, we humbly explore new ways to bring our clients the best possible digital tools available, by listening to their needs. |
Samuel Keller -President & CEO
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Sam is Oxcyon's Founder and CEO (Chief Envisioning Officer). He is a two time winner of the Weatherhead 100 award, successful entrepreneur, author of patents, and inventor of Centralpoint, Oxcyon's award winning application.
Prior to Oxcyon, he founded his first company, Kelltech, in 1992. By 1998, Kelltech grew to rank amongst the Top 100 Technology Firms in the US. Kelltech was sold to a division of GTCR in 1999. Sam had seen tremendous market demand for web development, but he knew first hand that the delivery model was wrong. Building solutions, one at a time, posed long term concerns for clients, and for Kelltech. With the proceeds of his first business sale, he formed Oxcyon in 2000, and set out to build an assembly line technology for what used to be a custom build process. This patented technology quickly proved to reduce cost, increases quality, and changed time to market from months to minutes. Oxcyon has grown from 15 modules available in 2000 to over 180 modules today. Oxcyon and Centralpoint's service oriented architecture is changing the way organizations manage their sites forever. Oxcyon has enjoyed early market adoption of Service Oriented CMS within Publishing, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Non Profit. |
Michael Kerchenski -Chief Software Architect
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| As Oxcyon's Chief Software Architect, Mike leads our development community with the best architecture in the business. Published in numerous journals, his architecture has been called both 'innovative' and 'ground breaking' in the field of service oriented architecture. Mr. Kerchenski works closely with our CEO in the definition and deployment of the most advanced ECM architecture in the world. Mr. Kerchenski is a graduate of Kent State University and is also a shareholder in Oxcyon. Mike has successfully completed over five marathons. He is hoping to one day compete in the Boston Marathon. |
James R. Venus- Vice President/Sales
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| Jim brings two decades of software marketing and sales experience to his role as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Oxcyon. Jim is experienced in dealing with all types of clients from mid-market to Fortune 500, and understands the importance of best practices, time to market, and more importantly, the value of time. Mr. Venus, unlike most in sales, is committed to explaining up front, what Oxcyon cannot do for its clients...which he is committed is what is missing in today's e-business community. Mr. Venus is dedicated to building shareholder value as a shareholder in the company. Jim enjoys Golf, Hockey and coaches his sons soccer team. |
Jared Wuliger -Director, Programming Services
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| Jared joined Oxcyon in 2000 as its Director of Programming Services. Jared brings over 10 years of architectural experience, and has provided best-of-breed development and project management to over 300 projects including: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, The National Academies of Sciences, JetBlue Airlines, BF Goodrich, TRW, and the US Navy. Jared has extensive experience in SQL, VB, C#, Ajax, Javascript. He has also led integration projects with numerous third party software applications, including Verisign, Bank of America, Ticketmaster, Omeda, CWC, Quickfill, CDS, Active Directory and LDAP. |
Vladimir Gantman - Director, Database Services
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| Vladimir oversees our database engineering team. This team is responsible for the development of Centralpoint data warehousing and migration tools as well as custom development of our clients unique data warehousing projects. He also leads the AJAX, JQuery and XML research contributing to our continual product development. Vlad has been published in many trade journal resources within the ECM space. Vlad is originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds two degrees in Information Architecture. |
Henry Todorov -Director, New Business Development
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| Henry leads New Business Development and is in charge of expanding the market adoption within a growing list of vertical markets. He oversees our sales and marketing efforts, and also plays an important role in developing new partner relationships. Henry has over 17 years of experience in IT, dating back to the Honeywell Bull mainframe market, which gives oxcyon additional insite to stay ahead of the pact, keeping up with the changing tides of technology. |
Joe Frey - Director, Client Services
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Joe is in charge of managing the production and development of our client projects, keeping deployment on time, on target, and on budget. Joe used to be a client, managing a large Centralpoint installation covering approximately 16 online properties and publications. Not only is Joe a seasoned Project Manager, but was also one of our clients. It was essential to hire a client for the position of really understanding our (VOC) Voice of Customer. Joe is responsible for managing our entire Production management team, including Team Leaders, Analysts, Developers, Programmers and Designers.
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Cheryl Meier- Director, Operations
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As Director of Corporate Operations, Cheryl oversees all team members in charge of accounting, legal, corporate communications, public relations and the management of our partner network. Ms. Meier also assists our project management team ensuring clients have the mission critical access needed with our staff. As Oxcyon grows, it is Cheryl's team to keep up with the logistics in order to make sure our operations always run smoother. She is dedicated to constantly improving this process.
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Kevin Michnicki -Director, Channel Development
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| Kevin manages our sales teams in charge of Publishing, Healthcare, and Non Profit. His extensive expertise in B2B and B2C online publishing coupled with his many years in traditional publishing, provide us the edge needed to dominate this growing market concern. Kevin likes to leverage lessons learned within one vertical to another, making his knowledge uniquely horizontal. Kevin is also a tournament fisherman, winning Walleye tournaments with the Great Lakes Region. |
Anthony Franchino - Team Leader -Senior Analysts
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Anthony oversees the senior analysts at Oxcyon. Under Anthony's direction, our team of senior analysts are responsible for the data migration services of all new projects. Anthony brings over 6 years experience of complex data migration projects, and through his team, ensures that no content is left behind during a new implementation of Centralpoint. Anthony is a photographer, and enjoys music.
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Bret Allison - Team Leader - Analysts
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Bret oversees the analysts at Oxcyon, who work in concert with our production/development team. This group is responsible for the initial site design and multimedia services that Oxcyon provides to its clients. Bret brings over 6 years experience of complex data migration projects, and through his team, ensures that no content is left behind during a new implementation of Centralpoint. Bret is also our resident Pyrotechnician. Bret is known for hosting some incredible fireworks displays that we all enjoy at parties and events.
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Neil Jakubowski- Analyst
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| Neil oversees the Quality Assurance team at Oxcyon, who work in concert with our production/development team to check, double check, and triple check each new function of Centralpoint, prior to each remote update. This group is responsible for the Quality assurance of the Centralpoint product suite. Neil brings years of experience dealing with complex projects, and through his team, ensures that no content is left behind during a new implementation of Centralpoint. |
Julie Radvansky - New Business Development
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| Julie works to develop new client relationships within our Healthcare Division. She is in charge of building new client relationships, and keeping existing healthcare clients up to date with the changes in eHealth and to Centralpoint. Her expertise in translating Centralpoint's archtecture for the benefit of large health systems and organizations, helps them to increase profitability, technology awareness, and streamline internal workflow processes. |
Michael Cade - New Business Development
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| Michael's team is in charge of developing new clients within existing verticals of: Healthcare, Publishing, Non Profit, Government, and Manufacturing. His team is also charged with providing sales support to existing clients in that region. Michael offers over 15 years experience in media and public relations. |
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