Brent Pearson

CIO as a Service / Business Intelligence / Software Development

About

Summary

Brent is a technology executive who has worked in all sized companies from start-ups to large, publicly-traded corporations. He re-located to Napa after working in San Francisco Bay Area for 15 years. Brent helped build technology companies from the ground up, innovated solutions for fortune 100 companies while working at an international creative agency, and helped re-invent the media industry as it was transformed by the digital evolution.

Brent is able to tackle the most complicated technology challenges with a common sense approach and provide solutions that meet budget, time and quality constraints while exceeding expected outcomes. As founder of Napa Logic, he currently works on projects from Napa Valley to Silicon Valley. His blog can be found at Napa CIO.

Technology should be used to decrease costs and increase profits. It should be a part of the core business strategy and proactively managed. If it is not your core strength, focus on growing your business and let someone else handle your technology whose core strength it is.

Experience Highlights

  • Principal
    Napa Logic
  • CTO
    UBM Technology
  • CIO
    UBM Electronics
  • VP Engineering
    Lawdex

Education Highlights

  • Interdisciplinary Bachelors: Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Music
    University of Arizona
  • Music Production and Engineering
    Berklee College of Music

Career Timeline

  1. January 2014 - June 2018
    Principal, Napa Logic
    Executive IT Consulting specializing in: • Business Intelligence Big Data, BI Solutions, Data Analytics • CIO as a Service On Demand problem solving, operations and innovation. • Mobile Mobilize your business and access your back office from anywhere. • Development Web design, development and custom software application development. NAPA LOGIC
  2. March 2009 - June 2018
    CTO, UBM Technology, UBM plc
    Promoted to Current Position in July 2012
    Previous Position: CIO, UBM Electronics

    Sets and manages the engineering road map and leads all software development within the company. Primary focus is to identify and evaluate technology opportunities and then execute those programs which advance strategic IT business objectives.
  3. February 2009 - June 2018
    Board of Directors, Lawdex
  4. September 2004 - March 2009
    VP Engineering, Lawdex
    Responsibilities:
    • Define and execute technology vision for company.
    • Designed secure, high transaction, high availability production system.
    • Principle software, system and database architect.
    • Specify all third party technologies and mange vendor relationships.

    Principal duties include:
    Personnel: Hire key individuals to manage day to day development operations. Provide engineering leadership for software architecture decisions and implementations.

    Development Environment: Specified systems for development infrastructure, production environment, as well as all technology systems for business operations.

    Product Development: Defined requirements for initial product development which was built by a third party. Subsequently built entirely new proprietary platform and migrated all applications in-house.
  5. June 2006 - February 2009
    Director, Technology, Carat
    • Hire and manage eight+ full-time engineers and up to 10 additional contractors.
    • Principle software architect for all projects.
    • Design, build and maintain high transaction, high failover systems.
    • Provide technology solutions, including CMS, infrastructure recommendations, and system design.
    • Respond to Requests for Proposals (RFP) and participate in client presentations.
    • Develop strategies and build applications for social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace).

    Personnel: Hired to create a Web Development group as the company transitioned from a creative-only marketing company to a technology provider. Built development team and established internal processes and systems including development infrastructure, source control, QA, and release management. Grew web development practice from <$1M to $6M in 2 yrs.

    Microsoft: C# .NET 1.1/2.0/3.5, SQL Server 200/2005 including Business Intelligence Platform
    Linux/Unix: Java/J2EE, Spring, Struts, iBATIS, MySQL, WebSphere
  6. January 2004 - May 2006
    Director of Development, TradePoint Solutions
    Responsibilities:
    • Hired and managed team of ten engineers.
    • Designed and built high availability, high failover production system.
    • Designed technical specifications and provided scope of work estimates.
    • Allocated engineering resources and delegated assignments to ensure on-time project delivery.

    Principal duties include:
    Personnel: As the first in-house Software Engineer hired by TradePoint Solutions, I was responsible for defining the requirements of a fledgling engineering department and for growing the team to ten people.

    Development Environment: Built systems for source control, release processes, QA, automated data import/export, production maintenance support, and multi-version release cycles.

    Product Development: Designed, developed and deployed SaaS application. In 12 months the application went from a prototype pilot application to a fully functioning software application including automated daily data updates, reports and notifications.
  7. November 1999 - January 2004
    Lead Engineer, GlobalEnglish
    • Maintained direct oversight of eight engineers including team of three direct reports.
    • Deployed the Corporate Learning Service website growing to over 50,000 users worldwide.
    • Authorized marketing requirements and wrote requisite technical specification documents.
    • Allocated engineering resources and delegated assignments to ensure on-time project delivery.
    • Designed, developed, and tested client, server, and database applications as needed.
  8. January 1994 - January 1997
    BA, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Musi, University of Arizona
  9. January 1991 - January 1993
    , Music Production and Engineering, Berklee College of Music

Results

  • Lead
    Led multiple technical teams with up to 50 reports
  • Save
    Saved over $1MM while driving 20% growth
  • Dream
    Named C-Level Visionary in Folio 40
  • Close
    Closed angel investment/Series A funding
  • Teach
    Holds two patents for online education

Achievements

  • Networked with other professionals
  • Earned one or more college degrees
  • Limited-edition achievement recognizing early members of Workfolio
  • Endorsed by co-workers or clients

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Product Development
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Product Marketing
  • Project Management
  • C#
  • Mobile Devices
  • SQL
  • Strategic Planning
  • XML
  • HTML
  • Software Development
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Web Development
  • E-commerce
  • Online Advertising
  • Cloud Computing
  • Lead Generation
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Digital Marketing
  • Digital Media
  • Marketing
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Program Management
  • Business Intelligence
  • Management
  • Databases

Blog

Napa CIO
Executive IT Leadership

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Location

Napa, CA

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